Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-06-10
Addresses.

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Addresses.
We give below tho addresses Of Gen.
johnson Iogood end Gen. j.. D. Kennedy
on their nomination for the position of
Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the
State. We present first tho address of
Gen ITagood, which is as follows:
1t is with feelings Of profound gratitude
for the personal honor conferred, and with
deep sonsc OF the responsibility imposed, that
| accept, gentlemen of the Convention, the
nomination you have been pleased to make
Your selection might well have fallen
upon ono worthior Of your choice, for the
timo has come again when no son Of tho
State could look to higher position than
that in connection with which you havo
pamcd me. 1t was only in the dark days
of our history, when the alien and tho
drcgs of our own population riotcd in
power, that shame was ever suffered to
approach South Carolina's Executive. A
long list Of illustrious names adorned it in
tho better days Of the past, and Hampton
and Simpson have filled it in the present
However l mny fail, if your nomination
becomes an election, in the ability with
which, us compared with these, tho trust
be discharged, confidently pledge you
that the banner you place in my hands will
not be lowered, and that no shadow of dis
honor or taint of personal ends shall dim
its folds.
You have not, gentlemen, called mo to
lead holiday pageant. Tho dcstinics of
our people for veal or woe are involved in
tho success of tho political struggle in
which We arc about to embark. Tho re-
dcmption of tho State from tho rule of
ltadicalism was worked out in 1876 by
cflurts made in the white heat of rovolu-
tionary fcrvor. 1t was maintained in 1878
by u triumph won over an opposition not
yet recovered from tho decentralization of
defeat 1t must in this year bo secured by
II conclusive victory, if tho efforts Of the
past are not to 60 for naught But your
opponents are ncrvcd by tho Knowledge
that they arc now fighting for their life,
and they may be backed up by powerful
cxtraneous aid. One more crushing defeat
and Radicalism rs party, suoh as VIC have
known it, will cease to exist in South
Carolina.
But it may be that in this Presidential
year one of the great National parties will
find its icosc of power dependent upon tho
restoration to rule in our State of tho
hybrid concern, which here assumes and
disgraccs its pame, and that party may seek
its purposes regardless Of the local ruin it
will intlict. 1t is the part of wisdom to
be prepared for this, and to marshal our
forces to meet it successfully. We csnnot
rely upon tho fcrvor of 1876. Such
efforts arc not repeated in generation.
We can only succeed by thorough organi-
zation and diligcnt work, and in preparing
for this you have, in my Judgment, seized
upou tho true plan of battle. When the
canvass with its disturbing influences, is
limited to tho short period necessary for the
only purpose it can effect, the urouspg and
soiditying our friends for tho final effort,
you have given the time to DO tho work,
which will be most powerful in accomplish
ing tho result. This is contest to be won
by votes
There is portion Of our people who arc
reliable to man, and who heed no sum-
mons but that Of the Democracy. 10
bring these to the ballot box is tho only
problem. A very large part of the re-
naming portion of our people have now
voted with the Democracy in two success
sivc campaigns. We have only to poll the
same votes and to supplement the number
The stimc you have wisely given to the
purpose will enable yonr executive authori-
ties, both State and county, to quietly and
patiently organize our forces to move when
tho signal is given. And opportunity is
afforded to recruit our ranks by tho cxcr--
tion OF the full influence Of tho individual
Democratic voter, that "caoh man a man"
policy, which wo have before found pow
erful factor of success. Accepting in por--
feet good faith the enlargement and dcbasc--
mcnt of the suffrage which events have
compelled we will and must preserve tho
Ito of tho commonwealth by keeping its
control in the hands of its bottor element.
Seeking to deprive no man of his franchise,
conceding freely to all mon their rights un-
der the law, tho God given right of self
preservation remains, of which neither laws
nor constitution can deprive IL people, and
we will assert it by those appeals to rcaeon,
to interest and to personal associations
which influence men everywhere. Wc
have found them potent before, and wo will
find them potent now. / have spoken of
tho approaching canvass only from our
local standpoint, because the necessity of
local success is to us supreme. But our
intorcsts and wofaro oannot bo discovered