Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-07-04
sEE SECOND rAGE.1
Ultraism is it Wise? ?


The Charleston Mclcury and the New
Orleans Delta rank deservedly among the
most patriotic and influential journals of The
Southern country. They are faithful and
bold defenders, Of Southern interests and Of
Southern rights. But there are very many
amongst their admirers who have been un>
able to sympathze with the zeal, or appre,
ciate the wisdom, Of their recent appeals to
the resistance feeling Of the South. Far be
it from us TO oquarrel with our own gallant
brothets on the score of this dilfcrence.-
They are doubtless actuatcd by a noble
love of their homes and of the tullowcd MS
socialion tha, render those homes more to
them than all else on earth. The strength
Of this motive can but be recognized by ev-
cry true son of the South Yet there is
surety something slightly morbid in the
desponding tone, the deep,seated alarm
which mark our distinguished cotemporaries
at this time In their comments upon the
dangers that surround us, pheY are most un.
hopeful to say. the least. Their premises
seem to be regarded through smoked glass,
and their conclusions are By consequence
full ofdolor and darkness. 1t does appear
to us-(and we say il with great res pect for
those whose views we crticize)-that the
reasoning I,io;ly seeG5.s tos,,eI. gloomy eoH.
clusions is fallacious, and that the advice
thence deduced, and pressed upon the peo.
Pile Of our section, is ill-considered and i'm
polite. 8' fT
1t is urged that the South Is beset with
such difficulties as have never before encom-
passed her, that her enemies are thickening
on every hand, and that, as things go, her
doom of destruction is fixed. And yet it
is notorious that her position iu the Confed>
eracy is at this very moment more power
fultban IL has been for many years; it is
we'll known that the Federal Executive, the
Federal Supreme Court and the United
States Senate are on the side Of her consti-
tulional rights; and it is altogether proba-
bic ihat such will be the controlling tone of
the next Federal House of Representatives.
Il is also argued, that our institution of do.
meSnc serVitude is beginning to totter to its
fall, and some Of the border States are point
ed, to as presenting the most melancholy
proof of the reasonableness Of these pro.
phetio fears. And ye. it is patent, that the
institution was never before so blessed of
Heaven with success and prosperity as II is
this very day il is shown by the newspa-
per exponents Of Virginia and Missouri
(Which should certainly be received as good
authority in their own cases )--that anti
slavery tendencies were never weaker with
iu the borders OF, those two States /; tits IN
disputable, that iirHner conviction never be-
foro possessed the entire Southern mind of
the'moraIity as well as the expediepcy of
the institution Of Slavery; and il is observ-
able that the intelligence Of Chrislendom is
becoming more liberal (beeause more en-,
lignteped) towards that ipsiituion than ever
ttfWHS Oetor6s EV % tutHII9TIFiOTS u'fsSsi Sy
oas eotempofasies Of the ahrmist school,
fhet hn apathy the most deplafebIe has
spfead itself like a pall over the spirit of