Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-05-31

M1. w. S. GRtsuAM, ut West Union.
EDWARD HuGHEs, Esq, +" Horse Shoe.
T.. p. WERNER, Esq, Bachelors Retreat
NJ F. MrrcuELL, Esq. =" Pickensville.
7 Z. HAcosp, Twelve Mile.
T. WEBB. for Anderson District.
What should the South do with the
Compromise" asks the Richmond En-
quirer; we answer rejectit, as she GER
tainly will unless greatly amended, as by
tho present scheme shp is requir, d TO sur
render every thing for which she has
been contending. BY sanctioning this
bill for the abolition of the slave trade in
the District of Columbia, she will rccog-
Mise the right of Congress to interfere
with slavery in the District, and viii be
helping the North to take the first step
for its abolition there.
BY the Fugitive Slave Bill, the power
is given to the sconndrels who may kid
nap our slaves 70 harass the unfortunate
owners with bonds and jury trials.
BY the Bill admitting California, pro-
viding territorial governments for Utah
and New Mexico, and settling the Tex
an boundary, we are called upon to sur
render large portion Of the State Of
Texas, now slave, to be made free terri
tory, to acquiesce in the admission of G al
ilornin with her enormous boundaries and
fraudulent Constitution, to acknowledge
the right Of Congress to pass the Wilmot
Proviso; and TO consent to be excluded
from all participation in the territories ac-
quired from Mexico; for this biN does ex-
clude us as eff"ctually from these terri
torres, as if an excluding clause had been
expressly inserted.
1t denies to the Territorial Govern
mcnts the power to make any regulations
respecting African slavery, and therefore
all power to protect citizens in the enjoy,
ment Of the same, Will any owner of
slaves be so foolish as to carry them into
country where his right to them canrot
be protected & where the judiciary would
have no power TO authoiise the scizing of
his absconding slave, and the Legisla-
turc no authority to grant such power to
the Judges.
But ifthis should not happen to be
enough, to make assurance doubly sure,
and take, bond fate, against the cx-
tension of slavery, the father of this Com
promise tells us, that the laws of Mcxi-
GO, abolishing slavery are in force in
those territories. and that therefore we
need not think of carrying it there.
And still the South is told to accent
of this compromise, and those of her de-
fenders who reject it are called by hard
names, and charged with mcditating dis
union.
Can we concede, when every conces-
son only weakens our moral force and
strengthens the force of our adversaries?
For the North to tell us of concession is
idleimpcrtinence, to contemplate it our.
selves weak and suicidal. Beside,
have we any assurance that when these
concessions are made more will not be dt
manded? DO we not know, that wher
once the barriers to legislation On the sub
! Jact of slavery are broken down, all ou,
defcnces will be swept away? With {
generosity, for which she has ever beer
ms famous as she has been for her truth
and loyalty to the Union, the South ha.
made concession after concession for tn,
sake eff peace and harmony in the broth
erhood of States. The whole history O
her connection with the North has beer
one Of concession on her part, vaini,
sought TO be disguised under the nam,
compromise. And has this been enough
So far from former concessions satisfying
the ferocious appetite Of the North, it ha,
a:teaily grown hungry on the food tha