Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-07-03
Questions for the Industrial Glasses.

Who is at present kcoping white mcchan-
les and laborcrs from seeking employment in
the South?
WHO is making barren waste Of the most
fertile. and productive section of the Repub-
lic2
Why is the burden Of taxation so opprcs.
sivc and employment scarce?
Why arc there to day hundreds of thous.
and Of white men and women in the North
living in dread Of starvation within the pres.
cpt year?
Why are Che commerce of the North and
the ship building interests almost totally par
alyzcd
Why is the South threatened with a war of
races, aud civ! law tramplcd under foot in
that section?
Why arc millions Of whito men not repro
scntcd in Congress?
Why have all the guarantees of tho Consti-
tuition been broken down, and their rights of
free born Americans subjected to the arbitra-
ry will of irresponsible satraps?
Why are thirty millions of white men taxed
for the special benefit Of class who pay no
taxes on the great bulk of their property?
Why should there be over two thousand
millions Of dollars exempt from taxation2
Why should there be special legislation for
ono class Of the population, to the serious in-
jury of the interests Of c7cry other?
Why should the great agricultural oopula.
tion of the new West be made tributa: ? to tho
manufacturing lords Of Yankceand?
If tho national bankers arc enabled to mako
twenty millions of dollars year out of tho
industrial class by their speculation in tho
ncccysarics Of lifo, why arc they tolerated?
If negroes arc (it for Freedom, why has a
great poor house system for their support to
be kept up at the expense of Northern indus
try?
Why is it that the products Of tho South
have fallen off 10 great extent?
Why arc murders and outragcs, and rob.
berries SO fcarfully frequent all over tho South
If the war was prosecuted for tho prcscrva-
tion Of tho Union, why ore ton States kept
out Of it?
If tho South is permitted to fall under no.
gro domination, will it be ft for tho habitation
Of whitc mon?
The industrial classes of the North will find
an answer to all these questions in dcstruo-
tivcs. 1t is to them wo arc indebted for the
evils by which the country is threatened. ~
And tho worst is yet to como. The negroes
refuse to work, and the great productiycncss
of the South is lost to tho country. The
white mon of Tho free States arc oppressed
with taxation, that they may be supported in
idIoncss. OF tho four or five hundred mil
lions Of dollars which arc raised upon the in.
dustry of this section cvcry year, largo pro-
portion is used in tho dcyilish work Of rover.
sing tho natural order of tho races.
Workingmcn Of tho North, will you, can
you endure this Infamous work? Do you not
SEQ that the pcrjurcd, plundering, .Constitu-
tion breaking, law-dofying gang called Con-
grcss, is striking at your rights, at your free
dom, at your dearest interests, through rcoon-
struction? There has not boon single not
Of legislation, single measure passed in Con
gross that has not been aimed at you.
i is you that " National Banks arc
Tt is your families who are mado to suffor
that tho South maybe Afrioapizcd and con-
ycrted into a wilderness.
+ It is out Of your pockets Chat tho taxes to
pay tho interest on untaxcd bonds is paid.
Noarly oao.half your labor is mortgagod for