Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-04-19
KEOW EE COURIER.
Saturday, April a9,5AS5H.

NS"SUENsa9s AEPfAA AS, SSbA.
FUCITlvE SLAVE LAw.-Southern
submiSsionists generally have the fair.
ness and candor TO allow, that in the
Compromise the South lost much anu
gained only in the Fugitive Slave
Bill" this with them is an equivalent
for all the wrongs, insults and rob,
berries from which we have suffered,
and, their sight sharpened by he pas
sage of this bill, they are able 10 des-
cry "a returning sense of justice, on
the part Of the North, and an indica-
ton that i'll future we will be dealt by
fairly, honestly and faithfully. For
the sacrifice of great principles--for
pecuniary losses and for the loss of
our own self-respect, we have been
told that an agreement TO give what
the Constitution had already made
our own was a just and fair equivo.
lent; and when we have complained
that we were excluded, openly and
boldly excluded, from a bright and
beautiful land which had been bought
with the price ofour own blood, a land
whose havens and rivers and noun
tains and breezes equals mmagnifi-
cence, serenity, beauty and salubrty,
even the visions Of pocsy, and whose
very soil teens with the riches Of
Ophir-we have been told. TO hush
and complain not, "for the North has
promised, in exchange for all this, to
restore to us the negroes she has sto-
lem" When we have shown our
selves restive under accumulated
wrong--when we have complained
that every fawning sycophant and
pulling politician, who could mouth
vituperation and spew ou; tho fou'est
abuse upon us, was applauded toihe
very echo at the North, and when we
have expressed apprehension that in
future we would be abused and tram
pied upon as in, the past we had been
outraged, we have been ever met
with this stereotype answer and the
Fugitive Slave Bill has been still held
up to us as IA sufficient recompense
for all the losses we have already suS-
tanned, and as sure guaranty Of fu-
ture safety. 2ao2
Some people were dissatisfied al
the time this bill was offered 10 MS,
and said 'hhis is not enough; the priv
ilege Of bringing back TO the service
of their masters a few thousand run
away slaves .sno equivalent for The
loss OF that integrity which has been
the wisdom and strength and beauty
of our institutions, for The loss ofour
honor as sovereign States and our
equality as members OF federal
Union;" but these people were said
to be possessed ofvain and unreason-
able desires, and to be Missionaries
aud men whose brains were topsy-
turvy will all sorts of wild impfacti-
cable notions aud unreal fears. OH
ers there were also, who predicted.
that this law, so exto!led and admired,
could not be enforced, but they TOO
were called by hard names,-such as
"ultras, ",Siartionists'' and ''stirrers up
of discontent," and Of their counst.ls
the people were cautioned 10 beware.
But 10 those who counseIled submis-
sion the people were to hearken, those
who taught them to forget in the safe
ty Of to-day the disgrace and danger
OF tomorrow, were The men 10 be
heard and obeyed. So the Wits sat
themselves about composing hosas-
n0sto the Union, and The people,were
instructed TO sing endless te-desnls TO
its greatness, and from Washington
TO the RIO Grande nothing was or IS
TO be heard saving The cry of sshe
U'iou, the Union ! esto perpetta! the
Uniontp The people Of the South
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