Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-03-08
KEOWEE COURIER.
Saturday, March 8, as6a,

HE CEsr--'s What rs the
Norths what is the Southi" excla i'm
the aroused nutudls. ave know no
North, no Southl We know moth
ing but the Union, and for its honor
and its interests stand we up. One
section isas another section to us;
the whole country is our country
ITS diversity of climate and variety of
soili its boundleSs domain, its rivers,
ITS mountains and seas, its peaceful
hamlets and magnificent cities, this it
Is we'loSe, and not the fraction of a
part" In rhetoric like this, it is the
delight of the conservatives to spout
on occasions when the interests Of
the South are to be sacrificed, and
thus ga medic gUrgite decendi, they
Oyerwhelm the narrow minded few
who are mean enough to sickle for
the rights of The minority, when they
stand in the way of the aggrandize-
ment of the majority. ra5 l x
The men protesting to be imbued
with this enlarged and liberal patriot
ism are e'all powerful in the country;
at the lifting oftheir ii,tle finger mem
bers vote, and measures pass both
Houses of Congress; government
officials are their Cbsequious lackeys,
and even the President himself their
most obedient servant; they profess
10 feel no preference for one section
over another, as they certainly have
the power TO see that none is made In
the legislation Of the county. An
nually these men exhaust the treas
ury in layishing internal improve
ments on the Northwest, and when
Southern men oppose these immense
appropriations, they are rebuked for
want of liberality, and charged with
meanness, envy, and a desire 10 curb
the rising greatness Of that prosper
Gus sectipn. Then they tell us with
much seeming satisfaction, how the
age is progressing andintellect de-
veloping; how the science of politics,
being eminently experimental, has
received oflate much additional light,
and how many old notions, among
them those inculcating economy in
public expenditures, nave been aban-
doned by the wise and far.seeing
and left to become obsolete with OBJ
soIete men; how il is the duty of
governments to encourage enter
prise, and foster with careful hand
the industry ofthe people; and how
roads should be built and rivers open
ed, and the internal commerce of
the country built up and protected.
AND therefore iti they give millions
from the common treasury 10 the
River and Harbor and Railroads
Bills, which are annually crayed by
the. unsuitable North and West. But
let an appropriation be desired for
a4Southern State, and how wonder
fully the case is altered; then there is
q ds6ere8ce; then we hear ofthe ex-
hausted state of the treasury, ofhea-
Wy public debts, accumulated in pros
ecuting an expensive war, brought
ON the country by a Southern admin
istration, and are warned Of Threat
ened bankruptcy, and Of the abso-
lutte and immediate necessity foftre,
trenchmentIand reform. Meniwho
seemed to have fancied all their lives
theThnancial resources Of the govern
mentto be quite as exhaustless as
the diamond Tpountains Of Aladdin,
and who, inlayishing millions on ev-
efyiand any project forthe aggran-
dizemeht of a section, Seemed scarce.
ly able TO keep pace with their liber7
aldesires, all at once, as bY miracle,
grow extremely, economi Il, and a.
wake to the necessity'of watching
with sieepless eye the interests ,ofthe
treasury then they discover what
they were never able to, detect be-
fore, and astonish nevcn thet.,s Ives;
with the startling annuhciation that
'the many mustn not be bGfthened for
The benefit Of the few and that after
all there are higher ends in govern