Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-09-04
WALHALLA S. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 1868,

''ad fatefui years to roviow its formey Joois
IGN, and hear tho great appca. Of liberty nns
tdo Constitution. The circumstances Of Til
tlfial arc all in our favor. Congress. has n,a.!s
cd eaoh passing month Of those Intervening
years With y acw outrage upon us, and q nov
argument, therefore, in our favor. Recon
struotion, III its every development, has star
tod the public car with some new violatio,
OF lsw, private right and public liberty. The
t,'ta9'ss'te purposes of redioaiis.., shas,owina
fofS9'he entire subye,sion of the uon..tu
t'oI'al rights OF States aud people, have boei
fully revealed. The utter and abandoned
pro'iigacy of Congressional government has
been laid baro to all eyes. The thorough
failures OF reconstruction to accomplish any
thing but the ghastliest mockcry Of freedom,
is sorrowfully admitted oven by Republicans
themselves. The waves Of war ha,l further
aud full chance fog perfect sabsidns, and
finally, the conservative mon Of tho country
have now had abundant time to rally trom Tue
terror which tho despotiym nauguratcd by
Lincola so widely spread; thcy arc wonder
ing that so boas.|y an idol could ever have
been thoughta god, and are fastening to
compensate for their supineuess hitherto, by
unwontcd diligence and determined effort
now.
IN this most fortunate conjuncture OF cur
afssigs, our triumph of the Constitution osn
scscely be jcopardizod, save by ourselves,
certainly by no party aud 10 agency cen It be
80 much jeopardizcd as by ourselves It ia
vaguely whispered, and tho recent distur;,an
ces in this city, at tho Federal Capital, ut At
ianta, at Charleston aud elsewhere, give grave
countonance to the rumor, chat instructions
have been issued from certain radical leaders
in Washington, that conflicts with the ne
gToos must, at all hazards, be provoked at The
Sonsh between this and election day. This
is precisely what every ono acquainted with
radicaism must have anticipated. Half that
Congress so easily accomplished would have
, +''s, s".rns"llv dennnneed as we'll North as
South, bad not the passions Of the Nortnern
people been oxoited by the systematic lying
OF radical prcssos respecting Southern OUT.
ragos." Aud they have too often proiited by
this game to slight its assistance now. Tt is
not important to them what may be the orig:a,
or what tho character Of the victims, of those
disturbances. a party which could make Il
horo out of Ashburn, saiut out of John
Brown, and n martyr out of Dostie, and could
find IN odor Of sauotity III negro brothcl,
cannot be very Scrupu'ous about the quality
of tho material with which they propose to
work.
Let us DO careful, then. 10 avoid even tho
appearance Of violence II disturbance
arise, let it be manifest that the conservative,
were thc aggrcvcd party, and that the consc-
qucncos, whatever they may be, properly at
tached to our enemies, and wc will battle this
last and most favored resort Of radicalsn,. -
And to that end, it is equally desirable that,
while donouncing with whatever seventy Of
language the deeds and designs of our enc
mics, our" speakers and writer's should do moth.
ing towards iuoiting breach of the poaec
aud thereby inviting The many and irret,;ov.
able evils that must cer.aiuly ensuc.- te7t.
mond Examiner and ."nqS,aer.