Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-01-04

EDWARD HuGuEs, Esq, " Horse Shoe.
b. p. WERNER, Esq, " Bachelors Retreat
a. F. F. M MronEhh' Esq. !" " T PickenSylle.
y. II. HAGoeD, A"s Twelve Mile
TT. WEBB. for Anderson District.
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CHEAP PosTAGE.--One of the ia
vorite measures with Northern men
is the reduction. of Postage; nor are
we surprised at this1 for it is but an
other means o. adding 10 the inAu-
ence and Importance of their own
section. What if it is TO be accusaa-
plished by imposing burIhens uirSssa-
other section! The wrong is not9li-
rect, and though felt cannot be seenl
Besides have they not the power7
do they not compose the majority2
and will not the greatest number"
he benefited by having their letters
and papers carried for nothing p
What if the minority (he South
who raise the taxes) will have to pay
for transporting the mails? is that
any aroument against cheap postage
CeraDly not; for, Of course, the IN
t~test, or even the rights of the mi
nority are not TO be regarded, when
the preservation of that interest or
those rights may happen TO come in
the way of measures which are to
promote the interest and advance the
poUer of the ulajorIly. No, we do
not complain although the proposed
reductions will cut off the revenues
of the Post Office Department, and
throw the whole burthen of mail
transportation upon the shoulders of
those whose privilege ii is, to sup
port the government of this "glori-
Gus Unions by;Paying IFS taxes; and,
although the uniform rate of 2 or 3
cents on letters and papers will give
TO the mammoth Publishing houses
of the NortherpSeiI sselsimmense
advantage over or; hat in
few years our csI3 will Be Hood
ed with northefA whose col
umns will inculeaia he, seAlime, be-
nl6eent and be- ISL trineTT of
AboIitionism, AgfaIil -, Atheism,
Fourerlsm, Mulierisnl ad the thous-
and and one dis0feagl sgU. ISM,
whose spreaes.lnellt 81. biding
brethren q illa ossa' ating
wild ard unnatufal iomeniat'on in So
ciety, and which is preparing the
way for such moral commotions and
social revolutions as France has
seen; revolutions by which the good
as well as the evil that was, is over
thrown, all natural distinctions des-
troyed and vice made the e1ual of
ulrtue. True, as he mails are !oad-
ed chiefly by the commercial and
manufacturing cities and towns of
which there are moi many at the
South, we, who write and receive
but fewer letters, will have to pay
part OF the postage for those who
write and receive many; and ruer
still, and more % be lamentcd than
any pecuniary losses, Southern liter
aiure will be overpowered and swept
away by the avalanche of cheap lit
erature, which in he shape of seriels,
periodicals., and fashionable novels,
will pour in upon us, poisoning The
morals and degrading the minds of
our children. Yet we will n, com
plain, for this is the work of the ma
jority, and are not the laws TO be made
for "the greatest good of the greatest
number" Besides, to agitate, to
discuss our wrong, 10 attempt to de-
tend onr rights, or to demand redress
might endanger "the Union,' ''the
glorious Union, the Union which
we are told TO Glove and reverence
beyond all things else. 1t may be,
our fathers would have thought diff
ferently, it may be, they would have
resisted such wrong, and would have
preferred the common rights Oh free
men 10 great and glorious mon
like ours, whose conquering armies
hoyo c.uart oun. ,,ot:~,o .xxlo.z =.