Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-01-11
Message Of the President.

| GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE AND OF TIE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, An official
copy Of tho order issued by Major.Gen. Win
field S. Hancock Commander Of the Fifth
| Military District, dated IIcadauarters, in
Now Orleans, on the 10Th day of November,
has reached me through the regular channels
OF tho War Department, and here viii, oou-
municato it to Congress for such action as
may seem to be proper in 7iow OF all the cir
cun,stances.
1t will be perceived that Gen Hancock an
nounccs that he will mako the law tho rule of
his conduct that he L uphold tho Courts
and the othor civil authorities in tho porfor-
nance OF their proper duties, aud that no will
use his military power ou!y to prcserve the
peace and enforce the law. EIo declares vcry
explicitly that tho sacred right of tho triel by
bury and the privilege of tho writ Of habeas
corras shall not bo crushed out or trodden
under foot. He goes further, and in ono oon,-
Of American liberty arc still the inheritance
Of this people, aud eyer should be-
When great soldier, with unrestricted
power in bis hands to opprers his fellow men
voluntary .turegoca the eanoc Of .ratifyinp
his seltish ambition, aud devotes hi,uself to
the duty Of building up the liberties aud
strengthening the laws of hia country, he pre-
seIta all example OF the highest public virtue
that human nature ID capable of practicing
Tie strongest claim of Washington to be
first in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his countrymen," is founded on tho
great t,.ct chat in al bio illustrious career no
scrupulously abstaipsd fro,a violating the 10.
gel aud constitutional rights OF his felow.cit-
isens. When he surrendered his commission
to Congress, the President Of that body spoke
his ],ighest praise iu saying that he had
always regarded the rights Of the oiyilsau;
l'thSriSie through ali dst4sais aad IDEAS sers'
Wherever power above the law courted his ao-
1 Rv suob :,nons oo,, &c .,.,,o,,o> / .
won the universal admiration ot mankind ona
left 2 namo which has no rival in the history
of tho world
I am far from ssy;nc That Son Hsncool
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;s ;rancnccS hv .hc e.amc,c of w. usb;not,,
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mo III. s,xt o,6cc, !, h;,,b command s,,th -
the Potomac since tho close 81 thc civil var
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FIHAHcIAL AND GENERAL D1eTEHss IN
THE Sourm.--A CORES psndont Of the chew
York Times" writing from New Orleans
about the financial and threatened general
bankruptcy If the South, says
The past few years have been full Of mis-
fortune and disappointed hopes, until row the
| prcscnt question il one of hare subsiatenoe
of bread and butter but tho worst has not
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