Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-03-20

avoided reading it as much as could -
Had been Il SenatorbeEorc, / should have
felt it my duty, perhaps, to have done SO !;
but, not eXpectingto be one, am ignorant,
fortunately, IN q great measure of detail,
and was glad tohear the acknowledgment
fof the Senator from Illinois, since it excuses
me from the duty of examining it.
r. hear, on the otherside of the Chamber,
a great deal said of giganticand stupendous
frauds; and the Senator from New York.,
yesterday, in portraying the character of
his party and the opposite one laid the
whole of those Frauds upon the pro-slavery
party. To listen to him, you would have
supposed that the regiments of emigrants
recruited in the purlieus of the great cities
OF the North, and sent out, armed and equip.
ped with Sharpes rifles, and bowie knives
and revolvers to conquer for freedom in
| Kansas, stood by,mcek saints, innocent as
| doves, and humble as lambs brought up to
the sacrifice. Think of them; General
Lanes lambs! They remind one of Col.
Knk's lambs, TO whom they have a family
resemblance. Ipresune that there were
frauds, andthatif there were frauds, they
were equally great on all sides; and that
any investigation into them on this floor. or
by a commission, would end in nothing but
lniticting almost uncomfortable disgrace on
the United States 80 ta@ ~ 7ss y
But, sir, the true object of the discussion
on the other side of the Chamber, is to agi-
tate the question of slavery [ have vcrv
great doubts whether tie leaders on thc
other side ofthe Chamber really wish to de-
feat this BILL / think they would consider
1T vastly greater victory to crush out the
Democratic, party in the North, and destroy
the leaders of the. Kansas Nebraska BILL
and am notsure that they have not brought
about this mnbroglio for the very purpose.
How strange isit that they tell us that,
year after year, the majority in Kansas is
beaten at the polls They have always had
majority. but they always get beaten 4
How could that bey 1t does seem, from
the most reliable sources of information,
that they have majority, and have had
majority for some time Why has not this
majority come forward and taken possession
OF the government, and made free State
constitution and brought it here We
should all have voted for its admission
cheerfully, There can be but one reason
If thhey'hod brought, as was generally sup
posed at the time the Kansas, Nebraska act
was passed, would be the case, a free State
constitution here, there would have been no
difficulty among the Northern Democrats;
they would haze been sustained by their
people. The statement made by some of
them, as | understood, that that act was a
good free State act, would have been veri
fled, and the Northern Democratic party
would have been sustained but its coming
here slave State, it is said, will kill that
party, and that is the reason they have re-
trained from making it free State when
they had the power, F'' "@ss.
They intend tomake it a free State as soon
as they have effected that purpose of des-
rioylng The Democratic party at the North, 1
and their true reason here. is to agitato sla-
very, For one, L am not disposed to dis |
cuss that question here in any abstract form.
| think the time has gone by for that
Our minds are all made UP. / am willing
to discuss it-and that is the way. it should
be and must be discussed as a practical
thing, asa thing that is, and is to be, and
TO discuss lis effects upon our political IN
sstitutions, and to ascertain how long those !
political institutions will hold together un.
der its effects
4 The, Senator from New York entered very
fairly into the field Yesterday. / was sur |
,prised, the other day, when he SO openly |
said the battle had been fought and won.
Although knew, and have long known, it |
to be .true, was surprised to hear him say
SO. Thought, that he had been entEapned |
into hasty expression by the Senator from |
New Hampshire, and 1 am glad to see
that yesterday he has come out and shown
that it is matured project Of his; that
these words mean all that thought they |
IA cant; that they mean that the South ISL
a conquered province, end the North in-1
tends to rule it, Hesaid that it was their
iptention to. take this Goyernment from un-
Just and ,unfaitheal hands, ~ place it in
Just and faithful hands tliSEJI was their
intention to conseorate all the Territories of
the Union to free labor; and that, to. effect
their purposes, they intended TO reconstruct
the Supreme Court. " 4
81 Yesterday, the Senator said, "Suppose
we admit tSatlsss with, the Iocomptofil con ! !
stItption; What guarantees are there that
Congress @ will not again Interfere with The /
a1iIairs OF kansqsg meaning, ,I suppose. !
shat ifslle abolished slavery, what gslarsn-
tee there was that Congress would not force
It upon lcr again, Sir 50 far as we the /
South are concerned tyou have, ct least,
the guasanteeof good faith that never has.
been violated. I, But what guarantce have
wc, when you have this Government in
your possession, inallits departments, even.
= we 20 g sSshat tho Senator
cxl1orts us tosebnit To- the c9siceatrationi