Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-12-28
THE POSITION OF SOUTH
CA OLINA

" n IL " Ii N "A.
The friends of the South are most
anxlously watching the movements
OF the South Carolina Legislature;
and lightly as they speak and affect
to think Of her, the conservators of
the GLORIOUS Union, are solicitous
spectators of the position which the
gallant State is assuming in this cri
sis. Since the days of nulliGcation,
South Carolina has been the object
OF the bitterest hatred and the tiercest
opposition of federalism. Her name
has been jeered at, and envy, but
half concealed in the garb of devo-
ton to the Union, has attempted to
point the finger of contempt at the
great men who have lived and bat
tied and died in her cause. From
the Federalist in the Senate cham
Der to the meanest sycophant of pow
er who prates on politics from the
stump, Suoth Carolina has been a.
bused, aspersed and misrepresented;
and all for the sin of being republican;
all tor daring TO maintain her rights
Ii has been said, and most truly, that
there are but two parties in this gov
ernment: the one stauds upon Ply
mouth rock in Massachusetts, the 9TH
Q on soil offs. Carolina. From the ear
hest dawn of this republic, till now,
federalism and States Rights have
been the two conflicting elements in
the Union, and upon these two oppo-
sing ideas have been. built all the 20.
liticai distinctions which have, from
that day to this, divided the country.
While he lived, Mr. Calhoun was
the great embodiment of republican,
ism in this country, and thongh he no
longer lives to counsel, South Caro-
lima yet stands the firm, unyielding
champion Of the cause to which his
life was devoted. To her, it is no
new thing to be arrayed against the
usurpation eff power by the General
Government. She has dared to as
sert her rights before; she will not
prove forgetful ofiwhat is due to her
now.si hf,p ss, ci,,.,
Whether she will determine to take
her cause into her own hands, or will
await the corporation of her sister
States of the South, has not yet been
fully Indicated. One thing ascertain,
she will not content herself with emp
fyresolutions against future wrongs.
The past is full of outrage, and she
will neither close her eyes to The
fact,inor ingloriously purchase peace
for the future by Submitting 10 the
wrongs which have been already in
flicted. Resistance, in some form,
will he determined upon, and this
whether the South acts with her, or
she stands alone, AS to The mode or
measure ofthat resistance we know
nothing; we only know tha; some
mode will be adopted, and that il will
Abe measured alone by the wrong
which has been imposed.
The question is frequently asked,
If Soulh Carolin secedes, viii any
other Slate unite with eerl Missis-
sippi probably might, but we do not
believe sisa would, These arc un-
welcome truths. hui we believe they
are nevertheless truths. Our own
recent election has taught us that
{ there isa sptilin party, a charms in
good prices for cotton, and q power
IN the cry OF Union, to strong for
the love ofsight or devotion to prin-
Iciple. The lesson Is Illuminating, but
we do not despond under it, for we
knpwtnat though the South slun
bers pow, she will not sleep always.
Sooner orlateF she must awake and
!. act. Let Sopih Carolina then, se-.l
cade, alone if need be- apd the day