Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-05-25
Nay l5, 1840-,Second dan.

nay 10, l840-iSecond day.
The Convention assembled at Ten
o'clock, accrding to adjourm., ut: when
the committee of Twenty y-one, through
Hon. f. III. Elmore, reported the follow.
ing resolutions for the action of the Dele
gates from the various districts of the
State.
Resol0ed, That full and deliberate
examination of the whole subject has
forced deep conviction on the Dele
gates of the Committees of Safety here
assembled from the several Districts and
Parishes in the State, that alarming and
eminent peril is hanging over the institu-
tions and sovereign rights of the slave
holding States, caused by unconstitution-
al and mischievous interference with our
domestic slavery ard the rights of slave
holders, on the pa. Of the people of the
North, their Legislatures, Courts, and
Representatives in Congress; and by
Withholding from them the aids and rem
edies guaranteed by the Constitution
That arguments and appeals to cease and
abstain from this course of unprovoked
wrong and insult have been exhausted
in unavailing efforts, which have only
been followed by rcpetitions of injury
and aggressions more alarming, persever-
ed in with an appearance of concert and
determination, which leaves to us no al
tentative but abject and humiliating sub
mission, or a like concert and determine
ton in maintaining our constitutional
rights and in defending our property and
persons thus wantonly put in danger
That South Carolina should stand pre-
pared, as she now is, to enter into coun-
Gil, and to take that "frm, united and
concerted action" with other Southern
and Southwestern States in this emer-
gency, which the preservation of their
common honor, sovereignty and constitu-
tlonal privileges demands, and to main
tam them at every hazard, and to the last
extremity-and that, in view of this a,
farming condition of public affairs, Cen
tral State Committe of Vigilance and
Safety, to consist of Five members, be
now raised by ballot, to correspond with
other Committees and persons in this
and other States, with view to such
concerted and united measures as NAV
be expedient in any emergency that MAJ
arise.
@ -Reso1ued, That we entirely ap-
prove "Thc Address of Southern Dele
gates in Congress to their constituents"
and the wise and patriotic course of those
Senators and Representatives who SIGNED
the same.
3. Resolved, That we confde impl-
city in the wisdom and firmness of the
State authorities for maintaining our con-
stitutonal rights, equality and honor,
and that we heartily approve the course
hitherto adopted by them in relation to
the aggressions of the non -Slaveholdino
States.
A. RESOLVED, That we would regard
the passage by Congress of the y. ;lmot
Proviso, or any measure for abolishinp
slavery or the slave trade, or the admit.
ting slaves to vote in the District of Co.
lumbia, or of any equivalent measure, as
direct attack upon the institutions of
the Slaveholding States, and as such to
be resisted by them at every hazard; and
that, in either of such events, the Cover
.nor, be, and he is hereby, requested 10
convene the Legislature, if it is not in
session, to consider the mode and meas,
ure of redress.
5. ReSolued, That we do concur in
and adopt the Resolutions which have
vice been confirmed by the Legislature
OF Virginia, as containing the clearest ex-
position of the rights and duties of the
several States, feeling and believing that
she will continue firm and resolute in
maintaining what she has announced
with SO much wisdom and deliberation,
and that the liberties, honor and interest
ofthe Slaveholding States will be safe un-
der her lead
Pending these resolutions, the Conven
zion was addressed by Messrs. Strobhars,
Raves, Perry, Pope, Elmore, Spain, Hut
son, and McCord, when the resolutions