Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-02-08
PkNpLeroN. Jan. aoth. l6l.

PKSDLEToN, Jan. 3Oth, 81.
Mr.. EDIroR -
must ask the privilege through your
columns. to express my Acknowledgements
to the citizens who composed the public
meeting at Anderson, for the honorof hav-
ing recommended me, among others, as q
candidate for the State Convention. 1t is
the more prided from the fact that il was
entirely unsought for and unsolicited on
my part, and most unexpectedly conferred.
Whether it viii be confirmed, will depend
on the will of the people and the result of
the election If should be selected and
thought worthy of that high and RESPONSE
BILE station, it will be my pleasure and my
duty TO carry out as far as viii be in my
power, the feelings and opinions of those
whom / may be called on to represent. so
fully and repeatedly expressed and clear
ly defined, in relation to our rights--our
wrongs--and the remedy,
tits well known that there is a diversity
of opinion ,s to the course South Caroinn
| ought to take in relation to our difficulties
! with tie General Goocrnmeut. Some, and
| trust large emajority, are infavor Of sep
arate State action when the proper time
|
ton in conjunction and cooperation with
some other of the Southern States and per-
Maps there are others who are looking to
the action Of Congress, To renew their at
tack on the institution of slavery. and there
by knock the last plank from under us and
drive us ether into thc most abject submis-
sion, or into open, bold, and manly resist
ance. These are the several contingencies
which divided the members of our late Leg
iShture, and which are now dividing the
people of the State, on the happening of
which the action Of the State is to be ptedi-
Gated Htf
AS it IS . question Of principle pa; civ and
not of expedirncy,-a it is u great struggle
forlibertv and equality and Constitutional
right, | cannot see how diversity of opin
ion cnn he entertained. In the great strug-
giles for liberty whichhstorv has recorded.
neither the amount involved, nor the appre-
hen ions Of the consequences, governed
those who we're the Fl ST movers of revolu.
ton. 1t was not tbs pili(ul amount of ship
money, nor the fcjrS Of powerful mon
arch, which nervcd the soul of John IL ,mp
den, and which resulted in the establish.
ment of English liberty and brought that
proud monarch to the block; il W IS not The
tax of two-pence lh. on teas or the Stamp
duty which caused the opposition TO Brjlish
taxation and resulted in our glo 10 inde-
pendence. In both instances it.was tho
right to tax that was disputed and resisted
lt was a high am, holy regard tiprinciplc
which hctuated and stimulated the opposi-
ton which crowned with success the under
taking and enobled the actors in the scene.
1t was this devotion TO principle which
drought up from the common iks of life
le men of cur evolution-those statesmen,
bfst6yS and heroes, whose fame audseXnm-
| Pile should serve as beacon light to direct
i our course in similar struggle If these
principles are regarded lii those fright cx
amples are f'llowcd, how with a ten.fold
greater weight of oppression and with the
madness of fanalicism which threaten our
| institutions, can we, for one moment, hesi
tate as to the course which South Carolina
ought to take? Let us not count the cost,
norfrar the consequences, when our demest
rights have bvaI ;rimpirii 0f5, and when
| the Constitution which was intended TO rive
US protection and security, is perverted and
disrrgarded,
As the Convention is intended to be the
embodiment of public opini }n-ls the State
Of South Omolna will then speak in her
highest sovereign capacity it is important
that the feelings and opinions of those who
shall represent her, should be well ascertain.
ed and fully expressed. And when that
Convention shall assemble, Ihope your del
rgates will adopt our beautiful and EXPIRES
sive State motto "aninlus, opibHs9ue purati,
and that our State will exhibit the noble
spectacle Of brave people who counted
not the cost in order to protect our dearest
right against the aggressions of an unjust
and perverted Government.
Ro,A., MAXWELL.
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