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

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ing TINT with all their costly expenditures
and high sounding muniicStocs, they had
supply ruined their own colonies. and made
themselves the vasSals of the Shareholders
what have they done? Why. renewed the
slave trade. Not in name. Oh, no. Exeter
Hall and the Parliament Houses still thun-
der czccrations against that; while the colo
nlsts, under governmental protection, and
with English money, wrung by taxation from
hor wages slaves" arc importing by hum
dreds of thousands, Chinese and IIindoo COO
lies, under conditions compared with which
Algerinc slavery Of tho last century was ncr-
clful. They do not hold them as we do our
slaves, for better for wo'se in sickness and
health, i'll childhood and old age No: in
their prime Of life they scduce thom from
their homes, transport them to distant and
unwhoIcsomc clmcs: for the mercst pittanco
oil wages, consume their best year the Sc
vcrest labors, and then turn them die
tho dircst slavery that brutal man ever
instituted. France, less notwithstanding
no Exeter llall--embracing the same scheme
resorts TO Africa, and openly makes purcha-
SOS, for so they may DC called, from slave
cntchcrs; nay, she buys from the President
OF Liberia, the far-famcd sett cment OF our
own Colonization Society; buys tho colonists.
ourown cmancipatcd slaves, who 81 K oe FREQ
dom, prefer any form of slavery, and in their
desperation do not hesitate to MAKE their
pous patrons in this country the laughing
stock Of the whole world
Thus these two nations France and Eng
land, whose adoption OF this abolition
crotchct alone made it respectable and in
tluential have thoroughly rcnounccd 1t,
practically and almost in theory. The
press Of England, perhaps the greatest pow
er of the world, sustains these movements;
while in France the newspapers are openly
discussing the question OF importing negro
slaves, b. name, into Algeria. | think it
may be fairly said that in Europe abolition
has run its course. Brougham, Polmers
ton, Russell, and all the old political agita-
tors are hanging their harps upon the will
lows Even the son of Wilbcrforce, the
fanatic, approves Of ooolie slavery, which
we abhor. But recently the British gov
crnment openly surrendered its claim to
the right of scarch--a claim set up mainly
to put down the African slave trade, and
without which all attempts to do it will
probably be idle. And there is nothing to
surprise us in all this, if we are correct in
our views of African slavery. If it is sus-
tanned by the religion OF the Bible; if mci-
thor humanity nor sound philosophy op-
pose ii; if, as we arc convinced, it is a So
cia, political and economical beuefit to The
world; then it was inevitable thut sooner or
later, the abolition crusade must die out
and why not now
If there is truth in what have stated to
you--ii' the abolition fever has noarly or
quite exhausted itself in Europe-if time
and facts have proved there that il is an
absurdlty-it seems to ne we should not
doubt that its career il about to close hore
such 10 my opinion, however differently
those may thinl; who judge only byappear-
ances, OF take their news from agitating pol
itcians. | ask amy one to tell me upon
what measure or upon what man the abo-
lltlonlsts of this country can ever again
muster their legions as they did in 1856
Kansas is squeezed dry. it stinks in the
nostrils of all people. They can DO no more
there. Will they try ''cry" against the
Supreme Court for the Drcd Scott dccis-
ION? What is there in that to intlamc
popular sentiment? 1t is always uphill
business to agtate against judiciary, huS
especially against the Supreme Court of the
United States, which the northern people
have been taught to revere as the bulwark
of their Liberties. Will they demand the
abolition Of slavery in the District OF Co
lumbia? They have never been able TO 90
much with that, though they have often
tried That issue is q little too practical
and too dangerous. Not many arc bold
enough to embark in it. They might as
well make the question of disunion nakcdly
VIII they take up the abstract, and, proba-
bly,, never again to be other than abstract.
propositions of ''no more slave States -
They have done it. They hare already split
upon it. The northwest will not take H.,
and the free States, at bottom, all want
Cuba They love molasscs, and banker
after free trade with that rich Island
Where then, are they to go, cannot see.
They do not appear to sec Themselves
VIII any one state the practical question,
II VIC offer them none-and we have none
to offer, On which they are next to rally for
the conquest Of the South !? The measure
or the man? 1t does seem to me that this
great fire is dying out for want Of fuel
That this crusade, as many crusades have
done, has exhausted itself, and that there is
no argument rlcadcr that can keep it alive.
Their Peter Hormits, thoir Godfreys, their
Baldwins, then lion-hcarted Richards, where
are they? 1t seems that they will scarce
ly agree even on their Louis X who shall
lead their last pious campaign and suffer
martyrdom.
And let me say that if the abolitionists
cannot unite the free States as a purely an
ti-slavery party in the Presidential election