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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-07-03
A. Word to Farmers and Tax-Payers.

In ricw Of thc fact that tho great Jacobin
party has dcgcncratcd, (if that be possible }
and is now in control OF thc soH mon who
were lucky enough during the war, and while
tho public debt was in process of creation, to
absorb all tho bonds and evidences Of credit,
it becomes eminently proper for tho tax pay
ing people who support the burdens, to in.
qnirc into the. patriotism of tlrcsc men and
the unscrupulous politicians who lcgislatc in
their interests; to inquire what sort of gov
crnmcnt these gcntlomcn will, if left to them.
selves, finally establish. There can bo no
question that capital and labor must become
antagonstic, when capital alone controls the
law making power. In viow of this fact, and
the entire absorption of political privileges by
tho representatives of wealth, it becomes cv-
cry taxpayer before voting for Congressman
in thisI district, to candidly weigh tho follow
ing simple propositions:
DO you expect to return to prosperity while
the leaders Of your party arc pursuing ncv-
or ending quarrel among themselves at Wash
ington?
do you expect to pursue your avocations
in peaca so long as tho politicians and dcma-
gogucs in Congress arc thwarting every at.
tcmpt to bring about restored Union?
DO you expect to have my rcacc Of mind
so long as tho interest of tho negro is put
ahead Of your own2
DO you expect to be ablo to live, as you
used to 1.-Two, and as you wish to live and keep
out Of debt, so long as favored CLASSES are ex-
empt from taxation, which ought to bo dis.
tributcd equally upon all, rests upon your
shoulders
DO YOU expect to be otherwise than annoy
cd all your lifo with revenue stamps and spec.
ifc income taxes !?
DO you expect you can exercise any kind
of economy 50 as to support your family, feed
clothc and oducate your children, SO long us
you arc losing millions by tho system, Of ma
ticnal banks and the payment of millions of
intofesG Il" tkeSma asp'S9 q, as W.,
+ Do ypu over oxpoct TO have any money to
lay by Abr a rainy day, and whoDyoa ars I'D,
40 loae|as all your gold is skopt. to pay meroo,
nary Ehd.holdors ? ~ as ~ ss al
DoNbu expect to roalizoiany respectable
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VOL. ,".".."NO, 80.

tho support of privileged class.
Look into Jacobinism, and you will find iaF
1t the truo cause of all the poverty, all tho
misery, all tho wrongs from which the whole
country is now sliifcring.
Tho remedy isin your own hands, and tfd1c
time is hastehing Oh when it can be applied.
Organize and be prepared for The dayof ac.
tom tho day on which So,, can settle ali soofsy
with tho party Of anare| and ruiz, fss
which scekl' to maintain its poweFs' 4 flfon9ll,
the sacrifice IF ovory Fight MD principle Vii. M
dicatcd in the great revolution. {. !.
Organize for tho salvation of tho Kepublicg &
and rescue it from a beastly, degrading mon. mon
ercfism.
Organize to save this land for white men.
and make it the white mans inheritance. - =,
Organize to protect yourselves and families
from tho conspiracy of an unconstitutional
Congress, and from tho ncfarious designs OF
an unprincipled bondocracy. ..s.,
Organize for tho emancipation of eight
millions of our own race and blood from the
most Calling, crushing, grinding despotismr
cvcr Inflicted upon people.
Thlrs of what they arc today suffering. ---s
Think of their ruined homes, their wasted
hclds, their PROSTATE trades, their hundreds
OF povcrty-strickcn orphans and wia 81 y
Think Of the fate with which they aro men.
accd. Think Of the outragcs perpehated BY
hall savage, instigated to their deyilrities by
Jacopin licnds and cut,throats Think, of
this, and resolve in your hearts that the a.N
cursed party which has brought this voc,
which has brought this flood of evils upon tlid
land, slfall, when the day Of rctribution comes,
be crushed into the earth, under tho tread ef
your triumphant mojortics.
Aictropolttan Record, Z 4 ',s
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-07-03
Pendleton and Packer.

