Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-10-11

clently extensive TO effect the North
seriously can be put into successful
operation without securing the polit-
ical tie which unites the two sections
unless every man, woman, and child
South of Mason & Dixon's line is
willing to sacrifice present interest to
political independence, unless patri-
otism is made to be what il never has
been, the strongest feeling in mans
nature, and even then it would be
impracticable. Tennessee and Ken
lucky cannot under present circum-
stances supply the South in bacon
and corn and how are we to prevent
our cotton from falling into the hands
Of Northern manufacturers unless
we could command the winds and
waves. When ship puts out from
Charleston or New Orleans laden
with bags of cotton, how are we to
prevent her from dischaiging her
cargo at New York or Boston and
until we can do this how are we to
effect the manufacturing interest at
the North! And besides suppose
this scheme 10 be practicable, after
ceasIng all intercourse-after sever
ing every social why retain the polit-
ical tie! Why remain attached to a
people with whom we would have no
dealings! Why suffer those to assist
in making our laws who had become
strangers and aliens unto us? Why
was this cantcderacy entered INTO by
the South! was it that she was inca
pable Of governing herself and might
thereby obtain the benefit of North
ern wisdom and sagacity, or was it
not rather that we might By closer
intercourse than could exist and a
warmer exchange of friendly offices
than could take place between foreign
States, mutually strengthen and sup
port each other in the days of our
common infancy. Then when the
substance has been lost why retain
the shadow 2 If the South was not,
ina seperate confederacy, able TO de-
fend herself against all comers then
there might be some reason for pre-
serving merely political union with
the North, but nc human being
doubts our capacity TO maintain our
independence against the world. Is
any school girl SO lily informed i'll re-
gard to the feelings of the men '76 as
to think that, if The South had been
as rich and powerful then as she is to-
day, this contederacy would ever
have been formed ? Why scruple
then to dissolve it when it has not
only ceased to be necessary but has
absolu ely grown dangerous. All
political institutions are called into
existence by the necessity of the pco-
pie and the times, and SO long as that
necessity continues they remain eff
cient and vigorous, but whenever
that necessity upon which they arose
has ceased to exist a necessity at
once arises for their abolition. No pc
htlcal febric can remain mere nulli-
ty, it must be good or an evil. For
many years this confederacy to which
we have been so much attached was
a great good in our western world,
for by uniting it gave strength 10 the
weak, but now when the feeble have
grown strong and able stand alone,
and when under cover Of its authori-
ty the strong have begun to prey ur on
each other it has accomplished its
end, and as urgent necessity has
arisen for its destruction as ever ex-
listed for its creation.
tits idle to talk of severing the So
cial and of still retaining the political
tie which binds together the various
sections Of the Union;-nothing can
possibly be more impracticab!e, and
igpracticable, nothing could possibly
be less to be desired. The North
and the South cannot live together
on terms of equality, the one must
bow to the other, and it is plainly to
be seen that we are to be the under