Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-09-15


actor, and more readily seized than
in any other part Of the globe. J.
Thirty three years ago our country
lay as ono prostrate conqured but
not dishonored. Our homes were
desolate, our money worthless, our
social system overturned. Ignorant
slaves were elevated to plane Of
political equality with their former
masters. An unscrupulous horde of
oarpet-baggers came down to lead
an organized raid upon liberty and
property. Tariff laws, pension laws,
money laws, like the arm of an octo-
pus, drank to drunkenness on South
ern blood.
The South hes emerged from tho
gloom stronger and moro hopeful
than ever before. Omitting the
wealth reckoned in slaves, we are
richer than before the war. The
South has stood test that would
have bankrupted and disheartened
any other country. This supreme
test shows tho marvellous recupera-
tive powers of the South.
In 1860 South Carolina was sixty
eight millions of dollars richer than
tho combined States of Rhode Island
and New Jersey. In 1860 forty per
cent. of the banking capital of the
Union was in the South.
The war came on and the still
more dreadful period of reconstruc.
ton.
Conditions changed. In 1880 the
State of Massachusetts was worth
half as much as all the Southern
States.
Within the last decade, however,
tho South has begun to climb slowly
but surely back to her prosperity.
From 1880 to 1890 the South in
creased more in wealth than the
Now England and Middle States
combined.
MOST AMERICAN PART OF THE
UNION.
South Carolina is the most Ameri-
can part of the Union. The vital
issue of the late war was the most
American doctrine ever defended
by sword and gun. Slavery was but
an aggravating circumstance of the
war and not the cause. Tho alarm
ing ccntripetal tendency of tho gov
crnment, in this fag end of the nino-
tcenth century, is bringing many
thoughtful men to realization OF
the fact that States Rights is still a
living issue. Our State was settled
slowly and the citizens have become
seasoned with American doctrines
They feel an ancestral interest in the
heroic past.
A CONSERVATIVE SECTION.
We pride ourselves on our con-
servatism. Our atmosphere is not
contaminated with. crazy "isms."
The pulpit proaches the old fashion
religion. We build our doctrines
like the Dutchhlan's wall six feel
high and eight feet broad and when
it turns over the wall is higher and
stronger. Our statesmen walk in
conservative paths. Senator Ingalls,
gave ujtcrancc to tho Infamous doc
trino that "Purity in politics is an
iridescent dream" We point to tho
pure life of John G.. Calhoun as a
living denial of Ingalls, satanic state
ment. Calhoun scattered the light
of his genius on tho constitution.
lie made the whole globe the entab-
lGture of his fame and to-day
"wheresoever among men a heart
may be found that beats to the trans
ports OF patriotism and liberty it's
aspirations shall be to claim kindred
with the immortal spirit of John G.
Calhoun"
We are glad that our women are
conservative. We are quito willing
Tor other sections to make expert
mcnts along tho line of woman's
rights. Our women arc conservative
and arc waiting for more light. If
they ovor make up their mind to vote
ali inc de1nons OF destruction, OBJ
,struction, and misconstruction can
not prevent them. Feminine mod
esty is not tho conservatism Of cow
ardIco, but a delicate appreoia-
tion of the propricties of life
When occasion demands, and
evonts justify, Rebccca Mottca
and Emily Geigors spring to the
front. You can sec from this that
while | am not a W, mans rights
man, | am tho right woman man.
BACKWARD INDUsTRIALLY.
But, my friends, while wo have
much to be proud of we should not
bind ourselves TO the fact that in
industrial progress We are not keep.