Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-12-07

part to promote, under the pretence
of the general welfare, the success of
measures purely sectional in their
application.
This obstinately perverse proclivi-
ty is, in reality, in strict obedience to
political law, the offspring of the
moral obliquity of the human heart.
The lesser, numerically, and richer
interest, has always been the subject
of plumber by the greater and poorer
interest. 1t is historically true more
over, that in every Conlcderacy,
where the principle of the concur
rent majority is not practically recog-
nlzcd, the centripetal is stronger than
the centrifugal tendency of the par
ties; further, that in the Legislative
branch of the government all usur-
pations generally commence, and are
ultimately acquiesced in by the other
departments. In relation TO our Fed
eral institutions, the Constitution, in
IFS most important provisions, has,
in effect been so essentially changed,
teat the Union created by it no long
er exists. Its guarantees, from the
revolution which has been practical
ly accomplished over us have been
overthrown, and consolidated gov
ernment having its discretion and
will as the measure of its powers, is
now the government of the Union
Every compromise too, into which
the South has entered, including the
compromises Incorporated in the
great charter of the public liberties,
has been utterly disregarded. BY leg
lslative devices. our people now as
heretofore, are not only in effect des-
poiled of of the profits of their indus
! try, but their contribution to the
public purse continue to be expended
in unjust proportions, TO further the
interests oftherevllers and sappers cf
their domestic atars. While by
Congressional enactments, the North
in the various branches of industry,
have been forced into condition of
unexampled wealth and power, the
advancement Of the South, SO prodi-
gally furnished by nature with all the
elements prosperity and greatness;
has occupied a position far below that
1t would have reached, had the Con
federationbeen composed of one peo-
pie in interest and feeling. The North
and South in the palmly days of the
Republic, both reverenced and loved
the Union for the immeasurabIe e bles-
sings it insured. Unhappily, it is now
maintained by the former to effectu-
ate its long cherished design-the
dlsfranchisement and degradation of
the latter.
1 III asked for the evidence of these
grave accusations against the gov
ernments and people, whose support
and friendship we once so dearly val
ued, point with grief of heart, TO the
often perpetrated, or attempted en-
croachments by Congress on the re-
served rights of the States the in
cendiary resolutions of State Legis-
iaturesthe sweeping denunciations EN-
anating from different associations,
formed for the spe cial end of carry
ing throughout our borders the torch
of instructions the bitterand vindic.
tive feelings Of the Press, the Bar,
and may add, the Pulpit; the in
flammatory harangues at popular
meetings; the actual robbery of mil
lions OF ourslave property by emissa
rles, not only without an effort by the
Northern State Governments to en-
force the provisions of the Constitu-
ton concerning fugitives '.held to la
bor," but by the authority of law and
the force of public opinion encour-
aging and sustaining these fanatical
exhibitions of public sentiment; the
annihilation at blow, of the princi-
I pie of State equality by the exclusion
OF, one half che citizens of the Con
federacy from all participation in,the
newly acquireddomain; the violation
OF great sectional compromise by
the dlsmemberment of a Southern
member of the Union, in order; at a
convenient season, to carve from its
bosom afree and hostile state; in fine,
the unceasing assaults upon the char
acter of the stakeholder by all classes,
In public andsin private, as an enemy
TO God and man-as unworthy of a
seat at the table of the Lord, or to-
enjoy as co-parters, the noblest be-
guest ever inherited by freemen. The
ultimate object of this consentaneous
movement, in which governments and
and people are the actors, is the
emancipation Of the negro through-