Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-03-29

bearanCe tne nue. anu CITY httS Dceh IaiSeu
against him at home, w lille the Abolition
Presses pour out OH the unhappy man
foods of that Billingsgatc in which their
vocabularies so singularly abound.
The Post knows that before Mr. Web
ster's "defection," the "Southcrn faction
was about TO surrender at discretion,
California could have been admitted
without compact or condition" OF any
other abolition iniquity might have been
perpetrated, and no fear need have been
entertained of any disturbance; the era
ven and cowardIy leaders of the South,
deserted by their constituents and "fright-
cned at their own auaacity," were ready
to acqpiesce in any injustice, and were
only awaiting an opportunity tamely to
submit theil necks, and the necks of their
countrymcn, to the yoke of Northern SUI
premacy; and the Post is exasperated be
cause Mr.. Webstcr's ''traitorous retreat"
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umph and Southern humiliation. The
Post is assured by the New Orleans But
lotin that "the great mass of the South
eln people were rising to rcbuke the spir-
it of disunion," and Gen. Taylor and his
Abolition coajutors are encouraged to go
on in their iniquitous course, because,
from the opposition of the Southern pto-
pie, who preferred slavery in, to freedom
out of the Union, nothing was to be
dreaded.
40 monstrous treachery can this c so;
That in allegiance, amity and oatl.s,
There should be found such false assembling
guile"
Are these men in earnest? do they
really believe what they say to be true
are they SO egregiously mistaken as to
suppose that the South has been or can
be frightened from her position? or may
they not rather be classed among those
foul and malignant spirits who delight in
wicked n. s-who riot in confusion, falls
hood and treachery, and who shrink from
the light of the day. but whose voices may
be heard in the midnight hours bowling
to the bowling storm. spirits who in the
days of peace and prosperity wander in
by-paths or hide in holes and desert
places, but who in troubled times come
boldly out to stir up evil. and to work in
the gloom of civil discord their works of
iniquity.
Its such men as the Editors of the
Post and Bulletin who have raised and
who rttle the storm of fanaticism which
is raging at the North, they are the men
who by infaming the passions of the
populace and by misrepresenting to
them the sentiments and feelings of
the South, are urging the blind and
infatuated multitude to acts of inius-
tice and oppression which will cause the
destruction of this great Confederacy,
and bring upon our country all the hor-
rors of anarchy and civil war. In view
of their course IN relation to the difficult
ties growing out of the slavery question
well may these men exclaim with the foul
spirit in Manfred:
Il am the rider of the wind,
The ruler of the storm,
The hurricane / left behind
| Is yet with lightning warm"
Aye, so tits with "lightning warm
but for the fury of the storm we at the
South are not responsible, the response
bility rests with those whose wicked
deeds have conjured it up, and if war is
to follow our efforts to resist oppression
upon the heads of Northern men and up.
on the heads of their children will lie the
sin of all the blood that must flow.
An English paper states that the cele.
brated Daniel Webster, the expounder o.
the Constitution, is to be hung in New
York, for poisoning one Judge Parker tc
death.