Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-08-07
PIcKENs COURT HOUSE, S. G. SATURDAY. AUGUST T. 1853.

pun IpoScS--t'lIIiiSj DanhS, OF ulrCCU t0tUpcr-
ing with slaves. But he did not think to-
day the North could Even fiat the next
Presidential election the North should. by
combination, elect an Abolitonist, he did
net think that ON that issue the great body
OF the South would go out of the Union.-
But if this were followed by second cleo
ton OF the same kind, he thought they
would.
Senator Hammond alluded to the fact
that the Northwestern States were not so
much to be viewed as enemies as New Eng
land. Indiana would have been slave
State had not the question been lost by one
vote, and if Tic Union were dissolved, it
might still be a slave State The North
cannot unite permanently while the South
can. The North never yet had an impor-
tant Office more than one term He there
fore feared nothing now. Yet he would
say to the people of the South, there may
be danger yet; stand to your arms, mark
time, and be ready, underuuy circumstances
or terms, to act promptly in resisting any
actual interference with our rights South
Carolinian courage, and boyonets fixed like
the brave Palmcttos at Chapultcpcc, be
ready, but do not charge too quick
The North is by no means wholly to
blame for the present condition of the sec
tions, Many of our grievances took their
rise at the South. Many false theories or
ignatcd here, and many others the South
adopted, With the effects of these we have
long strivcn. The victory is ours We
should now suffer the clouds of dust and cr-
ror to pass off, and then march boldly on
We have achieved a great moral power, and
should use it. In looking back at the er-
rors built up by the South herself, it may
be seen that she has been thirty years en-
gagged in pulling down the work of her own
hands during the preceding thirty. Our
proper position is to meet the issue we have
raised. Slavery is no sin. The slaveis in
his normal conditon--the right man in the
right place. This We have taught the
world, and it is a great blessing. The no
ton Of equality is gross absurdity, every
where contradictcd by nature. In nature
no two men are formed alike-no two things
arc equal God has made it so. 1t was
the poets idea of harmony, the spherical;
yet, the globes arc all irregular. This is
the great moral battle the South has fought
and won. France and England, after
long and expensive reflection, perceive the
rectitude and justice of our position. Look
at the condition of Exeter Hall, the rcndcz-
vous of fanatics, that has governed London
in its mock philanthropy-that has ruled
Great Britain in its crude speculative phi
losophy-from whence has issued all the
edicts of trouble to us-whencc sprung the
question of the right of search ofthe Amer
lean ships in American waters and in the
Gulf of Mexico.
This Exeter Hall was at its last gasp,
and had brought England to apologize to
us. Mr. Hammond then instanccd the
change of sentiment in England, and Mr.
Brights speech in the English House of
Commons. The people of Great Britain
were coming to their senses, and great
power was launching against the fanaticism
of Exeter Hall Hc then spoke of Great
Britain and the Coolie tradc-of the French
Louis Napoleon and his African apprentice
system, charactcrizing both as the result of
a correct conception of the proper sphere
of the laborers, accompanied by sickly
shrinking from the avowal OF the name
Who ever heard of the Coolie or apprentice
returning home a1tcryears ofscrfdom-Nh ho
would expect to hcarit? lie next referred
to the absurdity Of Liberia and its colon-
zation scheme. lit had to be supported by
the United States, ard, i is said, there is
a tax imposed on all those who philanthrop-
ically send out negroes from this country
We now learn that many of these "sons of
freedom" are bought at Liberia by Louis
Napoleon at $50 per head This caps the
climax of Exeter Fall philanthropy And
so in the Northern States of the Union,
the supporters of this crusade of abilition
will soon be reduced to corporals guard
of a few old maids and fanatics. Many of
these misguided people he respected for
their honesty. and for that alone. There
were many others, however, in fact a ma
jority, who were actuatcd not by sympathy
for the slave, but to have hobby which,
in times ofpolitical indiscretion, would car
ny them into office. 1t was, therefore, a
question of sectional power, rather than fan
aticism
In the State of New York hc knew there
were many good and true men, ready to
serve the South and the Union-men whose
word and honor could be relied on--while
at the South there were great number
whose fidelity was only lip.seryicc. He
knew Northern men who had voted to sus-
tain tho rights of the South when they felt
that, by so doing, they consigned them
selves to q hasty political grave. These men
gave us strength in the national councils,
and he desired their fellowship. Distinc-
tions were drawn between National" and
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