Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-06

matter should be looked after.
Mobley moved as an amendment to tho
motion that vote of sympathy be extended
to all tho defeated candidates.
Miller ngsn pressed tho motion to COM
pei tho delegates to defne their position.
II thought that they should DO thankful
enough to go to Chicago Oh any terms.
Warren r. Marshal thought it would be
treating tho delegation like school boys to
call them up and examine them us to whom
they would vote for as second or third or
any other choice
Murray, of Sumter, said hc vas tired Of
hearing these harangues. lIc wanted to
80 home, and moved that the whole natter be
Indefinitely postponed which was agreed
| to.
Dcas camc again to Tho front and offered
the following resolution:
RcSo(Uct2, That in case Gen. u. s. Grant
is not ii candidate before tho Chicago con-
vention, and will not allow his name TO be
used, and should it become necessary for
| them to vote for my other candidate, that
tho majority of the delegates shall de-
eide for whom tho delegation shall vote as a
unit, but in 10 case shall the vote of the
State be cast for Sherman.
| w. A. Ilayno acknowledged tho right
Of the convention 10 Instruct its delegates,
and made announcement that tie majority
of the convention would have stayed at
home if il had been Known that they were
opposed to Grant. His second choice was
Blaine.
Whinper said the delegation to Chicago
understood plninly what platform they had
been elected on, and if any Of thcm should
be rccrcant to the trust imposed in them
the people had their rcmcdy when they
came back. lie felt bound, under the
resolution of the conventions, to vote for
Grant, but Us to the other candidates he
did not propose to be instructed rs to who
be should vote for.
Strakcr thought tho original resolution
of instruction covered the whole ground.
| Ilo moved that the resolution before the
convention be indefinitely postponed.
Agreed to.
cago delegation from their obligation to
vote for Grant, end the committee nr-
pointed to prepare resolution touching
tho Whitaker outrage made their report.
Shrewsbury, who had introduced the
| original resolution to the same effect, began
an attack upon the report of the committee
aided by Miller and lIaync, who declared
the original to be not only moro to the
point but couchcl in better language
Elliott and Sam Lee cspouscd the cause Of
the committee, and lively fight as to who
should get the glory of the introduction Of
| the resolution was carried Oh for abou. an
hour. Finally, when all hope of securing
order or quiet seemed gone, Mackey left
the Speakers chair and proposed u compro-
mise by which new set of resolutions
| including both Of the resolutions iutro-
duccd should be adopted. After another
sguabblo the following were adoptcd
Whereas, the unmanly and disgractful
attack recently made on Cadet Whital;cr a,
West Point merits !he condemnation Of
the civilized world and speedy and thor
ough Investigation at the hands of the
| National Government, not only in order to
discover tho parties committing the out
rage, but also to investigate the general
management! rules and regulations govern
log the conduct and duties Of cadets, one
toward thc other, without regard to color,
whereby a radical change in the past con
| duet OF white cadets toward their fellow
| coorcd c1dc;s may be made to the end Of
| con,pr!iinr white cadets TO treat with re-
| s}ect in aii their oiiicial intercourse their
ici!ow coIorrd cadets: aud, whereas, it has
hern usually IN the past, rs in the present,
thr man'irSt purpose al the white cadets
at Wet Point to insult by word ana dce1
their fellow co!orca cndcts, and to heap
upon them iuhi-aitics which libel the claim
OF man on ocntemnu.
| Rcsolrcd, That We condemn VIII indig.
nation lie recent brutal outrage rcrpeiratcd
on Cadet Viii Gkcr: anG olll upon the
Nctoaa! Government to institute an inve.-
ligalion cf the same, aud to enact such laws
rs will prevent the rc cnactrcnt Of such bru-
tai conduct, so calculated TO mar the pre-
historic fame Of our National military
school, from which onght TO cone, as here
i"!orc, not only soldiers, the guardians aud
defenders Of our c0untry's honor, hut also
| christian gentlemen without moral taint
Rc&olvc0, That sc rcpcl with indignation
the unchari!a6lc inlimations, from what
ever source they come, that Cadet Whita-
ker is ptobabiy guilty Of self mulilation for
sinister purposes, and regret to observe the
indecent haste with which the authorities at
West Point gave coicr, hy their words aud
deeds, TO the famous charge; lhus fore
slndowing their Judgment before corrcc,
knowledge Of the facts WIS judcnny asccr-
taiDcd.
RcSofrcd, That this convention extends
West Point in his rcceht suffering and
trials, and recommend him TO stand firm,
commanding justice with that dignity and
firmncss which has already character
lied his condIc'.