Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-11-30
From The Nnderson Gazette.


From the Inderson Gazette.
THoUGHTs FOR THOSE WHO OWN
NO SLAvEs.-Ihc time has come
when every man in the South must
take position upon the great qucs-
ton which has produced such a pro-
found commotion from one end of The
land TO the other; ard to every indi-
vldual assuming position it is ofvital
importance, that he duly consider the
matter in hand, lest by too precipi-
tate action he mistake his interests
and take stand in direct opposition
TO them. Men are always more or
less the creatures Of interest, and it
is to thus feeling that their prosperity,
as well as that Of nations, is 10 be
attributed: Hence their opinions are
apt TO he formed with view TO profit
or loss. Regarding the great ques-
ton OF the day in this light, propose
to discuss two distinct propositions.
l. That the end and aim Of the
Abolition movement is the total ex-
tinclion of the institution slavery,
and that il will accomplish that end
unless speedily checked.
2. That the accompr oliment of
such result will prove as ruinous
TO the interest Of those who own no
slaves as to the interest of the slave
holders, or in other words. that the
interest and destiny of every class Of
OF society is wrapped up i'll this mo-
mentous question.
We may premise that we are in
debtcd to yankee adventure, for the
existence Of the institution among us.
SlaverJ i" not question of consci
ence, but of profit, and the proof is,
thai the p op!e, who are now seek,
ing to wipe ii as stain from the face
of the Earth, are the very people
who brought i, here, and who carried
on what they now term an 'unholv
traffic in the sinews of men," until
the importation of Negroes was
made Piracy by an act of Congress
in 1903. Slave labor not being pro
| ftab|e for the purposes of agriculture
in the Northern States, and the peo-
pie of the North being cut off from
the profits Of The traffic, by stealing
and selling them to the South, they
suddenly pretended 10 entertain con
scienious scruples on the subject,
tho the truth was they began tofeel
jealousy of the growing wealth and
prosperity of the South. They
thought, as can be abundantly shown
from the papers, memorials, &c, of
that period, that the interests Of
commercial people, as they regard
ed themselves, and OF an agricultural
people as they regarded the South,
were opposed to each other. Labor
ing under this impression, it was nat
ural they should endeavor to break
lis down, and in doing so, they raised
the hue and cry against slavery, Just
ly considering that the most vulnera-
bic point Of attack, in as much as
the wealth Of the agricultural States
was produced by slave labor They
had other reasons for attacking slave
ry. Being deprived of the benefits
of the trade, feeling of revenge
prompted them TO endeaver to de-
prvc the South of the profits arising
from the labor of those they had al
ready brought into the country. They
could also enlist in the warfare a.
gainst slavery the hellhounds of
blind fanahcsm, which, when once
let lose, seem determined never to
give up the chase until they have
hunted down and tapped their rabid
tongues in the life-blood of their un-
offending brethren of ,.ie South
This agitation then is the result of
settled enimity on the part of the
North against the South--an enmi Y
which has been manifested in the
whole history of Federal legislation
-an enmity, which at one time
sought through the means of ain obi
GUS Tariff of Protection, to garner up
for themselves the wealth produced
by that very labor they were daily
abusing us for employing n enmity
which would long since have impov-
erished the South and reduced her
to a colonial dependence had not
South Carolina, by nullifying the Tar
iii Laws and the Infamous Force Bill,
pus astop to usurpation so1bold and
daring. Rufus King long since de-
clared that the Object. of the North
was Political Po,oef,, and to acquire
that power it is necessary to knock
down The main pillar upon which all