Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-06-21

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Great and small things;
God will ,hear, aud answer too. Il.
Trust Him ever; $l
Doubt Him never;
Then He'll show what He can do. i
Speeches from Messrs. Tilden ana
~ 81 HcndriCks. Nrr7r
Ex Gov. Hendricks, Of Indiana, was in
New York or tho 18th instant, on his way
to Europe. at q dinner given to him by
Mr.. Tilden, both these gentlemen made
addresses as follows: !:
NEW York, June IL. Governor Tildch
made brief speech at the reception Of the
Manhatten Club to night. After alluding
to the departure of Governor Hendricks to
morrow, with his best wishes for prosper.
Gus voyage and safe return, ho said "Every.
body knows that after the recent election the
men who wcro elected by tho people President
and Vice President of the United States
wero Counted OUT and men who wcrc not
elected counted in' aud seated discam
any thongltt of tho personal wrong involved
in this transaction. Not by any act or word
Of mino shall that be dwarfed or degraded
into personal grievance, which is, in truth,
the greatest wrong that has stained our
national annals. To every man Of the four
and quarter millions who wero defraudcd
Of tho fruits Of their elective franchise, it
is as great wrong as it is to me. And no
less to evory man of the minority will the uti.
mato consequences oxtend. Evils in govern.
ment grow by success and impuuity. They
do not arrest their on progress. They can
never be limited except by external forces.
Ii the men in possession Of tho government
can in one instance maintain themselves in
powor against an adverse decision at the
elections, such an example will bo limited.
Temptation exists always. Devices, to give
tho color of law, aud false pretepccs on
which to found fraudulent decisions, will
not not be wanting. The wrong will grow
into a practice if once oondoned. In the
worlds history changes in the succession Of
governments have usually been tho result Of
fraud or force. It has been our faith and
our pride that we had established mode
Of peaceful change to bo worked out by the
agency of the ballot box. Tho question
nov is, whether our election system, 10 it's
substance as we'll as it's form, is to be main.
taincd? This is the question Of questions.
Until it is finally settled thero can be no
politics founded on inferior questions of q
minstrativo policy. 1t involves tho funda
mental right of the people. It involves the
elective principle. it involves thc whole
system of popular government. The people
must signally condomn the great wrong
whiclr has been done to them. They must
strip this example of everything that can
attract imitators.. They must yefuse pros
porous immunity to orimo. This is not ALL
Tho people will not bo able to truet the
aathors or beaefciarics Of the wrong to
devise remedies, but when those who, con
domn the wrong shall have the power, they
must devise tho measure which shall render
aropotidon Of the wrong forever impossible.
Il ny voice could reaoh throughout, our
country aud be heard in it's remotest hamles,
would soy: t'Be Of good cheer, the Re-.
pablo will 1.-Two, tho institutions Of our
fathers are not 10 expire 10 shame, tho sover.
oigAty Of tho people shall be rescued from,
this peril and re established Successful
wrong mover appears So triumphant 90 on
tho very ovo Of its fall. Seven years ago a
e2rrupt dynasty oulminatod 10 iss power
over the million Of people who live in. the
City Of New York.. II had conquered, or
bribed or flattered, and won almost every
body into aoauiescerce. It appeared I'd bc
iavinoible.- A year or two later it, mem
bers wore in tho penitentiary or 10 exile.
History abounds 10 similar examples. We
bolievo Ia tho right and ia tho future. A.
great and noble nation will not sever its
political from its moral Ito"
New YoRK, June I3.-Alr Hendricks,
having returned thanks for the honor done
him, alluded 10 the Presidential election;
and said tho result, as declared 10 Lou;s;-
ana and in Florida and ,et, Washington. is
not and cannot bo made satisfactory to tho
country for the obvious reason that IL was
not true. Great and sincere people Mill rest
their Rnal judgment only upon truth, and
never uron frauds suooessful, through tech.
nicolity. Even should the PrcsidShs and
his Cabiuct adopt part or whole Of the
policies aad purposes for Vboh tho Demo.
cratic party has been contending for many
years, and which became so distinctly do.
aned last year, even that cannot remove or
quiet the public disooptepts. Tho Demo.
Gratis will mako no factious opposition, nor
will they sock to embarrass the de Jacto
administration, but will sustain it in what
is right, because IL is right, and for fear OF
the country, and not as all beoause Of any
fealiy to tho party that stands defeated and
condemned by the people. The people
cannot allow the selection Of their Chief
Magistrate to bedome thing of chance Or
Shprp praotisc. The fraud first triunghant