Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-04-19


vation 10 resign their equality and re.
ceive i'll exchange paltry prtance;
and as they could acquire no other
security for the fulfilment of the con.
tract than such as offered itself in the
good faith and honesty of their north
ern brethren they were exhorted TO
look confidently to that, aad TO trust
IN every body love of the Union, for
the due enforcement of the same.--
Southern people were led 10 believe
that the whole North, aholitonists,
free soilers and all, ha. consented to
the terms of the adjustment and would
cordially support it; for II never oc-
CURED 10 the Southern compromisers
TO say 10 their friends at home that
Northern politicians had pledged,
without consulting, their constituents,
and that the payment of the price for
whichwe had been sold, depended,
not on he pledges Of scheming and
fathless politicians, but on the will of
the people Of the free States-on the
will OF those furious and ungoverna-
BILE millions who on the affairs, of fa-
natlclsm had sworn the destruction
oi our institutions. And now into
what deep degradation has this bro t
us! The shameless bargain has been
struck and our covenants have been
performed. California with its exu-
berent soil and salubrous climate
with its olndless wealth is gone
Utah, New Mexico and a part of
TeXas are forever gone; Congress
have been permitted to iegislate in
relationto slavery, and the precedent
has been established which will be
used for our Obstruction; a wedge has
entered a crevice has been opened
and another and another will enter
until the bands will burst and our '.pe-
culiar institutions" will be river as
sunder. HE.
All this we have performed, and
yet the price is not 10 be paid, nay,
the very covenants of the other party
are 10 be stricken from the record,
they are 10 he loosened from their OBJ
legations and we are still TO remain
bound by ours. In this on Northern
brethren are not only unjust but pitt
less, for not contented with degrading
us they seek 10 deprive us Of The veil,
thin and transparent as Il is, by which
we hoped 10 cover our shame. They
will repeal this "fufiiive slave law,
no intelligent man is capable of be-
lieving that it will not be, in few
years at most, repeated, and then
what Sniff can we make to hide the
nakedness of our disgrace7
Already Vermont has nuli6ed it,
with one voice in Massachusetts have
the people spoken to demand IFS re-
peal; ; the Ohio Leg, stature has made
the same demand 1.-THE Special Com
mittee Of the N. Y. Legislature, to
which was referred so much of the
Governors message as related to the
the fugitive slave law, have reported
ii TO be Hcruel, inhuman and a dis
grace 10 the Statme Book, and de-
mand IFS immediate repeal; all their
elections, conventions and public
meetings speak in the same voice,
and indicate IN manner moi to be
mistaken that this hostility TO this law
and to Southern institutions is as wide
spread as the land Of the North and
deep fixed aud immovab'e in the
hearts Of her people.
One would suppose that they
might be content TO resist and render
the law imperative, bnt this is moi
enough TO satisfy them, it must he
stricken from the Statute book
When this is done with what shame
and confusion will we stand before
meny~--we who having been forced
by fear to sell ourselves, find the price
Of our inlamy withheld from us, we
who knowing ourselves about to be
deirauded, in the vaiii hope Of con-
cealing from the world the filthy deg