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

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the cover of the Union, make these
attacks and aggressions, give them,
and nerve their arm; and then turn
with encouragement and denuncia-
ton upon those who would enter the
lists of defenders of these assaulted
rightsl Mississippians this is inn
possible for you Your own gal
liant hearts will scoIn such a deSer-
ton of your tiresides and the spiri. Of
your fathers, would rise to rebuke the
ignoble act.
In every age, and in every country,
the defenders of the right, have been
covered with opprobious eplthets.-
Our own history is full of example.
The term Whtg was originally a
term of contempt, applied 10 a>haud-
iul OF true men, now more than a
century ago, in England. After
wards it was assumed there by a
powerful party, which has cxerted
pervad'ng influence upon the Eng
lish Government. OuI heroic ances-
tors who contended for, and made
good their claim to liberty in I7T6,
were denounced as rebels. The re-
publican fathers, whose clear minds
early saw the vital Importance of
maintaining the rights of the States,
and vino produced the immortal res
olutions of '99 and 90, were de-
nounced as disunionists, as demo-
cratsl They braved the denuncia-
ton, finally assumed the contemptu-
Gus title of democrats; and have since
that time, for the most part, controll-
ed the Government. Now there are
those supercilious air aud contemp-
tible audacity, who wish to fix the
name OF dlsunionists, upon all those
who will not endorse the slavery pro-
ceedings in Congress. To avoid the
denunciations of those men, a Mis-
sisslppian must say he is satisfied
with what nine-tenths of them, in
their hearts, feel to he unjust.
All the Abolitionist of the North
asks of you is obedience, and quiet
submission to the will of the majori-
ty; and all the South has to do 10 put
down the Aboliticnist in the north
and secure our equality and our
| rights, is to give their true friends,
and the friendsof right and justice in
the North, the power TO show 10 the
people there, that the Abolitionist
and the Free-soiler, and their coadiu-
tors are the Disunionists and they
will trample them under their feet.
Ihe Union party is forming at the
wrong end of the Union. The South
is in a majority in the Union. Then
we ought 10 have union in defence OF
our rights to defend the Union. But
SO soon as the Union party triumphs,
SO sure will the enemies of orr insti-
tutions claim that their predictions
have been verified; that the love of
the Union is stronger in the South,
than their fancied love of their rights
of property. as the plans of faggres~
son are but half completed, they will
soon put our Union men, south, to the
test. They cannot believe, nor did
Tax, iciieve, that yr1erIr who did not con
slider the surrender of an Empire
worthy of complaint, will dissolve
this glorious Union for the repeal
of the fugitive slave law; when it is
known and admitted such repeal
would be consti utional, and the
South had been content to live with,
out that law for fifty years. Yet
these Union men say they will fight
when an act is done, which Tho
North is invited to perform. Can
any man in his senses, regard other
wise than as the idle wind that
sweeps by us, the threats ofthat man
10 dissolve the Union when slavery is
abolished in the district ofColulnbia,
when he advocates and supports a
law which abolishes slavery iii GER
tain cases, in that District The
idea is preposterous.
Shall we go over TO the side of the
0ppressor. against the oppressed3-~-
Shall We joing the aggressor against
the aggrieyedl He said twas possi-
BILE for him to be deceived, but he con
ceived il was impossible for our peo-
pie TO oppose an association which
looked TO the defence of the weakest
part of the form of our government,
the rights Of the States and the rights
of The South,
Ha Union party in the South
should triumph, it would end in com
solidation, an evil as disastrous as ahe
abolition of slavery. 1fitshould fail,
* ;gould still DESTROY the afiicieDcv