Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-01-27
WALHALLA SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JANUARY ~ 1851

instead of strengthening the Republican
party have been a positive source of weak
ness" The address closes with tho ex..
preston of hope and belief that the rights
and interests of colored people will not be
forgotten by the President elect in the hour
of hie triumph.
oARFIELD's SPEECH TO THE SEaRoEs
The following is the scusible and sig
nficaut reply made by General Garfield on
Friday last to the hypooritical jcrcmuud of
H. Is. Elliott, the spokesman Of the gspg of
colorcd politicians who called on the
President elect at his home in Ohio:
General Elicit and Gentlemen: I thauk
you for your congratulations for The sue
cessful termination of the great campaign
that recently closed, and especially for ,uur
kind alluson to me personally for the part
l bare ia that campaign Whit | have
said concerning your race and tho great
problom thnt your presence on this ouuti-
nent has raised. have said us matter of
profound conviction, and hold to with all
the meuning Of the words employed in ex.
pressing it. What you have said with
regard to the situation Of your people, the
troubles that they encountered. the events
Of which they have suffered and still suffer,
| h"ve listened to with deep attention. and
| shEll give it a full measure of reflection.
This is not the time nor tho pace for me
to Indicate anything as to what | shsll
have to say and do by and by in au official
way, but this may say: noticed as pc
cuiarly significant one sentence in the re
marks of General Elliott, to the effect that
the majority Of citizens, us he alleges, in
souc purtions Of the Snuth urc opposed by
the minority. If this be so. Why is it So?
Because Il trained man is two or three meu
in one i'll comparison with the unframed
tnan, aud outside of politics md outside of
parties that suggestion ls full, h,imful of
significance that the way to mako tho ma.
j"rity always powerful over the minority il
to make its memtcrs as trained aud intcl-
liscnt us the minority tself. That brings
the equality of citizenship, and 10 law oan
confer and maintain in the long run q
thing that is not upheld with u reasonable
degree of culture and intelligence. Leg
'alat'on ought to do all it can I have
made these Suggestions simply to indicate
that the education of your race. in NY
judgment, lies at the base of, the final solu-
ton Of your great question, and that cannot
| be altogether in the hunds of tho State or
National Government. The Government
ought to do oil it properly can, but the
native hnngering and thirhtng for knowl
edge that the creator has planted in every
chld, must be cultivated by the parents OF
these children to the last possible degree
ut their ability, SO that the hands of the
people shall reach out aud grasp
in the darkness the hands of the
Government extended to help, aud by that
| union OF effort the two viii bring what
uerc Legislation alone eau immediately
bring
rejoice that you have expressed so
strongly and earnestly your views 10 regard
to the necessity Of your education. |
have felt that was the fiual solution. These
efforts that are humble aud comparatively
| cut ct sight arc in the long run the efforts
that tell. have sometimes thought that
the men That sink Golfer dam into the
river aud work for months in anchnring
great stones to build the solid nbntmcnts
and piers, chose work is by aud by covered
hy the water and out of sight, do not get
their shure Of the credit The guudy
structure Of the bridge that rests on these
piers aud across which the trains thunder
is the thing that strikes the eye Of the
great pnbiic great deal more. The
sunken piers and ward work, the educa-
tIonal growth and the building up of in
dustry, the econuny and all that c4o help
the founduiou Of loca! prosperity is the
work that in the long run tells. Some
Scotch poet said, or put it III the mouth Of
sone prophet to say, that tho time would
come
"Whcu Ber,am's right aud Bertram's
| might
Shall meet on Ellengowous height"
| And it is when the might and the right
of people meet that uajorities are never
opposed by minor:ties.
Trusting, gentlemen, that you may take
part in this earnest work of building up
your race, from tho foundation into the
soldi,y Of intelligence and industry, and
upon those bases at last see all your rights
recognized, is my personal wiah and hope
for your people,
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