Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-08-28


word and will is their supreme law nor are
they rcstiNc or impatient under his domina-
ton. All fears of inSurrection have vanish
cd, and we sleep in the assurance of perfect
security in the dcuseSt slave districts. How
was 1t n hundred years ago? Go to your
statute book, and YOU will find that for the
purpose of preventing or promptly quclling
inSuuccton among the slavcs-many OF
whom ut that time were recently from the
wilds Of Africa--thut every white male in
habitunt was required TO carry with him his
firearms and certain number OF cartridges
to church under penalty. Dayou desire to
see such state oGnifairs rcvivcl'in this coun-
try? If You do not. keep from contact with
our slaves these fcrcc savngcs. who have
known nothing butwn and rapiEc. and who
Will not quietly brook the restraints which
our security would require us to impose on
them.
The argument so fIippanly repeated by
its advocates that it will better the phvsicnl
and moral condition of the African to trans
piant him here us n slave. does not satisfy
my mind that it would bc Just or right. Arc
we to constitute ourselves the judges of what
will improve the condition of other nations.
and procccdto execute that Judgment, against
their consent? If the argument is worth
anything for the African. would it not apply
many of the sons and daughters of Eurore
and Asia would be elevated in their moral
and physical condition if they were trans
planted, oven as slaves. in this country?-
Gould they be numbered by less than hun
drcds of millions? Would it be right to con
s'itute ourselves their judges, and then be-
come the oxccutioners of onr Judgment to
make them slaves? Away with such doc
trincs and prime; pies! they have no foun-
dation in humanity, philosophy, morality or
religion.
now proceed to consider the power and
purpose of the Democratic party to uphold
the Constitution andprcsorvctheU Union. was
gratiled to sec that Senator Hammond. in
his late speech declared that he did not per
ccivc the signifcancy of the term States
Rights Democrats" and "Natonal Demo-
crats' at the present time. The organiza-
ton of the party is upon certain declared
prmciplcS---thej arc general, and address
themselves to the confidence of men who
subscribe to those principles residing in all
sections, and il the party is designated as the
National Democracy" it is because its to-
nets arc not restricted to any section, but en-
brace the whole Union. and not because any
OF its principles are centralizing or consoli-
dating. 1t has outived the Wing party. the
Know Nothing party. and trust it will sur
yiTe the Republican party. My observation
teaches me that those in the South WHO are
most bitter in their denunciation of the Ma
tlonal Democracy" las they are pleased to
designate it) are either know nothings or pc,
SC disunionists, and as | have no principles
III common with either of them have for
years been content to receive their structures
and animadvcrsions with patient pleasure.
say to you, fcllow-citizcnS, that the Dem
ocratic party is entitled to your cordial sym
pathy as we'll as your Jealous support. 1t is
the only exponent of the principles you have
cherished for many long years, and is the
only party willing and able to maintain your
rights in the Union. When it is defeated or
diSintcgNted you must choose between II sub
mission to sectional fanaticnl domination and
a dissolution of the existing Government. It's
principles have received tic sanction of iudm-
ment from my earliest manhood. and since
1852 lave acted in full harmony and fellow
ship in its organization, and why? There
bad been in 1850 and 1851, in most Of the
Southern States. a contest between what was
called the States Rights and Union parties,
growing out OF the passage of the Compro-
mise measures. 1t resulted in n determine
tlon on the part of the South to acquiesce in
III and when the convention met Mt Baltimore
III June. 1852, to nominate candidates for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency, ! found
there (as q spectator, and not as delcgate)
both wings of the Democracy-the States
Rights and Union. They affiliated in making
the nominations and both heartily united in
adopting platform of principles. Tho con.
test of so and 81 had revived into a living
issue the old States Rights doctrines of '98
and ,99. Except, perhaps, in Virginia and
South Carolina, previous to that time, they
had nearly become obsolete. Tie States
Rights men insisted that those resolutions
should be Incorporated in the platform, and
become vital article in the Democratic creed.
Ii was unanimously conceded, and the reso-
lutions of'9S and '99--tlle very cornerstone:
the highest exposition Of States Rights, was
Incorporated in the platform. itlnade the
Democratic creed perfect and from that mo-
ment, determined upon II hearty and cor
dial atfilation with the party in its organiza-
ton In 1856, MT Cincinnati these principles
were rc.adoltcd, aud the Democracy from
Maine to TcXas. and from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, pledged in the most solemn man
ner to the support and naintainancc of the
strictest reading OF the States Rights doc
trincs Every man, therefore. of that filth
must atliliate with tho Democracy if he cx-
poets aid in enforcing his views ON the adj
oftho Government. The Dem
ocintic party, if il continues true to its creed
and principles, is as good n States Rights par
ty as desire to associate with. go further:
no conscientious man can be Democrat
standing on thotplatf,m who is not a States
Rights man. With these undeniablc facts
before us, docs not the assumption of q few
persons in the South that they are par crcel-
tence tho States Rights Democrats rost upon
q narrow basis 4? Tho fued between she two
wings WAS buried at Baltimore in 1852 by
all uniting on common platform; tho trei A.
ty of amity and friendship was re-afIirmed at
Cincinnati in 1856, and is it good faith in