Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-01-26

slider it deliberate move tovsrds Mahono-
ism IN the State, or does it proceed merely
from heated imagination, or simply from
desire to obtain notoriety.
| Aoswer: The "Fisbburne fiasco" amounts
! to nothing. There always will be in every
community certain persons who have lost
their popularity, or never had any, who
will strive to form new parties for the pur-
pose OF getting office or position for them-
selves. But their motiges will bo soon
chcckmated. Malone succeeded in Vir.
ginia by appealing to the peouniary interest
OF the taxpayers, who we're oppressed with
most onerous State debt. There is 90 suoh
lever for tho demagoguo to WELD in South
/ Caro.0s. The fence law has been pissed,
aud all sensible neu will soon experience
it's wisdom and utility.
| Question: What in your view Of the exo-
dus Of tho colored people from Edgcfeld,
Lsurens aud other counties of the State2
| What will he the effect thereof and the
| remedy thcrctor2
Answ r: | think the exodus of the col.
orcd people has been greatly exaggerated.
Politically it is M advautage 10 the good
government Of the State. Financially it
may affect certain pcighborhoods But il
|
tuuity Of resting their lands aud sowing
them 10 small uraio There will tie labor
enough left to cultivate judiciously all OF
our lands. The colored people have been
most infsmously fooled, and they ore going
to their owu rain, suffering aud starvation,
as they did in their emigration to Kansas
aud Liberia. havca great sympathy with
the c''ored people, but no patience with
their crcdu'ity and ignorance | havo
oficu proposed to them that if they would
come over and join the Democratic D .rty 10
voting tor honest and seusibo mcn t,Iat we
would snare with hcm the Offices Of the
State. But they prefer to Gnite themselves
with unprinripIed mep who give them no
office aud use lhe,., only to get into Office
themselves.
Question: iherc is pending before the
.Ics's aturc bill to provide for the regis
t:utinn of voters, what do you think Of tho
provisions of the bill and the propriety OF a
change in the election laws of tho State at
this juno,urc?
Answer: 4 am in favor Of Registration
law, but do not like the provisions of
the bill reported oy the committee Every
voter ousht to register nud vote in his own
township. This will prevent great many
frauds in the elections.
Question: What do you think Of the
propriciy of calling Constitutional Con
Ventinn?
Answer: | am in favor Of Cnnsitu-
tiona CunveLtion to nake new Constitu :
lion toi the State. 1t is disgrace to the
State to he voluntarily living under Con =
stitutinn foru ed for South Carolina by ne
grors, c,rpcthaggrts and scslawags. Every
Southern State has r"pudated such Con
stitution except South Carolna. Let us
have pride aud honor cnou.h to iolow their
example The propused Constitutional
amendments made by a cominitee arc OH
ject,onatle The election of judges for
life or during good behavior in Rrpubi-
can government ia radically Wong aud
anti Republican,. 10 Enylani formerly the
judges we're appointed by the Crown AMI
heId the tennre Of their offices during the
pleasure Of tho King. This was very bad
: and in modern times created Juror for an
independent judiciary, ~hlrh was accom-
: plishcd. The judiciary of England is now
indepandent OF the Crown, which is light
aud proper. But in Sruth Carolina there
liz no necessity for the judges to be i"de-
pendent of the people my more than for
the Governor and oil State officers to be
independent Of them. What horrible
state Of affairs it would have been to have
had such m"n us Wright and all the other
} Radical judges in for life utter the Demo.
Gratis w"u the government of the State? II
a Judge mukcs good officer. at tho cxpi-
J ration of his term of office he will in sl'
probability he re-elccted, and if he ia not
; good judge he ought to he turned out
lu republic all public officers should be
responsible to the people, judges as well
as governors and members Of the Lcgis-
latuIe.
ANSWER This. Did you ever know any
pers"n to be i'll without inacton nf the
, Stomnch. Liver or Kidneys. or did you ever
know one VIII, was we'll when either was OBJ
strurted or inactive, aud did you ever know
or hear Of any case of the kind that Hon
l}iuers would not Gurc2 Ask your neghbur
he same question Times.
LANCASTER, Ky January l9-James
X WiImot, farmer living near here, on
the 17th killed his mother, ogcd 50. his
wife and two daughters. aged 10 and l5,
IN their beds aud then hung himself in his
barn. He had used a new sharp axe lie
attempted to shoot II son, aged 20. but the
} latter escaped and ran for his life Another
son, aged ., was rescued by young lady
named Calvin, who wus aroused, and, dis
covering the murderer's intention, took the
little ieiIo~ in her arms and escaped. Tho
older suD reused the neshbors, but none