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

the sacred hall of the Conscript Father
petooS themselves TO their acc ustomed
places. and there seated in their curule
chars, and clad in their senatorial topas.
calmly awited their fate, so our great
statesman resolves to attend in his sent
and there abide the consequences of his
devotion to the great principles of his
life. The Senate hall is densely crow
ded. Beauty frightened the galleries,
and the great iptellects of the nation look
on with breathlcss interest. The sena-
tors are all in their seats, with counter
ances expressive Of deep interest and
sympathy. The ordinary business of the
body passes unheeded, and then deep
pause and profound silence ensue.
Presently the crowd in the lobbies is
seen IN motion. 1t gives way. and
through the aisle is seen approaching a
venerable form, attenuate and worn to
the last degree, sustaining his tottering
steps upon the arms of two Younger
men. There is but little of the physi-
seal man left in that aged form. His
white hair betokcns extreme are-bis
&C intenance wears visible signs of suffer
ing and sickness, and his limbs hang
loosely together But his bright eye
still flashes with wonted fire, ard his
lips set closely together with won.ed
firnlncss. lie casts Iooh around him,
and seems moved, excited, aroused, by
the view of so much assembled wisdom
and intelligence, A murmur agitutcs the
assembly, and all eyes are turned to-
wards the aged figure. 1T is h.n was
the whisper which pervaded tb "a.
and so it was, the great senator of the
South, brought, like the illustrious
Chatham, from the couch of sickness, to
raise his voice against the oppression and
injustice of the mother country towards
these colonies, appears on the scene of
his trlumphs and his greatness, to hurl
defiance at the traitors, disunionists, and
fanatics, who conspire to destroy the
rights OF the south, to overturn the con-
stitution, and make the Union curse
rather than blessing. V#
The Senator is too weak to utter his
thoughts. He selects as his ofoana Sen
ator of the Old Dominion-t6at State
which has ever been foremost in devotion
TO the Union, and the rights of the States.
Ills speech is read and listened to with
oreathless interest. In plain and en-
phatic Language, he declares the truth,
that this Union can only be preserved by
a proper regard for the rights of all the
States; those rights existed previous 20
the constitution, and must be preserved
under it, that this is matter in which
there cannot and ought not to be any com
promise; that the agitation will not cease
with the settlement Of the present ques-
ton; that it will come up again to excite,
irritate, and disturb the relations of the
States and the peace of the Union. He
therefore, proposes to amend the consti-
tuition compact by introducing into it
new clauses to protect the South against
the continual invasions of the North to
secuIe its peace and quiet, and terminate
forever these ruinous agitations. If this
cannot be done, it would be better for
these States peaceably to dissolve rather
than continue perpetually embroiled and
hostile. Such are the sentiments pro-
claimed by the great Senator from Caro-
lima, under circumstances of the most
solemn and impressive cha acter.
'HIS WAYS ARE NOT OUR WAYS