It's conceded by both parties that the
STATES of Ohio and Pennsylvania will be the
q battle ground in the approaching clcc-
tionH The candidate who. is able to carry
thosHtwo States will be pretty sure of an
clccSpn. Tho elections in both last fall gave
strces indication Of their going Democratic
in q ssSoaasssslesidential callyass. The Radicals
feagSt 'srssult, and hence will mako desper-
ate ssorts to regain their lost prestige in
both:
Ipthis view, it becomes n .mrtto" of some
moment to the yvseoresS ,,sis iii Selecting
their candidates an eye should be directed to
tocaE influences in these States. We believe,
that to make the success Of the party perfect
ly surc, one Of the candidates to bo non,na.
ted in New York should bc taken froin Penn.
sylvania.
Ii Hancock receives the nomination fer
President then some strong man in the West,
say Hendricks or Doolittlc, should be run on
the ticket with him.
If the candidate for President should be
selected from some other State, and VIC be-.
licvc he will, then our true policy indicates
thc selection of tho Vice President from the
keystone State.
IG examining the field there, VIC find the
names of two gentlemen suggested, either of
whom would be quite acceptable to tho pco-
pie Of the whole ountry. Judge Woodward
is afhorough, staunch and pronounced Dem
ocrat of Tho true State rights schoo. He
is popular not only in his own State but
of having sccurct1 his nomination by the votes
of unrcconstructcd rcbcls. This would be
urged with great force by the Radicals and
would drive many timid men from the sup
portof our Candidate. Any importation of
having been chiefly instrumental in securing
the selection Of the candidate which can be
fairly made against tho Southern delegates
muNt to some extent weaken tho nominee. -
ThsSSsgc must avoid. We can avoid it, first,
by fffusing to vote until the NoYthcra pc!c-.
gates have agreed among themselves and,
sccotd, by going in on the first ballot, and
caclI delegate or each Stutc voting for the
man\of its choice, upon equal terms with the
Northern delegates.
If VIC were certain that tho excluded States
would be permitted to cast their votes in the
electoral college, VIC should prefer tho latter
course. But as there is much uncertainty Up
on this point, VIC arc brought to the conclusion
that, upon the whole, the best policy will be
to abstain from taking any part in the contest
more than us mere lookcrson and well wishcrs
Chronicle T. Sentinel
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-07-03
From tho Banner of the South
Hope and Memory.

am thinking to-day-how oft I think
or a Land that has faded from mortal eyes
A Land, where stood by tho rivers brink,
That washes tae gatcs Of paradisoI
All! washes the gates that never opc,
Though forever trembling on golden hinges
While mystical lights to the river slopo,
And the blue Champak its margin fringes
Where watched tho day, with footsteps aeet,
Come down, like the Lydian King Of old
And saw at the touch Of his kingly foot,
Low the rolling sands wcro turned to gold.
but nov-thc Lydian King has ncd--
No moro by tho gates Of Paradise,
But by rcd and foan.ing waves tread,
And watch the blood Of Scssus rise
The hand has sunk meath the sobbing nool
AS darhly the pillows onward roll;
But ali! it has left me the garment Of blood
That wraps in fire my shrinking soul.
strive to tear It with quivcring hands,
That arc powcress now to my will,
While Pain, tn Immortal, forever stands
Beside me and mocks-and still, yet still
Mid all the torture, how oft think,
Ola Land, seen only through dreaming eyes
a Land, whcro | stood by tho rivers brink,
That washes the gates Of Paradise:
And SEQ the day, with footsteps fleet,
Come down, like the Lydian King Of oll
And watch, at tho touch Of his kingly feet,
How the rolling sands are turned to gold
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-07-03

amount Of money for your labor, so long as
Congress is spending millions for political
purposes, and from which no one but GLASS
OF lazy negroes and other cmissarics of plum
der and puritanism is to derive any benefit ?
DO you expect to live under FREQ Constitu-
tlonal Government, suoh as your fathers cs.
tablished and left you ms legacy, while it a
proclaimed by olfco-holding and officc.seek.
ing !eadcrs, that Congress can make laws out,
side of the Constitution of tho United
States
DO you expect to live long enough, and be-
fore you die, to SEQ your children led, clothed
and educated, and on the road to happiness,
comfort and wealth, while such laws as You
arc now trying to live under, arc unrcspcc-
ted
If you do expect to do and sec these things,
you have only to sustain the leaders, who, &C.
cording to our notion, have proved faithless
to the country, its Constitution, its interests
and it's people. If you don't--then rcbukc
and overthrow them. Mr.. Palmer is the rcp-
rcscntatiye man of the bankers, bond.holdcrs
and nisgers, and if elected to Congress will
use his influence alone for their benefit
Lora Statesman
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-07-03
WALHALLA, s. C, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1868.

to say that, from all traditional appearances
and all historic realities, slavery universally
presents itself, in tho primitive times of all
nations, as fact, spontaneous, patural au-
tocthon fact which is connate with ma
tions, without their direct assent or delbe.
ratio concurrence; principle mixed by God
himsolf with the thousand principles of hu-
man society.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
The Rich Men of New York.

