Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-05-05

Mr. Jonps, who are consuming tho time of
the Senate in trying to prove that tho
people of New England arc degraded aod
unhappy "serfs," might dovoto one Of their
daily speeches to the condition of tho
franchise in South Carolina and Mississippi,
as established by Senator Wade Hampton,
the Charleston Ne'cs and Courier, aud tho
Vioksburg Hcrald-all good Democratic
authorities.
[From the New York Times.
1t would DO rash to promise Mr.. Hamp-
ton that the abandonment of tho policy of
fraud would not involve tho surrender of it's
fruits. But it will, nevertheless, have to
be abandoned. These admissions by hin.
self and by tho Demoo cratic press are proofs
Of it. Whether thoy ore inspired with
disgust with the policy or with its results,
they are the death sentence of tho policy.
It may dio peaceably, or it may bo do
Tended by its authors with tho rccklcssncss
shown in it's reception, but it must go, and
at no very late day. Aud when tho present
tedious discussions in the Senate is over and
forgotten, it will bo found that the Ma
tional Government, again in Republican
hands, will lack neither tho means nor
the disposition to aid iu putting an end
to it.
From tho News and Courier.
The uneasiness of tho New York Euc-
ming Post is natural, but it is unnecessary.
There is not MS much at stake, in South
Carolina, as when tho danger to porson and
property justified any aud every means of
carrying elections. The State can not be
put back where it was in 1876, and moth
ing less than return Of barbario rule will
justify or excuse tho reversal of popular
majoritins by Irregular methods.
With the State government in the hands
of Republicans, with the election laws so
framed as to invite aud encourage fraud
and with largo colorcd majority in the
State, the only choice was between Co opes
ration and Revolution. The Mcws and
| Courier was in favor of cooperating with
the Chamberlain wing of tho Republican
party, in order to ensure protective repre-
sentatiou Immediately with the prospect of
| entire control two or four years later. The
white people Of tho State decided in Con-
vention to make S.raightout Democratic
| fight. This meant Revolution, aud the
Nc,Us and Courier, when that course had
been determined on, went as far as anybody
TO make it effective and victorious. There
was nothing else to do. The Revolutionary
p' riod, however, is at on end. All South
Carolina, excepting one county, is under
| Democratic ruic. There is no danger tina,
the State will fall ngain into tho hands of
| ignorant negroes and whito kuaves. Moth
ing less than that danger, imminent aud
inevitable by ordinary means, would
justify any moro fraud at elections The
day for fraud, OF Wholesale, is past. Besides,
| the people are sick of it,
The situation is rot, therefore, as the
Post supposes, "unchanged except it is ucs
companied hy an admission Of wrong"
That peril which bound tho people to-
gcther, which blinded vigilant eyes, closed
keen ears, aud stifcd sensitive conscienccs
is past and gone. There is another element
Of safety The people rcalizo that fraud
can become more hurfu to those who wink
ut cheating than to those who are to be
cheated. There is no idea of permitting
the State to be misgovcrncd, but there is an
unalterahle determination to have, with
honest rule, free election and fair count
There is no State election this year, and
before 1882 opens the Post and oil sympa--
thizing friends will see for themselves what
is proposed to be done.