Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-02-01

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talking about it yesterday, and he
says that you voted for the Southern
congress and State convention, and if
nose measures hadinot passed there
would have beenno necessity for in
creasmg The taxes. ieE nalt al3
M M.Tbose ,fneasuies might have
been adopted, and still the taxes not
have beenincreased, inasmuch as the
bank of the State offered to furnish
the money we want. But we
ought not to gtumble at the increase
OF the taxes, Tor we are thereby,ena-
bled to reserve the funds Of the Bank
to be)used at a time when we would
teelthe taxes than we more heavily
shall tpreenst when money is plenty.
c. am opposed to the Southern
congress and State convention. |
amin favor ofthe Union and opposed
to any measure. which tends to dis
union. l9 2Hl9 h9li & iea' rrl.4
M NJ Then You are a gubmisslonist
and wiling, for the sake Of the Union,
TO become slave 10 the North, You
are inRfa5or.of giving TO the North
California 'withher millions Of fgold.
You are. in favor Of giving up the tef-
sltories; and paying TO Texas seven
teen millions Of dollars (the Texas
bonds are to be issued at 5 per cent
interest, and the whole of them are
not to be taken up under fourteen
years, making the interest on the
i$l0,000,000 Just $7,Qp0,o00, andlby
adding the principal and interest to-
gether we have $I1000,O00, which
lis the actual amount which Tex
will receive,) for aporti4 4nof Ig'
ritory to be added to the III,
1knowing Texasis deeply indebt
thisis also intended as a bribe to pro-
cure her submission to all of the foul
wrongs perpetrated or the Southern
States by The Federal Governmental j
Youlare also in favor Of theabolilion
of the slave trade. in the District of
Columbia; and, in the end, of the
abolition of slavery inuthe States.
You shake your head, but yott need
not, for yoWlpositiop as a Union-man
makes you support all these meas
aures whether you intend or not
C.--What is I 10 nc? 4 llii;s9c, no ne
grocs, therefore ] am not injured if
the negros are set free.
NJ You, sir, and all those per
sons who labor for a livelihood dl4i ak
more deeply interested,n The perpet-
,iiatjen Of slavery in The South tblah
all the other classes together. IwilI
explain it to,Nou by presenting to
your imagination a picture of,what
may happenin SoutG Carolina in less
than fifty years fl'omto-d " Mr.B.,
you are now twenty-five years old,
andyou have been married i've years,
and you have a daughter just four.
years Of age, a besatiful little blaze
eyed, fair skinned, cafly-headedgi.l.
That s a iact, the cmlafs wdIll
enough they say {. W fA't
M,-Then suppose you should live
TO be seYenty.tiyeye old. Now, if
this daughter Of yours marries at the
age ofsixteep, she will rnarrg.tweiye
years fromithis time. Suppose she
has a daughter one. year after mafri-
age, then thirteen years from now
you win be a grandfather; let dat
child iiarry at sixteen, also, and have
q elaughier one year after marriage,
'thenthat great granddaughter OF yours
wiil'be sixteen years old just forty
FIVE years from this time, and YOU WI,;ii!! WI!
be'seyenty-oneye years Of age. Well,
suppose that time has arrived, 1t IS
Sunday and jyol have gone 10 church
wlthyopr children and gfsndeBIdfen.
Tex your imagination still further
fnafancy tile service over. and'ail 3f
Jyos starting f3rhomes Jnst i1 front
OF yoii IS your great grand slaug6lef,
2 beaqtilul spfightly girl Of sialeen,