Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-06-07

sltions OF their distinguished--no, their notori-
Gus senator. Resolutions have been adopted in
every non-slavcholding state; mstructing their
senators aud requesting their Representatives
in Congress to vote in favor of the adoption of
the Wimot Froyiso, and in opposition, in many
cases. to the admission of any other slave
States
Mr.. McLanahan ask ed if the gentleman from
South Carolina had observed that The Legisla-
ture of Pennsylvania had recently laid upon
the table resolutions in favor of the Wilmot
Provsol
Mr.. Orr: have; and 1 honor the patriotism
ofyour constituents in coming TO the rescue of
the Constitution in these perilous times In
structions, uch as have spoken OF, did pass
this Legislature of Pennsylvania two years ago
l repeat the assertion, that every non-slaye-
holding state has passed resolutions of an un-
mistakeablu abolition character Yet the un-
ceasing efforts of the press here, and newspa-
per correspondents are directed to induce the
people of the south to believe that this hostility
to our institutions is confined to o few fanatics,
and that abolition is not the general sentiment
OF the country.
Another evidence of the progress of abolition
sentiment is the Legislation of the non slave
holding states obstructing the delivering up OF
fugitive slaves. What is the constitutional pro
vision upon that subject. No person held to
service or lebor in state, under the laws
thereof, escaping into another, shall, in conse-
quence of any law or regulation therein, be dis
charged from such service or labor, but shall be
delivered up on claim of the party to whom
such service or labor may be due Some of
the Northern states have passed laws imposing
heavy penalties on any state officer who may
ald the owner in recovering his runaway slave
The state officers of all the states swear to
support the Constitution of the United State as
wen as the constitution of the state in which
the officer resides. Now, ifthe Constitution of
the United States requires that aperson held
to service shall be delivered up, and state
officer refuses to obey that provision, does he
prove faithful to his oatha And is not the pen.
atty imposed by the particular state compul-
sion upon the officer to commit periury2 This
legisletion reflects truly the feeling ofthe Nor
them states upon this subject. When slave
escapes, friends receive him with open arms
and clandestinely convey him beyond the
leach of his lawful owner If the slave, per
chance, is overtaken or hunted out of his Sc
cret hiding place, tine owner perils his life:
through the lawless violence of the mob. n re-
claiming his property, and in assertingrights
eolemnly guaranteed to him by the Constitu-
tlon The laws and popular tumu!ts against
the master, to which have utivertcd, clearly
indicates the settled, deliberate purpose ofthe
Northern states to deprive us of our rights in
that species Of property
tron speaks trumpet-tongued in the political
privileges conferred on free negroes in some of
the Northern states. Maine, New Hampshire
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and
all extend the right of suffrage to the african
AT the last state election in New York the
free negroes held the balance of rower be
tween the two political parties. Representa-
tives upon this floor receive the votes of this
degraded class, and the success of republican
inc ifttttp Il In 10
ment and intelligence of free negro soyereigns,
The aim of the aboltionists looks first to the
emancipation of our slaves throughout the
South, and then is to follow their elevation to
all the social ami political privileges of the
white man. The thick-iipped Afticaii IS 10 veto
at same ballotbox, eat at the same table, and sit
IN the same parlor with the white man. This,
the abolitionists would say, is a consummation
devoutly to be wished for
Another evidence; sir, of the progress and in
tolerance of this sentiment is to be found in the
separation u two of the most numerous and
respectable Christian denominations in this
country, the Baptist and the Methodist.) They
assembled In convention und conference. wear
after year, to advance that holy cause in which
they had mutually embarked. But sir, the
demon offanatical discord stalked into their
associations, Christian charity and brotherly
love were impotent inresisting its encroachment
uPoh thcr peace anu union; Northern men,
bers demanded that their southern brethren
should surrender and eschew tine institutions of
the country in which they liyod--that they
should become traiters to the state to which
their allegiance was due, and prove recreant
to their obligations to their obligations to the
community in which they resided They were
too holy to commune at the same altar with
their southern brethren, until the latter should
pronounce slavery a sin, aud agree to enlist in
an effort for it's extinction. The terms were
too ignominous for Christians or patriots. With
a manly independence, the southern wings OF
both denominations rejected the offer, and the
separation of their churches ensued. These
two sir, We're heavy blows against our political
union, from the shocks ofwhich we have not
yet recovered.
Another evidence ofthe extent of this senti
ment is exhibited in the popularity the univer
sal popularity, of the doctrine of free soil--the
legitimate scion, asI before remarked, of the
abolition stock. The popularity OF that doc
trine isnot to be judged by independent free
soil party organization. Those who caniidly
avow me opinion are few in number; they re-
fnse to cooperate with either ofthe other par
ties, and hanee separate organization; butthe
mass of the Northern people comprising the
two great political parties, sympatliize in sen.
timent and feeling with the freesoilers. is
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