Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-11-09
MIR. SOULE.s SpEECH.

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for the compliment they had paid him
opened his speech by saying that al
/ though that might no. be considered
TO be suitable occasion for address
sing them upon subject which had
greatly agilated the country during
1 the past nine months, yet he would
soiaeppon ii for the purpose oftelling
some home truths; that during his ab-
sen4e lromithis city, i'll the perform
ance ofMs Senatorial duties al Wash
ing;on, be had pa ssed through the
/ greatest struggle, for power on one
/ slde3and for right and justice on the
! other, which this Republic had ever.
known "a struggle in which he, al
most alone, battlcd s:ngle-handed
/ against the combined intellect of the
North and the West; that he thenin-
/ tended, 10 tell them something about
IT. that m the contest 10 which he al
luded, b. ing then involved in the so
called compromise Bills, he had advo
Gated and sustained, by his voice and
his vote, the principles which Louisi-
ana had repeatedly endorsed; that
Tor so advocating and sustaining Them
he bad been denounced as traitor
TO Louisiana yby corrupt press, and
made a martyr TO his efforts in the
cause Of the. e.constitution of the South,
and of an equality of rights between
the States; that he had not returned
10 Louisiana for the purpose Of court
ing thelpeople and winning back the
favor he had lost, for he ,knewthat all
The, ,peoplejwantcd wasli light, and that,
with light, an honest people would
do both his motives and his. acts am
pie justice; but that he must saythat
the great lever Of This age-the press
I4lhhat which in. a great measure .made
public opinion which swayed the
popular mind acco ding to its Will
was, as tara Louisiana was concern
ed, with a few honorable exceptions,
corrupt; that the people had right
lolook 10 the press tortrue informa-
ton of public character-of char
acter affecting the people S interests
and rights, and that he must say that
the press IF Louisiana had, with re-
spect to the great questions which had
agitatcd and which now agitate the
country, proved recrcant 10 It's duties
TO the people of Louisiana; that the
press of louisiana, instead ofdiffus;ng
light, had diflused darkness among
the people instead of giving them
health, had poured poison into their
bosoms; that The press had condemned
HIM, but that he should appeal and
did then appeal from the press to the
peop,c, well knoM ng that when the
people came truly to undc' stand the
matter IN controversy cetween him
sell and his opponents, to him would
the right be awarded. ''
And what are the matters in con
troversy between us2 Iwilltell you,
gentlemen: for although much has
been said, and much has been writ
len here about the compromise acts,
| very much doubt whether any of
you know what compromise means
what was proposed to by the pas
sage by the passage by Congress of
the SO called comprom Sc acts. ]
very much doubt, gentlemen wheth-
er any of you have read the compro-
mise acts, or have read the speeches
which were delivered both for and
against those measures. Gentlemen,
! very much doubt if there are SIX
persons in New Orleans who com
preaend the compromise acts.
Geuslemcn, the most astute and
cunning mtrigpcr and politician of
the country got up certain measures
for the purpose Of cheating The South
and giving power 10 The North; and
IN order 10 Disguise those measures
In order to blind The South as to
their true object, he christened them
a :'compromise." Gentlemen, as a
consequence ofthe late war with Mex
leo, we gained vast territory on the
| Paciic--we gained California and
Utah, md New Mexico. We gum
ed this vast territory with the com
mon blood ana treasurc-with the
common blood and treasure of The
North and the South we held
itmseqnal right; the North had a
right to go there--,he North with it's
property, and the Southwithits prop
erty. ih afa nF a9f 81
.llFThus our relations stood, when
handini Of adven:urers, urgetl on by
che Government at Washington, erec-
ted California into a State, with the
isNilmot 1roviso in its constitution ex-
Guiding The Sout from all parhcipa-
ton in the soil which its blood and
franStarac had co,St,.ihnfod to ,s,i,,, A