Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-10-15

the China,nan, and the negro have each q
right 70 enter into it with US, and that we
| shalt have no choice to say whether or notwe
! will enter into it. with them. We say'sktre
is reop o'ity in tho relation, reciprocity in
the right to accept or to decline it. know
that tho Democracy has been charged With
being opposed to progress Gold .ogies) aud
that its claim to be considered the real party
OF liberal and humane and progressive prih
clplcs, has been denied. The Democracy has
undertaken to provide for all according to
our system of government, and to carry out
the ideas of freedom to the largest possible
extent. but they respect the character and
would defend the intereats and rights Of white
labor, and they feel that we should he cautious
Of any policy that would impair either
While you find some speculative tinkers who
really believe the theory they profess, and
"rc no doubt actuated by the most sincere and
phila"thropic motives ae general thing, Il
you take one of your Republican friends aside
AMI talk with MIN on th acstion Of suffrage,
in five minutes he will tell you lie does not
think the poor white ought to vote, and by
the same Logical necccssity which determines
the Democracy to stand by and defe,ud and
protect the suffrage Of the common white man.
Those who do not believe in it arc willing
to degrade what they would rejoice to des.
troy (Appluuso.) tW lan 1;I
DEAD VS.. LIVE ISSUES,
Mr.. 0 O'Goru'an, leading Democrat, said
Sune men talk Of dead issues Fclluw sc:iitii.
zens, issues pay die, but true principles must
live forever. (Applau>e.) Slavery is dead
issue slavery is dead SC e,,i,,ii is dead
,ssu"-that ide, went down in the storm of
war; but the rights Of the States, the rights
"fsel: government nf States in all their local
'nccrns. that is the principle on ,ohich soe
Hor in this country, and that principle is to
b.. viniicated anew. (Applause.) I like the
manly protest against the socallcd fifteenth
anienincn'. but it is in fact subversion of
trp Constitution it i, inconsistent with thu
vital principle by which the Constitution
lives, the right to regulate suffrage in tho
St,tcs; the right to say who shall choose tho
lcsi>l ,;orS Of States. What are these hut the
right to make laws in that State, and when
That is sur,' ndclld in the great State OF New
f"rk, the State is dead tirJat applause
AZ Tor negro suffrage. have no opinion to
give; rur friends in South Carolina may like
it and adopt it, let them--it is the CONCERN
-. ,hcir State; but that wc in New York have
ANY u!hDruy t" conpal them to adopt it and
to Sny vino sl,aIl pr voters in our St,te, inr
that thcy should have Il right 70 s.ly to us wu
shall D.; vo In our State, that il subversiVc
tie yer, prncip!es IN the words United
i,i}trS !" tn II It is crrrd, Lhr States ,rc
'.ad \pl'u>e.) That is Dno stead,
m'rc e. piro ahich is bein developed
In' princii les o' the Republican, party are
UNITY, consolidation, aud empire at Last
(App!"use) But let me leave that q, estion
aud sly word about our financial policy
1t seems to me the right theory is expressed
in the resolutions you have adopted What,
ever contract the American people have made,
t'at j. shall perform. (Applansr) What
over the ob!ig ton would be betwtou man
anH. man, t'e nited States " l. keep as it is
| kept net~ en- man aud mn In al these
! o niG,cts .y orrowing aud lending, where
| ."vc, n,nen, is 3conce, dea, lot NO recall T.
I! " u, attent on this ,ct, that there are Two
| phtls to I,--therr is the lender anI ! ere rs
tin" bo"io~ er, and an In ustice is me to
| i'naer "hcn he -. q n II act hack VIII l he lent
sud I" the borrower wien lie is made 70 pay
more ii',n he got. III you will bear that in
mn nat tic Gnvefn,nent ip its transaction
aust he .uicd by the solue laws OF bonestd
and ln''nr that are to guide tho i'divian"
ui---then you have got ut the key f tie
wGri' question:. ami ali the rest is easy. i'S
.t t III Id. .,l t... II hWf ~. i.'
.s7,9 Thu Safe Constabuiary II" y"
~ The Grand Ju,y of AbbcNIlle County. q
THAR prrssen nihcht, publshsljn tile "lPrcss'.
OF tst week, thus ftti"gly c"siActerixes = 9
State constabulasy, Whieif is y dpisancein The
eyes Of homes, people md q grievous sore on
| the body politio ~ ltsn n!aci-s o% a|'f
a,eAs y par,of the history of the times, and,
as 'an evil soall,ng loudly for redress, on aos'
count pf the s,nagnitudeo OF she interest ahich
is.involses and sffscs. Bssps 40 Other than
the peses ahaa good order oil the wssole oon,,
Wnnity e-ws faellit TO lSuf duty ,aaGdSr the,
solemn obligation of the grand jarer' oash,,