Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-04-02
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Interview of South Carollnians with Pres-
ident Grant.

4AtoA tAoW VI oVutn OdLOlAAaduS "ltu J lOb-
ident Grant.
Among tho visitors who called on the Prcsi.
don't on Tuesday morning last, were the Hon.
J. P. Reed and Hon. w. D. Simpson, of
South Carolina, who were presented by tho
Hon. mhomus i. Jones, of Kentucky. Du,
ring the interview Mr.. Reed read, for him
self and Mr.. Simpson, tho following paper in
relation to tho condition of affairs in that
State:
eve have called, Mr.. President, as mem,
3 bers elect from tho Commonwealth of South
Carolina to the Forty.Grst Congress of the
United States, to tender for ourselves and tho
people we have been chosen to represent, ouN
congratulations upon your suspicious assump-
ton of the Office of Chief Magistrate of tho
American Union. We are, sir, natives of the
State from whence We come, and claim, as
representative men of it's ancient population,
to be familiar with their political and matcri
al condition, thor sentiments and aspirations
for the future.
POLITICALLY, in addition to the loss of near
~ all their pccuniary resources, they have by
the results of the war, been practically cxolu-
dcd, for moro than three years, from the fam.
lily Of States, and the blessings Of civil gov
eminent, but having been recently restored to
their original position in tho Union, upon the
plan which the Congress in its wisdom saw fit
to adopt, without concurring in the manner
OF their restoration, they have accepted the
2 accomplished fact in good faith, and arc as
!, loyal to tho Government OF d ooaitnoa coui,
jtsy as any otlor equal number of the Amcri.
6en people.
y Their condition socially is, and has boon,
ono Of profound peace, and aside from q few
\ isolated acts Of personal violence that have 90.
i easionally been committed in different parts
1 Of the State, such as are, unfortunately, of too
4 common occurrence in all sections of tho
AUnion, good order has prevailed, and tho
N Laws, State aud Federal, enacted for their
{ government by bodies in which they wero un-
represented, have been respected, obeyed and
enforced without the slighcst tendency to tu-
I nsGlt Or violence.
! materially the abundant harycsts that
| have been voucAsafcd to them, and the high
prices at which their leading staples have
ruled, have relieved them in a great measure
from their embarraesmenta, aE5a open up to
kRthoir imaginations the dawn of a prosperity so
entirely unexpected as 20 .ioayo them to homo
kAthat events which were deemed the most
N orushing evils, may turn out to have been in.
|MS&eed blessings in Disguise
n /" In sentiment, whilst almost tho entire
native white, and n largo number of the col.
esed population, have affiliated and been idcn-
htiicd withthe national Democratic party, their
4 letters are not of such controlling strength as
n TO induce or permit o %factious opposition to
,tho party 10 power, Or hinder them from yield
\ ing a hearty support to all such measures of
j your administration as will, in their judgment,
tend to doycloptho resources and promote tho
Interests Of a common country.
. "Their hopes and aspirations for tho flu.
tfture are, that theiN State may hencoforth 90.
ahpy precisely tho same relations to the Gov.
\ ernmant under a common. Constitution and
"a laws that is occupied by the other States OF
the Union ! and TO this ond that tho laws i'm.
ssSsing burdens and conferring benefits on the
Z scoplo may DO uniformly enforced, persons
SAnd property protected, ttba,s peace preserved
EA9Rsiolate, tho unity and pcrpotuity Of the
Government maiptaincd, and that unintcr.
Y ysupted fraternity, prosperity and happiness
SA,ay attcndsths Whole American people, East
III West, North and South, without rogard1t
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