Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-11-13


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a"Gs I"oIs What IssSS IE.,oto adMjS!;"ps M;dayss
McrI ~sSse people or to- i''''''0' "''o"
SOUTHERN strength ?ncres on woiers ot
TSdegradc Ourselves dug lands granted to
Shn on equal terms, others.
to core into this Union free ,seressoGn. Iol
! 1orop2 2ahcm i'll any way is to be contamiua-
> NEngla and France, have no doubt
would Gladly see us take this burthen on
d;;1s~cF, if we wouldI repre for them their
mGttSs and neuhIiobiSate across the 18TH
solvcs Such a nor, S'e porBeieave for our
tbo,, and tlt 3, 3 sttct originally, with
onh,. AJfwe c'allocc, containing Styotion
VI ~ j" =" eek. waters of KcOws LoIa -
by force of far9' nds of James KobeIS hold @ 1T IT
justify it, and it ,,,.,45os --''ons "ouio
our Pacific relations. 14.SIy necessary for
tiOn of those unhappy Sta@ RIycr;7"nd, ,do-
dcplorable, butt the good God HID? iA d1S?'tl III lJos
i'll the hollow of His hand and will wor..
out their proper destinics
We might expand the area of slavery by
acquiring Cuba, where African slavery is
already established Mr.. Calhoun, from
whose maturcd opinions, whether on CON
stitutlonal priHriplcg or southern policy, it
viii rarely be found safe to depart, said that
Cuba was forbidden fruit" to us. unless
Pluckcd in an cxigcncy of war. There is
no reasonable ground to suppose that we can
ACQUIRE 1t IN any other way; and the war
/ that will open to us such an occasion will
be gr' It and general, and bring about re-
suits that the keencst intellect cannot now
anticipate. Bat it we had Cuba, we could
not make more than two or three slave
States there, which would not restore tho
equilibrium of heNorth and South; while,
with the African slave trade closed, and
her only resort for slaves to this continent,
she would, besides crushing out our whole
sugar culture by her competition afford in
few years market for all the slaves in
Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland She
Is, Notwithstanding the cxorbitant taxes
imposed on her, capable now of absorbing
the annual increase of all the slaves on this
continent, and consumes, it is said twenty
to thirty thousand a year by her system of
labor
Slaves decrease there largely. In time,
under the system practiccd, every slave in
America might be exterminated in Cuba
as were the Indians. However the idle
African may procreate in the tropics, it yet
remains to be proven, and the facts are IL
gainst the conclusion, that he can, in those
regions, work and thrive. 1t is said Cuba
is to be "Africanizcd" rather tlla,. that the
United States should take her. That threat
which at one time was somewhat alarming,
Is no longer any cause of disquietudc to the
South, after our experience of the African
izing of St. Domingo and Jamaica What
have we lost by that? think we rcaped
some benefit; and, if the slaves of Cuba
are turned loose, great sugar culture
would grow up in Louisiana and Texas,
rivalling that of cotton, and dverting from
it so much labor that cotton would rarely
be below its present price.
\ ou must not suppose, for moment that
l am opposed to "the expansion of the area
of African slavery" On the contrary. II
believe that God created negroes for no 9TH
er purpose than to be ''the hewers of wood
and drawers of water" that is, to be slaves
of the white race; and wish to see them
in that capacity on every spot on the sur
face of the globe where their labor is nee
essary or beneficial Nor do [ doubt that
such will be the final result. Much less
would oppose the acquisition of territory
that would place the slave States on nu-
merical equality, and more, with the free
States IN the Union. Bat THE review and
scrutiny of the resources of the South shows
think, pretty oonclusively, that we have
not now the surplus population, nor suita-
BILE territory, within our present reach, to
create any number of slave States; that to
attempt it by costly, yet impracticablc and
abortive, enterprises, will be to waste our
strength to no purpose; and that the idea
of recovering the equality in voting of the
slave and free States, whether on the aoors
of Congress on elsewhere, is visionary. We
had better then, think, at once make up
our minds according to the facts, and Civ
ing up all bootlcss efforts, look every COLI
sequence of our position full in the face
For one, ] can do SO without dismay with
out the slightest trepidation.
Why the South, numbering twelve mil
lions of people, possesses already an impe-
rial domain that can well support an hun
dred millions more. What docs she need
to seek beyond her borders, or what has she
to fearY With such sea coast and har-
bors; such rivers, mountains and plains
so full of all the precious metals, so fertile
in soil, so genial in climate, producing in
such unparalleled abundance the most valua-
bic agricultural staples of tho world capa-
bic of manufacturing to any extent; and
possessing the best social and industrial
systems that have ever yet been organized,
she might have sunk into sioth from excess
of prosperity, had she not been kept on the