Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-12-21
SOutherm-rfghts Associations
PICKENS DISTRICT.
OFFICERS.
r. N. GAkVIN, President.

A. RAMSAY, A. M. HAMILTON,
VIM. HUNTER, JOHN A. EAsLEY,
w. ID. TEELE, VIM. NIMMoNs,
b. HAGooD, JAS. ROBINSON,
M. NJ. NoRToN, S. LovrNGGoop.
w. S. GRESHAM, LEWIS MoRHEAD,
ED. HUGHEs, VIM. C LEE,
X. u. MAXWELL, j. MAXWELL.
J. w: NoRRrs, Jr, Recording Sec
w. III. TRIMMIER, retaries.
". : I K nasaa EAsInr' Cor. Secretaries.
SILAs KlRKsEY, Treasurer.
Councils OF SAFETY.
Sdrgcant's Beat.-H Miller,
Thos Gasaway, VIM Oliver.
GarUin's Beat J Hollingsworth,
w S Williams, VIM Smith.
Hunters Beat.-J b layton, A
Hunter, John Arial.
Edsley's Bedt.--John Bowen, S A
Easley, John Gossett.
Se,oart's Beat.-Robert Stewart,
+ Alexander, E Alexander.
Anderson's Beat-Isaac Anderson,
Joab Lewis, o E Barton.
ChdStain's Beat.-E III Griffin, J
e Hagood, James t Ferguson.
tSingleton's Beat.-Larkin Hen
bricks, E.sly Hunt, VIM Edins.
Boyd'S Bem.-Jeptha Norton, w
l. Keith, Joseph Burnett.
Mcholson's Bea t.-tephen Mich
olson, A b Grant, Jesse Mckinney.
Phillips Beat.-G Brazeal, A Ro-
bins, b Fretwell.
Hughes Beat A BalIenger,
Henry Hughes, Andrew Dickson.
Deaton's Beat.---Wm Griffin, Josh
ua Y Jones, L M Stribling.
Deans Beat.-EP Werner, L Tow
ers, S G Reeder.
Hunnicutt's Beat.--A Bryce, Chas
Hunt, James NJ. McElroy.
Fdrplay Beat.-A p Reeder, Bay
is Hix, Martin Mcay.
PREAMBLE:
Whereas, it is apparent, not only
from the acts OF injustice which have
been perpetated by the dominant
majority in ongress, but also from
the course of systematic and organ
lied aggression on the rights of the
South which have been for years pur-
sued by the Northern States of this
Union, that there is q fixed and un-
alterable determination on the part
of those States to rob us OF our po-
litical rights and to despoil us of our
domestic Institutions; and, believing,
as we do, that their peaceable pos
session and even preservation has
become incompatible with our pres
ent relations to the existing Confed-
elacy, and having been forced to the
painful conviction that South Caro-
lima in common with her sister States
Of the South is driven to choose be-
tween the preservation of her rights
and the preservation OF the Union =:
Therefore, we, the people of Pickens
District, do now 'solemnly pledge
our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred
honor" to aid, defend and support
her in mentaining her rights, by any
course or by any means to which
she may he driven by the foul injus-
tice and aggressions of the usurping
North; and in view of an issue so
painful but inevitable 10 usy
BE at therefore Resolued, That we
do now organize and constitute our
selves into an Association for the de-
fence of Southern Rights and Inter
ests, the objects and rules of which,
we hereby pledge ourselves as men
and as citizens to support and OBJ
serve, until the dangers which threat
en- the destruction of our rights shall
have been entirely removed and for
that purpose we adopt the following
onstitution:
rs CONSTITUTION. aeHta
ART. /. The name of this Associ.
alton shall be ''1'he Southern Rights
Association of Pickens District Its
object shall be 'to organize and pre-
pare the people q Of RRiickens District
the better to defend shemselves from
the dangersgwhich threaten-to pro-
mote the interest and to secure the
harmonious and united action of the
whole Southin the glorious cause OF
constitutions Freedom, and more
especially shall its objects beto pledge
its members to support South CAROL
ma in any course which she may be
driven to pursue in Gefence of her
Erightsas q free and sovereign States.
E ART.2. The officeis of shs asso-
60.