Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-04-26
Union Parties at the South.

following remarks made at a meet
ing, in Oxford, Miss, of the Southern
Rights Association of La Fayette
county, by the Hon. Jacob Thomp-
son.
We copy from the Constitution, a
Southern Rights paper published in
that town.
Hon. Jacob Thompson submitted
the following resolution which was
seconded by Hon. Jas. M. Howery.
Resolved, That the formation of a
Union party at the South in this cri-
Sis, is TO be deprecated and ought TO
he discountenanced by every patri-
OF and Democratic State Rights man
every where. Because it must oper-
ate as an encouragement to the enc
mics OF Southern Institutions 10 make
still further aggressions upon our
rights, which will force these boasted
Union men to become Disunionists,
or prove recreant to their own sense
OF duty. lfsuch party should prove
triumphant in the South, the inevita-
bile result must be consolidation and
the overthrow Of our cherished insti-
tuhons. If unsuccessful, yet it will
still damp the ardor and prost' ate the
pride. OF our people and stay the arm
which left untramelled, would carve
out for us the security and integrity
OF our rights.
MIR. Thompson, in support of the
above resolution, said:
That the resolution had been pre-
pared without consultation with any
OF his friends, but it expressed his
own opinion, and he wished to make
short explanation.
1t is not to be disguised that it is
sought to form a new party in this
State, whose prolessed object is to
maintain and strengthen then Union
of these States: IFS name is express
slye of its purpose. 1t is called the
Union party; and this generic term
will cover all description of politi.
clans, from SNOWY white to sooty."
Wings and Democrats, Aboliiionist
and the ch'vairic compromiser, can
meet ona common platform which
processes attachment for the Union
an nadying devotion to the Union;
o tove for nothing but the Union -
All are invited to forget their past
differences, and form a glorious Un-
ion Party. But above all, not to for
get in the distribution of office, the
great founders Of the party.
With this movement, he said that
he had no syn pathy indeed, he re-
garded the formation of such party
for such an object, at this time in the
South, as most unfortunate and much
to be deprecated. This "glorious
Union" had already grown SO great
as to over-shadow and overawe ev-
erything; sit doth bestride the mar
row world, like a Colossus; and we
petty men walk under its huge legs,
and press about TO find ourselves dis
honorable graves - and the States
and the rights of the States, so dear
to the republicans of 90 and 80, are
little valued. This Union at this
time, gathers from the people fifty
millions annually, and disburses the
same among lis favorites selected
from that people an amount ten
times as large as the aggregate a.
mount disbursed by all the 81 States:
Offices by the ten thousand are at
her command, and the eyes of all
who seols hoeer and profitable pla-
ces, are rivctted upon this centre. A
State Judge will leave the bench in
his own State,to become a clerl in
one of her departments. At such
time, and under such circumstances,
why should the South seek to strength
en- the only power on earth that dares
10 assaiI our rightsl Is it desirable
to make our demands for the f0llac-
acknowledgement of our rights, still
more hopelessl is the power Of the
Union to be held in terror over us, to
hush oui: coinplaihssf FSais, and just
men, both north and south, admit
that in the late proceedings Of Con.
gress on the subject of slavery, the
South 10 thhe aggrieyed party; and are
those who have right to complain
of the injustice of these acts, to be
held up as traitors to the Union, and
to be placed under the ban ofiis high
authority. If so, there are among us
hosts Of traitors; and he hoped this
raca was to grow in number until
justice, right, and equality were se-
cured. In defending a walled city,
what nfllCiant fsanarai would dIrpci