Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-06-26
9 O m m unio ations.
FOL. TIE KEowEE COURIER.

EDuECoMDE Co, N. G., juno Is, 1868.
M. Editor: AS rambling portrayal of
"timcs and topics" in this State might not
prove totally destitute ofinterest to your North
Caroliua readers, hereby attempt it:
The cynosure of all eyes, nt present, is the
National Democratic party, its movements,
designs, &C., as expressed by newspaper ex-
f, poncnts; and intelligent men seom to be per-
foctly indifferent as to who the Presidential
candidate will be, SO he is the strongest man I;
and VIC arc willing to let tho North and West
be the judges of his qualifications since
thoy, yi...aly, will fight the battle. Every
thing is ewallowcd up in opposition to radical
ism, and wc arc almost converts to the Cutho-
lie doctrine Of any means justifying the end,
viz: The defeat of our oppressors, and hurl-
ing them from power.
Edgecombe, the finest agricultural County
in the State, producing more cotton, abound
ing in intelligence aud hospitality, aud thor
oughly in,bucd with spirit Of enterprise,
which her wealth enabled her citizens to car
ry out, is now paralyzcd under the I" "blaok
bile" of 1900 Niger majority, which is fas-
tened on her fair territory like an ineubus-a
pcnumbra-.an od.man on the. back of-Sinbad
tho sailor, which wiclds tho wealth, without
paying any part of the taxes, which steals at
night what tho honest man acquires by tho
sweat of his faco" during the day, which
scorns labor, and idly throngs the /" bureau !"
Office drawing bacon and corn, the pay for
which is wrung from poverty stricken, suffer
ing white taxpayers. Temporal" &c."
Can We not fully enter into the spirit with
which Cicero exclaimed, go, Catalinc, how
long wilt thou abuse our paticncc?"
This section of the State seems to have
been kept intact from the scourgings of tho
Yankees ,cM guns to receive hundred fold
greater damnaton from the mouths of carpet
baggcrs-thosc wretchcs from Hadcs, who
swarm the country, like locusts, dcvouring the
fat of tho Offices and defraudng hon 81 freed
men of their little savings. Mono other have
savings.
Under these circumstances, we look to the
Northern Democratic party for succour- it is
the beacon light where is harvested the hive
of our hopcs-thc concentration of all cxpcc-
tations, and hence We feel safe in leaving the
selection of n candidate to thom, our only
guardians who can cxtricatc us from our 20
litical misorics. &C. Let us never be confound-
cd!"
The cotton crop is unusually fine for the
season, and if nothing mars the present pros
pcct, the yield will fully realize the most san
guine expectations the only misfortune be-
ing that last years losses prevented many per-
sons from planting to any considerable extent
This is poor country for wheat, though it
matured we'll when raiscd--the stalk healthy,
and the grain filling out properly. Corn is
rather backward, and has suffered from the
ravages of a blue bug, that sapped it's found
alton, under the ground the good season
however, has improved its appearance, and
caused it to grow rapidly, within the last few
days.
Our Supreme Court is in session for the
last time under the old regime. Scalawags
have usurpcd the scat once occupied by Gas
TON. The Hon. W. II. BATTLE is the only
one of the judges who nobly refused to sell
his honor-.his principles for mess of pot
tagc. May the people of North Carolina yc1
reward him for standing by her in the hou,
of peril, when hor cause was sinking one
Our Legislature will meet soon, and give
among its first duties, standing army of mi
litia to Gov HOLDEN to torrify the hearts o.
those whose understandings he could not con
vince into radicalism by November Ten
ncssce is the pole star for the guidance Of he,
yet unrcconstructcd sisters, and God preserve
us from her fate A drop occasionally from
j. NJ. DEUCEONENI.
| FOR TIE KEoWEE COURIER
CHARLESTON, juno IL, 1868
| Editor Keowcc Courtcr-DEAR SIR: Th,
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