Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-05-24

its value, and we find tito be worth
something like eighty nillionsof dollars
per annum tothe North Still we love
the Uniou, and, ifleft alone in undisturb-
ed possession of onr rights, would labor
ever to preseryeii, as a holy thing; we
we're taught 10 love and reverence it in
childhood, because it had been loved and
blessed by the wise and good who arc
gone; in those early daysas we sat on
our fathers knees, md listened with sus-
pended breath to their tales of the 'olden
time Of the moving accidents by flood
and field through whi;h they in Their
youth had passed to purchase this Union,
a love for the thing thus bought with the
price of their blood sank deep into our
hearts; nor did this love pass with our
youth away, for in manhood we were
proud of our Union, because, identified
with it its greatness and glory is the
greatness and glory of our fathers, and
because we were told that it united in the
bonds of brotherhood Millions Of the
brave and free, and gave to them com
mon country, whose prosperity and pow
er wcr unsurpassed by the prosperity and
powerof any other people. Therefore
have we been content 10 pay a high price
for the Union, and to make many sacri,
fees forits preservation; we have been
content by the monopolics of Our trade
TO build up Northern cities, and to enrich
Northern commerce.: we have been vii
ling TO pay two.thirds Of the expenses of
the Federal Government and TO receive
less than onc-rourth Off emolumcntS:
and now we are called on TO pay the last
price, and make the last sacrifice which as
Il people we can offer up,-lhe sacrifice of
the honor OF our country and Of the rights
of her children Will we make it? The
soque! will show.
There was Il time when We had the
game in our own hands, and il we had
played skilfully then might have won,
but that time hass passed. Who did
not see, that in the early part of the pre-
sent session, the North stood ahashcd at
the bold and determined dcmcnnor OF the
South, and the her leaders were prcpar-
ingto beat Il prccipitatc rc'Ieat. Then
we were thought to be united, and con.
scious of our strength, ii WAS not mag
ined that we would tamcly submit But,
alas! appearances were deceptive, we
were not united; mon of base and Judean
hearts were stealing through our camp,
breathing the breath of disoerd, distrac-
ting our councils and bctraying us TO the
enemy in our utmost Eour of need.
Many of The Southern papers began to
dcnouncc resistance rs treason, and many
Southern meetings to sing peans to ::.!.c
Union, many of the States re(u-ed to sup
port the Nashville Convention, the only
source to which the South could look for
concerted action, while the administra
ton, bringing all the engines of its power
to bear upon us, was threatening us with
war and the shedding of bloom. Atthis
critical moment Calhoun made his great
speech and died, when the South was left
headless, an army without leader. Then
the voice ofdiscord begNrd to be heard
wrangllng in our councils; at sight of this
the fanatics took courage and rcgained all
they had lost. and more, a shout of tii
umph rang through the Northe. States,
and we were pointed at as Il house divi
ded against itself, which could not stand.
y! we wanted -unioss, Gov on,... only. lnpn.
of deliverance WAS in our union; but, alas.
when we should have arisen together.
as brothers when they arise in defence Of
their fathers house, we could not forget
parties and party prcjudices, the hatred
ofcliqucs and personal interests. Anc
now, when is known that there is no
concerted action amongst us, all our
threats and expostula;ions are idle wind;