Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-03-31
From WASHINGTON.

| WASHINGTON, March 25-IIon. D. T..
| Corbin, United Seutcs Attorney for the Dis
trict Of South Carolina, and Rapicr, Assessor
of the Soconu Alabama District, were con-
Grmcd.
Tho Blodgctt case is being discussed in
the Scnato.
The House has no session.
No Southern nominations, and no confirm
ations.
The otal subscription to tho new loan is
500, ,0000 900.
| IN the Senate, Clayton was seated.
The discussion over Blodgctt's and Gold
thwaite's credentials gave way to the Diiccn
cy Appropriation bill, which passed.
Sumner stated, in debate, that, willie the
Secretary Of the Navy complaihcd of II lack
OF vessels, twelve were guarding San Domin
| go.
Chandlcr wanted immediate action regard
ing tho South, where, he said, thousands and
teas OF thousands were being scourscd aud
murdered, and these outragcs were ccrtaiuly
on the increase.
| WAsulNGroH, March 27.-The subscy;p
tions to the loan are forty millious
Collector Bailcy's dot,lcation is Sl32, 900.
The House Commttee, to which the Pres
idcnta message was referred, had two itupor.
tant meetings to day.
| In the House, several bills were introiuc
ed aud referred to committees when appoint,
ed
In the Senate, Sumner occupied all the
day He sums upanl thus stands the case
"lntcrnational law has been violated in
two OF its commanding rules; one securing
the equality OF naticns and the other provi
ding ngainSt hcliigercnt intervention While
"a dstintvc fundamental principle OF the con
stisution, by which, the President is deprived
ot a king'y prcrogative is diarcgardei, and
this very klnsly prerogatyc is asserted BY the
President. This is the simplest statoment
i4oEing still further at the facts, We SEQ that
all this great disobcdincc has for its object the
acquisition OF al Outlying tropical island, with
large promise of wealth, and that in carving
out this scheme our Republic has forcibly
maintained y usurpcr in power, that he IN. III,
sell his country, and has dealt blow at the
| Independence Of the black Republic of lIayti,
which, besides being wrong to that Hepub
| lie, was All insult to the African race and all
| this has been donc by prcroyativc alone, with
out the authority Of an act Of Congress. If
such Transaction, many he ,acd in wrong, can
escape Judgment, it is difficult to see what
security remains; what other sacred rule OF
| international law may not be violated What
other foreign nation may not be struck at
what other bc!;gcycnt menace may not be
hurled what other kingly prerogatiyc roay
not be seized upon q In the course of his
speech cnarging upon the declaration, that
the President had placed himself at the head
Of .nure powerful and costly Ku <lux, than
those ct The south; he preceded: Glad the
President been 50 inspired, as to bes.ow on
the Southern Unionists, white and black, ore
half the time in zeal, with personal attention,
personal effort and personal intcrccssion, which
he has bestowed upon Ills attempt to obtain
half an island in tic Caribbean Sea, our
Southern ku Klux would have existed in
| name only, while tranquility would have
| rciGnCd everywhere within our borders"
| [Gnhoral applause in the egnerics aud hia;es
The Vice President. ''Ihc Chair canuot
consent that there sIl,ll he manifestations
of approval or disavproval in the galleries,
| and he reprchends one as rromptly as the
other II they are repeated, the Chair must
cn"rcc the ordcr of the Senate"
Sumner then proceeded. "Ncw, ns | dc
sire the suppression Of the i[u Illux whsr.
ever it shows itself, and the elevation of the
African race, iusist that the Presidential
scheme, which inst"ls the ku Klux on the
coast Of st Domingo, and which, ut the same
time, insults the African race in the black
| Republic, sha! be represented
Il speak now of that ku Klux of which
the President is the declared head ard
speak for the Afrcsn race, whom the Pres-
dent has rampied down.
"ls there any Senator in carnc,t against
tho i<u kluy, let them arrest it on the coast
os San Domingo, Is any Senator ready at al
times to seek the elevation of the a African
race here is the occnsio;. for his best efforts :"
! The census returns show per cent. of in.
crease in number Of farms for Alabama OF
23; Arkansas Z; Florida sos Georgia g;
| Itentuek 2S; Louisiana 33; Mississippi 10
| Missouri So; North Carolina q Tcnncs.
see 40; Virginia l8. Massachusetts, shows
a loss OF rs per oent; New IIampshtc 9 per
cent. Texas and South Carolina are not made
up.
The per cent. increase in establishment and
productive industry-Alabama 43 \; Arkan.
sas rs; Florida 2G3; Georgia 9l; Louisiana
IL; Mississippi II; Missouri 2t2; North
Carolina Tennessee 10G; Virginia As;
Texas and South Carolina not made up.
In the case Of Givcrs vs. Campbell, from
the Circnit Court Of IIouisiana the Su.
premc Court airrus the deere OF the Court
below, sustaining the contract of promssory
note, of which the consideration was the
price of slaves purchased before the war.
= In few days, at the farthcst, and New.
berry will be in tclcgraphic communication
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