The Cincinnati Times hos q cores.
pondent who is doing up New York.
1t is the old story of bloated wealth
and squalid poverty, Lazarus and Dives,
thrifty enterprise and thrirtless improvi.
dence:
The colossal wealth of New York ~
unfortunately chiefly in. the hands of
class of men who orghJi7tHotlling but
money-making--usele4, Selfish, accu-
mulating, miserly peepie, who live in
hLmanly, and die like the beasts. un-
wept, unhonored and unremenbered.
1t is said that Stewart gives in small.
unOstentatious charities to those who
seek il, probably $4,000 per annum, the
lnerest drop in the ocean to the crying
needs of the hour, and pitiful re-
proach to his great ability. Bat neither
he nor Astor, Vanderbilt, Bonner. Ben
nett and the host of gorgeous princes
of snobbery-caled, in irony, the SUBJ
stantial men of New York-are ever
found organizing or aiding in any great
scheme Of public bcnevolence or Chris
tan progress, while around them, in
seelhing misery, the very earth groans
with poverty, vice and crime,. eighty
six thousand ofpoor wretches annually
seek the station-houses for nightly shell
ter Thousands of honest. industrious
artisans struggle on in toiling misery
from day to day through a weary life to
welcome graves, unable to contend
against caste or capital. Thousands of
working girls. employed by wealthy.
grasping capitalists at prices which
compel them to lewd lives, in order to
subsist: other thousands rendered des-
perate and helpless by the hopeless pros
pect, abandon the labor and adopt the
immoral only to swell the ever-increas-
ing flood of social evil. The history is
terrible. ..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
The New York Tribune,

The New York Iribuae urges the
cnfranchisement of all who are dis
tranchised because of rebellion, ant
submits the following plan of constitu
tional amendment on the subject O.
naturalization: ...... .....
Allow any foreigner who is now AZ
actual resident of the United States
and expects to remain so, and has com
mitted no crime other than rebellion oil
treason, and tenders hearty adhesion
to the Union, to become citizen at any
time without exacting residence or de-
claration of intention which would ac'
cord the right of suffrage to every per-
son who has been naturaized not less
than eighteen months, and swears he
has in the meantime committed nC
crime known to our laws.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
Garrett Smith.

