Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-12-07

lous region.
For about onethird ofits political ex
istence, South Carolina has present
ed an almost uninterrupted scene of
disquietude and excitement, under
the provocation of contumelies and
threats, poured from a thousand
tongues, and in forms the most often
sive. During that period, it may
with truth be affirmed, that the pub
lie mind has not for year been free
from the most painful solicitude.--
Peace indeed has long fled from our
borders, and discomfort and alarm are
everywhere present. Better, far bet
ter, it would have been, for the South
to engage IN deadly conflict with the
North, than to have endured the tor
turing anxiety of an anomalous strug-
gle, the consequences of which are
beyond the ken of, human prescience.
An opef IS limited by the causes
which produce it, but the further con-
tinuance of such war,--political,
religious and social--as has been
waged by one party against the 9TH
er, and in which strictly defensive
attitude has unwaveringly been pre-
served by the weaker, would falsify
and dishonor the history of the An
glo Saxon race. Whatever may be
said by the demagogue and the fana-
tic, ! is our pride and high privilege
to declare, that the uneXamplcd for
bearance of the South is referable
solely to its unaffected devotion to the
compact of 'S9, and the principles of
constitutional liberty.
Ourpresent distressed and agitated
condition has not arisen solely from
the recent aggressive measures ofthe
Federal Government. These effect
ed by illicit and willy combinations,
having destroyed forever the balance
of power between the two sections,
the equality Of the States, and the
equality of right in the people Of the
States, constitute the crowning evil
dence of the fixed determination of
a dominant majority to consummate
its perhdious purpose of Selling by
law OF its own enactment, the entire
inheritance of common ancestry.-
The startling truth, at length, stands
openly revealed, that the last hope of
arresing the career of infatuated ru-
lers is gone forever The final act
of the drama is, over, and when the
curtain which screens the future from
the eye of the patriot shall be lifted,
it may be, that the Palmetto banner
will be seen, among other standards,
waving over a triumphant people,
united in institution sand IN determin-
alton to maintain with fidelity their
new relations with their co.sove-
reigns, and the nations Of the world.
But should it please { e All-wise Dis
poser of events in 3 inscrutable
Providence to assign IL, tie condition
of the British Islands Of the West,
and to rivet the chains with which we
are menacled, the people of So. Car
olma will, at least be comforted with
the assurance, that while ignorant of
their destiny, they were not unmind-
full of the duty they owed to them
selves, their descendants, and their
country.
Does hope still linger in your bos-
oms, that the dark cloud which en-
velopes the political horizon will yet
be dispelled2 That the enemy will
forego his premeditated design Of re-
ducing your honored Commonwealth
to colonial yassalage2 To these CUES
tlons a satisfactory answer will be
found in the melancholy experience
OF the past--the oyershadowing in
fuence of the General Government.
insured by the permanent ascendan-
cy OF the sectional party which aims
at the annihilation Of our property
the history Of fanaticism-the renew
ed and augmented agitation of the
slavery question, and the recent prac-
teal verifcation of our fears that, ait
the North, the provisions of the Con-
stitution in behalf of Sout' ern rights
cannot be enforced without the she'd
ding of blood. III, to that section,
which now has the control of every
department of the government, the
preservation of the Confederacy is
indispensable to the completion of its
work of desecration and ruin, to us
its dissolution, as acompact between
thirty one States, is necessary to our
social and political quiet, and the safe
ty.of our institutions. Ordained ato
establish justice, insure domestic tram
guilty, provide for the common de-
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