Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-10-03
From the Charleston News and Courier. !
Governor Raaphnpa0n's Great
speech Ihl GreenvilHe.
--Uo0D.

oiFo huVc e'eT neaTQ MN uellVcr Know.
ing tho keen interest with Which it will bo
road throughout tho length and brcudth Of
the State, | have reported it fully. Tho
Governor having been introduced TO tho
assemblago by Mayor Mauldin spoke as
follows:
My hartman, and my feilow-cittxens
Of GreenD,lle: A little moro than month
ago left Columbia with vicw to attend
the meetings at Spartanburg, Grcenvilc,
Eaolcy and PonGlcton. [ camo with the
Wow of attending those mcetings because
supposed should not havo another oppor.
tunity to sec the people Of tho mountain
region. | wanted only to thank them for
what they hnd done ia the last canvass
as knew that it was unnecessary to speak
for the ensuing one. But when 1 reached
Spartanburg- out by work aud broken
down by confinement, responsibility aud
onxiety-l was stricken down by illness,
aud from that day to this have boon unable
to meet my constituents. I almost fear
that [ am not able to DO 80 now, and if /
should not be ablo to discuss all tho oucs-
tons [ should to-day, ur if I discuss those
DO touch upon in an inooherent anl
disconnected manner you must TecolccL thut
strong as has been my constitution I am
not made Of iron, aud that tho work and
cares Of the last two years lavo left their
mark upon me.
1t was two years ago that I clmo into
this county to plead tho cause Of South
Carolina. When your Convention of
August, 1876, with q unanimity never
surpassed, did mo tho honor to nominate
nc as their standard bearer, ca,nc TO these
glorious mountains, under whose shadow
we now stand, to rest for few weeks, and
to digest tho plan of the campaign, and
from there camo into this Piedmont region
to spoak to the men of the mountains, to
display our flag first to them, and to call
upon them to rally under it, and fight for
their hoarths, their homes and their father
land.
1t was no accident that arranged tha.
part of my programme. Commuuing alone
with nature i'll those grand solitudes had
considered what would bo the plan of
operations, and determined to 70 first to
the mon OF the mountains. Liberty, thcy
say, has always loved to dwell upon the
mountains, and came first to her chosen
sons. With the right Of our linc of buttle
resting on tho hills of Georgia, and our left
extending to North Caro'inn, knew VIC
would sweep everything before us. | knew
that the fires of patriotism, kndled here
would be reflected throughout the State,
and was right. They were caught up
and carried on until cvory hilltop
glowed with them, and tho slogan raised
in tho mountains WAS re-echoed from tho
coast.
have not come, however, to spoak Of
the last campaign. Every man aud woman
in the State, aud every child that can
remember anything, remembers the glorious
work Of those days. have not come here
to speak to you Of that campaign then, but
of the futurc-io tell you Of the campaign
of ''78. You-your Convention which
recently assembled in South Carolina
have sent your old standard bearers again
into the field. You have placed them upon
the same broad, catholic and liberal platform
whicn drew to its support the honest and
conservative men Of all parties and both
races in the last great struggle. You have
reiterated unanimously the principles Which
gavo life, and strength, and victory to that
struggle, und onco again you call upon all
citizons of the old State, who wish her
welfare, to stand shoulder to shoulder in
tho coming fight. You have declared that
the policy Of '76 should be the policy of
'78. Tho Democratic party of the United
States countenances no prescription OIL
account Of birth, race or color, and you
have solemnly given your adhesion to tho
declaration of principles announced by our
National Convention. That convention
declared IT'D acceptance in perfect good
faith of tho reoont amendments to the
Constitution of the United States, and your
State Convention accepted, ratified and
endorsed in most emphatic terms tho action
of tho national party. We are thus doubly
pledged to carry out in good faith tho
policy to which tho great Democratic party
of the country is unaIterably and solcmnly
committed. We Pledged ourselves in '76
to stand upon that platform, and in '78
your State Convention, realizing the good
results that had been accomplished rcite-.
rated it, and when it placed it's oanddat
in the fold, told them to 90 forth and
declare to tho people that tho great party
which had won success in the last canvass
intended faithfully, honestly and truly to
keep all those pledges of tho past, and not
forget in The future tho promises made when
defeat was overshadowing us. l dwell upon
these things becauso there is manifest
disposition in somo quarters to ignore them
If not to run counter to them, and bccause
1t is important, now TINT wo arc just enter.
ing another canvass, and ono fraught with
tho gravest issues, that thore should bo no
Misunderstanding Of tho position Of your
standard boarors in tho fight. intend
that there shall be no Misunderstanding of
mine, for [ propose to stand whero tho