Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-01-23


to tho lettorsaad the spislsof tho laN.
as well as necessary 10 the payment Of all
3Ehonest debts, Bntsyet I. woald, Il to iuse Mr..
i iTilden's phrase, have got reRdy to resume,'
and moro or less invited into cooperation
with the government tho wise providence Of
tho business circles Of tho couDtty, and per-
mitted tho business nec6sstics OF tho country,
! financial web which Republican ststes~
manship had wonnd round ard round the
great industries of tho ooiintry Until it stood
/ 1iko tho lion In tho meshes. The snbll opo.
rations Of daily lifo, gradually cutting mosh
aftcr mesh, would in duo time. and with wise
providence and patience, relieved the DISTRESS
Of tho country, materially mud permanently.
Sudden resumption, in my Wow, cost tho
| people Of tho country too much to DO advo-
..atcd should haue preferred moro of what
| the doctors call tho toutativo process than tho
enormous physioking through which tho
country has been put. No ono can tell tho
countless loss and sorrow through which tho
people of this country have passed in this
rapid resumption measure, which can DO oon,.
pared to nothing else than tho Egyptian
order to tho Israclitcs to mako bricks without
straw. Yet whom the hard pan has boon
rouchcd. painful though tho process may
hive been, it does seem to mo to bo unwiso
to go back and. pcrchnnco, havo unwisoly to
travel over tho same ground again. / do not
think it wise for tho Democracy at this stage
to sot back tho wheels of resumption. Let us
rather now take advantage Of whatever good
may be found in it. Tho past. with ali its
sorrows, it would be as we'll with all might
and main to put braSoly behind US, and look
out to tho wido future before US. Tho truth
is, resumption will prove u partial success or
failure before 1880. We, in our own Interests,
whether Democrats or otherwise, should wiso.
]y cndoavor to make tho most of it. and tho
country hns n right to expect this much at
our hands"
THE JACKSON DEMOCRACY.
Corrcspon1ont--"I believe, Governor, you
have always stood ON tho platform Of the
Jackson Democracy"
Govcrnor--"Ever, and / stand there to- day.
10 my view, VIC should got back there as fast
ns possible. Tho true Jackson policy, rs !
npprohend it. is to discntangle the business
transactions of tho country from the leeiti.
mate financial conduct Of government affairs.
To mix the two things is unwarrantcd by tho
constitution and dangerous to tho Inst degree.
Why does not everybody soc, from what has
transpred before Us, TINT tho ,nOmcnt that
the government becomes involved in IT'S fnan.
cial operations with those Of the country at
large, the moncyod mon Of tho country and
the great industrial classes become involved
in AN irreprc$siblo cnnaict,'.. oven more
terrible than that which the great New York
politician Of a former day pressed npon the
attention Of tho country2 Tho moncyed mon
in their own interest endouvor to shape and
control the iinnncial policy Of the country,
more or less as the necessities Of tho caso Or
the greed of tho moncyed men might demand.
The industrial classes at first unconscious OF
control, or patient under it 50 long rs business
prospcrs with them rs soon as rcverSes
come either arising from the cxgcncios of
the times or the misshapcn policy Of tho
government, it matters not-begin to howl
against the undue control OF tho moncycd
classes who in turn cry reputation, until
there is q lost confidence, IL general Lookup
Of current uotc-, and consequently universal
s,ngnation in business Thus in. attempting
to join that together which tho constitution
has left apart, wc erect dangerous propin.
guilty Of interests, which must load in the end
to anarchy, actual rcpudiation, if not bloody
revolution. The Jnckson Democracy. on tho
contrary, puts the conduct Of the financial
affairs of the business and industries of the
country at large in its own hands, to cxpound
and contract according to its own necessities
and the uncomfortable laws of trade moro or
less variant in different sections, and hence
moro or less adapted to the wants and inter-
es:s Of each section. The State Legislatures
incorporated the banking institutions Of the
country, which, in the enlightenment of the
times, will only permit such variations from
the common standard Of chartered privileges
and requirements rs the special industries
and necessities of the case may denand and
justify.
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1880.
$50 far as ! can see" continued the Cover
nor, II do not recognize the necessity just
now Of the Democratic party taking on it's
back the responsibility OF the financinl aues.
ton. Tho Republicans as whole, have
shaped out the financial problem which they
now claim is a success. Let us not needle
with it, but give it II fair chance Of success
If they have bronght tho country to DEATHS
door in achieving it let us at least not strive
to make it an actual funofa, whereas it will
in such an emergency become ouy fnncral no
less than theirs. Let us lo0k to tho perma
nent interest Of the whole country, and en-,
dcavor, whether We win or lose, to deserve
we'll Of the whole country.
IL am convinced We can win in 1880, il the
Democratic party Of tho Union will have done
with men of csnedicncy aud learn to toe tho
mark s4uarcly and fairly on established
principles, and know no better school than
the old limo Jackson Democracy. Then let
us put good trusty mon in nomination. fear
lcssly uvow our principles, and show ours
selves worthy of trust by being willing to
take defeat at the hands of the people should
they disapproye of our policy. Il constitu-
tional rule, SELF !f9oucrnmcnt and no sectionalism
should be the sum and substance of Four plat
form, fitted to good, honorable, trusted and
tried standard bearers, itmattors not whether
they be from tho East or tho West | have
no patience with an Eastern Democracy. and
Western Democracy, Northern Democracy
and the Southern Democracy. 1t is no Dee
mocracy at nll that is not rs wide as tho
whole country. Until VIC can find m Eastern
constitution and n Western constitution, or
Northern or Southern constitution of tho