Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-03-24

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did not perfectly avail to insure
domestic tranquility. That was IL
the last generation, and broken hearts
must be healed by time or death
j One or two more generations must
pass away. In doubling and redoub-
ling your incredible achievements Of
the last twenty years, your magnih-
cent progress in the production OF
field, farm, forest and mines, it will
become palpable that war, with its
devastation, It's passions, its griefs.
may not. perhaps, have been too high
a price to pay for transmitting an
insoluble political problem into a
soluble social problem. To compass
the serenity of State rights, which
were and are general along with the
security of the State rights which
were sectional, by means of compro-
misses, which were not coincident
with dividing lines between Federal
powers, the State powers and pow
ers reserved to the people, but which,
nevertheless, were concerted in the
constitution and attempted in laws,
was too much for domestic tran
quillity, and the result, as l have
said, was through war at last, the
transmitting of an insoluble political
problem into a soluble social problem.
But that sectional disparity, that
sectional pressure, has now ceased.
Sectional interference has lost its
only fulcrum. State rights survive.
(Applause.)
FORCE BILLS Nd OPPRESSION.
The late Republican Congress tried
to put manacles on Southern limbs.
The Democratic party answered,
''Shall Northern limbs, then, wear
the like, or are we all freemen now ?"
Never beneath this canopy of our
surviving constitution, and Of an
indestructible union Of indestructi-
ble States, will color-blind the Dem
ocracy of the great North and greater
West, and confound and confuse our
present social problem with past and
gone political problems. 1t is our
faith in the sublime principle Of
individual freedom upon which you
may rely for our sympathetic inter
est and confident pride as you pro-
ceed TO work out, unhindered, your
solution of that social problem, the
contract, intermingling of two races
so diverse in the measures OF their
inheritance from the bounty Of
nature, so diverse in the measure of
their capacity for contribution to the
structure of our ci*il policy and the
functions of our civil order. 1t
shocks historic sense to witness that
recent forging of S.ree b" -,
Garrison should By fs----.-z-.1
rison that slavery is dead, even white
slavery. Bryant or Wadsworth
should be alive to put forth in lofty
verse the deep, respectful sympathy
with which nobler hearts among your
kindred race now follow your exceed
ing trial.
sThere is not a breathing of the
common wind that will forget thee.
Thou hast great allies, thy friends
are exultations, agonies and love and
mans unconquerable mind
1t is for our going forth into the
future without fear, with hope and
with manly, fraternal hearts beneath
the banner of our old constitution,
loyal to the old Democratic faith and
tradition, that I have taken such
pains to set aside this which seems
obstructive, but which should be no
obstacle in our Federal politics. l
would speak with you just as if New
York was Pacific coast State and
Mississippi New England State.
(Applause.)
How otherwise, among equal States,
should considerate and equal free
man speake? Shall we not go
together and try to live up to this
constitution of ours, which survives
uninpaired in substance, and supreme
in authority? Shall we recur to the
whole Democratic faith and tradi-
ton and re-establish its supremacy !?
Supremacy in our politics! Shall
New York not stand by Mississippi? :?
(Applause.) Will Mississippi not
stand by New York? (Cbeers.) Our
Federal constitution, l say, unim-
pared in substance, admirable in
purpose, clear in letter and prescrip-
ton, is supreme in rightful authority.
And now what is the condition of
our whole land and people? | sub
nit to the candid adjudgment of our
fellow-countrymen, and l ask the
Judges of our Courts, Che lawyers Of
our bars, the statesmen of our Legis-
latures; Task all competent persons
to test in detail the truth of my
assertion. / submit to your candid
judgment that every trouble, every
disturbance that exists, every disas-
ter that impends and every danger
that is feared at this time through
out our whole land, not merely in
some parts ofit, is the dire and obvi-
GUS consequence of Republican legis-
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