Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-08-04
LETTER FROM GOV. SEWARD.
AUBURN. July l5. IS4.


Gentlemen: Your letter inviting me to-
participate in the celebration of the recent
anniversary of Independence, by the
Wing citizens of Philadelphia, was recei-
we'd when L was so intensely engaged in
professional duties at Canandaigua, as to
prevent me from rendering a seasonable
acknowledgment. cannot now perform
that deferred duty without expressing
my conviction of the truthfulness and ius,
tice Of the views of the responsibilities of
the Whig party, which you have exhibit
ed.
Experience has shown, that the coun-
sels of that party lead to domestic pros
perity, while they are imbued with nation
al moderation and magnanimity. But
there is now opening field of political
action hitherto unexplored by parties. and
measurably untrodden by statesmen.
The inevitable conflict between Human
Slavery and the Democratic principles of
Free Government, long repressed, has
broken forth,at last. The policy of abol-
ishing Slavery in the Federal District.
and of Prohibiting it in the Federal Ter
ritories, has excited debate which per-
vades the Union, and disturbs and tends
to disorganise all existing parties and
combinations. Intemperate zeal on eth
er side of the debate, threatens the sub
version of the Government and the disso.
luton of the Union itself,
All enlightened, sagacious and candid
men, see that the period has arrived,
when slavery ought not to be defended,
and cannot be protected by the power or
influence of the Federal Government. ms
1T has been heretofore protected and de-
Tended, against the legitimate constitu-
tlonal efforts to confine it within the
States, where it is sanctioned by Consti-
tutions and laws. Its equally apparent
that the withdrawal of that protection and
defence will rouse the spirit of faction and
sedition, What other party than tho
Wing party has fully adopted as its basis
the malienable rights of man, and is, there
fore, so well qualified to divorce the Fed
eral Government from slavery? What
other party has so implicitly adopted the
principle of the absolute supremacy of
the laws, and is, therefore, so well pre-
pared to repress faction The exigencv
of the times requires that The government
shall combine, both these principles in It's
action, avoiding on the one hand any con
cesslons to slavery beyond the letter of
the Constitution, and on the ether, in
temperate zeal, which appeals from con-
stituted authority to violence and sedition.
1t has always seemed to me that tho
Wing party, through its long and often
disheartening trials, was acquiring the
iirmness, the consistency and the disci-
pllne necessary to enable it to conduct tho
country safely through this its greatest
emergency. | agree, therefore, most
cordially with you in your opinion of the
Importance of inculcating its principles
now more zeslously and energetically
than ever before, and rejoice that the first
permanent Administration which the
Wing party has called into power has full
iy and completely indicated its principles,
ITS wisdom and its patriotism.
l am, with great respect, your humble
servant, VIM III, SEWARD.
Benjamin Matthias, d. B. Hinman. Geo
Thorn, Charles d. Lybrand. John
Mlccanales, II. X. Strong, Joseph b.
Myers, Committee.
IHE PASr BROUGHT BAcK.-By AN mr..
gument based upon known facts in natu-
raj philosophy, in relation TO the trans.
mission of light. it has been established in
work entitled ''The Earth and stars -
recently published in London, and excl.
ting great attention there that
According to physical science, a ncr-
son dying on this earth night by the
Creator be Immediately placed in q new
body, on distant, world, III such a man.
ner that he might see with his own ewes
the whole of his past life Let the soul
for example, at death, be re- embodied on
planet at sucha distance that the l;,bt
is seventy years in passing TO ii from our mr.
earth, andit is evident t6at the first raw
whichreaches IL there, left tho earth co;
enty years before. That is, IN its now
body, it may see in its own birth. vonth
manhood and age. in its former BODY rc'
view any scene inits past career; he nres-
ent at the commission Of past sins see tho