Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-02-10
[For tho Keowee Courier.1
Across the State.
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level, pleasantly situate country, nearly equi-
distant from Camden and Sumter, (twenty miles,)
about fifteen miles from Lynchburg, on the
| Wilmington and Columbia Railroad. It is in
part Of belt finely adapted to cotton and oats.
The population are beginning to realize some
thing Of the capabilities of the soil and climate
mendabe spirit. The land is inviting the
application Of intelligence and tho push of
energy. Tho day is coming when all this 500
tion will blossom like garden and our benef-
cent Christianity will inspire the people to inn
prove, beautify and adorn the good land that
| God has given.
! This portion Of Sumter was once occupied by
the large planter. It is now being developed by
tho small farmer. However excellent and
admirable that ante -bellum system. Of which The
| princely landlord and his cultivated household
were tho symbol, VIC hail with unbounded gratfi-
cation tho coming in Of the new cra when the
rewards Of industrial, social and political life are
open alike to all and are conditioned upon
| individual pluck and persistence. This free,
competitive system is destined to work wonder
full transformations throughout the favored
Southland, just as It has produced marvellous
| changes in the moro sterile North.
Tho diffusion of the rewards Of industry
among the working masses, being moro in
harmony with the genius of our free institutions,
will be q potential element in fostering their
permanenco. Small free hold estates and thick,
cheerful homesteads will contribute to the
stability of the American Government, which
have no hesitation in pronouncing the very best
government in the whole world.
Patriotism not only demands the prevalence
| of such system, but our robust, Protestant
Christianity also. The church, in its enterprises
in its operations, 10 being sustained, not by the
rich, for the rich have never been liberal to
Christ, but by the industrious, generous work
| ing GLASSES. BY working classes we include not
only the laborer, but the employer of labor;
those who are earnestly engaged in production.
The spirit Of genuine progress, awakened all
over our beloved South, in the mountains and
along the sea shore, ia busy in this beautiful
Dishopville country and the inviting land and
climate, 80 highly appre :iatod by tho fathers,
will bo moro highly appreciated and utilized by
tho sons.
Though we were in The first stage Of rather
painful oonvalescence and necessarily confined
within doors from an unprecedented snow fall,
we spent several pleasant days in greeting old
friends.
Laurens is perhaps the most solidly pro-
gressivo county in tho State. lis people begun
to grapplc with the new questions underlying
our situation in tho very beginning. In 1876,
under the steady leadership Of that veteran
journal, tho Laurcnsville Herald its people
struck The key noto for our political Olsen
thrallment. The fro which spread over tho
up country and finally rolled like prairie con-
flagration from the mountains to the sea, was
kindled in the primary meetings Of the Laurens
farmers, and 1t was as pure flame Of patriot
ism ever transported people. The Herald
enunciated distinctly, voluminously, persistently
| the great principles of Labor Reform, principles
which have since been embodied in tho legisla.
| tion Of The State. The prosperity of the county,
| the prosperity of the State, the prosperity Of
| the South will be found to exist in the ratio
that the principles Of Labor Reform aro intel
| ligenly apprehended and energetically applied.
Quite recently tho Herald won onother
splendid yictory-a higher, noblcr victory than
the rest. 1t closed the saloons on the 18th
| ultimo. Nearly sixty thousand dollars worth of
liquors had been sold in the town during the past
year. Sixty thousand dollars! Enough money
to cndow munifcently your Adser College,
which under the management Of that fine edu-
GATOR Of youth and noble p,cacher of the Gospel,
DR.. ]. r. Riley, and his ablo coadjutors, is
developing int o powerful agent in the advance
ment of your section Of the State.
And where are tho fruits Of this sixty thou
sand dollarsl You will find them in broken
hearts, unneryed constitutions, pernicious
habits, taining and binding with chains free
human souls, hurrying them on to perdilion of
character, perdition Of life and q perdtion of
destiny. Do you wonder that the ladies OF
Laurens had jubilee in their hearts which
they scarcely knew how TO express? Prohibi-
tion now obtains in Laurons county. May IL be
| the beginning Of prohibition in the State aud in
tho Nation. When I think Of whiskey, when
| think how 1t cuts with gashes worse than those
| cut with stones, think Of the Demon of Gadara
and wonder how long the people will cause tho
Lord 10 wait before He can inspire our govern
mo ut to exoroiso il forever.
| wALHALLA.
We all spent very pleasant year in your
busy, growing Piedmont town. Had.our health
not grown 80 frail wo would have been pleased
| 10 have remained In your midst, doing what we
could in the development of your magnificent
country. We all carried away with us love and
good will and We hope We left nothing but love
and good will bohind. When we think Of your
community our hearts overflow with unuttered
benedictions. We are only sorrowfu that we
were not permitted 10 do more In the interest Of
o pare, humane, gracious, joyous Christianity.
Providence indicated very distinctly another