Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-08-19
Ey" The New York World says, and we
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/ Eg- The New York World says, and we
commend itslanguago to our readers:
"The oppressive domination under which
the South suffers is o domination from with
out, and there is no reasonable hope Of re-.
dress except by relief from external tyranny.
If tho South possessed freedom Of internal
action, ulasked advice would indeed be in
trusivo aud impertinent. But that section
can be relieved from the incubus of Federal
domination only by Democratic victories in
tho North and this is valid apology for
the advice We presume to offer AS the Sou,
needs our aid, it must not spurn our friendly
counsel.
"From 1860 down to tho present time,
many leading minds in the South have been
afflicted With political blindness. It was u
supr reme act Of poltical folly to split the Char
lest Convention by the lamentabe sclism
whicn brought two Democratic canaidates--
Douglus and Breckurioge into the field
against Lincoln, and secured his first election.
The Northorn Democrats WHO abettcd that
schism were syoophants of tho South, not real
friends. Prominent among them were Ben.
Butler, who promptly deserted to the radicals /;
Daniel S. Dickinson, who took Office under
Mr.. Linnoln Caleb Cushing, who has been
the paid counsel Of successive radical admin.
istratons; aud John A. Dix the submissive
tool of Lincoln and Seward. in shutting up
the Offices of Democratic newspapers These
are specimens. The supporters of Mr. Doug
las, Oh the other hand, pitched their profess
siuus Of friendship in lower key, but have
maintained them to the present hour. If
MIR. Douglas had been elected, we should
have had no civil war; and the South would
have been exempt frcm its drplorablc train
Of consequences. The wisdom Of Douglas
consisted in his correct appreciation of the
tone and temper ofthe Northern people. lie
saw that the safety of the South depended on
strong Northern alliance, and Mut Such an
alliance ros practicable only on u basis Of
moietutton. What was true in 1860 is TIRE,
bly, true now, When the North has still .rcnter
weight aud prcpond"rance when the radicals
cont'ol every department of the Federal Gov
ernmsnt, and a large majority Of the State
Governments The South can be relieved
only by Northern Democratic intervention,
and Northern Democrats may claim to under
stand the public sentiment of this section bet
ter than our impracticable Southern brethren
Unless they will permit us to act upon our
better knowledge Of the situation, they must
resign themselves to the tcudcr mcrcies of
radical i,,nination'
Whcreupon, the ITOriH next adyiscs tho
Southern people to cease opposition to negro
suffrage. 1t would be well for the impr9cti-
caJlcs and the irrcconci'uJ'rs Of the South 70
pay some heed to these words We have ad
visers atnongst us. who, upon the ground that
the South on the negro question ought not to
surrender opposition to negro suffrage, arc ad
yotntIng oppOslrlon TO- the reform movement
and yet we have undoubtcd evidence of the
fact that even the Northern Democracy deem
it wise and sensible for the South to accept
said suffrage. These men who thus stand on,
in formal opposition to IN accomplished fact.
arc simply behind the times, and we deem i,
Fortunate that their counsel, however houest
it may be, is ignored. Wunic
GERMANS AND DUTCUMEN in The Uni
ted Statcs, and particularly at the South, the
mistake is very frequent innpplyng the tcrnI
"bntch' to the peopl" Of German nltonaitv
There i, wide difference in the ratinnrlit,
md Language q! the two natio,,.-.!,u,.t -.