Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-09-11
They ARE NOT TRAITORS.
MR.. JOHN C. CARY DEFENDS MILL PRESl.
DENTS-S SPEECH AT SPARTANBURG.
some FOOD FOR SOBER REFLECTION
Mr.. Cary Rosents TiIlman's Threats to Array
tho Operatives Against the Mill Owners.

'oiloWlllS ~ INC speech InaC hr.
John Q. Cary, president of the Lock
hart mill, delivered at Spartanburg
on Wednesday, August %, and
which won more applause than any
other speech OF the day:
The object of this series of meet
Jugs in the upper part of the State,
we are told, is for the purpose of dis
cussing before the people, calmly,
dispassionatcly, and without personal
abuse Of any one, the national issues
of the day. am sorry to say that
in the very beginning, at Union,
some Of the speakers assailed the
character and motives of an honora-
ble class Of gentlemen-th cotton
mill presidents because some of
them differ with them on certain
issues. Recreant would we be to
the trust committed to us by honora-
BILE people we're we to remain silent
before our countrymcn and allow
these charges to go unchallenged.
"Lives there reptile so low, so base
and so vile that would not turn and
sting the hand that bruises it,"
Who are the cotton mill presidents
Of this State, and what are the
charges brought against them by
some of the Senatorial tourists and
instructors of the peoplc2 The va
jority Of the mill presidents Of South
Carolina are "to the manor born"
They are the men and sons of men
who at the bugle blast in 1861 re-
spondcd to their country's call and
helped to form the greatest and
bravest army that was ever organ
lied in any country, ancient or mod
ern-the Confederate soldier, q
speak the name with almost hallowed
reverence,) who during the conflict
of arms knew no sovereign nor mas
ter except country and duty, and
when the conflict was over laid down
his arms, not in dishonor, but in
glory, and in the gray, call tattcred
and torn" returned to his home, the
circle of his ancestry, dcsolatcd and
ruined by the ruthless hand of war.
Here with noJbing but the smiles
and love of the dear ones Of his fire
side, he began life anew, without
apology to king or potcntatc, and
with an eye fixed onward and up
ward sworc he would conquer pow
crty and carve name in history.
Through all the trials of war and
reconstruction of State government
he was at his post of duty; and in
1876, when South Carolina swore
she would be free, he was the first to
don the red shirt; and when the war
OF ballots was over and the State
Capitol was filed with Federal bay
oncttes, and the command flashed
over the wire to every hamlet and
town in the State, (and to some in
Georgia and North Carolina,) "Come,
bring laborcrs and TOOLS" (you all
know what this meant,) he was the
first on the scene of combat to re-
spond, $50 mote it be-" when Wade
Hampton proclaimed in the presence
OF 10000 followers, with no other
covering for his head except the can
opy of heaven, 'I am the Governor
of South Carolina, so help me God !"
The first man who crossed the
threshold Of your capitol at that
time, broke asundcr with IIcrculcan
arm the massive doors Of the Hall Of
Representatives from the hinges, and
i"id low the State constabularics, and
over their PROSTATE forms, followed
by his comrades, wrcsted from the