Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-01-11


patton! The cultivated lands are
now chiefly ia the hands Of slave
owners, and will be likely to remain
in them mp to the time emancipation
takes place, asitis not contemplated
TO rob them of this species Of proper
ty. 1t is true, that the lands will
then be thrown into market and sold
at reduced prices, but you will not
be able to buy them, after the wealth
of the country has been annihiIated
and the rich reduced to poverty by
the destruction of their negro proper
ty, there could be no market-no
buyers able to pay for any thing you
might produce for sale, so there
would be no possibility for you to ac-
cumulate money with which to pay
for lands. The soil of the country
would fall into the hands of yankee
speculators, who would dispose of it
in the markets of New York and
Boston to gaunt, hungry, and whining
Jonathans, day laborers on whose
farms and plantations youwouid be-
come. In competition with your la.
Dor would be thrown the labor of
three OF four millions free blacks,
whom ignorance, Incidence and inn
providence would keep continually
in q state bordering on starvation,
and whom want would drive to la
Dor for the smallest pittance. You
conld find no employment, unless
you would consent TO labor on terms
equally adv !. nj tysss,iis 10 ti,e employ
er. Thus, you would find yourselves
reduced 10 ihe level Of free negroes,
compelled to labor with them and
TO receive as your wages the same
paltry sdm-compelled to suffer with
them the same biting want and to
sink into the same stolid ignorance.
Those who had owned slaves and
lands would be enabled, by gathering
together the recks of their former
fortunes, to leave the country, but
you would be chained TO the soil by
hard, unrelenting necessity. Wretch
edness and want would become your
inseparable componions, their invis-
ible shadows would glide after you
as you followed the plough, sit by
you at your scanty board, return
with you to your pallet of straw, and,
when death had kindly relieved you
of all earthly i'll, they would close
your sightless eyes and hurry you
away into a pauper's grave. From
pour poverty there could be no es-
cape, for your deep and unmitigated
misery there could be no redemption,
and as misery, when it falls upon a
class, is never unaccompanied by
degradation. each succeeding gener-
alton would sink lower andlower nm
til, after the lapse Of a few ages, it
would become herd 70 distinguish
the unhappy descendants Of The prond
and spirited Carolinian of the age of
Calhoun, from the degraded children
of his father'sslaves
| TIE WEATHER AND THE Nun. -
The internal improvements which are
going forward in our Village, 1--WE
would he understood to mean the
excavations which are being made
in and about the Capitoline, other
wise known as the Court House hills
together with the floods ofrain which
have fallen almost necessarily for
some days past, have filed our streets
with such a depth of mud they are
rendered nearly impossible. Indeed,
it has become so difficult an under
taking to cross the public-square, that
we have it in serious contemplation
to stretch telegraphic wire from
our sanctum to the Printing Office,
which, unfortunately, happen to be
situated on opposite sides OF the
square. AS TO getting up 20 and into
the Court House, il is a thing scarce-
ly tc be dreamt Of by the ''brayest
of the brave" A melancholy poet
once .,r;Al fs wHt he