Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-08-26

freedom, he says, they fought, and to the
poor whites, whose homcsteads their legislation
has saved. 1t #ould take us too far to un-
dertake to discuss these measures with Judge
Orr. We cannot, however, permit the state
ment rs to the war for the liberation Of the
blacks to pass unchallenged. It is not SO;
1T was exclusively war measure; and We
the bench and red hot political partisan to
Colonel Orr in the field, Confederate officer.
at the head Of his troops
Judge Orr advances singular idea. for
which we must allow him, not the credit of
originality, but the merit of q nice, new and
popular setting, although grotesque enough
to those who look beyond the surface. He
substantially maintains that the Republican
majority in this State is unaltcrable This,
when analyzcd, certainly means that the VS.
te's are blind, and will always vote blindly
TOR party measures. And, by the way, this
view of their voters as dependent creatures
crops out very frequently in the speeches and
talk of the Radicals They think themselves
safe for long tenure of power the chief re,
lance being upon the ignorance and immo-,
vablencss of their supporters It is the first
time in political warfare that ne ever heard
OF necessary, Interchangeable, stereotype ma
Jorlty Are men supposed to stand still
fixed to the spot-incapable of moving, think
ing and acting for themselves? We assure
you, Judge Orr, that the colored people can
appreciate argument can sift statements, can
examine and ponder the miserable faIlacies
which have so long deceived them. They
desire now-hundreds and thousands of them;
to break away from those who would keep
them in leading strings forever. They feel,
keeniy, the cursed slavery Of the Lcdaucss,,
and know they are the pens where fhe3 arg
prepared, and, it may be, adorned, for poiti,-
cal sacrifice. The black element in the Ra-
dlcal party in this State is now, 10 large ex-
tent great, scethipg mass of discomfort. -
They know their leaders-native as we'll as
Yankee, scala~ags, carpet .baggcrs and all:
have grossly deceived and plundered them.
The have hcard-though not from Governor
Orr-of the great swindle of the age-the
Land Commission frauds-an outrage in
which they are more concerned than any
oti",r TX y. G---~--l
to demorulize and corrupt Chem, ruling them
by their necessities aud through their weak
ncsscs, and would sell the souls of every one
of them, in the twinkling oe an eye, into
eternal ruin for pitiful piece Of silver 1t
is a mistake, fatal mistake, and hcinous
wrong, to say that the negro is mere block,
head, to be pcrpetually turned about md
manipulated to suit the personal and party
views of those who aspire always to manage
him. Let him, we say, come out from the
Leagues, hear and weigh argument, assert
his freedom and his manhood, and vote for
whom and for what measures he may please.
We have no fear for the result, if this be-
done. He will seek, like all other good mon,
drive out of office those who disgrace it, and,
in general, will act sensbly, pcaccably aud
quietly and will endcavor to restore the
country to prosperity and happiness. He is.
not to remain stereotype, n,usty edition Of
rank blind, unrcasoning Radicalism
We have now to take our leave Of Judge
Orr. We have treated him with courtesy.--
We deeply regret his letter, for his own sake
and for tho sake ofour good old mother State;
It is weak thing, and a very wrong thing.
1t is a letter against his country and his
countrymcn. Just when Radicalism has
reached its acme Of corruption, and when
men, no longer able to stomach or stand it.,
are looking about for the undertaker, Judge
Orr comes along with his battery and seeks
to galvanize it into life. He may give it
some spasms more, it may kick while longer,
but its day of doom is fixed, decomposition
has begun, and all the letters and pronuncia-
mcntocs of its old adherents and its new cap.
tives and converts injected into its miserable,
rotten carcass cannot do more for it than in.
crease the agouies and contortIons Of its dis
solution.
; THE PLAIN TRUTn Tho Overwhelming
defeat of General Grants administration .iIi
North Carolina foreshadows its downfall ip alf
the former slaveholding States. For time
after the war the rule Of the carpet baggers IN
the South was a matter of necessity. Tke
old dominant class did not take kindly to the
new order Of things which sprang from the
success of the Union arms. The inroad Of a
governing clement from the North was the
natura. result; and t1at it should bring i'll
its train. a tody of adventurous was almost o.
thing Of course. . \, ;.S
The fruits of the carpetbag reign of the
last five years arc what might have been ex-;
pccted. Fhe world may be searched in vain
for governments 50 immoral, SO shamelessly
corrupt, SO hopelessly rotten, as those nov
prevailing in the South. Politically they
may be changed; but this cannot cure one
Of the soTest Of the evils already Inflicted
These scan,ps have run the States they rule
rGinoasly into debt. The Legislatures con.
trolled by them have pledged tho States ID
the discharge Of pechniary obligations sof
crushing weight; to tho future redemption, Of
an enormous umount Of bonds, aud TO tito
imposition of onerous taxes throne n al series
Of years. This has been done in ia rtherapca
Of all sorts Of schenes whereby, tho hofs
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