Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-03-22

Heoe Vhe eeernal SHOWS of Canada from
slavery by the same oHershadowinr wing
@f an net of Congress. when anYtlinS
gracacd was to be effected, he might vote
ssrat, hut he would give no vote TO dis
grace his own understanding
I'm these times of cycitenn,nt II Is INT
natural that mutual ordinations should
take place, and that each side should have
a DIST of grievances. he would bcein the
examination of Shcse grievances with
those of The South- One of those was
&onnded opon Gons grounds. 81 is that
the North haze shown q diSnclination 10
carry ont the obligations of the Consti-
tuition in that particular requiring that
stug'hves slaves FROM labor shall be render
led mp, An this particular the South was
right and the North was wrong. He
considered that by the terms cf the Con
shtutaon, it was made the duty of the
States and their Legislatures to give up
these slaves. Every member of a State
Legislature was bound by his oath to sup
port the constitution, and had no right to
consider any excuse for not CARRYING all
that constitution into effect There was
bill now before the Senate to carry into
effect this provision Of the constitution,
and he would vote for it. The South
was rightin its complaint of injury on this
point, and the North was wrong in being
unmindful of what the constitution premp-
torily required Of them.
Another subject of complaint was the
resolutions sent here for instructions to
members of Congress, some about slavery
III this District or elsewhere. He thought
that these resolutions by State Lcgisla-
lures were become of too common occur
renee. Heagrccd with some sentiments
uttered few days ago in the Massachu-
sets Legislature by young member,
who said he would vote for no resolutions
to be sent to the members of Congress.
lie saw no propricty in one set of public
servants instructing another set they
were all public servants, and alike respon-
siblc to their constituents. He would be
no more willing to listen to instructions
from Massachusetts, on point where she
was only as much interested as any other
State, than he would, if appointed an ar
bitrator in a question Of privateaight, lis
ten to the instructions Of thoAnan ssho
appointed him. s1otlpl9saf
The Abolition societies atstlsI North
swas another subject of complaIntKI He!
had %sympathies with these s0eietisgs. !.
Nlhey had had tho raaGsGt IT faAfspysssptlag
'9quI,tta II 5fpation. Within nfsssSh1 sH8h h1aS il
twenty years R Re no nc,Gih ilaIt6. that Snev
enough had been contributed to Abolition
presses and societies to purchase the free
dom of every slave in Maryland and send
them to Liberia. lie had yet to learn
that -4boltion philanthropy had taken
that turn.
The South complained that the press
OF the North was directed against the in
sthutions OF the South. 1t was true that
IN the Northern papers, such charges
and accusations were made; but in the
South it was equally as bad. Indeed,
some of the speeches and debates in Con-
grcss were but little improved and better
than the tone of the press. Every senti-
asment uttered by the Southern press, or
ny Southern men, high or low, which re-
fccted upon The Moth, was copied into
the Northern papers, and sent forth to a
reading people, and produced bad feel
ing. twas the same at the South. He
saw no remedy in the power of Congress
Tor this grievance. There were remarks
IN the speech of the Senator from Louisi-
ana, or. Downs) where he contrasted
the laborers of the North with the slaves
OF the South. The Northern laborers
were the North. They owned four-ffths
OF tie property at the North. They
were an educated class, and any compari-
son such as that made by the Senator
would goAMuch to feed the excitement.
lie would rather hear Senators all de-
clare the impossibility of dissolving this
Union than that any one should say it
could be done. He had heard of seces.
peaceable secession! 1t was impos-
sible, You might as well attempt to dis
turb the ocean to its depths without ruff
fling the surface. He was surprised to
hear any one foolish enough to suppose
there could be a secession or dissolution
wit out violence. Did Sen ators suppose
this Union was like snow under vernalI
sun, to be mei'ed gently away? That
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