Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-02
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A SRToNG EpIsTLE. That we'll
known writer, Randolph of Roam
oke, has powerful article in the
Southern Press Of Saturday. He
shows, by tables compiled from au-
thentic sources, that within The past
40 years the Southern States have
lost III the escape of fugitive slaves
Itcenty7tsco Millions of Dollars.
This writer cites the official am
nouncement of the secretary of the
antl-slayery society of New York,
which states that the society have
aided within the past year Isl runa-
way negroes He contends, after
showing the vast loss sustained by
the Southern States, that the citizens
Eof the free States are liable--tbat the
whole North is liable land Justly re-
marks that there is not legal forum
In ChTistendom where such claim
for such cause, with equal proofs
between man and man, or nation and
nation, would not be recognised and
enforced.
He contends that the clauses in
the compromise bill relative to this
subject impose additional burdens,
IexpeDses, and delays upon claimants
of fugitivess He says, with truth,
that the South does not want these
clauses, nor had the North any need
of them.
We give the concluding and elo-
quent paragraph Of this epistle rela-
tive to the forbearance of the South (:
Cdroiinian.
No, no, Messieurs, all attribntions
of the South's forbearance to the
state of the South's nerves, or the
South'S means, are wide, inimeasu-
rably wide of the mark. Had that
been all, the North would have had
a chance of shiyering a lance with
her long ago. The same cause that
restrained her hitherto restrains her
now -an overwhelming love of the
Union, which, il it shall last much
Ionger and bring her no redress, will
bring her to ruin and cover her with
shame ] III is aIausing, it is alarm
siug, yet is admirable, to pause and
ponder OH a love of Union go pro-
found and reverential and abiding
Any otherpeopl under the sun, VIC
timized and arraigned as the South
has been in the Union's name, would
have shivered it to atoms from the
might which slumbers In her soldier
ly armi Had the North loved the
Union as the South does, she would
never have imperilled it, by degrading
her with trials, so wounding 10 her
honor and so onerous to be borne
with. Had the South shown no
GIunder ant deeper attachment to
the Union than the North has. that
Union would long have been mum
bered with the things that were.'--
TO all seeming, the North's attach
ment tothe Union is neither deeper
aior holier than the tlr.ft she derives
from it; and her wanton injuries ana
ceaseless reyilings cf her brethren,
1yhat are they but proofs Of itf With
he South. 1t is as sentiment and a
i.assion; and what arc hor wrongs
and her forbearance but the proofs
of it2 Will the South bear longer
with her wrongs and with more from
her oppressora God Of his forecast
knowsl Sne may; but we bless Prov.
idence and trust she may not| With
States as with men, submission has
Its bounas. tits best to respec, them.
1T is periIous to press them. When
oppression'S cup is full, it x,;Il hold
NO more: IT will bear what it has,
but a single drop besides causes an
overflow, and carries away with it
and spreads around the thousand
drops which, unmolestcd, would have
turned to vapor and have passed
away: but that single drop does all
the snischisf, and compares with the
LoSSounce Of the barthen which broke
the back DC the camel''
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