Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-02-03
A Radical View.
THE TNUTII SPOKEN.
Tho Charleston Republican says:

p0lltlciaDS, ana OF some OF our SO called
statesmen, are doing what even the fierce hur.
ricane of war c"uld not do in disheartening
our people. The effect of tho work of some
of these jackals of politics is dircful
''Thero are, in truth, good men holding
position in the Government of tho State
men who urc anxiously seeking tho advance
ment of the pcoplc--but many Of those who
hold Office, both white and colorcd, hold it
only because tho tremendous revolution in
our affairs lifted them there by the mcrcst ac-
cidcnt, they themselves being stepped iu cor
ruption These arc creatures Of circumstance
On from thousand years, perhaps no time
would come that would lift this class of men
to the giddy height they now occupy
cit is not that some of these are not gradu
ates of Colleges, or even of common schools;
it is not that they arc cramped in knowledge
because Of the political system which ruled
the State; it is not this, for we arc thorough
Hcpublcans, and not only believe in the gov.
crnmcnt of the people, but know that many
OF tho great Drained men who are of most ser.
vice to tho State are not of the schouls-it is not
this over which wo arc gloomy, but it is that
so many of our public men are thieves That
has a harsh sound VIC know, but it is simply
the plain English way, and tho only true
way, of putting it.
"From every side come runors of the cor
ruptions of officials Some of these rumors
are Of course only rumors, with no founda
ton whatever, but others of these stories are
too true, aud too unerringly point to the po
litical perdition to yard which we ure drifting,
and Which we Shall surely reach unless the
people, whom these corrupt mcn do not in
reality represent, rouse themselves into ac.
ton"
MEMPHIS, January 27.-Thc Arolanchc's
special, from Little Rock, says: "In the Sen
ate, yesterday, Immediately after the reading
Of the journal james Brooks presented his
certificate of election and demanded to be
sworn in. Immediately several of Clnytons
friends objected. The Lieutenant Governor
declared his intention to swear Brooks
Claytnn's friends appealed to the Senate to
protect itself. Notwithstanding Brooks was
sworn in. Intense cxcilcmcnt and mutual
dcnunciations followed. No dnn,go so far,
beyond wards"
MILWAUKEE, January 2S.--\ memorial
to Congress, against the repeal Of the income
tax, passed the Assembly 73 to 0.
NEW IoRK, January 2S.-Thc tug
Phoenix, while towing the IIulSon from l.rn
don up the bay, exploded. The fireman was
killed aud seven of the crew injured. An
other tug toxcd the ship to harbor.
~ suit was commenced to day in the Uni
ted States Circuit Court, by the officers Of tic
Southern Association for the relief of widows
and orphans Of the Southern States, against
Nathan j. Morse, John B. Bulz, Henry Col
ton and Charles Murray, to recover SIS, 500
worth Of bonds given by the dcfcnd,nts to
the Association in December, 1850.
WAsHINGroN, January 2S-It has been
suGwigyy !s. since z z, o9,,e!l!o!ek.
Utility, of the Keystone line, was burned at
her wharft to-day.
| RICHMOND, Va, January 27,-Jn the
United States District Court to day, Katie
Cummings, colorcd, who was sent South MS :
teacher by a benevolent society in New York
obtained II verdict for eleven hundred dollars
damages from the Orange and Alcxnrdri
ral.rond company for having been elected
rom tram at Alexandria, because she, hav
ing first class ticket, refused to 20 in the
colorcd peoples car.
me JOINT committee Of the Legislature
agreed to day that of agriculture, land srrip
fund, one third should go to the coorcl p"o
pies college, and the reminder be divided
between the two State colleges.
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- While we have always heretofore held
tnat the Republican party was not likely to
| DC defeated, except through an open division
IN ITS own ranks, and through the nomuntion
OF man by the oppo i,ion who was once in
concert with it-'ikc Judge Chase, or Gen.
Sherman, or B Gvatz Brown for illustration
| i disihteStai.ou and Generalization, now
gong on in that party under the leadership
OF Gen, Grant, and by the differences between
nm aud prominent men in Congress and the
independent press Of the country, seem to
make it quite possible, indeed, that pure
Democratic nomination, of SO able and so
good man as Judge Thurman, can DISPUTE
successfully with it possession of the country
two years hence. -SprinafcM RcpuJiicaa.
This is from one of the ablcst Republican
papers i'll New England, and sounds vcry
much like prophecy.
= The attempt making by the administers
with Senator Morton as its stalking horse to
revive the old, old "outrage" cry, prcpal latory
to reconstruction Of reconstruction, Is infa
nous. Every one Of the so called Southern
Govcrnors declares that peace rcigns within
'lis State. The discovery to the contrary, as
made at Was ington, is but part of dirty
and reckless plot to manipulate the South in
the interests Of Mr.. Grants re clcction Uo
knows he has not ghost of a chance without