Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20


sottle here as their homo thcy will meet with
universal welcome; but if they como Us
spies and liars and fomentors of strife for the
purpose of political capital by tamperiug with
tho negroes and noiting them to murder and
incondarism, then thoy put themselves
beyond tho palo of tho law and Of society and
then perhaps, as DR.. Talmage says, they
might bo moved of on tho most mobile
section Of fence. The same would be
done in tho North under like circumstances.
We assert without the fear Of successful
contradiction that there is moro orimo il tho
North and loss security of lifo, liberty and
property than in any of tho Southern States.
You can raroly pick up o Northern daily
without being Mortified by tho account Of
son,o orime or crimes 80 atrocious rs to make
your blood cnrdlo, such crimes as arc uu-
known in tho South.
Dr.. Talmagc also makes specific denial
Of The general impression that tho people of
the South are inimical to tho United States
Government. Here, too, ho speaks truly.
and should our flag DO insultcd or our soil
invaded by a foreign foo, wo feel sure tho
South would vic with tho North in tho
prom ptncss with which she would erm for
tho projection Of tho honor and liberty Of this
great Republic.
Wo cannot commend too highly tho candor
and truthfulncss which marks tho entire
discourse of Nr. Talmage. 1t is true he has
been fifteen years in learning what he ought
to have known in twelve months after tho
war closed, but better late than never. Will
his utcrnnccs DO believed and acted on2
Will they accomplish any good, or is personal
observation the only way in which II North
cru mind can believe the South is harmless
and actually anxious FOR reconciliation and
the influx of immigrants from any quarter Of
the globe provided they be of the Caucasian
race? Upon the prospect Of an early recon
cilinton through such sermons as that of Dr..
Talmugo, Bill Arp snys: MIR. Beccbor come
down, nnd DR.. Vincent como down, and
Gen. Grant come down, Gen. Sherman and
several others and they 60 back and say
Boys, there's no harm in them follows down
South-thcy nrc all right but bless my soul,
nobody believes 'cn,, and wo have got to
cnlghtcn 'cm one ut timo, just like wc did
three thousand years to do it," We hope
Bill is mistaken in this and that the time is
near at hand when the people of tho North and
South will become one in heart as they are
in interest, in law, in commerce and in
government. and when tho sections will
know no North or South. but the country rs
one great nation. We nre sure this is the
Il oct O. ,c Ia
and that they desire to sec Northern settlers
and Northern capital come here and aid in
building up our waste places.
In this county there are between four and
five hundred thousand acres Of land with
population Of twelve or thirteen thousand
arc thousands OF acres which lie well and
could bo bought low. The climate is miller
in the winter and cooler in tho summer than
in New York. Chlls arc unknown here and
we are free from all kinds of cpdcmics, hav.
ing as healthy country as the sun ever
shonc upon. We can grow cottbn, corn,
wheat, oats, rye, peas, rice and nearly all
the grasses ms we'll as every variety Of fruits
belonging to the temperate zone. We have in
the County q lnrgc number OF watcrpowcrs and
timber Of all kinds in abundance. Our water
is pure aud cold and needs no ice TO render it
pleasant in the hottest part Of tho year. In
addition TO these advantages VIC enjoy surc
rior railroad facilities, having 81 direct cons
nec,ion with the scaboard Mt Charleston and
also with the North aud South by the Air
Line Road, which passes through the hear,
of our county and crosses tho Bluc Ridge
Road at Seneca City. The same is true of
number Of counties adjoining Us known as
the Piedmont belt, and in this section lous
sand of immigrants could find good homes.
They would be welcomed by our people and
treated as well as if born and brought up
here. We say let them como aWd scu for
themselves
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