Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-11-13
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Be9. The fpics,is of Rev JOIN. W.. au N.Y.;
leave 10 announce him q candidate EGsss Esst US IN
OF rickcns district, the cssnii'g qlSi.'ages'
geap The friends of fH0MSva to insure
I specially annoupr aalim a ca9 9lish our prop
JarS&nP.iekS4s dhaps so: cut permit me
to suggest, not yet. The dissolution of
the Union is an alternative that we have
always at command, and for which we should
be ever ready, but peaceful, prosperous
and powerful people may not challenge
Fate a day too soon. !Yi.JS9 question still
remains, can the free States be brought TO
concur permanently in any line of policy
that will subvcrt the constpoTgv and Sc
riously damage the South in IS 1feder-
acy? | do not believe t1cS % 3 can
Re- 'Fs FOR rAx ebss55. s5S vGn, and an Lin in
BsISN The friends of Mr.. A. ~, ~ uo ,u'S
respectfully announce him a cail sla11atcd on
rtlcc of Tax Collector of Pick, ,l,.o,n ,nlders
- ensuip" election. throuSh Ie
ballot box oF'by a,of Mr. onhs; whether t.
cmanclpatc ouranno,,-<0r strip us of the
fruits of their labor; or to govern us with
the mildness and patcrnal care due to in
fcriors.
The nervous in the South, and the aboli-
ton demagogucs of the North, may believe
it. But when it comes to the actual test
if neither sober sense nor patriotism should
prevail, the sense of danger and the love of
cotton and tobacco would, with our north
crn, brethrcnin cverycrisis override theirloye
of negroes. On this think you may depend,
despite the insolent boasts of the abolition-
lists of what they will do when they get the
government in their hands The North has
only to be made clearly sensible how far
she can 90, and what the South viii not
submit to. She will not trcspass beyond
that, but will content herself with the glory
Of carrying the alternate biennial elections,
as she has just donc-always leaving it to
the democracy to carry that which makes
the President
But am making mere assertions. All
low me, then, to refer to acts to,tuffs, fine
past power of the South in this Uhiyy, Spi-
| the present state of the great qucstj0nn9ieess.
which she is most deeply Interested When
thirty years ago, we began this arduous con-
hlct for the constitutional reform of this
government and the security of the South,
the South herself was thoroughly divided.
The tariff, the bank, the internal improve
mcnt system, nay, even abolition itself, all
had the sanction of a large number of our
most prominent southern men. If they
did not all originate, they were ali resusci-
tated, in that era of infatuaton, when a
Southern President proclaimed that we
were call fcderalists, all republicans" when
southern statesmen sncercd at State rights,
and the constitution became for time n
dead letter
The tariff of 1928 levied average duties
of more than forty per cent on all our i'm
ports. BY the tariff of 1857 the average
duties was reduced below twenty per cent
We have accomplished that much; and, be-
sides, the principle of free trade is pretty
generally conceded now throughout the
Union 1t cannot be denied that this is a
great success, think the duties should
be reduced still lower; and particularly that
\ the determinations against the agricultur-
al interests should be abolished. But it is
supposed that there will be demand for
their increase at the next session. If so,
it will of course be resisted, and trust sue
cesStuily. Free trade is the test, the touch
stone OF free government, as monopoly is of
despotisn. | have no hesitation in SAYING
that the plantations States should discard
any government that made protective
tariff its policy. They should not submit
to pay tribute for the support OF any other
industrial system than their own; much
less, to make good the bubble speculations
of another section Of the Union. UNEQUAL
taxation is, after all, what we have most
to fear in this Union, and against that VIC
must be always ready to adopt the most de-
cisive measures
The internal improvement system was In
full yigor in 1928. Inaugurated also py
southern men, it absorbed all the surplus
OF the treasury, and being in it's nature un-
limited, it was capable of absorbing all the
revenue that could be extorted blythe HIGH
est possible tariff. That too, if not dies.
troyed, has been checked and crippled by
southern action. 1t is true that it still ap-
pears annually in Congress- the once
naughty brigand is now little more than
sturdy beggar
We had then, also, in full operation
Bank of the United States, with branches
In all our principal cities 1t received and
speculated on al the revenues of the GOV
crnment, and controlled and concentrated
in the North all the exchanges, thus levy
ing per centage upon every commercial
transaction of the South That has been
annililatcd. 1t sleeps the sleep that knows
no waking. But let me say that the sys-
TEN which it established still exists. Des-
pite of its destruction by the federal gov
ernment, and the collection ofthe revenue
in specie, our exchanges still ccntre in the
North, and our otherwise stable industry ia
still compelled to participate more or less
IN all the reckless speculutionso of tha6 fa4