Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-12-07

Spiiit ol harmony preSlueu. In demand
ing the protection of rights, jeopardized by
the unfraternal acts of their own country
men, they appealed to their sense of justice
and the endcarments of family association,
the plain terms Of the bond that united
them, tie ennobling and roud recollectons
of the past, and the glorious antcipations
| of the future. The result has shewn that
the authorities and people whom they ad-
dressed, are, in feeling and sentiment, alien
to us their political allies, and that the
North have resolved on possessing the un-
limited and permanent control OF our civil
institutions.
To operate on the fears of the minority
section, and expose the supposed hopeless
ness of its condition, the President had vol
UNFAIRLY promulgated, in advance, his fixed
determination to settle by the sword dis
putcd question between the General Gov
elnmcnt and sovereign member of the
Union. In following the inglorcus prccc-
dent established by one of his predeces-
sors, the principle was 1naintuined. that
State resistance to Congressona. edict
would by him be classcd among the unre-
f.ecting acts Of mob, or the more deiiber-
ate opposition of a band of organized ndi-
viduas to admitted lawful authority.
Ii is foreign to my purpose to speak elab-
oratcly of matters that have Of late been so
painfully brought to your notice Califor-
MIA created a State by Congress, was ad-
mittcd into the Confedcracy against all pre-
cedcnt, and in violation of the laws and
Constitution of the country. 1t was pre-
medtated insult and injury to the slave
holding States, and wanton assault upon
their honor. In the Act abolishing the
slave trade iii the District of Columbia, the
right of Furnishing the owner by manumit-
ting his slave is prominent among its pro-
visions. BY this bold and successful at
tempt to engraft abolitionism on the princi-
pies of our political system, a power has
been assumed, which, by expansion, may
yet clothe the entire federal community in
the habilmcnts of mourning. These, and
other wilful perversions of high trust,
have virtually abrogated the powers neces-
sary to the safety of the sovereignty of the
States. The whole authority of the Fed
eral government, granted and usurped,
which is now concentrated in the will of an
absolute and interested majority, is kereaf-
ter to be welded for the exclusive benefit of
the Northern or stronger interest. To its
ambition and cupidity, fifteen members of
the Constitutional Compact, by whose
wealth the Government is supported and
our confederates enriched, are to be COM
PEELED ANONYMOUSLY to minister In a
word, the Congress Of the United States is
no longer to be the executor of the will of
co-sovereign States, but of party banded
together by the two-fold incentive of sec
tional saggrandizement and public plumber.
Ii the fundamental object Of our fedora
tive system have been designedly perverted,
there is no remedy in the ordinary checks
on power. The ballot box is Intellectual,
and thepress powerless in its appeals to an
! oppressor deaf to entreaty, to argument.
and the admonitions of humanity and pa.
triotism. In Federal Council, il is certain,
that the voice of the minority will never
again be needed. By slow, cautious, but
regular process, the rights of the people
and the sovereignty of the Southern States
will be curtaled until their total extinguish-
ment is effected. BY multiplying the
number of free States, resisting all
attempts to enlarge the area of the
sloveholding community, and discrim-
mating between the rights of North
ern and Southern persons and pro-
perty, another decadeswill not have
passed before the General Govern
ment will enforce edicts, great in
their results on human liberty and
the progress of political enlighten-
ment, than ever emanated from the
worst forms of despotism. Before
that period arrives, the existence of
South Carolina, as CO. partner in a
great commonwealth, will have ceas.
ed. Mergedin the limits of contigu-
Gus provinces, the truthful memorials
OF her history lie scattered over her
hills and valleys. On the printed
page the tale of her origin and pro-
gress may be found, but the real caus-
es and manner other political ex-
tlnction will never there be read.
The North and South differ f1nda-
mentally in institutions, and from the
frame work of their social organiza
tion they need different laws. While
astrong government with all the ap-
pllances of extensive patronage, is
necessary TO the former, mild and
equal system Of legal restraints, is re-
quired by the latter. The restriction
on foreign commerce is the policy of
the one, free trade that of tn other.
The North is from necessity a COM
lnerclal and manufacturing people, the