Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-10-19

State few persons, the most Of
whom are located Yankee ped
dlers, who believe, or affect to believe
that the poor in our country would
be greatly benefited by negro eman-
cipation. To stir up and foster such
a belief, and to excite to discomfort
that portion of our population which
does not own slaves, has been one
of The darling objects of the thousand
abolition associations of the North
and West. For this purpose the
mails have been loaded with incendi-
ary papers, and our country overrun
by spies and emissaries of unprinci-
pied societies, who have stolen from
hamlet 10 hamlet, breathing in the
ears ofthe simple, words of fbittcrness
and sedition Every nerve has been
strained, every means has been tried
to make division among our peo-
pie, SO that our house, being divided
against itself, might fall li
The poor of our country have been
told TO look upon the owners of
slaves as their natural enemies, and
the institution itself as perpetual
bar to their prosperity. They have
been told that, by the abolition of
slavery their condition would be inn
mensely improved, that land would be
come cheap and labor high, that an
entire revolution would take place in
Southern society, by mems cfwhich
the humble shall be lifted up, and
the exalted brought low; in short, all
means have been employed which
ingenuity conldinvent or wickedness
practice, 10 deceive the simple and
uniformed. But, thank Heaven,
all these efforts have been in vain,
and to-day truer and a Drawer peo-
pie than the yeomanry of the South
do not breathe Gods vital air.
The poorest man in South Caro-
lima has too much intelligence moi 10
see that his interest is indissolubly
joined 10 the interest of his slavehol-
ding neighbors, and that whatever
effects the one, whether for good or
forevil, effects in a corresponding ra-
ito the other. Thus, when the slave
interest is prospecting, wages are
Mrh and provisions are cheap, but
When that interest suffers, labor ell
ther starwes or begs. The truth is
the interest of the rich and Of the
poor, of all classes in society are SO
indissolubly united, that it isimpossi-
bic TO effect one without ef1ecting
ali. All over the world the poor
must live off Of the rich, for they must
be by the rich employed; whatever,
therefore,y jmpoyerishes l5the rich,
must starye the poor. Itis impossi-
bic 10 live even in the neighborhood
of wealth without being benefited
by It, for wealth does not prey upon,
but creates the means of comfort.---
But more especially, from the pecn-
liar r.dture of the very institution
whichis sought TO be destroyed, are
the rich and poor ofthe South united
in interest. IN all communities, no
matter ,cbat may be the chG,ucter Of
their political iAinstitutions, from the
very nature Of things, there must be-
t,co classes. one class which enjoys,
and one which seroes; the one Iord-
ing it with all the pride, OF employers,
ard theotl,er subject to all the odium
which will attach to menial and sla-
hish offices. In all countries where
the institution Of slavery does not ex-
-ist, as in the free Statesofthis Union.
these classes are madeup Of the white
\ population---there, there are sckite
masters and sohite sertanfs. But here
these two classes are represented by
two distinct races, Caucsssioa mag4
ters ard African slaves. Taere, then
ailsnetdal and degrading offioesbeing
periormedby slaves,ih whites i've
together on terms Of sha most per.
I feet equality, sitting down and III
sing up together as brethren. and in