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


hazards and to the last extremity"
the contemplation of the public SEN
tlment of New York must be highly
e,dlfying. BY way Of giving them all
the "aid and comfort" at our dspo-
sal, we publish the following article
which appeared in the n. York Day
Book, March 3lst. AS the abolition
cloud rises and spreads and darkens
imperative upon them to cry louder
and still louder "Union." "Union'
the "gtorious Union!"--ESayannah
Georgian, 5th inst.
Sits useless to deny that the ma
jority of the people of the State of
New York--leaving ont this city
are deadly opposed 10 slavery, and
have fully made up their minds that
It's their religious duty to do all in
their power to destroy it in the Uni
ted States To use the words of an
old merchant. The State is rotten
with abolitionism Take out the
cities Of New York and BROOKLYN,
and we can scarcely name a town
where the out-anC-out abolitionists
would not have majority of the
votes in contest with the silver
grays or old bunker democrats. So
determined arc the people in the
western part of this State to DESTROY
slavery some way or some how, that
they look upon what are termed Un-
lonIsts in this city as their natural en-
emies, and they insult and taunt
members of the Union Committee
with cowardice, knavery, treachery,
&c, &c. Country merchants now
IN town go boldly into the stores and
countng-room of our citizens and
Begin to taunt them with having sold
themselves to the South. They call
them dough-iacesl men who have no
soulsl no patriotism no minds nor
principles above dollars and centsl
They tell us that the Southern peo-
pie are knaves, tyrants and thieves,
and that they have no respect or re-
gard for them whatever. And as for
dissolution or secession, their Ian
guage is LET them [the Soutl) 90 !!
they have always been a curse and a
burden, and the sooner they 90 out
OF the Union and use themselves up,
the better. Their negroes then will
all run away, and they will have to
go to work themselves, as we do, and
get their living honestly" ANY one
at all acquainted with the course of
the Albany Evening Journal and the
NY p Tribune, readily sees that this
language is of their teaching and
comes from their school. The pat
Eonsge given to the Tribune in this
city by our merchants and brokers,
and to the Evening Journal by the
Wing party, has enabled them to
circulate through this State and Ohio
! thousands and thousand of thousands
of copies of their cheap weeklies
filled with these sentiments and slurs
against New Yorks, until they have
poisoned the public mind and turned
'he'current of feeling dead against
StSince the opening of river nayi-
CATION and the arrival of such vast
numbers of country people, our mer-
chants and the Union Committee
seem to have become convinced that
1t IS useless to attempt to change the
scurrens of public opinion in this
State, 1t is all one way, and direct
y Iys 0pposed.te the efforts ofthe Union
Committee, and in favor of high
handed measures against the South.
Itois as common as to hearmen speak
OF the Weather---to hear a merchant
say"O, tits idle to attempt to stem
this abolition current; New York
and Ohio are all over abolition, and
the people will listen TO nothing but
anti-slavery, free-soil and the repeal
ofthe fugitive slave law. The Pres
ident might, = they continue, chad he
taken strong measures last fall, and
come out with spirit and determine
tlon and removed every higher law
officer and put in their place friends
OF the compromise, have broken I'D
the Seward faction, bit It is now too
Kate, He has { sne just enough, and
that hesitatingly, to &C., the hatred
and contempt of the free so;lers, and
not enough to inspire confidence in
ahis sriendss' Ra az 10 es.ae.,..,,,
81 tell yOu," said one Of the leed-
ing committee men aadaa merchant
on a Saturday to a company of mer-
cfiants--"We shall have non-inter-
course with the Soath in less than
five years, and 1 shall prepare for it.
Seward is as cunning as the devil,
and as ambitious as Caesar. He has
been here and made Union speech;
he thinks to quiet us, and make us
believe hiYys orr friend. and ha ho,