Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-04-17
VOLUME XII. NO Is.

civil war advanced the United States
Of America moro than the hundred
years in tho four years in which it
was fought. Without the civil war
there never would have been that
unification of the people in one COM
mon civilization with no difference
upon any question vital to society
dividing them. Without the civil
war there would never have been
that common devotion to common
land and to the stars and stripes.
Without the civil war and it's results
there never would have been this
superb development of which Chat
tanooga is the most magnificent OK
ample, and you would still be a way
side station-your coal and iron
buried in tho earth, your population
a thing unknown, your wealth pos
sibility, and your great material
strength undeveloped."- ."-[ Applause. |
WASHINGTON, D. G., April g.
Chauncey M. Depew arrived here
this evening in excellent health. In
an interview with a Post reporter he
expressed himself MS delighted with
the hospitality of the Southern peo-
pie.
"Did you see much of the New
South ?" the reporter asked.
"Some of the Now South and u
good deal of the Old South. 1t is
still there. The old stock look on
the colored man as a sort of animal,
destitute of moral sense I'D respon-
sibility, who, like Frankenstcin, be-
comes for that reason dangerous in
proportion to his liberty and oppor-
tunitics. They sincerely think that
their property will be wiped out or
confiscated, their homes broken up,
and society destroyed if the colorcd
mems votes are counted, and they
look upon Northern Republicans as
q species OF Anarchists, who will
cheerfully cooperate in that destruc-
ton.
'Ninc-tenths of the Democrats of
the South seem to be imbucd with
such ideas. The New South has a
different spirit; it believes in attract
ing enterprise and capital; but the
Old South is a long long way down
tho millennium of political age.
"The remedy is not plain, but it
certainly does not lie in Federal leg
islation.
"Onc thing which moro than any
other has debauchcd public sentiment
in the South is the convict labor,
which holds in certain States.
cit is charged that men convicted
of both serious and trivial offcnscs,
and sentenced, are leased out in
blocks to private contractors, who
become responsible for them, and arc
the judges of the amount of worl,
they perform, of food they receive
the comforts they enjoy, and ever
of the corporal punishment to be adj
ministcred, the State only retaining
a sort of pcrfunctory supervision OF
them. Such a system, I believe, is
sure to breed abuse, wrongs and in.
justice. | believe the system will be
broken up in time, and especially
when the people who are indicted
for the less serious offenses, get
money enough to retain able coun
sell"
"1t was my first trip South, and
must say enjoyed it very much, fol
not only did regain my health, but
{ old Impressions were removed ani
new ones received. The South il
the great SAINT lrium, not only O
this but of all other countries, ani
/ am told that this feature of tho
South has been to it an untold minc
of untold wealth from tho visitors
who first take to the orange groves
with their sanitary surroundings
and secondly to tho exhilcrating at
mosphcro of the pine plateaus o.
North Carolina and Georgia. The
South has an absolute corner il
hcalth-giving atmosphere"
81 want to say again that the re
ception accorded mo in the Soutl
was something very hattering ant
altogether unexpected, The hospi
tality displayed was something won
derful. During the trip saw many
things to interest me. The iron ant
coal development in Georgia, Ala
bama and Tennessee is producing al
amount of prosperity that is solit
and permanent"
, Twenty-Five Years After AppOmatox
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