Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-05-03

N"AN hoop oNSNPIIB ONSI HIS country
and knew himself, with the drown
ing millions around him, about TO
sink forever beneath the angry waves,
he, in the despair of the moment,
should strive to let down the flood
gates and damup the boisterous O.
ceam and then suppose that, when
he had fallen into the hands of his per-
lshng countrymen, some one should
suggest that they ought not to punish
but reward him. becaIsehe had striy
en,though 100 late, TO avert the terri
bic calamity his own wickedness had
wrought. What would the H6llan-
ders think OF sucha suggeStion9l=,
Would they not pity him who made
it, as a man who had either lost his
wits, or as one who was laboring un-
der the unhappy impression that ali
Holland had lost its own? Certainly,
and so will the Southern people re-
gard those who tell them to cherish
sentiments % gratitude for Daniel
Webster.
Mr.. Webster's position in his great
speech on the compromise is referred
to. Let us see what was that posi-
ton, and whether it was such an one
as the South should admire. We
quote from his corrected speech, hear
him:
II frankly avow my entire unwillingness to do
any thing witch shall extend the slavery of the
african lace on this continent or add other Siarc-
holding States 10 the Union."-[ Appendix to the
Congressional Globe, page 278.
Here he openly, frankly and bold
ly avows his fixed purpose to war
forever against the further growth of
the South, or the further extension of
her power. Again, he denies Mr..
Wimot's right to the credit of the
authorship of the Proviso bearing
his name, and claims priority of in
ventIon in himself.
1--WE hear much just now of panacca for the
tion, which they cali the 1T'i!jscs Proy!so' That
certainly is just sentiment. but it is not senti-
mcnt to found any party upon 1t IS not n
sentiment OH which Massachusetts, Whps differ
There is not man in this hall who holds to it
more firmly than do, one who adhcres to it
more than another,
4 nsct some little interest In this matter sfr
Did not commit myself in 1887 to the whole
doctrine fully, entirely And must be per
mitted tn say. that cannot quite consent that
more recent discoverers should claim the merit
and take ont patont
81 deny the priority of their invention Allow
me to say, sir, it is not their thunder
I'VE are to use the first, and last and every
occasion which offers, to- oppose the extension of
slave power. Il
But speak of There as in Congress, MS po-
iltlcal question: question for statesmen to act
upon We must so regard it. / certainly do not
mean to say that it is less important in a moral
point OF view-that it is not more important in
many other points of view; but as legislator,
or in any official capacity, must look at it. con.
sider it, and decide it, as a matter Of political
action"
In the same speech he says, that if
the Wilmot Proviso should be pro-
posed in conneXion with bill provi
ding governments for New Mexico
and Utah he should ''vote against it,
And why would he ote against it
because the p1OuiSo would work in
justice to the South? because il would
be wrong and robbery to deprive her
OF her equality with the other sec
tions of the Union, and to exclude
her from those territories which she
by her blood and treasured, poured
out on the fields of Mexico, contrib
uted to buy! o, no, far from it. He
saw nothing to condemn in the rob-
berry, but he did not choose to insult
when he could not injure her. Slave
ry had been prohibited in those terri
tories by the laws of nature, and he
did not choose to re-enact the ordm-
ances of God But whenever a
blow could he made 10 take effect
on the interest Of the South, then
was ne ready to strike with might
and main (; whenever the WiImot
Proviso could be made effective then
was ne ready to apply it. Read and
see If we misrepresent him:
"Sir, wherever there is a particular good to be
done--wheTeYcr there ie 9 foot If land to be staid
back from becoming slave territorv-I ON, roo IL,