Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-09-25
Letter from Hon 3 f. Hallet
TO TIE ORR DINNER.
BosToN, MASS. August 6, 1853,

invitation To be present at Il dinncr to be CIV
ell at his native place, by his fellow, citizens
to the Hon. james l.. Orr, for his eminent
public services.
| have had the pleasure of knowing Col.
Orr during the period of his marked and
distinguished Congressional career, and
desire to avail myself of this occasion to ex-
press my admiration of his uniform course
as statesman. Especially would com
mend the large view he has always taken
of the tr,,c relations of confidence and CO.
operation that must be maintained between
the Southern and the Northern Democracy
in order to secure not merely the aScen-
dancy of the Democratic party in the Union
but the continuance of the Union itself
Col. Orr has never failed us Southern
man to appreciate and understand the Nor
thcrn National Democracy in their rcla,
tons to the South and to the Union.
At the South the opponents OF the Dem
ocTtic party Labor to defeat it by making
Southern Democrats believe that all North
cr Democrats arc Abolitionsts. On this
point Southern men are art to be too cred
ulous; and believing that the whole North
is trcachcrous to the Constitution, they de-
noumcc the whole indiscriminatcly and thus
furnish the Abolitionists with the argument
they use mOst effectively to draw oil North
crn Democrats from their fraternity with
the Sonth. Looking back, we find that
the united Northern and Southern Dcnoc
racy have twelve times elected Democratic
Presidents. In neither case could they
have succeeded without this union. Look
forward, it is equally clear that success can
n,l, fro,, a l,n
Hence the idea ought not to he entertained
North or South, that there is distinction.
much less antagonisw, between National
Democrats and States Rights Democrats
| The progress of events is si@niicaut.-
The numerical bal"uco in the Senate b.
tween the two claSslcatiuns % States can
no longer be relied on ior an cGuilihrium of
union. The National Democracy in the
free States is the only substitute, and this
has become the indispensable Safeguard Of
the Union. How important, thea, the re-
lations between the Nurthoruand Southern
Democracy The South cannot elect a
| HreSdeut, but with the National Democrats
OF the North, when united, they always
have and always will together hold the Ad
ministration. Now The practical issue on
open question of the power of Congress
over slavery in the Territories. On every
other point the Northern and Southern uni
ted Democracy have achieved permanent
victories.
First, they settled it, that by the Consti-
tuition no State had granted to Congress any
power to interfere with its domestic institu-
tions; and that consequently its forms of
labor are its own, just us invioiable as its
| foruls of faith.
Historical research has developed a great
fact to strengthen this position now imprcg-
nnblc, viz: that the colonies instructed the
delegates they sent to the Congress, that
they should agree to declarct the united col
oaies independent only on the condition
f" that the regulation N the Internal affairs
OF each colony should be left to its own
Legislature" John Hancock, of Mnssa
chusetts, was the first to introduce this prin-
ciple into the Constitution of the United
States, by his amendments reserving to
the respective States all powers not delega-
ted to the United States" But Massachu
sets has persistontly repudated Hancock
and the Constitution, and demanded con
soidation first, wherr she wanted her com
merce, and second, when she wanted her
tariff to rule the Union Now she demands
Northern consultations to rule the South
ny insisting t!iat Congress sh,ll prohibit
slavery in the territories. Defeated every
where else ON the former dogmas, she has
just defeated herself on the last, by her
Representatives in Congress voting for the
Crittepden. Montgomery bill for the admis-
sion of Kansas. thus concedng that the new
States shall decidcthe question as to slavery.
1t is encouraging to note the progress of
the argument and the force of fconstitution-
al truth. First, they were compelled to
admit that Congress has no power over
slavcryin the old States; when they iusis-
ted that they could restrictit in anew State
and struck at the sovereignty Of Missouri.
But the Northern and Southern Dcmocra-
cy settled the principle there that a new
Stltc comes into the Union with all the
powers ofan old State, because Congress
can admit nothing less than State. The
error nude in that adjustment was admit
ting geographical iisie as /; 3i9;s;Gm ef slit
rights of the States in the Territories
From that error sprang up the conflict on
the issue of the power of Congress to pro-
hibit slavery in the Territories, and here a
great swarm of Democrats at the North
rushed into Abolitionism. Tho honest
amo0g them werc nislcd by the spccious
argument, that # slave labor went into a
Territory, free labos usust 10 excluded, :