Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-02-08
The NORTH AND THE SOUTH.

1t is peculiarly gratifying to note the
evidences of a better feeling at the North
toward the South as they appear, time
and again, at the gatherings of public
men at the National Capital and metro
politan centres. Where. a few short
years ago, the opening speech at these
gatherings was generally the signal for
the turning on of Il stream of venom and
unkind criticism aud censure, the resur-
recting of unpleasant memories of the
bitter struggle that divided this great
country into partisan sections. to-day the
great thinkers and speakers seldom utter
aught but sentiments of good feeling,
and the banquet halls echo and re. echo
these sentiments until feeling of good
fellowship is permeating the very life of
the whole country.
AT a meeting of the West End Republi-
can Club of New York on the anniversary
of the birth of President William McKin-
ley, Congressman Henry S. Boutell, of
Illinois, delivered tho speech of the occa-
sion, so far az the expression of good will
and friendliness is concerned. There
were other speakers and other excellent
speeches, but Mr.. Boutells utterances
carry with them peculiar fascination
for the Southern ear. His subject was
Republican Policies and the South"
and while, being a staunch member of
the Republican party, some of his ideas
as to party policies do not strike us 80
forcibly, yet his tribute to the South has
the ring of truth and justice that browns
the minor sounds that have their source
i'll misconcepton. We reproduce below
Mr.. Boutcll's tribute to the South:
mo people were ever brought face to
face with more utter desoation than
that which confronted the meu of the
South on their return from A Appomattox.
1t was not alone that they had lost the
cause for which they had fought; that
their ranks had been sadly thinned by the
war; that their lands had been laid
waste, their property coniiscated or de-
Stroyed. Their whole social, industrial
and political fabric lay in ruins. Their
task was not the hopeful one of restor-
ing an old order, but the well nigh hope
400" ''''h VI piihSihe h hc" oiueI out vi
chaos. But they set to work with the
courage and patience that create hope
and Icfy failure. And they have
triumphcd gloriously To-day they are
enjoying the fruits of n victory greater
than was ever won in warfare. And we
of the North rejoice with them in their
prosperity, for are they not our people,
bone OF our bone aud flesh of our flesh?
THE leaders of Southern Thought i'm
1860 accepted the results of the war and
We're willing to set To work To create a
Oew order of things on the ruins of the
old. They should have been allowed to
retain their natural leadership over the
Ignorant whites and blacks. The most
unfortunate result of our miserable re-
construction policy was that it destroyed
the influence of tie old leaders, in
stilled into the minds of the blacks feel
ings of "hatred, malice and all uncharit-
ableness" tn their natural aud wisest
guides, and arrayed the whites of all
classes in solid opposition to the negroes
The fear of ignorant negro domination
has persisted long after the danger of
such domination has passed working
often an injustice to the negro and al.
ways greater injury TO the whites.
1.-The ameloration of the political stu
alton in the South is a problem that must
for years to come tax the wisdom and