Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-05-31

the more we have been expected to give,
and the more we may give until allis
gone. BY former concessions the North
has been taught 10 look for more. to cal,
cuiatc too much upon our devotion to the
Union, forget that there is a point be-.
yon which human endurance rarely ey
Q, passes, and that those who are loyal
10 others. williu their last extremity be
true to themselves. o
Gen. TAYLOR AND THE CupAN PArRr
oTs.--Our readers will remember, that
Gen, Taylor despatched two vessels Of
war to intercept and prevent the landing
ofthc Cuban Patriots under the command
of Gen. I opez;--we see that Mr.. Yulee
in the Senate, and Mr.. Inge in tho House
have offered resolutions, inquirinr upon
what authority the President of the Uni
ted States has ordered squadron to
Cuba.
1t difficult, we humbly opine, to un-
derstand by achat right or authority the
puisant General has undertaken 20 arrest
persons being out of the juri. diction of
the United States, and still more difficult.
TO account for that strong and abiding
sympathy which the second Washington
has continually shown for the despotic
government, which by lis acts of injustice
and oppression, have aroused eyen the
easy and mdolent @ Cubans to action.
We do not affect that magnificent phi
lanthropy of which some people are so
very proud, and would not, therefore,
insist upon making nation free against
its will, but when an outraged people
arise to assert the dignity of humanity,
turn uoon their oppressors and demand
to be restored to those rights, which
God has been good enough to give to his
creatures, and which our fathers were
fortunate enough to secure for ourselves,
we think thatan American Government
should be the last to interfere in favor of
the tyrants; and we are sure that the
American people can have but little SYM
pathy in common with such government.
Itappcars that the expedition has fail
ed, Independent of the Presi lent's inter
ference. but this does not exculpate him
from his attempted exercise of unlawful
power
This Zachary Washington seems to
have some strange notions of America
and the Americans, and of the manner in
which their Government should be adj
mnistered; we wonder lift has ever oc-
CURED TO him that he is not still dealing
with Mexicans?
A HUMANE SENTIMENr.--The New
York Tribune, in defending the scoun-
drels who have recently been rebuked for
their assaults upon the Union and the
Constitution, at the New York abolition
meetings, cxcaims:
"Rathcr than Garrison and Douglass
should be slenccd, let our city be reduced
TO ashes, and let sea of blood roll along
is undistingui liable ruins"
And this in justification ofthc man who
said that "In THIS cou,atry Jesus has be-
come obsolete" and that General Taylor
believes in "The Jesus thai gaze tie iier-
icans he'll" Such was Garrison's horr,d
impiety; while the gentle Douglass, a
black fellow, scnffed at our country, its
Institutions, lis laws, the dead patriots of
the past, and those who are now canoni-
zed in the national affections! Such are
the men who oppose that settlement of
the slavery question, which they know
would save the country from the cala mi
ties they invoke upon it Pennsyivanion.
And these are the men we are told by
Mr. Clay, and others, to love and rever-
ence, because of the beauty and purity of
their sentiments; these are the leaders Of
tha' fanatical hoast whose aggrcssions we
are told not to resist, or to resist moliter
manus becau~e, for sooth, they are
prompted by feelings Of the highest and
most exaulted humanity ~
Thisis the strangest Of the many strange
wonderings into which the great Compro-