Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-08-25
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Tho Disabilities Renewed.

seems to be u misapprehension in parts of the
South, in regard to tho legislation of the last
Congress, concerning the removal of certain
disabilities, wc republish the act. Previous
to the passage Of this law, large class of per-
sors who had served in the Confederate army,
but were not under tho ban OF the fourteenth
amendment, we're disqualified from holding
any civil or military Office under the United
States or under any State, because they could
not take what is commonly known as the "iron
clad OATH" They are now entirely relieved
and five members are sitting the House of
Representatives from Southern States, who
could not have been admitted to seats but by
this parial measure of justice. They had
been Confederate soldiers, but had held no Of
fee, Federal or State which rendered thcu
obnoxious to the fourteenth amendmcnt. In
the Interpretation given to the Act by the
House of Representatives, in the ease Of Hon
A. NJ. Waddel, of North Carolina, masters
in equity are not held to be "ct!iccs" in the
sense of the fourteenth amendment
Consequently, every man who was not a
member OF Congress, or an officer Of the Uni
ted States, or a member Of the State Lcgisla.
ture, or an executive or judicial officer OF any
State, aud who, III that capacity, took an oath
to support the Constitution Of the United
States before engaging in the rebellion. is now
eligible to Congress uuder the Act of Februa
ry g. 1871, which is vitcd from page 20, of
the laws Of the United States
[PUDLIc-No 26.1
An Act prescribing an oath of Office to ho Ia
ken by persons who participated the late
rebellion, but who arc not disqualified from
holding Office Ivy the Fourteenth Amend.
,f tb, r Al
States.
BE at enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives ofthe Uaitcd States Of Amer
lea in Congress assembled, That when any
person who is not rendered Ineligible to ntlico
by the provisions of the Fourteenth Amend
mcnt to the Constitution shall BE- elected or
appointed TO any Office Of honor or trust un-
der the Government of the United States, and
shall not be able, on accouu. Of his participa
ton in the late rebellion, to take the oath pre-
scribed in the Act of Congress, approved
July 2, eighteen hundred and sixty two, said
person shall, in lieu Of said oath, before en-
tcrng upon the duties of said Office, take and
subscribe the oath plecribcd in an Act Of
Congress entitled Gan Act prescribing an
oath of Office to he taken Ly persons from
whom legal disabilities shall have been re
moved" approved July II, eighteen hundred
and sixty eight. j. G.. BLAINE,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Vice president of the United States and Pres
ident Of the Senate.
Received by the President, February 8,
1871.
NOTE by THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
The foregoing Act, having been presented to
the President Of the United States for his ap-
proval, and not having pcen returned by him
to the llouse Of Congress in which it origina.
ted within the time prescribed 10y the Consti-
tuition Of the United States, has become law
without his approval.l
THE sourn TIE GARDEN OF TIE WORLD.
The London Chemist and Druggja, in
very appropriate notice Of DR.. Porcher's GRE
sources of the Southern Fields aud Forest"
take occasion 10 say the following true words
about the Southern States
off the Southern United States are not the
garden of the world, it is rather responsible
for their cultivation and development than for
any natural iufcriority to any other land on
the face of the earth. 1t occurs to all minds
that this is the home Of the chief products
which civilization demands Cotton, sugar
and tobacco are products of such immcnsity
as to dwraf those which other lands bring
forth and yet these are not ALL Vast quaint.
tics OF wheat and rice are exported, and
luxuriant but uncultiyated vegetation besides
tcstlfics to the immense resources which are
forthcoming. These Southern States com.
prchcnd an area of territory cqualing that of
Great Britain, France and Germany Wa.
tered by the grandcst rivers, and rich in eve
ry variety of soil, with millions of acres of dis
NAL swamps yet unclaimed, there is future
for this district which will make it territory
to which all the world will turn Tor its ycge.
table supplies"
RE- Some Of the factory girls in Lowell
are on strike, but they arc obliged to give
months notice before they quit, they have
issued circular to the world at largo, in
which is the following interesting rameraph:
1--WE are now working at our uotcc-can
turn our hands to most anything-don't like
to be idle, but determined not to work for
nothing where folks can afford to pay Who
wants help? We can make bonncts, dresses,
puddings, pies, knit, roast, stew, fry, make
butter and cheese, milk COWS, feed Chickens,
hoe corn, sweep out the kitchen, put the par.
lar to rights, make beds, split wood, kindlc
fires, wash iron, besides being remarkably
fond of babies"
HGs- We uro Informed that tho employees
commenced putting down iron on the Air
lIinc Railway Mt Charlotte on Monday, the