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

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already, for the want of direct trade and \
I proper system of banking in the South, they
areruInousl concentrated Nay, sir, what
guarantee have we that YOU will not emon-
9Ipate OR slaves, or, at least, make the at
vemPG We cannot rely onyour faith when
| you have the power 1t has always been
broken whenever pledged.
Now, sir, as L ann disposed to see this
question settled as soon as possible, and am
perfectly willing to have tiual aud conclu.
siye settlement now, instantly, and after
what the Senator from New York has suid.
: think it not uuimportant that should
attempt to bring the North and South face
to face, and see what resources each of ms
might have in the contingency of separate
organizations. five never ACQUIRE another
foot of territory for the South, look at her.
Fight hundred and fifty thousand square
miles, as large as Great Britain, France,
Austria, Prussia and Spain. Is not that
territory enough to make an empire that
shall rule the world With the finest soil
the most delightful climate whose produc.
tons none of those great countries can pro
duoe, we have three thousand miles of con
tlnental shore line, and so indented with
bays and crowded with islands, that, when
their shore lines are added, we have twelve
thousand miles of Shore line. Through
the heart OF our country runs the great
Mississippi, the father of waters, into Whose
bosom are poured thirty six thousand miles
OF tributary streams; and beyond, we have
the desert prairie wastes, to protect us in
our rear, Can you hem in such territory
as that? You talk of putting UP a wall Of
ilre around eight hundred and fifty thou
sand square miles so situated How alb
surd.
But, sir, in this territory lies the great
valley of the Mississippi, now the real, and
sooa to be the acknowledged, seat of the
empire of the world. The sway of that
valley viii be as great as ever the Nile
knew in the earlier ages of mankind We
own the most of that valley. The most
valuable part of it belongs to us; aud, al
though those who have settled above us
are now opposed to us, another generation
Will tell a different tale. They are ours
by all the laws of nature slave labor will
SO over every foot of this great valley where
it will be found profitable to use it, and
those who do not use it are soon to be uni
ted to us, by such ties as will make us one
and inseparable. The iron horse will soon
be chattcripg over the sunny plains of the
South to bearthe products of its upper trib
utarics. to our Atlantic ports, as it now clat-
tors over the ice-bound North. There is
the great Mississippi bond of union made
by natures law. She will forever yindicatc
her right to the Union. On this fine ter
'ritory we have apopulation four times as
large as that with which these colonies sep
arated from the mother country, and hun
dred, lmightsaya a thousand, fold as strong. |
Our populations is now sixty per cent. great
er than that of the whole United States
when we entered into the second war of in |
dependence It. is twice as large as the
whole population of the United States was
ten years after the conclusion of that war, |
and our exports arc three times as great as
those of the whole United States then
Upon our muster-rolls we have a million
of men. In a defensive war, upon an
emergency, every one of them would be
available At any time, the South can
raise, equip, and maintain In the field,
larger army than any, power of the earth
can send against her, and an army of sold |
lers-Zmen brought up on horseback, with |
guns lntInelf naDuS.
If we take the North, even when the two
large States of Kansas and Minnesota shall
be admitted, her territory will be one hun /
dred thousand square miles short of ours
i donot speak Of California and Oregon
there is no anta2ouism between the South
and those countries, and never, will bel
The population of the North is fifty per
cent. greater than ours i have nothing to
say in disphragement either of the soil of
the North or the people of the North, who
are brave, Intelligent, energetic race, FULL
OF intellect, but they produce no great sta
pie that the South does not produce; but
we produce two or three, and chose arc the
very greatest, that she can never produce
AS to her men, howeverAhigh they may be,
they have never proved themselves to be
superior 70 these OF the South eithor IN the
field or III the Senate. 81 ~
'r6But, sir, tbostrengtho of "a nation depenisE
in a great measure upon its wealth; and tlse. |
wealtk Of o nations like that of "a man, is to-
be estin,atedby its surplus production You
may SO to your trashy census books, all of /
which is perfect poBsenso, and they will,
tell YOU that Ia the State Of Tennessee the.I
whole numbefof house servants is not equal
TO one-half thosc in my own house, and such
things'as thai Youmay ascertain whit is
made throughout the country from. these
census books6 but itsispo matter how much |;
isamadeFif It is allScopsumed If o man is \
worth9miliions OF dollars and consunscs bis
income, is5hc rich lis he CON pctent to I
embark in any new enterprise? Can he
build ships or rail roads? And could a /