Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-30

Wieillel eiteie was u Sul.tclenC fpopu-
lation there to entitle that territory
to State Government, Gen. Tay-
lor sent member of Congress, as
special agent to California, for no
other purpose than to procure the
adoption of Constitution, and to
advise, the Convention forming the
Constitution to incorporate within
the limits of the proposed State one
half of that immense country ac-
quired from Mexico, so that, to use
his own peculiar phraseoiogy, there
should be "no territory left for Con
gress to quarrel about" Upon the
votes of merely fifteen thousand per-
pie Constitution was adopted, con-
tanning among its provisions the Will
mot Proviso, and a demand was
made upon Congress for admission
into the Union. Thus the South
was forever excluded from Califor-
MIA.
The next movement was in New
Mexico; where, actuated by the
same blind subserviency TO the will
of the North, the late Administra~
ton induced the handful of semi-bar-
barians scattered over that territory
to ask TO be recognised as one of the
States of this Union. In this dis
graceful affair abolitionism showed
itself in its darkest dies, FOR not con-
tent with appropriating to itself the
whole of the territories, it has the
unheard of audacity to seize upon a
large portion of one of the Southern
States.
And now what are we to expect
at the hands of men who to accom-
plish their ends, can be guilty of such
unblushing baseness? If so unscru
pulous now, when the game is des-
perate and dangerous to them as to
us, will they be less so when by the
admission of two or three more free
States, they will have acquired COM
plete possession Of all the powers of
the Federal Government? Will they
act with more leniency, liberahty and
justice then than nowl Ifnow they
trample upon the Constitution and
recognise the existence Of higher OBJ
legations than that of an oath, what
may we expect from their good faith,
what reliance can we place,in the
dictates of their consciences when
freed from the power of fear! When
Free-soil institutions shall have been
fastened upon the whole of the ter
ritories, to the total exclusion of the
South, the next step will be TO abol-
ish slavery in the District Of Colum-
bia, and in the Dock-Y ards and Ar.
senals, then the slave trade between
the States will be prohibited, and
when all this shall have been accom-
plished the institution will be attach
ed as it exists in the States.
No, we have nothing TO expect
from the patriotism, justice or Gber-
ality of the North. While these diff:
ferences have been passing through
the various stages which have, bro't
them to the present crisis, wefhaye
tried nearly every means of resis-
tance. g et 81 4lfF
We have tried reason, expostula-
ton, entreaty,; in vain have we en-
voked the spirit Of patriotism; in vain
called upon the names of the good
and great who sleep with the dead /;
in vain envoked the recolleetions ol
the gone-by time time, when our
fathers sowed their blood on the
fields of death and gathered in a har-
vest of immortal renown; all, all has
been in vain, and in spite of reason,
remonstrance, entreaty; in defiance
Of patriotism, faith and justice, and
in violance to those feelings of bro
therhood which ought to be engen.
dered by the recollections of com
mod dangers and common triumphs,
we have seen State after State de
clare her unalterable determination
to bind us to the wheel we have
seen an Administration first attempt