Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-09


laws ofthe Unior. Ifyou sincerely
desire disunlon, as would appear
from the acts and language of many,
you will, accordingly, make the cleo
ton of President Il merely sectional
question; and you will be careful to
vote for no person as member of
Congress, unlcss he will previously
pledge himself to hold such opinions
and propose or support such meas
urcs as shall render it impossible for
HIM to cooperate with the members
OF Congress from other States in the
enactment ofany laws for the public
good. If one of your representa-
hves III Congress dedicates himself
to the task Of embittering sectional
prejudice, intlaming rescntments, end
resisting all measures of conciiatio,,.
peace and constitutional harmony,
INN you will glory and maintain, for
ne is dong your work in furthering
the dissolution of the Unicn. But if
one OF your representative pres,nmes
10 speak 10 you ofyour duty as good
citizens TO appeal TO your constitu-
uonal engagements, to plead for ius
tice, moderation, wisdom, common
SenSe-hlm cruelty, for he stands in
the way of your ertieavors TO dis
solve the Union.
1t by all these means and annlian.
coeS you do not accomplish vour OBJ
Jcct, you need take but one step
more and the way is sure. You vi
oia'c the Constitution. You tell the
other party to ii that you do not con
slder yourself bound by any engage
ment you may have made with them
however deliberately in time, how
ever so!cmnly in form. Ey persc-
verng ca!ummy of your fellow citi-
Zcns' you have at length got them TO
hate you sufficiently. You will suir.
CT no public functionary of yours to
cooperate with them in the common
councils of the nation. What rc-
MAINS TO be done! But one thma.
namely. to assure the other States
that 1t is not for their interest anv
longer to bear with you; and this YOU
now do, III roclaimIng that your ul-
innate purpose, your sole object, the
nam object ofyour life to which YOU
stand prepared TO sacrifice both the
Constitution and the Bible, is 70
bring upon certain of the United
States a violent and revolutionary
change III their social condition,
whIchls TO constitute Of itself their
utter impovcnshment, and which in
wolves, mdeniably, and beyond all
possible doubt, sanpuinarv and de
structlve war Of races, fatal TO one of
them, disastrous TO both, and at The
mere anticipation of which it would
seem that every rightly constituted
mind wou!drecoil with horror and
dlsmay.
Yes, say 10 You, my fellow com
trymen ofthe North, it only needs TO
satisfy the South hat you are moar-
nest IN the aggressive purpose, N
this respect, which you avow, and
for the accomplishment of which you
have already taken so many prcpa
ratory steps, satisfy the South ofthis.
and you will then surely succeed in
dlssolving the Union, for YOU will
have rendered it impossible for the
South to remain in it without death
! and dishonor.
Fellow citizens, / have thus briefly
sketched the means by which the
Union may be dissolved, nay, bv
winch 1t is now already placed in i'm
mlnent peril. Greatly do they err
who imagine that this or that nuIIi6-
cation, whether in Hartford Conven-
tons or Nashville Conventions, real
ly constitutes the dark cloud of dan
ger, which is gathering and deepen
lng and lowering over the armament
OF the Union. No, the only true and
serious disunion!sm consists ofacts of
systematic aggression of one part of
the Union against another, in viola
ton of both the letter an. spirit of
the Constitution; and the true and
honest unionism is that, which strict
~ observes the constitutional com
pact and is animated by sentiments
OF kindly support, forbearance, good
will, and Cancellation towards Our fel-
low inc mbcrs of the Union.
Nor is it by the relentless applica.
tiion, to any given case, ofthe mere
dead weight of a majority, that the
Union is TO be preserved We of
the North are strong in numbers, in
votes, in physical force; is il unionism
to violate the letter and spirit of the
Constitution, and thus TO place the
South in the alternative of the dis
honor TO beincurred by passive sub
mission to the unjust ACT of maiori-
ty, OF to nmpGted factiousness by re-