Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-07-25

We have not united in the dcnunciation
of Mr. Buchanan Administration in rcla-
tion to Coy. Walker, for several reasons.
I'm the first place, We believe the Admins
tration elected by the South, with a major
ity of Southern men in it-and with the
Constitutional pledges of Mr. Buchanan,
carried out strictly so far in other cases
will not place itself in antagonisrn to the
whole South and this, too, when, the
South is so clearly in the ascendant claim
ing only strict adherence to the Constitu-
tion-and especially at a period when on
the great question, the descision of the
highest legal tribunal upholds her views so
triunphantly before the world. The Adj
ministration selected a Southern man in
principle, to settle the vcxed question it
was generally understood among Mr.. Walk
ers friends that he was in favor of bring
ing in Kansas as pro-slayery State-his
orthordoxy on the slave question while in
the United States Senate was never qucs-
toned and while his colleague in the
House yotodfor thcreception of Abolition
petitions, he voted for their instantaneous
rejection.
He was sound on this question them
When Mr.. Tyler was President, he was
instrumental in aiding him in suUh-meas-
ures as brought Texas into the Unionj and
how did she exhibit her appreciation of his
services by placing his statue in her
Capitol. When Mr.. Van Buren, declared
against Texas, did not his friend, Robert
j. Walker, declare against him, and was
he not the means of making Polk President
in consequence? While Secretary of the
Treasury, what more Jealous advocate of
free trade had we in the country, and what
did his reports affect in Great Britain p
with such anteccdents the Administration
was fully justified in conGding to him this
delicate mission.
That the policy of the Administration
was in favor of submitting the constitution
to the people is not with the South s,lfi-
cient cts,ts 6clli--it i. not unconstitutional
to do so-it is not anti-SouthcrnA-i is not
anti-rcpublican. 1t has been done in many
cases, and we have no reason to complain
of the Administration for upholding its
That the Administration approves of the
manner of Mr.. Walkers recommending
how the people should doit, is another mat
ter--wc do not believe they can approve his
course in giving his opinion on that sub
iect, but on the main question we sec no
cause why they should repudiate him
The Democratic party, no one denies,
opened Kansas to the South--it repealed
the Missouri Compromise to give equality
to the South ". the territories Have the
people of the South gone in and possessed
the land Have we of South Carolina
done half our share of duty in colonizng
Kansas Have we sent bona iide settlers
to locate in tho territory and take posses
sion? We have not. We have sent few
young men to fight for us there, and they
have shown their spirit and done it, but
how many have returned home How
many have carried slaves there and re-
NAMED? How many haveSold out their
feeble tenure and left the country If tho
South had done its duty and occupied the
land by settling it with owners of few
slaves, we could ont-votc Coy. Walker and
overrulesa any and all his mistaken views in
the submission of the question to the peo-
pie. What is tie use of the farce of adopt-
ing Constitution now if majority is
against it What goodcan there result in
adopting Constitution but by the votes of
those who mean to occupy the land? If
| the South means to do anything, why is it
not moving? Why are not joint stock
companies raised purchase land and send
settlers as the Bmigmnt Aid Societies are
charged with doing? In short, why has
not the South sent voters there to carry the
Constitution? 2
If Kansas be lost to us, we of the South
have lost it--not Gov. Walkers sugges-
tions have done it. But our friends sav
we have not lost it, what then, arc we d d,-
ing to get possession. andmake "assuran q
doubly sure Z" Weare of opinion that tn,
securing of Kansas to the South should bt
the work of the South, and that the South
should have settled the question, SO that
neither the Administration, nor Gov. Walk
CT, nor any other politician should be looked
to as the saviour of the country. The
power was with us, and knowing the num-
bers and enterprise of the North, it was our
duty to place the case beyond cen, .ngcncy
when we could have done it. If 1t be lost
to us it liz our own faltlt---from our own
dilatoriness and .lukewarmness. We have
been warned and we would not heed Our
politicians have been counseling US in poll
ties to depend on ourselves, and not to
trust parties or Administrations, and here
is the most important question of political
power that has occurred for many day,
and alta critical period of, Southern exis-
tence, and why have We neglected it and
left it to Mr., Buchanan or any one else to
settle, when we should do it ourselves. y
Mr.. Walker is politician7-llc may be
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