Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-11-02
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repabiisanism, who wifi allow him
self tinle to think, is asking himself
this question, anxiously, every day.
We cannot get away from Il, close
odEIeyes as we will. Resistless as
fate,eyents are sweeping on, and
something startling, must and will
take place. Something must grow
out of the long continued, constantly |
increasing, aud now fearful and az,
palling, abolitiois excitement. 9SocilI
etyis heaying with spasmodic throes.
Thugs cannot remain as they are.
Issues are rising, and issues are to be
metz The long gathering food is
coming downron us, and the ques-
tion nowis, where lis force will break
and what will be its consequences.
s9aA word here We have never at
tempted to alarm this republic. We
had no 9interestl&in doing so. We
never shall have. For fifteen years,
we have foretold the inevitable re-
suit ofthetslaSefy agitation. Early
inaour career as an independent jour
nalst, we foresaw that the Garrison
excitement, which began in the pray
,er meeting, would end at the ballot
oX-and to the ballot box. 1t has
come. Abolition has left the Throne
of Grace, where holy priests minis
tered, and gone TO the hustings, where
Seward unfurls his flag His pious
work is done by the saints; his dirty
work, by Greely and Weed. The
question is now one of votes. We
have now come to the main point.
sidSeward aud, bis men packed the
Syracuse Convention. Fooled in the
intrigues and treason In the Senate,
he appealed to his constituents to
sustain his course, and thus rebuke
the action of Clay, Webster, Cass,
Foote's Dickinson. and their noble
compeers. He succeeded. That
convention sustained him, land there
by condemned the course of the Sen
ate and the House of Representa-
tives. The Union was left out of
the question-patriots Of both par
ties were thrown overheard. Sc
ward was captain, and the course of
thesYessel must be decided sbygaspoli-
cy which suited the interests Of the
commanded. 4 :
Here ended the first chapter. The
neXtwill open,with the convention
at Utica, Granger, Duer, and other
good wings, saw that the Syracuse
movement would ruin their party
with the nation, 1t was at war with
the'course Of Clay and Webster, and
hosGleate the pol,cy Of Fillmore's
administration. They must counter
actiit, or sacrifice themselves, their
party, and the nation. There was
bat one way 10 doit-call conven-
eioGA Bring out the real force of tie
party in this State-measure its rot
tennessc calculate its fanaticism-in
a word, number the people of Israel
This is now to be done. What
wilDbes the result? Let us Judge.
Only about whig paper in twen-
ty,in,thls State, iavors the'Duer and
Granger movement Stewards for
ces are more numerous than was
supposed.aeButathe convention will
meet, and it Willibe sure to take ma
tlonal ground-otherwise the whole
thing would be a farce. ,1.,
Well, what then7 They will
nominate a ticket opposed to Seward
and tahelitionisn. This will split the
wing party, and cost them one cleo
ton in New York, unless things
should come to such "a pass before
election (Which is not very probable)
that the conservative portion of the
democratic party should unite with
them, and thereby give triumph to
the principlcs,o of the Union. But if
the tFSe wings lose one election by
acting as the hunkers did the last
time, when they cast Van Euren and
the free soilers overheard, they would
preserve in some sense the integrity
Of their party, and thus keep the
South on their side. Their only sal.
vation, however, is TO take this course
whateyermay be the result. a,:
But suppose that a union ofall the
aboiitionists in the State wings,
democrats and niggers should give
Seward a Triumph. Other States at
the North would follow the example,
and the democrats would not lose
the chance ofa final and complete
victory, They would,in spite of ey4
erything, become the national party.
The, whole South would go with
them, TO a man; old issues of tariff
bank, sub-treasury, &c. would be
forgotten entirely; and he great q,,es-,
tiofiTl-slavery would absorb all 9TH
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