This original anti-slavery man has
written letter to General Grant since
the election. The following is u sam
pie Of its contents:
No fear need be entertained that, in
your undertakings or measures for
peaccable and aflectionate relations be-
tween the North and the South, you
will lay all the blame of our civil war
upon the South. Inasmuch as the
North is scarcely less responsible than
the South for slavery, you will judge,
and rightly too, that she is scarcely less
responsible for the war, which grew out
of it. Wherever there is a man who,
because he became the enemy of his
country, was subjected to political disa-
bilities. there is man whom you would
have relieved Of them as soon as there
is proof that he has again become its
friend. But, on the other hand, you
will regard no man as the friend Of his
country, who wars upon his neighbor
because that neighbor is of a race diff
ferent from his own, or because that
neighbor stands up for the equal rights
of all the races of men. ,....
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
The State Treasury.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:
We, the undersigned joint commit
tee of the two Houses who were ap-
pointed to settle the accounts of the
State Treasurer, have discharged that
duty, and ask to submit the following
report: .... .fa., rI ....r.-... b..
After examining the books and pa
pers in the Treasurer's Office, and COM
pairing them with statement of re-
ceipts and disbursements furnished us
by the Comptroller from his office, we
find that John r.. Henry, Treasurer, re-
ceived from S. w. Hatchett, former
Comptroller, the amount turned over to
him by r. l.. Stanford, former Treasu.
rer. to-wit: two hundred and seventeen
thousand eight hundred and seventy.
four dollars and twenty-one cents (217,.
S54 21,) of which there was in the
Tenth National Bank of Memphis S34,.
025 81. and in uncurrent funds in the
Treasury S3l1 Ga. We also find that
John r. Henry received into the Trcasu.
ry on Comptroller's warrants, from the
1st of January, 1867, to the 31st of DC.
tober, 1868, $4,36l.355 %, making whole
amount of receipts S4,579, 200 43. We
find he has disbursed, from the 1st OF
January, 1867, to the 3lst of October
1865, on Comptroller's warrants, the
stun of S4,424,2 ,2S2 %, which shows an
actual balance in the Treasury, on tho
3lst of October, 1868, the sum of S154,.
927 Al. 1t will be seen that the Comp.
troller, in making his statement, in.
cludes the amount Overdrawn in state.
ment made October l, 1868, of S30,01t
81, and amount advanced to the Assem-.
bly, of S1,932 81, which, added to the
above, makes, as Comptroller reports
SlS6,S76 56 but said amount of S3l .94S
15 was settled in the settlement made
with II. l.. Stanford, former Treasurer
Your committee also find that the
Treasurer has received from S. w
Iatchett, former Comptroller, on ac.
count of what is known as the school
fund, S29S,022 y, of which $4,000 is
in United States securities.
The balance of said fund, except &c..
352 Y was used in payment of interest
on the State debt and the amount sc
used is in coupons of the bonds of the
State of Tennessee, which your com.
mittcc recommend to be funded in pei
cent. bonds of the State, and the inter.
est thereof to be distributed for the use
of common schools. ...
Your committee further state that il
is impracticable to close the settlement
fully until the successor of the present
Treasurer has been elected and quail
fed. They have therefore carried hi,
settlement to the 3lst Of October, 1868
and propose to conclude the same sc
soon as the present incumbcnt's success.
sor is qualified to take charge Of the
office.
All of which is respectfully submit.
ted. .... JOIN NORMAN.
Chairman Senate Committee.
.. W. l.. WATERS,
Chairman OH part of the House.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
Statistics of Disfranclliscmcn

In the States of Virginia, North Car
olina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flori-
da, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, West Vir-
ginia and Tennessee there are re-
strictions upon citizenship, and the New
York World calls upon the several De-
mocratic State Committees to at once
inquire into the particulars thereof. To
prepare an accurate statement, there
fore, of all such legislation, whether by
Congress or the putative State govern
nents, as debars the citizen from citi-
zenship in whole or part, and to supple
1nent such statement with tabular eXhi-
bits fthe number bereft by this or that
edict of that birthright, the World
thinks, is the first duty of the commit
tees above-named, or of any private
persons in the thirteen abused States
who may have it in their power so to
do. In the effort, it is almost work of
supererogation to say that the eXactest
care is desirable, so that the scrutiny
these exhibits will encounter may be
successfully met. Nothing cXtenuate,
nor set down aught in malice.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
johnson for Governor.

The Franklin ReUieW is much cen
thused" over the idea Of running An
drew johnson for Governor of Tennes-
see next summer. This is its latest ut
tcrancc on the subject:
The Democratic party is defeated but
not conquered. 1t has made tremcnd-
GUS gains, and intends to fight until the
last carpct-bagger and scallawag is dri-
ven from the position he has disgraced |!
Andrew Johnson is the great instru-
ment for this mighty work, and ere long
the Senate Chamber will resound with
that manly voice that has never been
raised in vain against his country's foes.
We are going to put him in Old Proc's
place, and then in the Senate Chamber
in the place of Fowler, and then we
will run and elect him as the Democra-
tic candidate for President in 1872. DO
YOU hear it?
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
From Louisiana.

a New Orleans date says Blackburn,
editor of the Homer WSod, and mem
Der of the present Congress, has issued
an advertising supplement from the of.
flee of Democratic neighbor, the Clai.
borne Democrat, in which he says that
his office has again been mobbed, and
this time entirely ruined; so that he is
only able, through the courtesy and as.
sistance of his neighbor, to publish the
supplement, to fulfill his official con.
tracts, until it is definitely decided whe.
ther freeman, in free country, will
be permitted to publish free, outspo-
ken newspaper secure from molestation
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
Young Writers,

Young writer's are wont to mistake
excitement for inspiration. An aug
mented circulation Of the blood doesn't
necessarily increase the quality or pow
er OF the brain. The worst things that
were ever committed to paper were the
offspring of transient eXcitation. The
best way for a man who has got any
thing in his head is to try and let it ont
when he is cool, sensible and balanced.
If this suggestion were followed, 80
per cent. of the trash which the world
is unfortunately called upon to endure,
would be unknown. Lesson Don't
get excited. ......n,. .. ....t
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
Belmont, the August.

