Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-10-27
AND STILL ANOTHER.

When ii was urgedin opposition to the cleo
ton of Gen. Taylor, that his feelings and prin-
ciplcs were in favor the restriction of slavery
from the Territories, and that he was opposed
to the increase ofthc slave power in the gov
cmmcnt, the idea was secuted by the friends of
"old Rough and Ready" But since the clec-
ion little after little has been developed until
the fact starcs us i'll the face that in South
em President We have decided oppor cnt of
the extension of slavery Our readers will re-
collect that not long since the people were star
tied b. proclamation of Gen. Taylor for the
repression of supposed invasion of Cuba.
Without the fact ofsuch invasion being gcncr-
ally known far as we are informed with
out legal accusation of any kind, and certain
~ with cut any regard for the person and prop
crty of the citizens the military and naval for
! &c; ut the single anl sole beck and nod of the
President have dealt with frccmen as if they
constituted the entire powers and functions 2f
the government and represented an Autocrat
whose will WAS his law No one seemed to un
dcrs;and it. 1t came upon us like clap of
| thunder III clear sun, without n cloud so large
as n mans hand appearing upon the horizon
| But governments do not always reveal the mo-
tives which prompt them to action, and high
regard for our honor in preserving Treaty stip,
ulatons was the avowcd cause of the proca-
nation, when in truth and in fact the real spring
of action is to be found in a desire to prevent
Cuba from becoming an independent republic,
and then mcmbcr -four confcdcracy, as she
/ 4 lao
men; The Massachusetts, Wing State Con.
vcnton have used the following language in
their address TO the people of that State, which
the organs of The Administration have allowed
pass without comm mt or qualifications:
"But General Taylors views upon the
subject Of slavery extension are not to be
inferred from his previous dcclarations
for during the past summer upon informa
ton that an expedition was fitting out
from the United States, with design of
making descent upon Cuba or the nor
thcrn provinces of McXco in view of
their ultimate annexation to this country
as slave territory, the President has or
dcred the vessels and munitions of war
procured for the cntcrprisise to be seized;
and in proclamation, breathing the prin
ciplcs of morality and peace, has warned
the nation that any attempt to carry out
the object Of the proposed expedition,
will draw upon the persons engaged
therein, the scvcrest penalties of the law.
If General Taylor had been willing to
increase the slave territory of the United
States, or had been in any degree ncgli
gent of his duty to preserve the peace of
the nation, little crcdulity at this juno
turc would, in all probability, have drawn
us into war similar to that which grew
out of the annexation of Texas. lfany
doubt existed Of the sincerity of his pre-.
vious declarations upon the subject of sla-
very, it must have been removed by the
general tenor OF his conduct since he has
!. occupied the Executive chair---in the ap-
/ pontmcnt of five of the seven members
composing his Cabinet who arc wholly un
concerned with slavery, or any intertst
therein, and in the prompdtudc with
which he suppressed the first attempt to
extend it its area. Upon this evidence
: there can exist 40 reason why every friend