Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-01-08
vessigate tho North caroliua exodus.


poorhts, especially the Southern Senators.
They quibbled about straws, and attempted
to 'defond tho people Of North Carolina
against tho popular, charges Of naltreatment
of tfeso negroes, when they must know
that q Yankee negropholite Gs there suoh
wosd2) would believe the stories Of tho
mQet ignorant negro sooner than ho would
thS. sworn testimony of Ben Hill himself,
or any other Southern Senator. .,,q
Il am amazed at tho opposition presented
by Southornors to this negro exodus.
Why not lot them 20? If they remain in
tho South thoro is no doyelopment, no ad.
vancoment, no accumulation of woalth by
the toilipg farmers or laborers. Every en-
terprise is, subordinatod to this brake upon
tho wheels Of progress. Turn back Tho
pages Of history for tho past fifteon yoars
and search for tho chapter on Southern
progress, It is not there. Where olso in
oil Christoudcnl can that chapter not be
found? Hayo We Southerncrs no enter--
prise, no push, no 60 ahoadativeness? Yes,
VIC have; but how can wo assert it with
this incubus Of ignorance and stupidity
hanging about US like CALLING yoke7
But tho public mind says wo wont
tho negro here, and I havo said tho
public lmipd is not often wrong, So per.
haps,. I err in wishing tho exodus a God-
speed. Perhaps DO. do, nevertheless.
Congress adjourned yesterday till tho 9th
of january, 1880. I am here for the
recess necessarily and will attempt to send
you another letter about tho 1st of Janu-,
ary, furnishing more food for thought to
your readers, tho farmer readers more par~
ticularly, and perhaps ola pleasanter nature
than tho thoughts sth ashing political par.
ties, losing the State, and, creating Indepcn
dcntism, 80, &o.irYery respectfully \
D. WYATT AIKEN.
GWAsn1NaToN, 90, December "a, 1870.
70 the Editor Of ne Nt,os and Courier:
seek no newspaper controversy, nor do
wish to obtrudo myself upon the public;
but desire to be heard once more, and
hope you will not deny me tho generosity
of your coudins. '""'n'I''l 'H">1H p" ,'''ll,
10 anonymous brayipg I have 10, rcpIy
to make. ,r..,.. .c.l...n. y gGyl = ror
just editorial or public criticism am
not aversc. But when [ read overi that
column Of editorial opinion, which you have
paradod in your issue Of tho 22d, ncthinks
I SOC veritublo Iago in the party, With
whom the wisk is father to tho thought he
expresses. wv .
? ltako no umbrago at your thus ventilat-
ing the "sAiken, Idea," npa will encourage
you by every means in fly power, Tif you
will only write few more editorials like
that in the same issue headcd: nTho Grant
Movoinent.l Shall the, South Capitulato or
FightY' 1 BlsEAEEL EkEtEA EskgAa
You stand 10 that editorial upon my
platform. /Spoakihg of tho Democratic
party, you say, "thcy must choose man
whom tho North can trust," and thai "the
only way to win is by choosing q candidate
in whom tho North has confidence" [
have asserted that no partisan under the
banner of Democracy can command the
confidence Of tho Northern people. Neither
Tildcn, Hendricks, Han cpck nor Bayara can
secure enough Northern electoral votes, in
my judgment, to'cnsurc him, when backed BY
an entire Southern vote, an updisputed
claim to the Executive Chair. Is it treas.
enable or even impoltic for me to say SO?
If so, then L an, both impolitic and traito-
rous.
L am not called upon to nominate u
Presidential ticket, but l believe there arc
men in tho North Of sufficient purity Of
character and weight of brain to become the
peoples candidate, bo they nominated by
even tho Democratic Convention, aud who
would govern this country for the benefit
Of the whole country, aud not simply for
the agsrandizement of their purity. While I
do not think either Of the aforementioned
men could effect this end, I would be
sanguine Of success if such men US IIoratio
Seymour, of New York, or David Davis, of
Illinois, wero placed in nomination.
l desire to publish just here somo Con.
grcsslonal facts, with which you may be,
but | fear yonc readers are not, familiar.
The Senate Of the United States is com.
posed of 76 Senator'S, ~ Of whom arc De-
mocrats, and 80 of these I2 arc from the
South, not including Delaware. So that in
this Democratic Senate two-thirds Of tho
Senators are from the South.
In tho House there arc 2S3 members, of
whom las are Democrats, and of these 14S
democrats JS arc from the South, or very
nearly the two thirds proportion there is in
tho Senate. The Forty fourth Congress
was the first since tho war that was Demo
cratic, and in that body the South had
majority of tho controlling party. Now,
search through tho legislation of the inter
venlng period, and show me, if you can,
where in any single particular just share
of legislation was awarded tho South. S32,.
OOO,O 900 arc voted away annually to pension
Northern soldiers, and. not as many hun.
dreds for Southern mon, who fought tho
battles Of tho country in Mexico or Florida
or tho Indian wars. $27,000,000 are
appropriated annually for an army in which
there is not Southern officer. $20,000,-