Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-07-05
THT GAME OF ERUsTRATIoN

II " OE ICCD N.
The -New-York Hera13, draws the fol-
lowing strong picture Of the effects which
would be produced on the North by the
adoption of the policy recommended by
MIR Glingman, to the Southern minority.
in case they should be pressed to the wall
by an unscrupulous majority. Highly
colored as the picture may seem it Yet is
no exageration-as any rejecting man
who looks att in the right light will clear
ly see.
With such opower in their hands, the
use of which would be both legitimate
and proper under the circumstances, how
can Southern men delude themselves into
a belief of the powerlcssness of the South
and base their support of the "Jest aCc
can geF' platform on such grounds.
We adduce this testimony from a Nor
thern source, to show how idle such ap-
prehensicns on the part of the really are.
CotumJia Telegraph.
The Herald says:
We believe the southern members Of
Congress have determined to pursue the
course which Mr.. Wilmot has indicated
that the minority will pursuc-stopping
legislation, and refusing to pay the appro-
priations. Mr. Clay thinks so too. AS
honest journalists, it is our duty to warn
members of Congress of the danger of
such course. 1t would end in revolu-
ton. We will mark out few of the re-
suits of such procedure.
The millions collected by government
in specie, if locked up by not being appro-
priated, and disburscd, for three months,
would produce the most awful evils in
this great commercial city. which is TIE
business heart of the Union. Derange-
ment in its vital functions, would carry
commercial death to every extremity and
portion of our frame
If Congress do not vote the appropr-
ations before they adjourn, it will break
two-t birds of the banks and capitalists in
Wall, st. from Trinity Church to Water-st.
on both sides Of the way 1t vii make
bankrupts of every leading merchant in
South-st from the battery to the Catha-
rine-st. ferry. Every American stock
would go down ten, twenty, thirty, or
fifty cents on the dollar. Railroad stocks
could not be given away. Every citizen
whose bread and butter is derived from
the interest of such investments, would
be ruined and destitute Real estate
wou fall at once. The erection of bull
dings, the building of ships, the manufac-
turing of goods, would be all suspended,
and nearly all the laborcrs in this city
would be idle and out of employ Gaunt
ruin and haggard misery, dressed in
Beck's best silks and satins, would walk
about our streets, from the Battery to
Union Place
There would be no private carriages,
no operas, no game dinners, no omnibus
ses, no hacks, no carts, or anything of the
kind, running over Broadway and distur-
bing the PAYERS and people. Let the ba-
sis of all mercantile operations-the spe-
cie-be locked up in the custom house,
and the thing is done. In a word, such q
scene of ruin and distress as would be
brought upon the Northern States by the
simple refusal of the minority in Congress
to vote the appropriations, is beyond the
power Of any ordinary broker or block
head to imagine, or any poet or pen to
pourtray. The Northern States are in
fair way to bring about this crisis, by med
ding with the Southern Institutions.
EXCITEMENT IN TExAs.--Thc news
from Santa Fe in relation to the return of
Major Neighbours, and the action of Col,
Monroe, the New Mexican @ Commissioners,
which we publish yesterday. it appears
has created intense excitement in Texas,
as appears by the following extracts from
some of the journals of that State. The
Washington Ranger snys:
"This intelligence has caused consider
able excitement about Austin and the
whole West. Nearly every man is will
ling to shoulder his gun, and demand the
rights of Texas at the cannon's mouth.
Gen. Taylor is much mistaken if he ex
poets Texans to submit to this injury and
INSULT. We understand that Governor
Bell has madea premptory demand on
the U. S. Government for the rights Of
our State, and should this have no effect,
he will doubtless march with volunteer
forces, and that portion of country which
of right belongs to us.
The Houston Telegraph, in publishing