Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-11-09

WSuohte W hNtlCS OH NIOTUay laSt \
llarge number Of the citizens of our
District met in the Court House to
hear their able and indefatigabIe
Representative, COL ORR, give an
account Of his stewardship. The
Colonel, in q speech Of two hours,
length, TO which we listened with un-
diminished interest, ran over the
acts of injustice which had been per-
petrated'by the ruling majority in
Congress, and sketched in graphic
and forcible manner their disastrous
consequences to the South; he ex-,
hibited tothe minds of his audience
the evidence of a fierce and insatia-
BILE hostility on the part of that ma
Jority TO us and our institutions: he
told old how corruPtions had crept into
the Federal Government, and how
strange doctrines, sucl as were un-
Known to our fathers, had become
the orthodox Federal Faith; and
how by them the character of the
Government was being, nay, had
already been, changed from one Of
limited to one of unlimited powers.
For years the North had nourished
dark and insidious designs against
the independence Of the South" For
years she had concealed in her mid
night councils, the oioul and traitor
Gus purpose of changing by silent
and imperceptible, revolutions the
original character Of the Federal
Government. AT first she approach
ed her ends by slow and cautious
steps, stealing along through crook
ed and secret ways, and while we
slept ii fancied security her wisards
We're working their midnight spells,
And by means of this, dark enchant-
melit, one by one had the bulwarks
OF the Constitution fallen, guaranty
after guaranty had been swept away aywvn
power after power had been usurp
ed, until now she had us and the
Oonstitutlon under her feet; and
backed by a fierce and turbulent ma
Jorlty who were divided from the mi
lnpoority by contending, interests and
geographical lines, she is ruling the
land with a lordiy and unlimited
sway. In this headlong struggle for
power no means had been too wick
ed TO be used, and no institution too
sacred sacred TO be touched by her foul and
con'tammatlng hands. No consider.
auons OF justice, no feelings of hu-
manly no principles of religion have
Deen snfficient to restrain the North
orto cause to her scared conscience
one pang of remorse. And now,
emboldened by her late success and
oy our shameful defeat, she openly
ayoWs the Accomplishment Of a
purpose the most fell and terrible
against which human reason can
provide, or for which human pitv
can shudder, and which, if accom-
plIshed would present TO the world
aplcture Of desolation and blood the
darkest to be found OH the annals Of
human woe. Fifteen bankrupt and
exhausted States contendinr in a
strife OF races with all the fierce and
ungoyernable hostility Of servile war
for suchyould be the consequences
which the North would force upon
ns by the emancipation of our slaves.
ne have not The time 10 pursue
farther the thread Of this manly and
eloquent address, suffice it TO say that
whenbtlie question was asked what
course are we to pursue 10 escape
from The many dangers which threat
en-, and the answer given, dissolve
the Union and establish a Southern
Coniederacy, the speaker was greet
ed with shouts Of applause. s,
After Mr. Orr had concluded his
'speech, as will be seen by reference
70 R snofher page, a Southern Rights
Association was formed, and goodIy
number oflhe signatures ofihe crowd
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