Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-01
Hon. w. r. Miles.

w y make the following extracts from the
speech of this gentlemen on the Kansas
question. He. is a good representative of
the true South Carolina principles
But, sir, do not care to dwell on argu.
mcnts of this kind, They have been often
and elaborately set forth by far ADLER hands
than mine. They are important and valu-
able; but it is not on question of dollars
and cents that the South would dissolve the
Union. The history of long, weary years
of unjust and unequal legislation has sufi-
GENTLY proved that point. But when it
shall be proved to the South not only that
the sceptre has forever departed from her;
( that she can never, concurrently with the
North, rule the common country, but that
she must forever occupy an inferior and
subordinate position; that she can never
expand, never occupy her just share of the
common territory that her Institutions and
civilization are at the mercy of sectional
majority, which tolerates them only to the
end that her people, as "hewers of wood
and drawers of water" may minister to its
perity-then, | believe, she will initiate
the example of our revolutionary sires, and
take her destinies into her own hands"
The South is often accused of an over
scnsitiveness on the subject of slavery-of
being morbidly irritable upon it. And, sir,
would it be strange if it were so2 Is she
not perpetually taunted, reviled, sneered at
by hundreds of Northern presses, Northern
pulpits and Northern orators r Is she not
held up to ridicule and contempts, to scorn
and execration, in every conceivable mode
and on every possible occasion? But when
Southern man, with natural and Zone
would think) pardonablc, indignation, re-
sents and repels with warmth these unques-
tionable attacks, he is requested "to keep
cool, not to be excited" and dubbed ga
iire-cater," if he cannot practice the in
junction of philosophical eq,ianimity
come here as a new member, just initiated
! into public life, and what are some of the
first things that hear on this very floor I?
hear man, Mr., Giddings, venerable in
years, one of the oldest members of this
| House, one who has sat here year aftor
year, and heard the calumnies against the
South exposed and rcfuted-I hear him,
upon whose hoary head the SHOWS of many
winters rest, and which should have soft
ened his aspcrity and filled his heart with
kindness and beneyolencc-I hear him, a
man known to be tottcring upon the brink
OF the grave, denounce his Southern breth-
rem with bitterness and vehcmcnce that
seemed almost intended as an incentive to
serVilc insurection, and to fire the mid
night torch of the inccndiary.
Let the South then set her house in Or
der collect'her strength, prepare for what
ever fate has in store for her in the future,
with faith in herself, and calm self-coni-
dencc. She is strong; let her be wisc.--
She has many interests, not antagonistic !;
let her unite and harmonic them. She
has untricd resources let her develope
them. Let her cultivate fraternal union
within her borders. Let her past dsscu-
slons. among her sons be forgotten. Let
them ignore petty issues and stand shoulder
to shoulder in her defence. With distract
ed counscls, she is at the mercy of her enc
mics. With a united people, she will be
inyincible. Possessing within herself every
element OF greatness, prosperity, and
strength, with an immense territory and
fertile sol, producing staple which shapes,
IN no small degree, the commerce of the
world, which the world can never again do
without, and which it is scarcely possible
that any other portion of the globe can ey-
er successfully compete with her in pndu-
cling; with such relation between capital
and labor as gives the best assurance of po-
litical conservatism and social stability, She
is prepared to fulfill her mission and occu-
py avforcmost place among the Powers of
the earth. She may do this in the rtnion
If allowed her due expansion and develop
ment. If necessity compels her, she can
and will do it independent and alone
The TERRITORIES OF TIE UNIoN.-
We observe in the proceedings of the Sen
ate ON Thursday, that the Committee on
Territories reported against the organization
of the Territory Of Arizona, and in lieu of
it submitted an amendment to the organic
act of New Mexico, which provides for a
new judicial circuit, to include the Gads-
den Purchase aud for anew census and ap-
portionment in the Territory, with view
to giving fair and equal representation in
the Territorial Legislature. 1t is presumed
that these provisions will remedy The evils
now complained of, without creating any
more Territorial Governments at present.
We have long been impressed with the
lnexpediency as well as the impropricty of
forming new Territories with but few in
habitants, and the evil Of forcing new States
into the Union before they have the requi-
] site population. We feel much confidence
that the provisions of the bill reported by
the Senate Committee, will have the effect
to prevent the recurrence of tn Lecomp-
ton contest. Tt provides. as VIII Sc seen,
| that no now State aholl W tforn,oA ,,t;I "a