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

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not because she will hC 325 Gl a6O
cause fully approves GG17
clause of the conference bill, 45O a. 500
reason voted against the admission 80 @G 90
Unless in exceptional eases, sue 90 C9 60
Kansas was last winter. de- 1QGoAI8rI
State should be admitted l. lSS>,tl~
ton than would onttlc he 81 a. Is
the House. 1t is not Just to u. - /
and is not consonant with the - GGSTal
government. nuN'e " ~
But will not dctain you lor.9 .9r with what
belongs to the past. The present and the fu-
ture are what concerns us most. You desire
to know my opinion of the course the south
should pursue under existing circumstances.
will give you frankly aud fully the resuits
ot my observation and rejection on this all
important point. The first question is. do the
poopIc otthc South consider the prcscut un-
ION OF these States as an evil in itself and a
thing that it is desirable VIC should rot rid of
under all circumstances There arc some.
l know. who do
But am satisfied that an overwhelming
majority oil the South would, if assured that
this government was hereafter to be conIuc-
ted on the true principles and construction of
the constitution, decidedly prefer to remain
III the Union, rather than incur the unknown
costs and hazards of setting up scperatc
government | think | state what is true
v hon sny that, after all the bitterness ,hnt
has characterized our long warfare, the great
body of the southern people do not seek dis
union, and will not seek it as a primary Oh
lect, h' vevcr promptly they may accept il rs
an alternative, rather than submit to uncon-
stitutional abridgmcnts oftAeir rights con-
fesStlat for many years of my life, bcliov-
cd that our only safety was the dissolution of
the Union, and lopcnly ayowcd it, should
entertain and without hesitation express the
samo sentiments now, but that the victories
wo have achieved and those that think we
arc about to achieve, have inspired me with
the hope, may say the belief, that we can
fully sustuin ourselves in the Union and con
troll its action III all grea, affairs. 1t may be
well asked how | can entertain such views
and expectations, when within these few
years the South has lost her equality in the
Senate, and the free States have at longth
decided majority i'll both Houses of Congress,
while this unfortunate Kansas contest has
swept into their political graves so many Of
our ancient friends in those States that it
may be doubted whether they have at this
moment, after the roccnt clections-the finale
OF the disastrous Kansas abortiOn--a major
ity in any single one of them; and there
seems to be Mt present no prospect of onr OK
tcnding the area of slavery in any quarter.
These facts are true; and ifyou will bear
with me, will place them all in the strong
eat light can before you--for it is ofthe ut
most Importance that VIC should at least see
clearly how we stand, and what are our re-
sources, in order to form an idea of what we
can do and how avoid wasting our strength
| on what cannot be accomplished. The equal
lty OF the free and slave States has long been
lost III the House; by the admission of Cali.
iornia it was lost in the Senate Since then
another free State has been admitted. and
another yet has passed the Senate, and in a
few years moie we shall have Kansas. Ne
braska. Washington, New Mexico, and per-
hnps others OH our roll. The migration from
Europe to the North is sufficient to form ono
or more new States every year Tothe South
there is literally no emigration. We bave,
| since the closing Of the slave trade, added to
ourpopulation mainly by the natural increase
ofour people, and VIC have no surplus popu-
lation white or black, to colonize new States
| We lost Kansas partly by our inability to
coionizc it. and we arc perhaps yet to have n
struggle for n portion Of Texas. The idea,
then, of recovering the equality of the two
sections, even in the Senate, seems remote in
deed. We have it proposed to reopen the
African slave trade, and bring in hordcs of
slaves from that prolific region to restore the
balance. | once entertained that idea N.Y.
self but on further investigation / abandon
OF 1T, further than to say that the South is
itself divided on that policy, and, from ap-
pearances, opposed to it by vast majority,
while the North is unanimously against it
1t would be impossible to get Congress to re-
open the trade.
If iteouM be done, then it would be un-
necessary, for that result could only be
brought about by such an entire abandon
ment by tho North and the world of all op-
position to our slave system, that we may
safely cease to erect any dcfences for it, But
IT we could introduce slaves, where could we
lind suitable territory for new slave States?
The Indian Reserve, west of Arkansas might
make one. But we have soemnly guaran-
teed that to the remnants of the red race
Everywhere else, believe the borders of our
States have reached the great desert which
separates the Atlantic from the Pacific States
OF this confoderacy. No whore is African
slavery likely to flourish in the little basis of
that Sahara of Amrica. 1t is much more
likely think to get the Pacific slope, and to
the north in the great valley, than anywhere
else outside of the present limits. Shall we,
as some suggest, take Mexico and Central
America to make slave States? African
slavery appears to have failed there. Per-
haps, and most probably, it will never sue
coed I'm those regions. If it might, what are
we to d2with the seven or eight millions of
the hardly semi-oiyilized Indians. and the
two or three millionsof Creole Spaniar,ls and
Mongrels who now hold those countries D.
We would not enslave the Indians? Expe-
rience has proven that they are incapable of
steady labor, andare therefore unfit FOR slave
ry. We would not exterminatc them, even
if thatinhuman achievement would not cost
Gges ofmufder and incalculable sums of mo-
ney. o
ecould hardly think of attempting to
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