Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-04-17

Stephens, Of Georgia, then offered tho
following, With the request that it be read
aud laid on tho table for actlon of future
caucus:
"pesolvcd, That tho MIN and objects OF
tho Democracy Of the United States, (us
far Us we, chosen by thcm as members of
the present House OF Representatives, arc
entitled to be considered as tho true expo
ncnt of those aims and objccts,) are di-
rccted with aingleness of purpose to the
restoration of constitutional liberty and
with it the restoration of peace, harmony
and prosperity throughout tho length and
breadth of the land, They abjurc the
renewal of sectional striio. They accept
oil tho Legitimate results of the lato la
mca:ed war. They arc utterly opposed to
the revival u this country or auy part
thereof Of African slavery or any Other
kind of slavery or involuntary scrvitudo
except as punishment for crime They
stand pledged to maintain tho Union of tho
States under tho constitution with all it's
existing amendments as they shall be ex
pounded by the Supreme Court Of the
United States. They are against all uncou
stitutional or revolutionary methods. They
are for law and order aud the protection of
life, liberty aud property without respect
OF persons Or social conditions. For the
redress of all grievances they look alone to
the peaceful ins'rumentality Of the copst-
tution: First, the law making power; SEQ
ond, the law cxpoundug power; third,
the law executing power; aud, finally, tho
ultimate sovereign power of tho ballot box.
They are for free ballot us we'll as for u
just count. While they are opposed to
large standing army, as were the trainers of
the constitution, yet they are for keeping
the army sufficiently large to rcpcl invasion
aud defend our extensive frontier as we'll as
oil necessary interior forts and garrisons
and to enable the President to put down
domestic violence or insurrcotion in any Of
the States, aud in aid of civil officers as
posse comifatus in the execution of legal
procrss IN the pursuance of tie constitution,
und as provided in tho acts of Congress of
1885 aud 1907, but they arc utterly OPP
posed to tho use Of tho military forces of
the United States in controlling or in any
way interfering with tho freedom of cleo
tons. They arc for the maintenance of
tho public credit inviolate, but they are
utterly opposed to an increase of the bonded
debt unless the cxigcnccs of the war should
render it necessary. They arc for rctrench :.
ment of expenditures, lcsscniug the burdens
of taxation and thorough reform in the
present unequal and unjust method of rails
ing revenue They urc for placing the
coinage of gold aud silver upon the same
footing without restriction or Limitation
upon the amount of either. They orn for
rcviving the langushiug aud pcrishing in
dusIries of the country by an increase of
the volume Of currency founded on sound
basis sufficient to meet the urgent demands
of trade in every department of labor and
business.
Without transactng any further business
tho caucus adjourned.
Atlanta Interested in the Com
pletion Of the Asheville Rail-
road.
The Atlanta Constitution, in q recent
editorial on the railroad interests of that
city, makes the following allusion to the
Spartanburg and Ashevilo Road, which
shows that other sections arc interested in
pushing through our railroad connections
with tho West, in order to have line to
compete with the rond from Atlanta to
Chattanooga ip freights on coal
"Thc new road is being built from Spar
tanburg, South Carolina, to Hendersonyilc,
North Carolina, across the mountains. It
is now being run aud operated from tho
Air Limo ut Spartanburg to Saluda. Mr..
James Anderson, superintendent, wrote on
yesterday that the tr 10 would be running
to Hendersonvilc by the lst of June. From
HcDdersonvlle to Ashevillo is only twenty.
two miles, and tho whole distance is level
land, through which a road can be sent at
smal! expense. OF course, AshoviIIe is
not the objective point, but the aim is to
get to tho East Tennessee and Virginia
Railroad. The point aimed at is Norris
town. There is now running every day a
road from Morristown to Wolf Creok.
From Wolf Creek the road Is being cxten-
dcd to Ashovilc, aud the contractors Write
that they vii! reach point only Is or 20
miles from Ashcvillo by the time tho bull
ders from this cnd reach NendcrsonvIIe.
This will leave gap between these two
most important connections of only about
40 miles. All the balance of tho routo is
under contract and will be finished this
summer. It is simply impossible that this
gap should be left open long. The interests
dcmanding its closing up arc too vast and
pressing to let it go, and the leading roads
at issue could affold, if necessary, to build
tho entire distance. Indeed, it is said that
tho % miles from Hcndcrsonvilo to Ache
villo have already been arranged. for, and
will be promptly built.
"With this gap closed, VIC should have
n route to tho East Tennessee ooal fields.