Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-12-28

mass of the Southern people, we be-
lieYe are indignant at the many out
RACES which have been inflicted upon
them, and yet, because of the treach-
cry and cowardice of their great
men, the men in whom they have
trusted the men who lead public opin
ion, they contemplate submission,
therefore it is impossible - procure
concert of action a0ith them until after
the first blow shall have been struck;
and the first blow will do the work
more effectually than a thousand
Congresses. This has been the his
tory of all great popular reforms and
revolutions.
Are we sure there would have been
an American Revolution commenced
in 76, had there been no drowning of
tea, no rigid punishment of rioters in
Boston, or no battle of Lexington?
these measures brought about d,
rect issue between the Colonies and
the parent country, they .fort the
people to act, and then it became easy
to act IN concert. Neither would there
have been a great English revolution
IN l64O, had the bold and patriotic
n. en-, who led those times, waited for
the cooperation of the masses; nor
would France have been made re
public in lS4S, had the daring spirits
OF Paris delayed the hour of action
in the hope of striking in concert with
the millions in the provinces. All
contests between a people and its
government must be put into actiue
operation through the agency of a
few men bolder and more resolute
than their fellows. Then let us be-
gin the contest, let us throw over
board the Federal lea, and all we
wish for will follow as day succeeds
to night
Let Mississippi and South Caro-
lima secede and they will constitute
the nnclens around which a South
ern confederacy will certainly and
rapidly form.
CHRISTMAS has come. 1t "stole
upon us" and we were almost uncon-
scions of its presence. Not SO was
it with us of yore then we were
want to give Christmas joyous well
come, and in gladness and song did
its merry hours glide sweetly away.
Not king at his coronal feast,-not
bride at her bridal festival more
happy than we at our simple Christ
mas feats. But now, in the hurry
and hustle of the world, men (and
we are among them,) find but little
time to be happy, even on Christmas
day, and so it comes and goes almost
unnoticed by the multitude. Have
you not marked, dear reader, you
who remember to have heard your
grandfather tell of the Golden time"
and of the merry holidays with which
it was enlivened! have you not mark
ed that the incumbent generation ap-
pear not tc pay half the respect to
old teats and feasts and HOLIDAYS
which their respectable progenators
were used to pay? Alas we feal
that there is too much materiality and
utilitar!anism in the world, and that
men are too fond of what they call
the substantial and real. We speak
not of the ''upperten thousand" God
knows there is frivolity enough there,
but of the millions, we speak, who
toll in this work-day world.
That Unsuitable thirst for advance
ment and ameiioration so wonderful
ly characteristic of the present age,
that undying desire to rise, which
mas seized upon society, pervading
each and every ofits ranks and equal
izing all conditions, and which is car
rying forward the great work of civ
ilization with a rapidity unequalled
in former times, is, we fear, develop