Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-02-02


up in wealth.
In allusion to the Northern abolition
he cited the great loss to
of her property, which in
slaves amounted to at least 100000 an
nually. He said that from the tone of
the Southern press, as well as from 9TH
er indications, it was obvious that the
South will at anearly day be sufficiently
united 20 insure the success of whatever
means it may be necessary to adopt, and
protect themselves from the aggression
from the North In relation to
the territorial question: he submitted it
cNimly TO the Northern gentlemen that
they had better make up their minds t,
give the South at once fair settlement
not to cheat them by mere empty
form without reality, but give something
substantial for the South
They might be said to acquAesec in
the Missouri compromise line He would
individually prefer, under all the circum-
stances, giving up the whole of Califor-
MIA, provided they could have all on this
side of it up to'about the parallel of 40
degrees, not far from the north line of
the State of Missouri, rather than its
Southern 36 degrees 80 minutes. They
would thus be getting the whole OF New
Mexico, and having the mountain chain
End desert on the west, obtain proper
frontier. They might then acquire, at
some future day, whether united or di-
vidcd, possession of the country along
the Gulf of Mexico, we'll suited to be oc,
cupicd by slave population.
He meant that no restriction ought to
be imposed by Congress on this territory
but that after it had been left open to all
classes, in q proper period, that a maiori-
ty may then, when they make State
constitution, determine for themselves
whether they will permit slavery or not.
The South, he said, would acquiescc in
any reasonable settlement. But, said he,
when we ask for justice, VIC are met by
the senscless and insane cry of "'Union,
Union" He was disguised with it..
When it came from the Northern gentle
men, who were attacking them, it fell on
his ears as it would do if band of rob-
bers had surrounded dwelling, and,
when the cinmates atte .npted to resist, the
assailants should raise the shont of
"peace, union, halmony.r
lie was for making the issue now.
when the South had the political strength
to resist and to control the question. lie
concluded by warning gentlemen of the
North against measures which, while
submission to them would be ruinous to
the South, they would not in the end be
benz fetal to their section. Seeing, then,
the issue in all its bearings, it is for them
to decide. They hold in their hand the
destiny Of the existing government.
Mr. Howard, Of Texas, rose and said
he would enter into no mathematical cal
culatiOns of the value of the American
Union. He would not attempt to reason
as to what would be the action of the
South if disunon takes place. He would
go as far as any Southern man to main
tain the rights of the South, and still to
sustain the Union. But if the North
were determined to tmmple upon the
rights and interests of the South, there
was an end of the Union.
<fC Wouiu noJ uc1OulCc l1c N Orbf, be-
cause there were men at The North who
had stood by the Constitution and its COM
promises until they were sacrificed
There was still party there who stood
up for the Constitution and for Justice to
the South. Therefore he would not make
a wholesale dcnunciation of the North
He believed in the personal patriotism of
the President, but he feared his action
was under control which would be de-
trimental tothe South He referred to
the presidential contest--the different
phases assumed by the President in diff
ferent sections of the Union upon this
Wilmot Proviso question, which had had
great prejudicial moral action against
the South. The acts of the last prcsi-
dental canvass, he said, were no index
of the feeling of the South on the slavery
question. The South would stand up in
solid column for its rights when the crisis
arrived.
lie then alluded to Che views of the
message of the President on California af-
fairs, and said whilst 1t asserted the doc
trine of non-interventiop, yet the Admin
istration had through its special. agent,
Mr. L B King, interfcred in all the moyes
ments there which led to the State organ-.