Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-01
Gov. Walker,s Address.

"Our political friends at the South who
have cast censure on Governor Walker
must SEQ in this proclamation determine
ton on his part to maintain the laws, while
he is excrting himself for the peaceable So
luton of the Kansas difficulties. They
have evidently mistaken the man, if they
have at any time supposed that his sympa-
thies we're with tile abolitionists of that Tor
ritory All doubts should now be remov-
cd" Ss
The latcncss of the hour at which we re-
ccivcd it has prevented our giving moro
than the following extract from it,
You were distinctly informed in my in
augural address of May lass that the yalidi-
! ty of. the territorial laws was ACKNOWLEDGED
BY the government of the United States,
and that they stapd would be carried
Into execution, under my oath of Office and
the instructionso of the President of the Uni
ted States. The same information was re-
peated in various addresses made by me
throughout the Territory at the same
| time, every assurance was given you that
! the right Of the people Of this Territory, un-
der the forms prescribed by the govern
mcnt of your country, to establish their
own State government and frame theirown
| social institutions would be acknowledged
and protected FLAWS have been enacted
/ by the territorial legislature which arc dis a
approved of by a majority of the people of
the Territory, the mode in which they
could elect new territorial Legislature and
repeal those laws was also designated If
there arc. any grievances of which you have
any just right to complain, the lawful
peaceful manner in which you could re-
move them, in subordination to the govern
mont of your country, was also pointed OUT
You have, however, chosen to disregard
the laws Of Congress, and of the territorial
| government created by it, and, whilst pro-
Tossing to acknowledge State government
rejected by Congress, and which can, there
fore, now exist only by q successful rebel
lion, and eNacting from ll'your officers the
perilous and sacreligious oath to support
tho so called State Constitution, yet you
have, even in defiance of the so-callled
State Legislature, which refused to grant
you a charter, proceeded to create To-
cal government of your own, based only
upon iisurrcction and revolution. The
very oath which you require from all your
officers to support your so-callcd Topeka
State constitution is violated in the very
b., "VV VI l'u'tluS ih oPOideiuud OuuilCl lNJtCl-
ed even by them,
a rebellion so iniquitous, and ncccssari-
ly involving such awful consequences, has
never before disgraccd any age or country.
Permit me to call your attention, as still
claiming to be citizens of tho United States,
to the results Of your revolutionary proceed
j ,ings You arc inaugurating rebellion and
revolution you are Gisrogarding the laws
Of Congress and of the territorial govern
mont Of the United States in the Territory.
Your purpose, if carried into effect in the
mode designed by You, 10y putting your
laws forcibly into execution, would involve
you in the guilt and crime oftreason. You
stand now, fellow-citizcns, upon tho brink
of an awful prccipice, and it becomes my
duty to warn you ere you take the fatal
iSap in the gulf below If your proceed
'ngs are not arrested, you will necessarily
destroy the 'caccnfthis Territory, and in
volye it in all the horrovs of civil war.
warn you, then, before it Is too late. TO re-
ccde from the pcrous position in which
you now stand.
: appeal once more to your reason and
; patriotism ask you in the namc Of our
common country--in the name of the Con-
stitution and of tho Union--to dosist from
this rebellion. Iappeal once more to your
love of your comtry-to your regard for it's
peace, prosperity and reputation-to your
affection for your wives and children, and
to all those patriotic motives which ought
, to influence American citizens to abandon
this contemplated revolution Ifyou have
wrongs, redress. them through the peaceful
= instrumcntality of the ballot-box, in tho
mode prescribed by the laws of your cour.
try.
f As all arguments heretofore so often at'-
drcssedby me to you have failed as vet to
produce any effect upon you, have deemed
It necessary, for your own safety and that
OF the Territory, and TO save you from the
perllous consequences of your own acts, ur
der the authority vested inme by the Pres
I ident of the United States, to order an adj
cquate force of the troops of the United
States into year immediate 4icinaee. to
perform the painful duty ofaFrssting your
revolutionary proceedings. nc inn
plofe You not to compel no peal TO
; that military power which ssired in
the last resort toprotect the o iticnt of
your country You cannot cad your re-
bellious purposes into effect withodteomihe
into unavoidable and open conflict With tile
sfeops and government Of the United States
bet me adjureyo then, once more, to
abandon these proceedings before you in
yolye yourselycsyins thea0rimo of treason
and suh;ant Tho t,oo,.9o oF az. ,,:4.. q n =. y