Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-08-07

should be rIgiiant. But we must have the
true and good men of the North to sustain
us. He would not bend South Carolina to
any faction " for better or worse" The
South should bo one. We should be uni
ted and obscrvont--awake to our rights
and mindful how, on the recent Kansas
question, from out of our own midst, we
were used.
We should be firm and harmonious.
All the opposition measures of which the
South has complained in the last thirty
years, she herself inaugurotcd. Washing
ton and Jefferson, in the matter of slavery,
set the evil example. The North borrowed
it from them. The Bank of the United
States originated with the South The
South, under some of our leading men, was
godfather of the tariff And it was the
same with the internal improvements
Then, if the South had done these things
and undonc them, has she not the power
if still united, to control? Hence he had
hope for the power and position of the
South in the Union. A substantial issue
should not induce us to secede alone with
four or five States it may. While remain
ing in the Union and striving monfully to
bold our own, we should keep the aiterno-
ttve steadily not only in our own view but
in the view of the whole country. We
should not for moment allow our people
to be lullcd by hopes of preserving the
Union into apathy or the belief that to ac-
complish or secure strength would not re-
quirc all their talent, all their energy, all
their watchfuness, all their courage, and
perfect state of union aud preparation to
take decisive measures on the shortest
notice.
Mr.. Hammond said he was opposed to
any further annexation of territories He
preferred that our manifest destiny should
work out its own results, lie wished the
country to have nothing to do with Mexico
or South America Mr. Calhoun was
right in denouncing the Mexican war It's
results have proved injurious, and the
opening of California routes has created an
unprecedented expense to the country, and
is the cause of more corruption, deceit and
profligacy than ever has been known before
both in and out of Congress. If we want
any Pacific route let us have it by taking
Setztng-Tehuantopec and Panama, with
the right of way. Progress was his policy,
but he was not in favor of rash or spasmod-
ic action. We ought all things to act
calmly and boldly; take our position, stand
to our arms and mark time, waiting on the
movements of our enemies The South
should keep her powder dry. For what
ever be the hope, there are twenty free
States against fourteen slave States, and it
cannot be disguised that there is danger.
On broaching the subject of the reopen
,,ftb tbn al, l.
that, i'll the Union, it was out of the qucs-
tion--an impracticable and visionary pro-
iect and that to revive it out of the Union
in Central America OF elsewhere, was some
what impolitic. Why should we increase
the size of our territory at the South p
Who would put slaves in Kansas? And
who would put them in any doubtful posi-
ton? Yet we lost Kansas because we had
none to put there. The want of slaves is
felt. We are now struggling to keep Tex
as against the inroads ofNorthern cmigrants.
Mexico was dead corpse floating on the
sea IN state of decomposition. She was
drifting up against us, and some might de-
sire to plunge the harpoOn and take her
aboard. But of what use would she be to
us, with her six millions of wild Indians to
ciyilze, and her impcrious, treachcrous
Spanish race? We want none of those vast
regions now. If it is our manifest destiny
to have them, manifest destiny will bring
the proper time. We should address our
selves to the dcvclopcment of our own in
tcrnal resources and the achievement of
Southern harmony and power in the Union,
yet ready, if necessary, to dissolvct. Be
tween the citizens OF Georpin and South
Carolina he felt assured, that the green
tops of Carolina's hills gave greeting to the
border shores of Georgia, and as the bold
Savannah graspcd each State in friendly
salute, SO Georgians and Carolinians will
be ever affiliated.
PHILADELPHIA, July 19.-Our CITY is
throngcd with strangers in attendance on
the National Convention of the Sons of
Malta. The number of delegates in atten-
dance is three hundred and Fifty, and there
are about fifteen hundred visiting mem
bers in the city.
Henry Southers, Esq, of Philadelphia,
has been elected President
The amount of money expended in char
ity during the year is stated TO have been
seyenty-eight thousand Ave hundred dol
lars leaving only balance of $500 in
the Treasury
a procession of the order will take place
before the close of the Convention, which
promises to be amost imposing affair. The
convention will remain in session several
days.
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