Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-02-22
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called king, or emperor, but Consul,
a name which had been the pride of
Ihc Republic, and the watch word of
liberty; and Augustus was not like
those Consuls who, in former times,
had stood balancing The power be-
tween the Senate and the people, and
checking BOTH There stillremained
tribunes TOO, tribures of the people,
but they were not as the tribunes of
yore, around whom the people had
so often rallied, ind who had SO
long been the unc|mpromising cham
pions Of the righs of the commons.
, All the form andeircumstance oflib-
erty remained, yGt the people were
epsIaved. AM though this had ta-
ken place NOR than eighteen hun
\dred years ags and many changes
Nave since swQt over Italy that very
people are in chains to-day.
Have we rot then reasons to fear,
when we He ourselves falling into
the same purse which thus enthrall-
ed the Romans? Do we not see how
all power 5 gradually falling into the
hands of te Federal Government 10
the utter 1ldoing of the States q
Have we lot seen the spirit of the
Constitute In violated, and the gross
est injustice perpetrated, and outra-
ges committed under ito name and
have we not seen de people asleep
to their danger, 1r quietly submitting
whefFtranor0% leaders have said to
them "you hive not been wronged!''
No people who have lost sense OF
justice, who IAN submit to injury, or
who can sac,ifce principles to pre-
sent prosperity, can long maintain
among them he realities of freedom?
And have we net seen this in Amer
ica? Have we not seen an unprin-
cipled majority sporting with and
trampling upon the rights Of the mi
nority? and thenhave we not heard
that minority say 1--WE must sacrifice
to present necessity and submit, be-
cause resistance is dangerous. -
These facts are known TO all, and all
who reflect must see TO what end
they point-a despotism of numbers,
& overning through its creature Con-
gress. To maxine "o4dition ofthe
more forlorn and hopesIess,
Is interest is distined to an eternal
war with the interests of its masters,
rom whom it is divided by lines that
cannot be broken down. The ml-
poritv cannot mingle with, infuse it.
self into and become part of the
majority, it is geographically located
and SO must ever remain. The North
and the Sout!,, and the South a hope
less and despised minority; this must
be the history of lhe great Amerl-
can Union so long as hat Union re-
mains.
PosTAL.-We publish below let
ter from Fitz Henry Warren to our
attentive member in Congress, and
desire to attract to it the attention o
persons bidding for the mail route
fro n this place to Nix's (No. 32l4'
ard to beg them to include Twelve
Mile in their bids; such an arrange
ment would add much to the conve
nience of the Twelve Mile commu
nifty:
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT.,
Contract Office, Feb. a, 1851.
SIR: In answer to your letter
yesterday and enclosure from til
Postmaster at Twelve Mile, S. o.,
am authorised to inform you, that
is now too late to change the adve
tisement of the new mail route fro
Pickens g. H. by Stewards, Ande
|. sons Mills, &C., (No. 32l4,l with
f view of embracing Twelve Mile T.
( as suggested by you.