Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-10-26

Bill for public improvements, as they
are called, will almost unquestiona-
bly, pass next session, in goodly fel-
lowship with new tariff, both hav-
ing only been postponed through a
prudent apprehension that it might
not be safe to increase the grievances
of the South, until the Nashville and
Georgia conventions had met and ad-
journed. But there is scarcely a
doubt that both will be pushed thro'
Congress next session by a judicious
application of that great motive
power" vulgariy but expressively
called log-rolling. The luminar'es
of the West have only to form a con-
junction with the luminarles of the
East, and unite the plough with the
spinning.jenny, and the thing is done.
The former will quiet their scruples
of conscience on the score of high
duties, because they will afford a
richer fund for public improvements,
in the great West, especially that
sublime project of making the Ohio
at all times navigable by act of Con
gress; and on the other hand, the rep
resentatives of the manufacturing in
tcreses will quiet their scruples on the
score of their share of such large ex-
penditures elsewhere, by ac0u;escing
in the higher law of selfinterest
and consenting to pay little in order
to get a great deal in return. There
never was more sublime field for
log rolling presented TO the contem-
plation of great statesmen.
The South then has, | repeat, moth
ing TO expect frorn North, East, or
West, but to pay the piper for others
to dance. 1t is the weaker party,
and experience has shown that even
in a representative government re-
strained in its action by written
constituton-the weak will always
he the victim Of the strong. Where
majority rules without restraint, it
will always mask the despotism Of
the will under the majesty Of the law,
which may thus become as great a
tvrant as if il re;gned by divine right
Heretofore the democracy of the
North was the great barrier to the
rights of the South, which it should
never be forgotten entirely depend on
a strict construction of the Constitn-
ton, actich is the only security to the
rights Of a minority. But the dem
ocracy of the North is now enlisted
in the abolition crusade which can
only he successful by trampling the
rights of the South under foot. Thus
far, they accord with the "Nationa|
Wing Party and appear int G new
character of assailants rather than
defenders Of Siate-righ,s, which with
rare inconsistency 'ley pretend to
assert at the very moment they ap-
prove of measures in direct VIOLA
ton of their declaration Of princi-
pies.
Such, to me, a mere locker on at
distance, appears to he the present
critical position Of the slaveholding
States, one and all-for they are all
mextricab'y involved in the same fate
and will. if Abolitionism is 10 rue
be all obliged either to submit, or to
unite for se'fpreservation. They
must depend ON themselves alone.
and if united, they can safely depend
on themselves alone. BY their con-
tinued opposition they forced the alb
clifton coalition to abandon the VIII.
mot Proviso, and resort to cheating
instead of violence. Had they con
tinued thus unitet', they would have
foiled the cheat as well as the robber:
but what they might have gained by
concert of acton was lost by tis-
cord; and nothing now remains but
TO acquiesce in the loss, or unite in
the means of reganing it. 1t is
worth trying; and you may be as
sured that The good people Of the
North, are not quite SO mad, as to
sacrifice the Union to tanaticai
horde Of negro devotees.
FUGITIVE SLAVE IN THE