Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-12-14
SOntlaerm-rfghts Association
PICKENS DISTRICT.
OFFICERS.
r.. N. GAKVIN, President.

vice PRESIDENTS {:
A. RAMSAY, a. M. HAMILTON,
WIN. HUNTER, JOHN A. EAsLEY,
w. ID. STEELE, VIM. NIMMoNs,
b. HAGooD, JAS. ROBINSON,
M. M. NORTON, S. LovINGGooD.
w. 5. GRESHAM, LEWIS MoRHEAD,
ED. HUGHES, VIM. LEE,
Il. ID. MAXWELL, ]. MAXWELL.
J: w. NoRRIs, Jr, ! Recording Sec
w. II. TRlMMIER,5 retaries.
w. X. EAsLEY,
SILAs KIRKsEY, Treasurer.
oUNcILs OF SAFETY.
Sargeant's Beat,--H Miller,
Thos Gasaway, VIM Olive.
Garuin's Beat ] Hollinesworth,
w S Williams, VIM Smith.
Hunters Beat.--J B layton A
Hunter, John Arial.
Easley's Beat.-John Bowen, S A
Easley, John Gossett.
Ste,cat's Beat.-Robert Stewart,
f Alexander, e Alexander.
1nderson's Beat-Isaac Anderson,
Joab Lewis, o e Barton.
Chastain's Beat.-E III Griffin, ]
E Hagood, James t Ferguson.
Smglcton's Beat -Larkin Hen
bricks, Esly Hunt, VIM Edins.
Boyds Beat.-Jeptha Norton, w
l. Keith, Joseph Burnett.
Nicholson's Beat-Stephen Mich
olson, A B Grant, Jesse Mckinney.
Phillips Bcat.-G Brazeal, A Ro-
bins, b Fretwell.
Hughes BeM.-J A Ballenger,
Henry Hughes, Andrew Dickson.
Deaton's Ben.-Wm Griffin, Josh
ua Y Jones, II nj Stribling.
Deans Bedt.-EP Werner, l. Tow
ers, S G Reeder.
Hunnicutt's Beat.-A Bryce, has
Hunt, James M McElroy.
Fairplay Bem.-A p Reeder, Bay
lis HiX, M S Mcay.
PREAMBLE:
Whereas, it is apparent, not only
from the acts of injustice which have
been perpetrated by the dominant
majority in ongress, but also from
the course of systematic and organ
ized aggression on the rights of the
South which have been for years pur-
sued by the Northern States of this
Union, that there is a fixed and un-
alterable determination on the part
of those States to rob us OF our po-
litical rights and to despoil us of our
domestic institutions; and, believing,
as we do, that their peaceable pos
session and even preservation has
become incompatible with our pres
ent relations to the existing Confed-
elacy, and having been forced to the
painful conviction that South Caro-
lima in common with her sister States
OF the South is driven to choose be-
tween the preservation of her rights
and the preservation of the Union :
Therefore, we, the people of Pickens
District, do now "solemnIy pledge
our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred
honor" to aid, defend and support
her in mentaining her rights, by any
course or by any means to which
she may be driven by the foul injus-
! tice and aggressions of the usurping
North; and in view Of all issue SO
painful but inevitable to us,
BE 1t therefore ResolUed, That we
do now organize and constitute our
selves into an Association for the de-
fence of Southern Rights and Inter
ests, the objects and rules of which,
we hereby pledge ourselves as men
Land as citizens to support and OBJ
serve, until the dangers which threat
en- the destruction of our rights shall
have been entirely removed and for
that purpose we adopt the following
onstitutieR;
!CGNSTITUTICN.
Arr. /. The name of this "A ssoci-
alton shall be aIhe Southern Rights
/ Association of Pickens District. Its
sobject shall,be 80 organize and pre-.
pare the people of Pickens District
the better to defend themselves from
ithe dangers which threaten to pro
gnote the interest and to secure ihe
/ batmonious and united aetion Of the
/ whole South in the 9lofioa5 cause 81
constitutional Freedom, and more
especlally llyshall its objects be To pledge
Its lsaersshss.rss to support South CAROL
ma N any coarse which she may ba
! iIdEiySn to pursue in defence of hei
rights as q free and sovereign States
"A 2. The officers Of this assss