Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-06-02

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From the Louisville "Ktentuc&y.
SOUTH CAROLINA AND MASSA4,
CHUSETTS.
The citizens of many Of the districts in
South Carolina have thought proper to
hold primary meetings, for the purpose
of taking into consideration the Address
put forth by aporsion of the Southern
Members of Congress. And for this
great offence the columns of the Repub-
lican have been filed with parcel of
trash, which it calls rtdicule. Whether
the pieces referred to were written by its
Northern or Native Editor, am unable
to say: neither do Icare, 1t has be-
come so much q habit with them to lccry
South Carolina and uphold Massachu-
setts, that they have either forgotten the
history of the two States, or else they
have never known it. For their own in
formation, therefore, as well as that of
many of their readers Irequcst that YOU
will publish the following extracts, hop
ing they may profit thereby.
CIvIS.
Boston, the cnpitol of the State which
has sent Daniel Webster to the Senate
OF the Union, uses these strong terms in
a memorial to the Legislature of Massa-
chusetts, goth January, 1909:
"Thc inhabitants of the town of Bos-
ton in town meeting assembled respect
fully represent: That that they are
constrained to apply to your honorable
body as the immediate guardians of their
rights and liberties for your interposition
to procure for them relief from the opcr-
a'ion OF the LAWS efhe general Gouern-
ment, abolishing foreign commerce, and
su6Iecting the coasting trade to embar
easements which thrcatenits annihlation.
Our hope and consolation rest ac;th the
LegtsIdture of our State, tn whom it is
competent to devise means of relief n.
ghinst the unconstitutional measure of the
General Government; that your power
is adequate to this object is evident from
the organization of the Confederacy."
Butanother town ofthis National State.
Newburyport, January 81, 1914, in her
memorial to the Legislature of Massachu-
setts, adds her authority in this language.
In this alarming state of things we W can
no longer be silent. When our unques-
tlonable rights are invaded we will not sit
down and coolly calculate what it may
cost to defend them. We will not barter
the liberties of our children for slavisb
repose, nor surrender our birthright but
with our lives. We remember the resist
ance of our fathers to expressions, which
dwindled into insigniiicance when COM
pared With those we are called upon to
endure. The right which we have re-
ceived from God we will never Weld to
man owe called upon our State Leg, |
lslature to protect us in the enjoyment of
these privileges, to assert which our faith
crs died, and to defend which we pro-
Tess ourselves ready to resist unto blood.
We pray your honorable body to adopt
measures Immediately 10 secure to us es-
peeclally, our undoubtcd right to trade
within our own State. We are ourselves
ready to aid you in securing it to us, to
the utmost of our power, peaceablc if we
can, forcibly if we must.
Where then was Mr. Webster? Tn
Congress abeting these proceedings, en-
d.eavoring to make it appear that Mr.
Madison was but an imbecile menial Of
france and strenuously engaged in en-
barrasslng the counsels, and palsyinp the
energies of the General Government
Where tien was Lowndes Cheves, Cal
houn anG Williams, Of South Carolina9
They also were:in Congress, but resisting
Daniel Webster and supporting the Fed.
eral authoities. How then was the Leg
stature of slandered South Carolina en-
gagged? Not in arraigning herself against
The Union, but in opening to it her trea-
'urry, in pledgjng to it her support, in
aninating her own citizens to perseyere
in their holy devotion to the Republic.
AT this crisis, when she is Sc infatnously
decried, examine her annals, and those Of
other members of the confederacy. and
then answer the question, by whom is
she to be rebuked? Let not Massachu-
setts appeal in triumph to her practical
of the tea tax Of Great Brit
am, in December, 1878, for South Caro-
lima can, in prouder triumph, appeal to
her resistance to the stamp tax, and her
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