Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-05-19
Stand by the President!
THE Duty OF THE DEMoCRATs--A BuaLE
BLAST FROM BAYARD.

10 the course of conversation held 10
Washington on Saturday Senator Bayard
expressed these views of the effect on the
Democratic party and on politics of the ali
apcc between Malone and the Republicans
10 the Senate:
''The entering wedge Of 'Mahoneism'
which was expected to split the Democratic
orgsnization iu Virginia will only have the
effect of harmonizng local discontents aud
combining the better elements of society in
that State and III the other Southern States
n favor of strict and honorable perform
auce of oil public obligations. The action
of Tennessee in funding her full debt with
out scaling dollar, and at rates of Interest
acceptable to her creditors, is the best an
swer that the Southern States and people
can make to the Republican managers who
charge them with dishonesty and yet seek
to disiotegrate thom by prosttuting public
offices in aid of State reputation. 1 nm dis.
posed to believe that the attempt of Mr.
Muhone and his new allies will prove
boomerang to the originators, and so far
from being 'an entering wedge to split the
Democratic party in the Southern States,
will only consolidate its effort for success
upon platform that must commend itself
to the confidence of the people of the
Northern States and to the entire country"
"What the North and South need iust
now is that the real condition of society, tho
feelings, necessities end intentions Of the
people should be clearly perceived on both
sides; that misconceptions and suspicious
should end, and that Misrepresentation mu !.
tually should be discouraged and discredited
The identity and inevitable unity of their
Interests is too plain to need demonstration,
and the wide aud extensive invcstmcut of
Northern capital in trunk lines of railway
communication with tho Southern States
which are binding the people of Georgia
with those of Kentucky and Ohio, and
Mobile and Pensacola with the people of
New York and Pennsylvania, of Texus and
Massachusetts, constitute strong proofs of
the confidence and amicuble relations which
exist in the heart of the people and seem
to be 80 little understood or desired by Re-
publican partisans. The marvellous co DO oi
ties of the Mississippi River for trauspor-
tation of the grain crops of the great
Northwestern States at such nominal cost
arc proving more and more the indivisibilty
and necessity of our Union. Society con
tans many forces, and olamor and aorid and
malicious representation for party purposes
will find themselves confronted and over
thrown by benefaction and human confi-
dcnce, which, though less noisy, will prove
TO be the ultimate conqucrors. I think
nine out of ten respectable men of the
Republican party in tho North would
readily admit the superiority in eloquenoe
and iofluenoe of the ten words and one
liuo Of Col. Thomas A. Scott, as contained
10 his check for $4,000 to the Wash.
iugton uDd Lee University to aid higher
education in tho South, over the vindiotivo
and elaborate assault 80 wautonly made
BY MIR. Frye, Of Maine, tho other day in the
Senate.
81 do not think can oe mistaken in the
benefit that will accrue to tho South and to
the whole country from this inaulting and
corrupt assault upoo the voters of Virginia
by the Republican managers 10 tho Senate.
1t bas boen universally resented by all good
men of the South everywhere, and do not
think It's wholesome stimulus in bringing
them moro actively to the support of public
honor and financial wisdom is overrated BY
me. 1t is tho one object Of my public life
to SOC this Union before 1 die q Union ol
equal and amioable States. / do not wish tc
see the power of tho South assume ooutro
Of tho Union until it is upon principles
thoroughly consistent with the safety and
: welfare of the whole. shall mover advise
or contribute 10 arocognition of sectional
power as 3 legitimate method Of conducting
the Government Of This country, but Ions
to see the spirit Of mutual confidence spread
ing throughout the land, ignoring the line