Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-03-16

tollOWS, tiiot the character OF tne government
has been changed in consequence, from feder-
al Republic, as it originally came from the
hands ofits trainers, into great national CON
solidated Democracy. 1t has indeed, at present
all the characteristics of the latter, and not one
of the former, although it still retains its out
ward form. ..llEI s..
The result of the whole of these causes com
bincd is, that the North has acquired decided
ascendancy over every department of this Gov.
ernment, and through it control over all the
powers the system. A single section govern.
ed by the will of the numerical majority, has
now, in fact, the control of the Government and
once a constitutional federal Republic, is now
converted, in realty, into one as absolute as
that of the Autocrat of Russia, and rs despotic
in its tendency, as any absolute government
that ever existed
AS then, the North has the absolute control
over the Government it is manifested, that on
all questions between it and the South where
therh is q diversity ofinterests, the interest of
the latter will be sacrificed to the former, how
ever oppressive the effect may be, as the South
possesses no means by which it can resist,
through the action Of the Government But if
there was no question of vital Importance to
the South in ~ Aferenc'. to which there was O.
diversity OF vl1. YYaaa t',a .Y5 sections
this state of things might be endured, without
the hazard of destruction to the South But
such 10 not the fact. There is question of vi
tai Importance to the Southern section, in refer
encc to which the views and feelings of the
two sections are as opposite and hostile rs they
can possibly be.
Irefer to the relation between the two races
in the Southern section, which constitutes vital
portion of her social organization Every por-
tion ofthe North enterraips views and feelings
more or less hostile to it. Those most opposed
and hostile, regard it rs n sin, and consider
themselves under the most sacred obligation to
use every effort to destroy it. Indeed to the
extent that they conceive they have power
they regard themselves as implicated in the sim
and responsible for suppressing it by the use of
all and every means. Those less opposed and
hostile, regard 1t rs crime--an offence against
humanity, as they call it; and although not so
fanatical, feel themselves bound to use all ef.
forts to effect the same object; while those who
are least opposed and hostile regard it as a
blot mud stain on the character of what they
cali the Nation, and feel themselves according.
~ bound to give it no countenancc or support.
On the contrsry, the Southern section regards
the relation as one which cannot be DESTROYED
without subjecting the two races to the great
est calamity, and the section to poverty, desola-
ton, and wretchedness; and accordingly they
feel bound by every consideration of interest
and safety tn defend Il
This bost;la faolno on tho ,,o.t oeth, N-o..,,
towards the social oraan;seft;on f ~ % I,o so,'n
lon0 Law dormant bn3 IL nnI,y r,,,,,;ro5 so,,,n
cause Which rynnId moto 4to ;aIumeG ;Ie;. soine
tbose who fell Il most ;ntonsoI tat a. va
resnonsible for its cont;n,ancn ' g, LII t W. ;t
action The ;ncreo s;na ro,var % th;s rnn. ~ INV
ment, and Of the control of the Northern section
over all its departments, furnished the cause.
1t was this which made an impression on the
minds of many, that there was little or no 70.
straint to prevent the Government from do;no
whatever 1t might choose to do. 1his wos smf,
ficient of itself to put the most fannticnl nor.
ton of the North in action for the purnose of
destroying the exish,g ,g relation between tho
two races in the South.
Tho frst nroon;zod ,ron,. :,
co,,,,,,onnoJ ~ Sees ioseriiels 'oWaras ,1as IL
soc;o,;oa yvara 90. IL tiioh ior .he hrSt t,lne,
ioctu,:ors sar,t fo'S ~eu: presses estannshed'
Mossh and 1I"S ;noai 10 Hcte the people OF the
9ag
South WIS thoroughly aroused. Meetings
We're held everywhere, and resolutions adopted,
calling upon the North to apply remedy to
arrest the threatened evil, and pledging them
selves 70 adopt measures for their own protec-
ton, i'll was not arrested. At the meeting OF
Congress petitions poured in from the North,
calling upon Congress to abolish slavery in the
Distrie eof Columbia, and to prohibit what they
called .l,e internal slave trade between the
NAak. Al.