Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-09-23


let tomorrow tako care of tomorrow;
Short and dark US our life NAV appcar.
We may make it still shorter by sorrow
Still shorter by folly and fear!
llalf our troubles are half our invention,
Aud often from blessing conferred
Have we shrunk in wild apprehension
VI cvils-thut never occurred!
[ From John w. Forncy's "Lifo of Han
cock"
Judge 7. J. Mackey on Hancock.
PRESENT POLITICAL CONDITION OF TIE
SOUTH.
While this volume was going to press,
was called upon by my long absent friend,
Thomas j. Mackey, at present Judge of
tho Sixth Circuit of South Carolina, who
hus voted tho Republican ticket since the
candidacy of Fremont in 1856, and for
most Of the Republican candidates from
that day to this, and is now openly in tho
field for Gen. Whitfield S. Hancock. After
my congratulations at Meeting him aud his
sou, MIR. Beckford Mickey, in reply to my
question as to the present political condi-
ton of the South, he spoke as follows:
"Thc campaign has begun in South
Carolina, or rather should say it is con-
tinuing, for since 1876, when the State
was redeemed from long misgovernment,
under the leadership of Wade Hampton, an
organized effort has been continually made
to assimiatc the colorcd man to the Demo
cracy by a just aud equal administration of
I'm lnfrS and h,,o Il Al,
mcnt of tho State to him through system
of low taxes and faithful execution of all
public trusts. To-day throughout the
thirty four thousand square miles of terri
tory embraced within the limits of the
State, the law is keeping watch, n silent
but sccplcss scnlincl, over the person Of
tho humblcst negro. The colored popua-
ton Of South Carolina constitute as orderly
and honest a body of aborcrs as exists in
any quarter of the globe, and in proportion
to numbers commit fewer grave crimes than
any other industrial class of which am in
formed.
"Thc nomination of General Hancock hns
been followed by very striking expansion
of sentiment in my State on the part of the
whites. 1t has furlcd tho Confederate
banner forever within the limits of South
Carolina.
"As an evidence of this, I note the fact
that few weeka ago the inhabitants of
the county of Nowbcrry assembled to dcdi-
cate monument to the Confederate dead
who fell in organizations sent from that
county. The monument consisted of tall
marble shaft, on which the names of
some eight hundred dead Confederate
soldiers were inscribed. There were at
least ten thousand cx-Confcdcrate from
various parts of tho State present at
the dedication, aud when the ceremonies
closed, the vast assemblago made the
wclkin ring with hurrahs for Hancock
the great Union soldier before the
deadly fire of whose inviuci;e corps
many of those whom our citizens assembled
to honor fctl in battle. Those hurrahs
came from the heart, for every people is
sincere at the graves Of their dead. There
were at least fifty United States flags
encircing tho monument during the dcdi-
oation.
"As another evidence of this expansion,
| note the fact that the Fourth of July was
celebrated universally by tho white people
in South Carolina in tho present year, for
the first time since the year 1860, BY the
ringing Of bells and tho firing of cannon
All GLASSES, ages, sexes and races participant
ing, white and colored intcrminging and
purtaking together of sort of national
sacrament administered by one who had
shcd his blood upon the altar of the Union
and might we'll preside os high priest at
the Office of national reconciliation. 1t is
in view of this sentiment of returning
devotion to the Union, specially inspired by
General IIanoock's nomination, that |
welcome his candidacy AS an cx- Con-
federato soldier who served four years ct
the front in obedience to tho false political
theory of my State, aud as an earnest Ro-
publican, regard the nomination of Gen
cral Hancock as tho most benign incident
that has occurred since tho war, as I know
his election will be ctfectual in restoring
concord to American citizens by binding
them together in common devotion to tho
Union.
"As further illustration of the change
which that nomination has Effected, I refer
10 tho fact that since tho war South Caro-
|inans generally we're in tho habit Of refer
ring to tho United States troops stationed
in the State as Yankee soldiers or sFcde.
rails. But few weeks since, while l was
standing in group of cx- Confcdcratcs at
COLUMBIA, detachment Of United States
soldiers passed., and an cx-Copfcdcroto