Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-12-11
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ply effaced sby patriots, both at the
North and at the South, would be-
sharpl sredrawn within the liaits of !
orr one common country.
It}is Idle for any onejt attempt to- (
lextenuate the conduct Of thsy Presi.
dent in this moi dent. sIt is absurd /
for friends Of his to state that he aid
mot reflect upon it's consequences.
~ is ridiculous for apoligists of his
TO plead in Mr.. Roosevelt behaifa
the school boy's excuse 81 didn't
mean to" ltsispreposterous to say
that the Presid dents Intentions! were
kindly, and that if he erred his was
an errorSof misdirected beneyolenc
The j; President has forced the people
reluctant to conclude that he de-
sires to make thisiracial social equal I
lity question d burning issue /; and
there oan be no doubt that the Re-
publican press at the North reioices
that Mr. Roosevelt has formed that
determination.
The South will meet the issue. III
the concrete pressure Of this emer.
gency the Southern people will have
the courage, the constancy and the 4
capacity to resist what is clearly al
premeditated assault upon the so
DIAL structure of the Southern States. !.
II is impossible to disguise the fact
that the admission Of racial social
equality in the South would mean,
in time, the miscegenation and the
amalgamation of the races; the de-
terioration Of both whites and blacks 81
the substitution of West Indian Or
Latin- American standards Of oiyili.
zation for the distinctly American
standard ); and, finally, the practical
extinction Of that nobler sentiment
OF purity, of valor and Of honor
which is the life-spark of a people ais
we'll as of an individual.
1t is clearly within the limits Of
restrained state, .ent to say that the
Southern people deplorat this incident
and would do all.in their power, con-
sistent with q sense of riaht, that the
coming crisis might happily pass
away. But Republican newspapers
at the n North, which, like the Phila-
delphia Press, for instance, imagine
that tho South can be intimidated
by any.such contemplate threat as
ssthere is q stubborn man in the
White House,, should promptly re-
alize that they are dealing with a.
Ipeople whose temper and disposition
they little understand. It is as true
that high-minded men are not awed
by bravado as it is that high-minded
mt never resort to it. Americans
of the Southern States are the last
people on earth to be deferred in
their purpose by the veiled threat Of
q partisan press. Home, and the dc.
Ifense Of home, have no terrors for
the Southern people. Long ago they
learned the philosophy Of the Chi.
nese proverb: "Thank God l the
worst has Gomez taught it as they
were in the days of reconstruction.
is time that the people Of the
Il r 4 n,, . Il. 4 i
South realized how hopeless it is to
win the sympathy of certain circles
at the North. To Republican fanat-
ics-the rightful heirs to that band
of charlatans who plundered the
South in her poverty, oppressed her
in her weakness and mocked at her
in her calamity--the contributions
OF the Southern people to the pros
perity of the nation are without sig
nifioance. 1t means nothing to them
that for thirty-five years the South
has fought the most heroic battle in
human history ii means nothing
that the South has supported itself,
PAID promptly its share of the ma
tional debt incurred by its coercion );
contributed enormously each year
to the payment of Federal pensions !;
developed q system of education for
both races, giving one-third Of the
educational fund to the negro schools; /;
opening up highways throughout the
land wisely discharging the obliga-
tions of citizenship, city, State and
national, and devoting itself with In
,telligent loyalty to the interests Of
the whole country. To fanatics at
the North who, blinded by partisan
rage, have never kept a pledge or
obeyed law, the South is but land
to be despoiled, and the Southern
peo"'e but a people to be prosecuted.
In the Judgments of such len right
and justice and truth wei. h but as
dust in the balance. 'Tis indeed
pitiful that the President has fallen
under the spell of these evil coun-}
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