Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-03-29
LIE REcENr ELEoTIoNs IN ONO

H-e~
Judge Wade, a Freesoil Whie, as
United States Senator from Ohio, for
six years, and over the Whig gain in
Congress and in the, Legislature by
the recent election in New Hamp-
shire, with the indication that ma
Jorlty ot the people of that State are
opposed 10 the Fugitive Sl6sa Law.
Inc abolition organ in this CITY, the
Tribune, appears to be excessively
delighted at these results, and looks
upon them as indications of healthy
vigor IN the body polite.
We take different view of the
Eesutts of these elections, and of the
indications of the public mind i'm the
North and Vest, which they exhibit.
We can see nothing in them but the
germs of disaster and ruin 10 the
American republic, the seeds of civil
war, anarchy, and insurrection, a.
Inong the people, in the distance. If
the whlg party of the North identify
iTeself with anti-slavery sentiment, and
egith opposition to the Fugitive Slave
Law, measure which was not only
called for under the circumstances in
which the country was placed, but in
direct obedience 10 the Constitution,
1t Is easy to perceive that they will
go further, and not rest until they
will desire 10 bear down and trampIe
the Constitution under foot, in O. der
to each slavery in the Southern
States. Fanaticism is never satisfied
'untl' It annihilates everything, or is
anDlhilated itself. When the New
England abolItionsts embarked in the
antl-slavery agitation, they did not
dare go TO the lengths which now
characterize their proceedings; ;,or
"dld they assa'l the Church and the
State, nor tear the Bib!t. and the Con,
-sntut'on to n:eces before their audi
'ehces' az they have done for the last
aeW years. Freesolism is nothing
out shade of the aboIitionsm of the
present Garrison school of fanatics,
and unless II be checked in season,
will end III the same way. AS long
az abolltIonlsm was confined TO the
New England fanatics, it was per
fectly harmless, and hardly worthy Of
thought. The pranks which they
committed before the world were on
~ matters of amusement to the pub
llc, and the actors were heartily
laughed at. But :he case is far dii.
terent now. Within a few wears
past designing and cunning politi-
tians have been laboring to engraft
abohtionism on the whig party, to
make 1t one of the principles of that
political organization. They have
succeeded to such an extent as TO
throw the whole country into confu-
sion, to engender hostility between
different sections of the republic, and
at one time the demon spirit which
they aroused, paralyzed ihe govern
ment OF the country, and was nigh
destroying this noble fabric, and with
1t the hopes Of the advocates of free
government, throughout the land
Seward, Weed, Greeley and their CO.
workers, are still laboring in the same
field of fanatcism, and under the
cloak of humanity and philanthropy,
are endeavoring to make wider and
deeper the breach now existing be-
tween the North and South, and to
precipitate on both section the evils
of civil war and blcodshed. They
do not now go SO far as the CARR
sons and Co, but almost as far as
they did when they first commenced.
Who can tell where they will stop
According to the experience of their
predecessors, and The rules which
guided them, they will, before many
years, meet at the same point, and
one party will be as loud as the other
in advocating the destruction of the
Constitution. When they will have
gone so far, the ultimate result will
not be far off. y
Entertaining these views, therefore,
the spread OF anti-siavery sentiment
in certain sections of the United
States, as developed by the. recent
elections i'll Ohio and New Hamp-
shire, presents topic of melancholy
Geflection. 1t is needless 10 argue
that the propagation Of this feeling
the conversion Of the wings into an
abolition -party--the success of the
unconstitutional and atrocious doc
trines entertained and promulgated
on every occasion by Seward, Weed,
and others, Of the abolition-whig
clique in the North, will eventually
produce a dissolution of the Union,
and entailnpoh our country all the
horrors Of insurreciion, servile war,
anarchy, and bloodshed. Such ca
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