Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-08-20
WALHALLA, S., C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1869

is light and liberty, and that infdelity is
darkness and slavery. If the benign innucn-
ces of christianity were suddenly withdrawn,
moral and intellectual darkness would STROUD
the world in hopeless gloom.
PAYMENT OF TAxEs.-It will be rcmcm.
bercd that the citizens Of Columbia held a
meeting some weeks ago, to institute a con.
eerted resistance to the payment of tho State
tax. Chancellor Carroll and f. w. Fiokling,
Esq, were chosen as counsel to take the mat
ter through the Courts.
This effort to nulify the law has proved a
failure. A correspondent of the Charleston
Courier, writing from Columbia, says that
Chancellor Carroll is understood to believe
that the Courts would sustain the act, and
that the only remedy for unjust taxation is
that provided by the net itself. This remedy
consists in making personal application to the
State Auditor, through the County Auditor,
for an abatement of the tax. Chancellor
Carroll has taken this course to get u rcduc.
ton of his own tax, which fact clearly cviden-
ces what his opinion is.
Its vain, then, to hope for reduction, ex.
ccpt through personal application. When
the man who was selected to contest payment,
is unwilling to risk a trial before the Courts,
others would act wisely by following his ex-
ample. Such u course does not imply a sane.
ton Of the j~ustncss or legality of the tax law.
1t merely indicates that the taxpayer sub
mits to a power which he cannot resist, and
pays his black maii-not because he approves
oft, but only to save futher expense. And
this is probably the wiser course for the ma
jority of our people. Those who have plenty
of money to throw away in a %hopelots cause,
may earn the gratitude Of ~postcrity by Ggh-
ting the tax to tho last ditch. But poor men
had better "stand and deliver" before the
demand is increased twenty ner cent.
A TALK WITH OLD BEN WADE-nE IS
IN FAvoR OF CHINESE IMM1GRArloN.-A
correspondent of the "Cincinnati CONNER.
cIul' has bctn interviewing ex-senator Wade
since his return from Califo,n mia, with the fol-
lowing result;
"Mr. Wade, what were your impressions
respecting the Chinese 2"
81 think the moro VIC have OF them the
better. All accounts of those who have en-
ployed them concur in concoding to them
habits Of honesty, industry and temperance"
"Why, then, do the laws Of the Pacific
States discriminate against them z"
at il: tho old story Of political opposition,
Of precisely the same character as that which
on this side has opposed tho "niggcr." The
Democratic politicians have passed laws in
California discriminating against these peo-
pie to please tho Irish, who, with other un-
skiilfull laborcrs, fear the competition oftheso
Chinese"
care not their habits rcpulsiye to our peo-
plc?"
"On the contrary, they arc extremely neat,
performing their frequent additions with
great care. Tho arc docilo, honest, and no.
YER known to &c: intoxicated. An old friend
of ours, with his vito, who have long been
residents of California, camo with us on the
return trip. They left their household aud
children in the care Of two Chinese servants,
who had been with them ten years, and felt
entire confidence in them. They assured us
that in the employment fthis people was to
be found the solution of the ycxcd question
about domestic help"
"But do you really think it would be ad.
visablo to admit them to citizenship in this
country"
mcon'tknow that they desire to become
@itisons.' They ask to be protected equally
with others by tho laws, and bo permitted to
testify in courts of justice. But if they are
as roprcscntcd-honcst temperate and indus.
trious-why should wc refuse to admit them
to citizenship
"They are reared in monarohial traditions"
"No more so than thousands from Europe,
to whom wo make no such objection. Still,
1 find a great many WHO are in favor Of en-
couraging their emigration to this country,
who arc opposed to making them citizens"
WE have been reliably informed (says tho
Columbia Monin,D that Talbot, charged
with boing ono Of Tho murdcrers Of B. +. Ran
dolph, in Abbovillo county, some months
since, made his escape from tho penitcntiary
yesterday afternoon, where he has boon i'm.