Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-07-08
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Address of the Democratic Con-
sressIneTI TO the People.


Address of taac Democratic Com
grcssnieEI TO the People.
WAsHlNGToS, June a. Tho Democratic
senators and representatives in Congress have
agreed in caucus upon the following address,
which was to-day signed:
80 our JclGW-cui:cnS Of tie United States,
friends constitutional, economical, and
honest Government. ,
"The undersigned beg leave to call your
attention to Tic peculiar Importance of the
elections which take place this year. and beg
respectfully TO submit some suggestions for
your consideration. by the State Legisla-
lures to be elected nearly onc-thrd of the
United States Senate will be chosen nearly
all the members Of the next House Of Repre-
scnta,ivcs are to be elected next fall Upon
the coming elections there depends the ques-
ton whether the Democratic and Conserya-
tive element in the Senate shall be increased,
and whether that element shall have major
ty III the House of Representatives, and as
consequences, whether we shall have consti.
tutonal, economical, and honest Government,
or continuance of the revolutionary, cxtrav-
agans, and wastetul partisan rule; whether
VIC shall have general, uniform, Just, and con-
stituional legislation, with reasonable taxa
ton and frugal G. ,enditurc, or unconsttu-
:ionnl, partial, UNJUST, class legislation, with
oppressive and unequal taxation and wasteful
expenditure. That we have strong reasons to
hope for a favorable result is plainly apparent.
fhvctto"s already held clearly show that the
tide of reform has set in with a power that
cannot be resisted if no bunder be committed
by The friends of reform If they do their
duty and act wiScIy--if they throw off all
apathy and act with rigor and stcadfastncss.
there is every reason to hope that their efforts
will be rewarded by success. Let there be no
discussions about minormattcrs time lost
III the discussion Of dead iSsucs--no manifes
tatinns of terror or proscriptivc fceline-.no
sacriice OF the cause to crafty personal am
hltion nr resentment, and let the best men be
chosen Tor candidates, and we may hope to
sec our country redeemed from misrule.
"And in this connection we beg leave to
say word TO our fellow citizens of the south
crn States DO not risk the less of senator's
or representatives by elccting men who can
not take the tcst.oath Or who are under tho
disability imposed hy TIE fourteenth amend
mcnt whatever may be said of the validity. Of
that amendment or Of the test oath act You
may rest assured that senator's elected by the
votes Of members of the Legislature who arc
held by the Radicals to be thus disqualified
will also be excluded. 1t is the painest die
tate Of practical wisdom not to incur any such
risks. We hope soon to see the day when
all disabilities will be removed, but in the
meantime do not, we cntralt you, lose the op-
portunity to strengthen the Democratic and
Conservative forces in Congress, and tho pos
sibility, nay, probability, of obtaining ma
jority in the next House Of Representatives
by putting it in the power Of our adycrsaries
TO overthrow or disregard your elections.
TIE NECESSITY OF a GREATER CRcULA-
TING MEDIUM There is a striking cloqucnco'
in figures that Is not found so forciblc in any
Of the most brilliant metaphors of spccch.--
! They were admirably employed lately by
George 0. Morgan, in speech delivered up
on the National Banking Bill, in the House
Of Representatives. In 1860 tho circulation
was S457, 100000. We had then SO, ,OOO..
l. 900 people, and paid in Fcderel and local
taxes $3.50, 100000 a year. In 1869 the
circulating medium was $3.50 900 900, aud
the taxes, Federal and local, 5000 900 900.
| The population was I0,000,00O. lt5thus an
pears that. while in 1860 VIC had three dol
lars of circulating medium for every dollar
that VIC were called upon to- pay in taxes.
now, if it should be collected at once, all tho
currency in the United Statcs would not !suf,
fee for the tax gath,rsr. Is it any Won
der that there is paralysis upon trade 2 that
times are hard? that money is difficult to be
procured !? that labor is languishing. and un-
rcmnnertve? Yet still the process of CON
traction goes on. 1t Increases the prico Of
the bonds and adds to the profits Of The Ma
tional Bankers They, under this Admins.
tration, arc the ruling class of tho couutw.--...
The farmer, the mechanic the laborer the
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