Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-11-02

ry out the Will OF the people, and
abide by the compromises and guar
antees OF 1889. This is what the
South asks for, and lit is whaDtheyl
will hayelortheyI win be forced do
leave the Union. TO this pointthings
seems now to be tending. Congress
has passed the Fhgitiue Slave bill,
II was the only thing the South gain.
ed IN, the compromise; and this was
no real gain. 1t only secured to
them what the constitution Of 1889
had pledged-the restoration of s.fu-
gitiyes held to labor" The 'consti-
tuition had already bound the freq
States to deliver up every fugitive
slaye; and had that compact been
truly and honorably carried out, the
new bill would have been lunneces7
sary. But the South felt insecure,
and she wanted an interpretation Of
the old contract by living men-the
nieii whose fathers had bound them.
The North gave it; and now, when
the South asks to have this fresh
guarantee carried out, the whole OF
the abolition party rises en- mass, and
says it shallnot be done. S7Ah' ~ ~
Here is the issue, clear as daylight,
How will it be decided! Here isihe
end Either the present Congress,
at the next session, will abolish this
law, or confirm it. In the former
case, the Southwill be compelled to
secede from the Union. Shesis driv-
eninto a corner where there is no
escape. She knows it-she feelsit-
she declares it, and she will do it--she
has no other course. y"
Men of the North, will you sustain
the course ofyour representatives in
the last session of Congress-! If you
will, the Union qis safe; ifnot, II is
gone; and, be it remembered, now
the issue is with you, and on your
heads will fall the consequences.
And when the final question is de.
cided, and the Union is broken up
what will be the upshot of it on you
your families, your interests! Stop
long enoughto ask yourselves this
question. The South will not war
upon you she will leave you. And
where are your markets, your manu-
tactures, your commerce, your agri-
culture{your rents, your investments.
your domestic relationsl Have YOU
measured the extent Of the evil te
yourselves and your children? Above
all, have you, calculated the conse
quences to mankind of,the final fail
ure Of the only, successful attempt
ever made on earth to- establish on a
permanent basis the fair fabric of re.
publican institutionsl Why did you
send up your lamentations over the
fall of Hungarian freedom, or the de
struction of the republic at Rome
And yet, what was all this compared
with the final extinction of the re-
public of Washington Look at the
portraits Of your ancestors, and an
swer the question.
And'at last, when the American
republic is dead and laid in the grave
of the Father of his Country-wher
the ruin is all wrought-what viii
have been the cause oft alll What
viii you nave gained, even Tor the
negro, and on whose heads will the
exercations of the oppressed and for
lorn Of all nations fall? The Unlor
will be broken up, because you viola
ted the terms oflthe original compact
and drove the South into secession
you were led blindfold to the perpe
tration of the damnable work. Anc
will you have achieved the emanci
patton of the slave, or bettered hi.
condition? BY nomeans. Yourthree
millions Of Africans are there Still
and but cross that line to free them
and the first man will be. shot. You
have rendered emancipation impossi
BILE, or you have raised a war ofraces
which will sweep every African or
this continent 10 his grave. You will
have drenched the free States will
blood, too.s And yet, undersGod All
mighty's clear heavens, this IOtl
day of October, 1850, all this is done
in the name Of humanity and religion
Have you ever asked yourselves il
you are not attempting TO make war
on Proyidence2 Can you not read
its designs of mercyatothe African
race, in bringing them from then
hitherto unmitigated barbarism, anc
gradually fitting them for freedom
and at last to be the instruments BY
which the civilization of the Anglc
Saxomrace would finally be introdu.
ced among two hundred millions q
savages. Can you not allow Provl
dence to perfect its own plan Of grad
gal emancipation in the Sopiherr