1t seems that Mr.. Belmont, the Chair
man of the National Democratic Com
mittee, didn't vote for Mr.. Seymour nol
trouble himself about the election at
all. The Norwich AdOertiser says "the
impression has got abroad that Mr.. Bel
mont and some of his committee were
not we'll pleased about something, and
took no particular interest in the elec-
ton. 1t is certain they managed the
campaign badly, and if the absence OF
Mr.. Belmont is any indication of his
zeal, it is high time he resigned his place.
He may be very nice little man, but
the Democratic party was not organic
ed for his special benefit, and will hard
ly consent to contine itself to the graft
cation of his whims." ''
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
Check.

Check may have its place, and impu-
dence its uses. The old saw of Greek
meeting Greek, and being Turk when
in Turkey, may be good as far as they
go; but they don't go to the end OF
things. First and last, at top and bot
tom, cheek is at best vulgar, cheap and
showmansh. A geltlcman never has
anything to do with it except in self
defence. He may be in company for a
time where but one coin is in circula.
ton, and necessity may compel him to
use it. For the most part cheek is
cheek the less brain; the more impu-
dence the less substance, On this there
is no margin or discount.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
The Supreme Court of Tennessee

The Supreme Court of Tennessee.
The following bill has passed first
reading in the House of Representa-
tivcs:
Sec. |. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Tennessee,
That the Salary of the Judges of the
Supreme Court shall hereafter be five
thousand dollars per annum, payable
quarterly out of the treasury Of the
State, OH the warrant Of the Comptrol-
lcr.
SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That
the Judges of the Supreme Court shall
have the power to appoint and hold a
special term, upon giving twenty days
notice of the time in some newspaper
in the division in which the Court is
holden, for the trial of such causes as
they may deem essential to The public
interests. ..... ...
SEC. 3. BE it further enacted, That in
case Of sickness of any one or more ot
the Judges of the Supreme Court, the
Governor shall have the power to com.
mission persons learned in the law tc
fill the vacancies during the illness Of
said judge or judges. .... ..
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, Thai
this act take effect from and after its
passage. .I...#..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
Comforting,

According to the California papers,
jnst now, a country of earthquakes is
the safest and most delightful place to
live that can be found. One San Fran
cisco paper asserts that "with all our
earthquakes human life is safer by at
least ten per cent in San Francisco than
in any city in the Eastern States" TO
establish this as fact in the minds OF
its quaking readers, it says several hun
dred persons have died by sun-stroke,
lightning and cold in Chicago, within
the last twenty years and in New York
there were 300 deaths by sun-stroke last
summer. Then it quotes our terrific
tOrnadoes and assures its readers that
there is no country so healthy as one in
which earthquakes arc a settled insti-
tuition!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
Printers Ink.

The pen is said to be mightier than
the sword. So is ink mightier than the
pen. People who sling printers ink
are the mightiest of all-thc monarchs
of mankind. He who understands this
art in all its ramifications travels the
shortest and best route to the head and
understanding Of human nature. Prin-
ters' ink has made more flames and for
tunes than any Other-perhaps all 9TH
cr-thimgs put together.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-27
The Washburne Family.

The New York Herald is illustrating
the mutitudinous Washburne family
one of whom is said to be Grants right
bower. 1t says:
In our history one of the most illus
trious of the new gems is the Washburne
family which will be known in the fu-
ture better than even Ignatius Donnelly
knows it now. We expect great deal
from this family, because it is so large.
1t went first from Down East, which is
the best section of the country to mi
CRATE from, and settled out West in Il
soil that gives vigorous growth. There
is at present an Elihu Washburne, an
Elias Washburnc, an Elijah Washburne,
an Elisha Wasllburne, with A5iahs,
Nehcmiahs, Hczekiahs and Obadahs
too numerous to name. They are all in
Congress just now, except few that
are in foreign missions; but Congress
is after all, not aplace to thrive in, so
that we expect to see five or six of them
in the Cabinet in Il short time and the
rest in the next best places.