Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-09-27
THE TWO SECTIONS.

'tives:
But suppose that the South has
sagacity to perceive the danger, and
spirit enough to counteract it, what
then will be the condition Of the
North? In the loss of the Union,
they lose the very sources of their
prosperity. What was New Eng
nd'belore the Union was establish
ed! What is she nowl What must
she become when left TO her own in
telllgence, sagacious as it is; her own
industry, untiring as it may be? The
New England States, when Colonies
were industrious. virtuous, comlorta-
bic societies, with nothing to export
but stores and fish. They could not
manufacture, because their industry
was at the will of "a great manufactu-
ring. nation, who denied to them a
market. They labored hard and
Looked with admiration upon the pro-
ductive South, whose labor purchas-
ed foreign luxuries; the exchanges of
whose industry furnished the exchan-
ges for Northern imports, and render
Led tributary Northern labor. We
were then rich-the North poor
When, however, we became dis
aenthralled from Britain and formed a
union of interests, the scene changed.
Through the operation of artificial
expedlents, the North rendered the
South tributary, and became rich.
She has exchanged poverty for
wealth, dependence for authority;
has secured the monopoly of the
.coastlng and interior navigation, sub
jected the carrying trade to her con-
trol, and compelled a revenue ofthir-
ty millions, Qwo thirds of which are
paid for by the exports of the South,
whilst two-thirds are expended in the
free Statcs.) Thus, through the
working of the Government, she has
completely changed social condition
Wlththc South. Her capitalists have
become princes-her frame houses
transmitted into marble palaces-her
people iairlng sumptuously every day
her children dressed in broad
clothes and fine cottons. The North
has become like unto Rome, and
from the same causes. She has sub
.Jected provinces more productive than
the Egyptian or African. She rivals
in inland trade the far-famed cities of
the Deserts, when they levied contri-
buttons upon the interior trade of the
Eastern and European nations. She
has become like unto Venice, when
Venice monopolized the commerce
OF the Levant and the entire Medi-
terranean. But tho artificial causes
which made Rome and Palmyra and
Venice mighty States, being once re-
moved, and the people Of those States
thrown upon their native resources,
their grandeur soon departed. Rome
stands on her seven hiIls-but where
her imperial sway? The palm-trees
yet cluster around Palmyra, but only
to mock its desolation. And Venice
Venice! the throne of whose Doge
rested on hundred Isles, is now a
degraded, trodden down province ofI
the AuStrians.
Such, New England, must be thy
late, if the South. reused to sense
ofinjury, and feeling the blood other
ancestry courslng vigorously through
her veins, should resolve that the I'm
ION should be no rp ore should deter
mine that her labor be no more shack
led by your leg 3letion-her foot
stones restrained within prescribed
llmits-her energies compressed by
your cupidty-the spirits of her chill
dren crushed by your assumption of
superior merits and loitier authority |
Suppose all this, and what then is
the scenel The tonnage of the world
competing for the coasting and for
elgn trade. The hardy Dane and
adventurous Swede and enterprising
Briton bringing their ships to convey
our Southern products, and to return
freighted with those rich wares pur-
chased by our cotton, and now
brought across the waves by North
em shipping. Where, then, will be
the national expenditures, those
large sums annually drawn from the
South tn descend in cop;ous showers
upon the North? Whe.e will be the
sale OF those manuiacturesnow flood
ing the South under discriminating
tariff! They will lhave passed like a
vision of The night. Where, then,
will the North be? Where she is in
location, but not where she now IS IN
condition. She must depend upon
the mercy of the South, or revert
back to the rocks from which she
came.
What will then be the condition of