Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-01-29
RAYS Of Promise.

the evils known to nations--faminc, military
tyranny, villification, poverty, and suffering
in all varied forms whenever they expressed
discomfort, they were charged with being re-
bellious; whenever they besought their con-
qucrors to remove some of the evils under
which they suffered, they at once awakened
fresh storm of abuse, and experienced new
forms of oppression more humiliating aud in
sutlerable than before. They never beloved,
however, that the Northern people, as mass,
were the willing instruments of their dcgrc-
dation to that extent it finally reached.
The motive was apparent even then. The
party in power had candidate in the field for
the Presidency. The people were becoming
tired of the party and its leaders and anxious
for change of rulers. The Republican par
ty must either go to the wall, or else maintain
its holds upon the people by coup d etat,
as bold as it was hackneycd by previous cx-
ample. It's leaders determined that the par
ty must live if tic country were rent in twai4.
Their press and spokcsmen everywhere raised
tho cry Of :. rcbcl'--the horrors of the late
war were re hashcd and served up again and
again to the unthnking. Rebel prison
pens" slave drivers" "blood hounds"
"negro. aaaessacres," with all the imaginary
atroc&Bg that the mind could conceive, were
served out day by day to the multitude, until
it became filled with fury against the South.
Congress, to keep up the deception, passed
the negro suffrage reconstruction laws, and
made the military power supreme over the
civil.
Grant was elected. and the soothing of the
political cauldron ut once ceased. The North
ern people begin to think we were not as bad
as we were represented to be- The Congress
has all at once begun to manifest course
somewhat resembling concilation the polti-
clans have ceased to dcfame us, and the "Ncw
York Tribune" has again made some APP
proachcs towards decency and truth We
alone werc the sufferers from this state of az
fairs. Capital failed to seek Investment here
and property became almost worthless in val
ue, There was no money, no credit, no en-
terprisc, and but little home.
The spirit of tolcraton that has lately
sprung up, and that seems likely to continue
until the approach of the next general cleo
ton, is already producing favorable results.
If the next election were only far enough eff,
we would entertain some hopes that the fra
termination would become complete. Already
capital has begun to flow in from abroad
bringing population and business; and popu
ation and business, in time, will help to swell
the loy Of capital. The Southerners have
either all at once quit that detcstabe habit of
running down and killing, with blood hounds,
their Northern visitors, as the "Trbunc,"
related with SO much pathos or else the
"Tribune" and sheets of that ilk were misin-
formed about the facts. Anyhow, the people
of tho North are beginning to look and travel
Sonthward. Even Thurlow Wood, who was
not in the late war, but who did moro than
most others in producing it, has bucklcd on
his carpct-bag for winter among the rebels of
Florida
We cordially welcome any and all who may
comc--even Thurlow Wccd-if he will only
behave himself, aud bring his dollars with
him. We want material prosperity We are
tired of the turmoil and trouble of tho past
few years, aud would like, of all things, to
be lot alone, at least until we can restore
part of what wc have lost Our neighbors
north of us seem 70 grow moro tolerant Con.
gress has become tranquil again, and tho i'm
aginary rebellion that has wagcd since the
actual ono closed, has somehow or other, sub.
sided.
: In all this, there is sign Of promise to US.
Let us 80 to work and improve the occasion,
If not regain powcr, at least to make bread
and meat for the county YorhviHc En-.
qutrer.
A BEAUrIsUL RETR0spEcT.--W the
summer day Of youth is slowly wasting away
into the nightfall Of ago, deeper and deeper
as life wears to close, 1t IS pleasant TO look
back through tho vista of time upon the joys
and sorrows Of carly years. IF we have a
homo to shelter, or hearts rejoice with NY, and
fricnds who have bcen gathering. round our
freside, then tho rough places Of our way
faring will be worn and smoothcd away in tho
twilight Of life, while tho bright sunny spots
wo have passed through will grow brighter
and more beautiful. Happy, indeed, arc
those whose intercourse with the world has not