Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-29
WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, Thursday MAY 20, 1875

d foreclosure and sale. Col. Rion reprec
senting the receiver will resist this motion.
The Port Royal Railroad will also have
placo in tho picture. This case will come
up on motion for confirmation of sale
md tho reports Of Special Master James
Slmuhs, Jr., upon the claims against the
road, together with the exceptions to these
reports.
The Chief Justice will remain here only
until Friday night, but Judge Bond will
remain week longer if necessary.
Mc,cs and Courier, 20tA.
Rev. Henry Ward Beeohcr has been
South. On his return to Now York lie
preached sermon from which we extract
the following:
Mr.. Becoher deprecated sectional dis
likes and those duo to differences of raco
This great nation was divided by on invisi--
bio line, morally visible enough, on both
sides of which tho North aud South had
stood in bloody antagonism for five terrible
years. In my own Judgment, when l
consider human nature, when consider
that proud people have secn themselves
emptied out of power, their political exis-
tcnco almost annihilated, their property
swept out of their hands as by consuming
flame, tho asccndanoy of tho dospised slayo
foreign arm, should not have wondered
if there had been ten times tho resistance
that there has been to reconstructive meas
ures., Never in history has people borne
so much With 80 much patience, gallantry
and patrotism--a spectacle of moral grand.
eur and Of substantial good intent and honor
in those who have been so tcrriGcally
scourged which is without parallel The
spirit which would set tho North against
tho South, the East against tho West, the
Germans against tho old Purtaus, or tho old
Puritans against tho Germans, the whites
against the blacks, or the blacks against the
whites, ID not only politically criminal, but
it is absolutely subvcrsivc of the fundamen-
tai instincts of humanity. There is yet the
power and the honor in this country to hold
mon together in charity and unity. When
it was tho need of the uutempered North
to be nerved to resist the arrogance of
plantation domination 1 was not wanting.
What wo need now is love, charity
union: | speak again. Though I hated
slavery did not hate the slavehoder. L
loud him and still love him. I lovo all
mankind, not only for what they are, but
for what they are going to be.
RIcHMUND, VA, May 2O-Tho State
Convention of the colorcd people held
secret session this morning. A plan of
organization was adopted, which has not as
yet been made public. A committee Of
urio -
number of resolutions, and a committee OF
three tyill be sent to Washington to consult
with Republican leaders.
Tho committee on grievances reported
this evening, setting forth the alleged
wrongs of the coorcd race They also
submitted series of resolutions, recon-
meading organized appeals to the legisla-
tive end judicial departments for full recog-
n!tioa,. and emigration in case of their
faiurej expressing sympathy with the
couple now in tho pcnitentiary for miscege-
naticn, and pledging every effort for the
repeal of tho law under which they nre
imprisoned; recommending thorough organ.
ization for protection; recommending ap.
peals for tho appointment of competent
colored teachers in colorcd public schools;
rendering thanks to .Jndgo Riyes for his
'juror" decision; recommending legal Gu.
forcement of tho ooloTed mans rights as
Juror, in case of refusal to recognize them,
and endorsing tho Arkansas movement
among their race in tho South.
RIonMoND, VA. May 22-What arc
known as tho "gold cases" wero taken UP
for trial hero to day in tho United States
Court, before Judge r. w. Hupbes.
These cases embrace about dozen suits on
the part Of tho United States government
against ex, State officials who were in au.
thority at tho time of the evacuation Of
Richmond for amounts ranging from 81 900
to S6,0OO and aggrogatihg about s2O 900.
1t is claimed that the insurgent government
of Virginia had in the treasury on the I'd
Of April, 1865, q quantity Of gold and
silver, with which tho officers of this gov.
crnmcnt paid themselves and soldiers in
advance, Gov. Smith taking S5,000-most
of it in advance. BY tho public law the
conqucret fs entitled to the property of the
conquered and to rights of action of the
conquered power duo from it's debtors.
The United States Government brings suit
as tho oonquering power against these
officers, but docs not claim anything that
belongs to tho State of Virginia as State.
Tho United States Government only claims
what belonged to tho insurgeut government
of Virginia, which Vas overthrow by the
army in April, 1865. This specie belonged
to tho insurgent government of Virginia as
such Officers of that government as such
took this y and tho United States
government sues them as de btors of the