Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-23
Coiorsd CoHfosenco.

In pursuance to a CAL, issued by a
few lenders among the negroes,
convention assembled in Columbia
on Wednesday, 18th instant, TO dis
cuss the political situation, and take
under advisement the negro's re-.
lation to the same. % There were
eight ghb pps:'senss from twenty ecpn.iea,
}Riohland furnishing nearly. half,
After considerable discussion the
following resolution. was adopted:
alRPeso!Ue9, That we recommend
the negroes for the betterment Of
their condition to vote the Haskell
ticket s,s
This vas adontad as a substitute
for a resolution declaring it not to
be wise o practical. to endorse the
Haskell movement, but to leave the
matter with the State Executive
Committee of the Republican party.
On motion, Mr.. Ellery M. Brayton
was invited to address the COW II
tion. In speaking of the present
political crisis, he said j:
No one could tell what the out.
come would be, but no felt sure that
out of the breach in the Democratic
party there would result good for
the whole people, good to both. races.
He didn't believe there was a Re-
publican in the State that had not re-
joiced over the way in which the
Tillman movement had swept the
State, and that they had also reioiced
in the fact that the minority had
risen in opposition to- the movement.
1t opened the eyes of the white peo-
pie, had aroused q spirit Of indepen-
dentism, and the result in the future
would be a better condition of things
in this old hide bonnIS State OF South
Carolina. He expressed the belief
that the change which would result
from the present political crisis
would bring about a degree of tole-
ration and conservatism which would
give the negroes rights and Justice
now denied them, and that the
pledges made by Hampton and his
party in 1875 would yet be fulfilled.
In speaking to a resolution on cdu-
cation, Rev. w. D. Chappelle, Of
Columbia, Presiding Elder of the
A., Nj. e. Church, said
Education was needed to show the
negro how to handle his ballot and
protect him from the politicians who
were going about buying colored
people and putting them up on auc-
ton blocks for sale. Applause.
The negroes of 1890 were not the
negroes of 1876. CApplause. He
stood here free, untrammelled, un-
mortgaged to any mar or party.
The educated citizen was not for
sale. He knew what to do with his
ballot. Christian education the ne
gro must have before he could be a
true citizen of South Carolina. Men
had come among tho negroes of
South Carolina, when they were un-
tutored and ignorant, had filled their
minds with prejudices, and separated
WYNN Ahoih Ciooo oLiioIS WluIl IHoy
were to live and from whom they had
to get their bread and meat. Zap.
plause. He was glad to say that
the day had come when intelligent
young negroes of the State could
come together, consult as to the best
interests of their race, rise above
prejudice, forget the old talk about
the lash and the overseer and look to
the future. They were here to say
to the men willing to do them JUS
tice, "God speed you," and to give
them their hands. Enthusiastic APP
plause.] The destiny of the negro
was in this State and in the hands of
it's best people, and what would lift
up the white lar would lift up the
negro. [Applause.1 What would
pull down tho white nah must pull
down tho negro. GApplause.1 He
opposed that class which had done
more than an other to corrupt the
negro, which had made negroes al.
most aliens to the State. The only
lever to lift the race was education
first, education last and cduoat;cn ell
tho time.