Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-07-28

try; but when tho white man locks horns
With his fellow 10 the battle Of ambition,
tho most artful demagogues will best con-
troll the ignorant freedmen, and the degra-
dation of both races must follow. NIahono
teaches tho lesson most pointcdly in Vir..
ginia, where he has outstrippod tho bour.
bons 10 the devices of the demagoguo and
has consolidated eighty thousand property
less voters to stamp tho ineftaceable stain Of
reputation upon an honoIcd commonwealth
end repeal the just tax that opens tho free
school to the coored children. Tho divis,.
ion of the whites in Georgia under the Coli
quit aud Norwood flags, sent hurricane
Of debauchery amoug the colored vote Of
that State, and all the thrttless cupiiity Of
Ignorance has been whettcd for future cons
tests. This severe trial of universal SUI
frage must now come, aud it will present
tue problem in an unexpected phase to the
nalion. The whites can do nothing else
than divide. They cannot and should not
do otherwise. They are full Of human ma
ture; they have now no common danger to
make them forget all differences of opinion
, aud all the impulses of ambition; the re-
! pressed jealousies aud longing of this poo-
pie will burst out in widespread and bitter
umpire between them The seductive ap-
peal of tho agrogrian aud the cry of The
communist will bc heard by the courtcd
black nun, aud his prejudiccs, his passions,
hs appctitcs aud his iudolence will be ap-
pealed to rather than his reason and his
interests. now fear this surely app oacll-
ing trial of the black man us the sorcst
that he has yet grappled with in oil his
liberation, and appreheud that it will, at
no distaut day demand the searching con
sideration of the whole nation, as did uni-
versul sufTragein Washington before it was
effected to cure the in,olcarblo evils.
The factory aud the school must be- the
great civilizers of the South, and [ am
glad TO see that the Northern ard Southern
Radicals agrc" III the United States Sen
ate in natlouaiiziug education. 1t is needed
in the South to an extent far beyond what
is generally understood in the North, and
there will be no matcri, i elevation Of the
black race until tho ignorant classes of
| both whites and blacks can be educated
| There is cordial sympathy, as Il rule between
the intelligent whites and the blacks, much
more than there is between the whites aud
blacks in the North, but the ignorant white
man never forgvcs the black man for be-
ing as intelligent as himself. In nine cases
out of ten, tho black man will prefer iu-
telligent white to any sort Of colorcd Jurors
to try his case in court, aud hc prefers the
former owner Of slaves to any others, sim
ply because that class is certain TO Judge the
negro most generously. All of the recon
structcd States have equal educ .toual fa-
cli,ies for both races, but their poverty has
prevented either the number of schools
or the length Of terms which should be
attained to afford proper opportunities for
general schooling The fact tina. the in
telligent whites have no difficulty 10 har.
monizing with the blacks, clearly points to
hastened education Of both races as the
surcst means Of their mutual elevation and
prosperity. And next to tho school the
factory is destined to be the great civilizer
iu the new South. Every factory have
seen looks like green spot 10 the desert,
and it is steadily advancing every class of
people about it. Manufacturers should 60
South. The manufacturers of the North
must soon 60 South with their cotton spin
dies and looms, and those who 90 earliest
will reap the richest harvest. 1t is a viola
| ton of al! the laws of trade to transport
cotton thousand miles to an inhospitable
climate where water power is unreliable q
third of the yeur, aud where it necessarily
costs more to sustain labor than where the
cotton is grown Oar struggling cotton
factories in Pennsylvania would DO earn
ing from ten to thirty per cent. on the great
water powers Of the Savannah or the Alas
bama, where labor is cheap, where tho eli,
mate is the most genial to be found on tho
continent, and where the cotton lint can be
furnished fresh from the gin. Iustoad of
iDcu.fing tho expense of packing, of trans
porta'ion, and Of re separating the lint, at
much cost to the fibre, the cotton should,
aud soon will be spun directly from the Gin,
| by cheaper labor and turned into better
fabrics than eau be furnished with all the
| skill of tho North. Those who say that
| capital is not safe in the South, either
know not what they soy or mean to be
untruthful. In every Southern State there
is q supreme desire to havo tho factory
everywhere that the raw material is fur.
nished, aud South Carolina exempls every
factory from all taxation for ten years. In
both tho CaroIinas, Georgia, Texas, Ar.
kansas, Mississippi aud Tennessee, thoro
arc regular emigration bureaus, not only
inviting but urgiog white settlers, and even
Mississippi has several of tho largest and
most successful factories 10 the South. The
cotton crop Of this year will be worth three
hundred millions of dollars, ond when s:m
ply spun into yarn, it will be worth nearly
thrco hundred millions moro. Where 10
all the world is there so wide and tempting
field for Legitimate enterprise and large
profits? believe that half the whole cot
ton product will bo spun 10 tho South be-
fnrn anot her ton rnars md thn suooaodin..