Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-11-25
John Quincy Adams.
DEMOCRATS IN CoUNcIL-spEEcH OF MIR
ADAMS.

nc 'amocrats OF massachusetts, arc going
into the caiigass with an evident determine
ton to mako y hig fight. Their nominee 70,
Governor sshat clear.headed staunch patriot
John Qnncy Adams An immense meeting
was held at Fancuil HALL few DAYS since,
at which Col. Adams spoke in his usual clear
and forcibo style.
We print his address, which VIC commend
to the attention of our readers. After oncn
ing with a few words of greeting to his friends,
he said
Let Government prevent men from oppress
ing and chcating each other but beyond that
let each man absolutely alone to pursue his
own happiness in his own way, without any
Interference. So saith Thomas Jefferson and
that is all the law aud the prophets. "The
moment Government assumes the dircctinr
AMI protecting plan," that moment it ceases
/ t" he Democracy and becomes asistocracy.-
The representatives, of reople who all vote
VIII necIes eI s'nrlly, in the long run, be exactly
equal NJ worth to the average of their constit-
uehts abd no more. For the representative
OF an Average to assume wisdom superior to
the average of his people is absurd. All he
can do is t" leave them alone, and p,ss such
necessary laws Ohc fewer the better) as shall
compel them to leave each other alone in all
innocent pursuits Beyond that not one
step. The rule Of the best is generally. MS
we know to our cost, the best government the
world ever saw-.for the best But very
respectable colorcd man told us here, IN this
hail. some few days since that it was wrong
to leave the people OF the South fire. to gov
ern themselves, because there we're "nutrau,s"
there Now, we know that fellow courage"
ana his ways by this time as we'll as we got
come accustomed to look for good many of
him. but, surprising for tho sake of the ar
gumont that they we're bona ,1itle outragcs-
surposing that they were as genuine outragcs
as the people of Boston were guilty of in old
Colonial times. Imagine that the Ku Klux
were as rough as the mob which sacked Gov
ernor Hutchinson's house, and broke open
and ravagcd the dwellings of Storcr and Hal
lowell "loyal" men and otliccholders; or rs
lawlcss as the men who threw the tea into the
harbor down below here, or helped Attucks
stone the "lobster backs" over in King street,
yondcr.
Let us assume for instance, that they love
Reconstruction" and "disfranclisemcnt" and
negro aristocracy just as well as our fathers
liked King George and "taxatlon without
representation" and the British aristocracy,
and arc as "loyal" in that kind of thing as
Sam Adams or John Hancock. What does
it prove Only this, that if you will violate
the law of free government you must take
the consequences. If you will tramplc on
mems pride and scntiment--yes, or even on
their cherished prcjudices, to say nothing of
their rights-you may look for "outragcs. T"
Why, gentlemen, have read Of these out
RACES in history before now; and, where do
you think they occur? Why, Ireland has
been famous for "outragcs'' for CENTURIES
Poland has been land of outrage Hungary
was for very many many years q very nest
aud hot.b bed of outragcs, and indeed she bo
came so outrageous that Austria had finally
to find cure. Aud she found one, my
friends a perfect cure; not an Outrage" now
to be heard Of And what was it? Why,
she restored to Hungary hor constitutional
rights that is all. And as soon as We re-
store 70 the South her rights under the Con-
Stituton we shall hear no more of 'outragcs -
No wonder there are outragcs. ] wonder
there are not mole. am sure We should not
bc as quiet if the cases were reversed.
know we were not at all quiet one hundred
years ago when it was tried here ,car if
you should rut the Asiatic to rule over u.s.
as We have put tho African to rule over them
there would be some trifing outrages going.
But there is very little Of political violence
down there, though certainly there arc some
"outrages." know of one myself; a plain
manifest, 0ngrant, intolcrable outrage upor
free government and constitutional law, nnC
that is reconstruction" itself. No, III,
friends you must stick to your principles
even if the clouds do lower.
Although the way seems impossible, yor
must GO on fearlessly, or you are lost. Eth
er the good sense and good feeling Of thu
people of the South would have at last cstab
lishcd pence and good order and good govern
men, there without the diotation of Congress
the Acknowledgement of "rcbcls" and the en-
, furcement of liberty hy tho soldiers. or els