Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-09

the criminally ambitious vanity of
few, are, by their asst ults on The
Union, cndeavoring to bring the peo-
pie OF Massachusetts. We dissolve
,he Union under the impulse of
blind, bigotted and onc-sided zeal in
the pursuit of our own opinion. We
dissolve ii for the express purpose, as
already stated, of imposing on TIE
people of others of the now United
States, violent and revolutionary
change IN their social relations. We
dissolve it in the spirit of lanatical
aggression and fanatical hatred a
gainst them, and they of course are
to hate us with proportional intensi-
ty. pass over that war of crusad-
ing phiianthropism on the one side,
and of passionate sell-detence on the
other, which have already foreshat,-
owed as the necessary consequence
of dlsunion, under such circumstan-
ces We, of the siX-striped flag of
New England, shall have at length
paused moment III our course of
meddlesome madness TO examine the
internal condition Of Massachusetts.
When that dread day Of reckoning,
between union and disunion arrives,
al some chance interval of truce be-
tween us and our enemies, let us re-
feet how and where Massachusetts
will stand. We possess, we can pos
sess, none of the great agricultural
staples, which fill the channels of
commerce..
We depend on importation from
abroad for the very bread we cat
Those great producing and consum-
mig States, against which we have
been marching our armies and send
ing our fleets, in the cause of aboli-
tionism, have either been broken
down IN the contest, and neither pro-
ducc nor consume, or they have come
out of the struggle victorious and
vindictive. In either case, our fish
cries no longer find a market at the
South, which will have an abundant
supply from the British Provinces
Our ships are excluded from the
ports of the South by dliiercniial du-
ties, and our ship-owncrs have trans
ferred themselves and their capitals
to the South, or to some neutral
State. Our manufactures have no
longer the markets of the sev cred
States, secured 10 them by protec-
tive duties, and they encounter
ruihous competition, either local or
foreign, in every port of The South
and West. And then with produc-
tive industry para'ysed, with passions
intlamed by political disasters, comes
that crisis of domestic conflict, which,
in like circumstances has come on
other republics, which cllaced all the
glories of learning and art in Greece,
which Frustrated the colossus of Ro-
man greatness, which ruined the once
hourishing cities of medieval! Italy,
that conflict between the Have-alls
and the Lack-alls, in the progress of
which, when the demons of Party
and of Anarchy shall have done their
work, then over desolate fields, and
ravaged dwellings and depopulated
cities, there gleams omnipotent, the
bloody sword Of the Conqueror and
the Tyrant, to wrcak upon you the
vengeance of a Justly indignant God.
That will be what we are to have IN
stead of the Union. All experience
teaches it. No casuistical sophistry
of tampering with public duty, I'M
der prctence of conscience above
the Bible and the Constitution, can
avert it. That miserable wreck OF
our greatness will be your New
England Republic. Therefore, to
the question, whether the Union is
worth having, / reply, that it is not
only to be cherished for all of good
which it gives, but also for all of uh-
utterab!e i'll Wh;c It's dissolution, for
such cause, and under such circum-
stances, inevitably involves.
3. What then is the Union7
reply that 1t is, in the first place,
the letter of the written Constitution,
defining the rights to be held, and
stipulating the duties to be performed
by the Federal Government, by the
States, andto which every man owes
lawful allegiance, and against which
public law no man has any more or
other right to set up his individual
conscience than he has against the
municipal laws enacted by any one
of the States, for the protection of
property OF life within its borders.
And reply, in the second place,
that the Union is above all the smrn |
of the Constitution, that is, the senti-
ment Of nationality, the love 0fcoun-
try cngehdered by birth, by the ties
of domestic life, kby community of