Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-10-04
GEORGIA CONVENTION.

70 me electors Of GeW,gtd-G5' eet-
Sag;
Haing been officially informed.
that the Congress of the United
States has, admitted California into
the Union of The States ofithe Con,
federacy, upon equal terms with the
orlginal States, a duty devolves upon
me, iii the performance of which,
shall tresspass upon the public but
briefly.
An unfeigned Difference for public
opinion, and the profound regard
entertain for the wisdom, frmuess
and patriotism of my fellow-citizens
ofGeorgla, will not justify me in a
paper OF this character, in repeating
my known and unchanged opinions
as to the duty of the South in repel-
ling freesoil encroachment, and ar
resting, by all proper means, usurpa-
ton by Congress.
Whatever is compatible with the
honor and obligations of the people
OF thus State to the country, its laws,
and its institutions, / doubt not, will
recelvee their warm support
In an hour of danger-when your
institutions are i'll jeopardy-your
feelings wantonly outraged, your
social organization derided, your
honor deeply wounded and the Fed
eral constitution violated by series
ofaggresive measures, all tending to
the consummation of one object, the
abolition of slavery-when your
equal right TO occupy and enjoy the
common territory of all, has been
<!eaiedyou, III the solemn form oflaw,
under pretcnces the most shallow, it
well becomes you to assemble, to
deliberate and counsel together, for
your mutual preservation and safety.
Whatever course the extraordina-
ry events by which we are encom-
passed, will demand or Justify must
be left, as it should be, to the patrio-
tlsin, firmness, and prudence of the
people themselves. Upon them dc
wolves the duty of repressing present
wrongs,and providing other safe
guards, for future security. Neither
the one nor the other of which, how
ever, will ever be efectually accom-
plished, until, by patriotic efforts, per-
iect harmonyand concord of feeling
are restored, and confidence and con
cert of action produced among the
people of the South.
In view, therefore, of the atrocios
freeso.i sentiment and policy, not
merely ofthc thcnon-slaveholding States
but of the Government-of the inn
minent peril to which the institution
OF slavery is reduced by the act of
Congress admitting the State of
California into the Union, with
Constitution containing the principle
OF tine NYilmot Proviso, in defiance of
our warning and earnest remon-
lstrance-n view of the deplorable
fact that some diversity of opinion
exists in some of the Southern States
as to the proper mode of redressing
the wrongs and averting the dangers
which all must see and feel, let me,
tellow-cltizens, earnestly entreat you
tecultivate for each other deep and
abiding sentiment of fraternal regard
and confidence and approach the
task, from which there is no escape,
ofdeciding upon your duty TO Georgia
and the country, with firm step,
but not without calm, deliberate and
patient Investigation, consulting nei-
thcr fears or dangers on the one hand,
nor permitting yourselves, from ex-
asperated feelings Of wrong on the
other, to be rashly urged 10 extreme
measures, which have not received
the full sanction of your judgment.
Then shall not despair ofseeing the
whole State as one man, proposing
nothing beyond what the emergency
may demand, or failing to perform
whatever patriotism, honorand right,
NAV require at your hands.
The General Assembly of this
Slate, by an ACT approved 8th Febru-
ary, 1850, having required me, upon
the happening of certain events, one
of which is the admission of Califor-
nia as State into The Union, to issue
proclamation, ordering an election
to be held in each and every county
for Delegates to Convention of the
People of this State, 10 take into con
sideration such measures as comport
with the extraordinary posture of
our relations TO our co-States, and TO
decide npon what steps are necessary
and proper to be taken compatible
with our honor and constitutional
obligations as well as more eflectual-
ly to secure our right of proDerTy.in