Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-07-10
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of our politicians and newspaper editors,
who are ctcrnally pouring flood of abuse
upon everything that squnts of Yankee
dom; and increasingly ranting about States
Rights, Southern Rights and Southern
Union.
Why this unrcmitting and uncnding cry
of wolf, wolf-thcsc constant and frothy
speeches about invaded rights Arc they
afraid the people will distrust their courage,
or their patriotism, if they arc less noisy
and boistcrous on the subject; or are they
striving in good earnest to inform the peo-
pie, and arouse them to Il proper sense of
their danger! If they desire to keep up
character for courage and patriotism they
arc taking the surcst steps to defeat their
purpose; if they arc really octuatcd by the
higher and purer motive of creating in the
minds of the people just indignation at
the wrongs which have been hcapcd upon
them (with all due dcfcrcncc to their opin-
ions,) we think they have mistaken the
proper means, In spite of all that may be
said to the contrary, such men arc consid-
cred alarniStS BY the people at large, and
their statements arc taken as onc-sidcd
statements, and their views of every subject
IL
regarded as not sufficiently impartial, and
often too highly colorcd with the prcjudiccs
of the author. We have seen that such
line OF policy may occasionally produce a
spasmodic effort at resistance but they are
only spasmodic, and tend, by their unsuc-
ccSsful issues, to postpone proper and sue
| cossful redress of our grievances. Let
proper and unprcjudiccd statement of the
facts on both sides be made, giving the
North credit for all that it is justly entitled
to, and claiming nothing moro or less than
the Constitution and laws of our Govern
mcnt give us showing, when necessary, a
proper spirit of resistance to unjust legisla-
ton and oppression, without rant, without
any Buncombe fire and thunder and our
word for it, the people will not fail to strike
at the proper time for their rights. This
is the only course which can inspire conf
dcncc, and which can give them proper
understanding of their true position in the
Government. They will not take it for
granted, because they are told, in the de-
clamatory explosions of stump orators, that
their rights arc invaded; they want to know
the facts of the case, and to sec both sides
of the question; they may, it is true, be
wrought up to fever heat occasionally, by
war speeches, in which appeals are made
to their courage and chiyalry, but without
proper sense of the wrongs they have
suffered, arising from a full knowledge of
the facts which constitute these acts of in
justice, this cbulution of feeling must soon
pass away, and leave those who are made to
experience tmore negligent and less watch
ful of their interests than ever. Besides,
this spirit of boastinS and eternal abuse OF
the North does not well accord with that
chiyalrOus bearing and magnanimity which
we claim for ourselves. We believe the
North is hopclcssly abolitionizcd; VIC be
lieve, farther, that the Black Republican
party is doing all in its power to destroy
the institution of slavery; but this should
not prevent US from doing justice to those
Northern men who, with a remaining sense
of justice to US, arc striving against an over.
whclming majority. We cannot help feel
ing indignant at the fathcss course pur
sued by the Abolitionists, but we should
express our indignation in dignified and
manly way, without initiating their foul
mouthcd speeches. When We have ex
haustcd the argument with them VIC should
stop, and say to them, "wc have nothing
further to offer you" Thore is so mucl
said for Buncombe, and for the sake of be
ing considered more patriotic than every
body else, that many of our people, as wei
as thousands at the North, believe all W.
say about rcsistanccto be nothing moro o.
less than "blustcring bravado."
'SpartanLu,y Express
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THE LAST ATTEMPT TO AssAssINATl
Louis NAPOLEON. The Paris correspon
dent of the Liverpool Journal gives tin
following particulars of the late attempt t,
assassinate the Emperor Napoleon at Fon
tainblcau
"The Emperor was riding slowly OF
horseback a little in advance of the rest 8
tho party by whom he was accompanied
Suddenly his horse reared and SHE'D a
some unseen danger, and the Emperor, VIII
is iirstrate horseman, instantly aware, a
if by prcscntment, of coming evil, thrcy
himself to one side just as perfect vollo
was fired over him? The assassins wer
ten in number, all Italians; four have bccl
taken, while the remainder, up to the pres
: ent moment, have escaped 1t is this lat
ter fact which has caused that sudden raj
amongst the Italians domiciliatcd in Pari
and which the orders of the police renderc,
SO stringent and severe, together with th
, dismissal and disgrace of certain Uorsica
chief dc brigade of police, who hitherto ha
} been great favorite--both of which event
have created great talk and suspicion q
the truth In Paris during the past few days