Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-09-27

blending and uniting all the States OF
the Confederacy into one interest.
We shall he much stronger than
at present-our slaves being employ
ed in the industrial pursuits of the
soil, dispenses with the necessity of
the application of white labor for
subsistence. We can, if necessary,
become nation of soldicrs-having
a well organized militia force of 40O,-
600 men, thoroughly disciplined, and
animated by the love of home and
the preservation of Southern institu-
tions-always ready TO concentrate
upon an assailable point, needing no
pay, furnished by Slave labor with
continued supplies, supported at the
smallest cost, and, ifattacked by the
NORTH, ready to carry on an offensive
war against our foes.
Like the States of Greece, whilst
our lands are. TILED by the slaves
who are not required for purposes of
OF war, we can prosecute trade, ag-
rculture and war at the same time.
Whenever our slave population shall
have increased SO as TO incommode
us, we will find an Exoduc upon
Southern Mexico; or if the rich pla-
GERS of California should be unex-
hausted, we may reverse the North
en invasion of Europe, and pour out
from Southern hives a vast popula-
ton to retake the lands from which
we are now unjustly to be excluded.
w e will have nothing to dread from
internal disscnsions, for the interests
of the Southern States will be homo
geneous. We will will be too strong,
with half million of soldiers, to be
invaded by armies which come abroad
burdened with the expenses of trans
portatlon, provisions and ammuni-
ton. But war is threatened from
the Nor'h should the South secede.
The North fights for profits, and
what would it profit her to battle
with the South! They could not con
quer; but could impoverish them
selves by Withdrawing from labor
the persons oft their armies, and from
the fruits Of diminished labor subsis-
tence for those armies. 1t is said
that IN the first instance of our seces-
SION we will not have navy. What
thenl Could the navics ofthc North
avail aught against us! BY no means;
we have only TO place our rich pro-
ducts at the tradeeof all the world,
and all the world, in the contest for
the carrying of these products, will
be arrayed against the Northern fleets
The fact is obvious. The South, in
It's possession of all which all the
world needs, can command the uni
ted supportofthe majority of the tra-
ding world against any one portion
which may seek to monopolize its
trade. But with what will the North
support navy? Her thirty millions
ofexports will yield about six mil
lions of dollars, a sum required to
support her civil government. She
will be impotent for all purposes of
war.
No, sir, the South has nothing to
dread-there will be no war, foreign
or domestic. But there will ensue
upon her secession, a destruction of
the power of the North, and annihi-
latlon of the prosperity of New Eng
Ian. Let the aggressions of the
North, the continued violations of the
force us from the Union,
and the order, method, and power of
the States now united, will at once
be transferred to the Southern Uni
ted States. That Confederacy, pos
sessing entire control over its lands,
It's labor, IFS trade, its armies, will
have peace and prosperity at home,
respect and admiration abroad. AS
long as the present Government, OBJ
servant of the national compact, shall
be administered upon the principles
ofequality, the South will adhere to
the contract, for better for worse.'-
BUTT ought not to be expected that
when all the objects of the Union are
destroyed, we should still, with so
many rich prospects before us; con-
tlnue an appendage to Government,
whose honors we will have lost,
whose protection been removed,
whose powers; given for benefits, are
to despoil. AS sovereign
States united, the same sovereignty
confers the right to secede-peacea-
bly, to secede; and when the ends of
union are no more disregarded, then
to form new compacts, and seek out
new modes of happiness. Surely, if
any number of men congregating in
California, and forming a Republican
Constitution, nave of right admission