Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-12-21


forth in the report itself--it speaks
most eloquently of the wrongs ofthe
South; hear it:
The trainers of the Constitution declared
in limine the purposeto to be accomplished by
it in the following terms: eve the people of
tho United States in order to form more
perfect union, establish justice, ensure do
nestle tranquility. provide for the common
defence promote, the general welfare, and
secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves
and our posterty, do ordain and establish
this Constitution for the United States of
America. The people of this State, be-
cominga party to that instrument, are EN-
titled to all the benefits therein direcly en-
umerated, end are under the most solemn
obligation to abstsin from ali practices incon-
sistent with their enjoyment by the otter
parties. cit is nominated in the bond
thai the people of no ono State shall disturb
the domestic tranquility, "of any other
Georgia lays open the volume of her history
and proudly challenges her confederates to
the abduction of q single incident volative
of the obligation. She does more In all
kindness compatible with the assertion of
right, she charges upon the non slavehold-
inc States in6deity to this stipulation in the
compact She instances existence within
their borders Of organized societies, avow-
edley devoted to the annihilation of ian insti-
tuition inwrought withthe framework of her
social system, and in no way modifying or
etfectng their own, societies employing miss
ionaries and subsidizing the press to pro
fo fl,a,; Il Il
to excite with in her own. limits spirit of
dissatisfaction among her citizens, and of
nsubordination among her slaves; societies
which have boldly entered The political arena
seized upon the balance of power, and OBJ
trudcd fanaticsm into the halls of our FEEDER
al. These measurs of hostility are incessa
ntiy proposed and discussed to the Interrupt.
tion of the legitimate business of legislation,
denunciations day by day uttered against
slavery and Shareholders, against confeder.
ates and their institutions.
And yet though the convention
charges the Northern States with
having disregarded the compact,
and broken its covenants, with l,av-
ing violated the letter and spirit of
the Constitution, it recommends un-
qualified submission, because, for
sooth, running along with the uncon-
stitutional acts of Congress, and coin
cident with its many outrages, was
a constitutional act, measure of
justice, to wit: the Fugitive Bill, and
argues that, though Georgia had
been despolled of many of her dear
est rights, and threatened with the
destruction of two-thirds of her prop
erty, nevertheless she should cling to
the Union inasmuch as its masters
had, by the passage of the said Flu
gitive Slave Bill, shown that their
sense Of justice had not been entirely
obliterated, and therefore, she, Uhe
sovereign State of Georgia,) though
gr'evously wronged and injured,
would Internationally submit in the
humble hope that her devotion 10 her
masters (misnamed the glorious u
nlon,) would be taken into consider
alton, and she might be permitted
hereafter to escape annihilation.
Thus in spirit speak and reason
this Convention.