Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-07-11

WIG lu%ures pf another class, and If portion of
The people OF South CarolipaSmay believe or pro-
Tess to believe that the manufacturing of ardent
spirits is nccessaryas as a meaus offurnishng them
with what they may be pleased to call a luxurious
indulgence, then we ask lis it iuSt-is ii right that
the hard earnings Of the other class should be
forced from them by taxation to help pay the dam,
ages incurred by this luxury. We answer that it
conflicts with every principle of Justice both I'm.
man and divine, youinotions of prohibiting this
injustice being unrepnblican, Unconstitutional.
and unreasonable to the contrary notwthstand.
ing =
The argument with which "VeriL meets our
illustration OF the liquor manufacturer by com,
paGng Inn with the gun smith who should sell
guns to the enemy of his country is perfectly alb.
surd and ridiculous. III argues that it is consti-
tutional to make and sell anything if others wish
tobuy. We reply that the gun smith might make
and sell guns-to the enemy of,his country and
plead the same Constitutional right that others
wish to buy, lie attempts to prove this "sophs-
teal reasoning" OH the ground that ifthe manfac.
tnrer makes liquor and sellsit to his own people
there being no law or clause ofthe Constitution to-
the contrary IL is no treason"
Trre enough. This is precisely what we
knew Did we say il was treason in the
eyes of the law? No, you know we did
not, but exactly the reverse. We did not
ask it there is a law standing between, the
liquor niaker and his murdered victims to
pronounce him innocent.for weknow there
Is. but we asked, as Mailu0 constitutional !?
Did the Legislators who enacted this law.
draw their authority from the Constitution,
from nature and natures God, to authori q
thcnsin the enactment? This is the ques.
tlon we wish you To answer; for remember
there are many things that are legally right
but moraity wrong.
Respecting there hcing clause either in
the constitution Of the United States or
that of South Carolina. which guarantees
this traffic, we will let Chief Justice Taney,
OF the Supreme Court ofqle United States
answer, as also concurred in by the other
Judges of the same Court He says:
every State may regulate its own in.
ternal traffic according 10 its own Judgment
and upon its own views of the interest and
well being ofits citizens am not aware
that these principles have ever been ques-
toned. Ifany State deems the retail and
Maternal traffic in ardent spirits injurious to
its citizens and calculated to produce idle.
ness, vice or debauchery, see nothing
in the Constitution OF the United States to
prevent IT from regulating and restraining
The traffic, and from. prohibiting it altogeth,
81 ~ 'hHihS proper.
"Verltas" quotes the 9Th article of the
Constitution Of South Caroline, " hich guar.
antics che liberty Of conscience, to show that
1t has no reference go what shall, or should
not be done by the people generally" But
does this prove anything TO his purpose?
lL only proves that the Constitution does
notallow even the Christian denomination
to take license from their guaranteed reli-
gIous rights and commit acts of lcenious-
ness so ms to endanger The peace or safety
"f the State. And consequently we bold.
y assert that wherever .oar Constitution
guarantees liberty ora right, whether il be
special or general, that II is always in every
instance either expressed ofimpled that it
shall not be so construed as to excuse acts
OF llcentlousness or justify practices incon,
s'Stent with the peace or sAfetyof The State,
snd ~e e!ia!!eagge "Yssilas," or any or all
OF his coadjutors, or the combined forces of
prince Alcohol to Prove to the contrary.
We ask now in al! sipcerty, the candid
reader,th lover OF peace and ordor the pa =
trlot, the statesman, the philnnthropst and
the Christian if the liberty Of moking, buy.
lng' selling, DC, of ardent spirits ever has
been or ever can be construed so rs to not
excuse acla oflicentiousness, or to moi iusti,
f. practices inconsistent with the peace or
safety of the State. Every sane man knows
1t cannot, Why not, then, we aek.. apply
the article of the Constitution which would
prohibit religious worship, if it endangered
the peace or safety of the State, and Danish
Alcohol into uonentity. YINDEx.
WAsuISoroN, June 3o.-John Ross.
" Esq" head chief of the Cherokee Nation,
accompanied by his family, arrived TO day,
and took lodgings at Browns Hotel.
a correspondent of one oflhe New York
dallcs states that arrangements are progress
ing for speedy settlement Of the question
IN dispute between the States and New
Granada, upon q basis which will prove sat.
lstactory TO our Government.
On the arrival Of the u. 8. troops al Utah
that territory will constitute new and sep
ara,e military department. Gen. Harvey
Will be commandant.
The overland mail contract was awarded
today 10 four associated Express compa,
MES, represented by Butter6eld and his as
soclates Of New York The route will be
as before slated, with some slight deyiations
and branch from Little Rock, Ark, ,c ST.
Louis. The serViccis to be performed semi
weekly for the annual sum Of $3.50, ,oc0.-L
This is the lowest bid, aud they are to per-
form extra service. s
Three Of the rioters 10 the late election,
were to-day sentenced totwelye months i'm
prisonment in the jail, and TO pay a 6ne of
$50 and costs. Two forfeited bail otber