Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-08-05
The Gubernatorial Canvass

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tended by General KERsHAw and Col YOU
MANS, delivered speeches to large crowd
the citizens of our County on Thursday,
the 2Sth ultimo. There could be no surer
Indication OF the interest Of our people in
the new movement, than tho large attendance
on the occasion, aud the eager attention
given to tho speakers during a sitting of
several hours. General KERsnAw was first
introduced, and his appearance was greeted
with round of applause, worthy of the sol.
dier and gentleman, that ho is He said
His services in this cause were purely un-
selfish. Ho sought no political preferment.
lie was disfranchiscd and was here at the
request Of the nominees of the party, and
i from sense of duty to render his aid in
rescuing tho State from the hands Of corrupt
men, and putting it into the hands of honest
men, He had been charged with abandon
ing the Democratic party; with dcsorting
those principles, which our people held dear
and fought so long and nobly to MAINTAIN.
This is not truo. The doctrine of Statos
Rights persisted with our defeat in 1866
Upon his release from Fort Warren, he
aftor uluturo doliboratiou, subscribed TO tho
Amnesty Oath, which bound him to support
the Constitution Of the United States, with
the changes mado during tho war. Since
that time tho Reconstruction Acts have be.
come the organic law, and the 14th and 9Th
Amendments to the Constitution have been
ratified by the proper majority of tho States
These changes (now the law,) have modified
our relations to the General Government,
and the position of the colorcd man iu the
Government. There can be no more Scccs.
sion: no more changes in favor of classes or
color We recognize and accept these fixed
facts. The true difference between this
movement and the Democratic party is this.
We see there has been great war, and that
many radical changes have resulted from it,
and they do not see it. We see the colorcd
man has first been emanoipatcd. then enfran-
chised and invested with the right to hold
Office and enjoy the privileges heretofore the
exclusive heritage Of the white man, aud they
do not see it. Like the school of philoso
pliers who doubled every thing, even their
own existence, they deny the existence of
what every one knows and sees daily does
exist We propose to look the situation fair
ly and squarcly in the face, looping off these
dead issues, and striking for the real tangible
living issues of honesty and qualification for
Office, economy in the administration of the
Government and strict and impartial enforce
ment of the law This he believed would
result from the success of the Reform Ticket.
General BUTLER, the candidate for Lieuten-
ant Governor was native Carolipan, whose
antecedents were bright with honora aud fame
as citizen and soldier Judge CARPENTER,
though an adopted citizen and Republican,
had by his high legal attainmcnts and impair
tial judicial decisions won the esteem and
endorsement Of tho Bar of Charleston, and
| DUNKIN. These were the men opposed to
the present corrupt party, for whom the pco
| pie could cast their votes without fear of the
consequences General KERsHAw then re-
viewed the character of the party. 1t is
called by Radicals, Democracy in disguise
and by Democrats, Radicalism in disguise
There arc very few men sufficiently gifted to
determine whether a political movement is
"per Sc" right or wrong. We form our
judgment of it by the people who uphold it !;
unless we pit our Individual opinion against
public sentiment The New York JKo,11
the great Democratic organ Of the United
States, endorses movement of their charnc
tor. General WADE HAMPTON, General
CONNER and Ex-Governor b. f. PERRY, fa
vor, and will support it, and tho Press Of the
State, with few exceptions advocate the move.
ment. On the other hand the New York
Nation, Rep oiican Organ, denounces the
SCOTT Dynasty, and says it is time for every
citizen, White or Black to rise up as ono man
and put down this infamous Government.
General WRIaHT, of the Sixth Corps of
GRANTS Army, endorses this movement.
This, in few years will be the great Con-
servatiyc Party of tho United States, and its
Platform will be tho Basis for the next Pre-
sidential Campaign. lie advised the coored
people for thoir own good, to break of from
the Leagues and unite in this great Reform
Movement. His remarks were entirely argu-
mentative, and will result in much good.
General Butler was next introduced, and
in his impre ssive manner and forcble Ian