Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-12-26

endured such distress and privation as now,
but an excellent system of relief is organ
izing. At Bristol largo numbers of tho
unemployed arc suffering much. There
is no organized relief beyond the ordinary
parochial fund. Wigan advices say there
is considerable distress among tho better
class of mechanics. Wolverhampton advi.
oes report distress throughout South Stat
fordshire. Relief in tho shape of food,
coal and clothing is being distributed.
Quiet Passage Of Blainc's ResoI4l-
ton.
We GRO glad that tho Democratic Sena-
tors had the good sense aud moderation to
abstain from making speeches when Mr..
Blaine's resolution oamo up for action
yesterday. Mr.. Thurman moved his
amendment extending the inquiry to the
abuseses of the right of suffrage in tho
Northarn States, which was adopted with.
out division, and tho resolution, as thus
amended, was quietly passed. The Thur
man amendment will amount to nothing
practically. No committee can 90 over tho
whole ground conpriscd both in tho origi,
nal resolution and tho amendment in 80
short period as remains before tho close of
the session. There will, of course, be
majority of Republican members in the
committee, who can begin tho inquiry at
any part Of the subject they please aud
occupy as much time as they please ON any
branch of it. They will, of course, begin
with tho alleged Southern outragcs, and
they may never reach the subjects embraced
in tho amendment Mr.. Thurman no
doubt sees this clearly enough, and he is
perhaps laying the ground for ohjeoting to
any report which is confined to tho South
ern branch of the investigation. But il he
thinks, shut out partial report he may find
that he is mistaken. If in the latter part
of February the committee should inform
the Senate that it is unable to complete tho
whole investigation und should ask for tho
printing of tho evidence taken, it will bo
in the power of the Republican majority of
the Senate to accept such a suggestion.
Democratic opposition to it might bring on
tho inaammatory debate which Mr. Blaine
desires as means of firing the Northern
heart.
On protest by Mr.. Conklipg that the
judiciary Committee is 50 overburdened
with work that it cannot conduct the inqui.
ry, an amendment offered by him was
adopted substituting special committee Of
nine. An amendment that the committee
sit with open doors wns rejected. Tho
Republicans, instead of frittering away the
effect of their facts as they collect them,
intend to spread them before the country in
ono tremendous clcotionoering broadside at
tho close Of the sossion.-N. Y. Herald.
WHO Is TO BLAME.-Mr. Blaine roars
in tho ears of the North and South his
lument over tho latest discovered result of
the onfranohiscment of tho slaves and their
admission into tho number of men counted
as the basis of political power in the nation.
Our opinion has already been expressed
that he does not reason either shrewdly or
honestly on this point, and that he merely
assumes, but docs not show that there is "a
grievance because the negroes do not vote
with his party. We believe, on tho con-
trary, that the negroes have abandoned
that party, and that this is OH evidcnce of
their keen perceptions. They have found
that it is not to their interest to continue
to act with the party that simply made
them 20 bail for tho hordes of thieves,
forgers, pickpookets and scalawags of every
stripe that were inflicted upon tho South as
Republican Office holders in the carpet-bag
regime. But if wo admit for a moment
that Mr.. Blaine's complaints arc just, what
theD2 In "practical politics." Of which
Mr.. Blaine is notoriously fond, is not worth
while to 90 into details for which you have
ct hand no remedy. IF tho negro vote has
been ''scooped up" by the Southern Demo-
Gratis, whethor by ohicauery, or browbeating,
or by tho Legitimate influence of interest
and intelligence, Congress has no means
within its reach to romedy that fact; aud all
that is worth tho attention of practical
politicians is tho result--that the South, as
tho final consequence of the war, has
greatly increased its representation in Con-
gress and that that representation is not
divided. Politically, therefore, the conse-
quenoes Of tho war como round to an end
precisely contrary to that predicted by
politioians--namely, the destruction of
Southern political power.
TN. Y Herald.
Tho Washington correspondent Of the
New York SUI characterizcs tho reply Of
Gen. NJ. @. Butler to Senator Blaine, in the
dobate on tho resolution offered by tho latter
on the subject of the late election at tho
South as being "in good temper and in
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