Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-06-28
THE SOUTHERN ADDRESS.


THE SOUTHERN ADDRESS.
We deprive our readers of their usual
variety for the purpose Of presenting TO
them this week the Southern Address.
This Address they will find to be plain
and unprctending but exceedingly well
written document, which sets forth in
firm but moderate language the usrrpa-
tons of the majority in Congress, the in
justice and acts of oppression which the
Free States have been and still are en-
dcavo,ing to perpetrate in the Union, and
points the South clearly and forcibly to
her duties and her dangers. Comprising
l76 delegates, representing nine differ
ent States, all Of whom support high
characters at home, and many of whom
have filed the highest stations in the
confederacy. the voice of the Convention,
speaking through this address, must
carry with it to the hearts and under
standings of the people great weight and
authority.
Looking to all the difficulties of the
question, they have unanimously de-
manded an adjustment of the difficulties
in relation to the territories, upon the
Missouri compromise line of SO deg. and
80 min The line yields to the North
two thirds of tho common property :
here then let the South take her last
stand, she can yield no more: let this be
her Thcrmopyla, and here if she fall,
lei her fall nobly defending the rights she
has inherited from her fathers,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
excitement on the slavery question is run
ming high in this body, and the willy tac-
tics of Parliamentary warfare, which
were employed by the Southern mem
bers with SO much success in lie early
part of the Session. are again in rcquisi-
ton. On the 10Th inst, in Committee Of
the Whole on the state of the Union, the
California question came up, when, for
the purpose of preventing hasty and
precipitate action by the hot bloods of
fanaticism, our Southern Representatives
drew out the time of the House, under
the five minutes rule, by offering and
Withdrawing amendments, and by other
cxpedients.
The Missouri compromise was offered
consecutively rs an amendment to the
amendment of Mr.. Green, of Missouri,
by number of gentlemen and with
drawn, when Mr.. Orr our able ard pa
triotic Representative. renewed the a.
mendmcnt, and addressing the chair said:
"There is one fact conclusive to my
mind, that the North did not intend to
exclude the Sout from all participation in
the acquired territory, or that lift was so
intended, the north waf guilty Of unpar-
donable duplicity in not disclosing its
purpose. The acquisition was made by
treaty, and when the treaty was under
consideration in the Senate the PROPOSE
ton was made to ingraft the Wilmo. pro-
viso on the treaty itself. Only fifteen
votes were cast in favor of this amend
ment, all the other Senator's voting
against it. Now, if the North had voted
unanimously in its favor, the South would
have understood their purpose; as they
did not, the South justly inferred that
they were assuming to an equal partici
patton in the common territory. IF the
south had understood that she was not tc
share IN the acquisition--that shc was tc
be uniustly excluded, she had it in hel
power to have defeated the acquisition
She had thirty Senator'S on the floor
one-half the body, and less il,an two
thirds could not have ratified the treaty
She could, therefore, have saved hersel
the indignity and humiliation you seen
determined to inflict on her by rejecting
the treaty. Has not the north acted
therefore, in bad faith towards us, in no
disclosing their purpose and putting u.
on our guard? Did not fair dealing de
mand OF them frank ryowal of their oh
ject?
owe now tender you the Missouri com
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