Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-03-20

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I ligence has made the divergence so great as
to produce civil wars and rcyolntions.j and ii
I is nothing now but the want ofharmony be-
| tween governments aud societies which occa-
/ siOns ali the uneasiness and trouble and ter
ror that we see abroad. II was this that
brought ON the American Revolution. We
| threw off IL government not adapted to our 40
cial system, and made one for ourselves
| The question is, how have we succeeded?-
| The,South, SO far as that is concerned, is sat
isfed, content happy, harmonious, and pros
porous. -
In all social systems there must be aclass
to do the mean duties, to perform the drud-s
gerry of life That is, a class requiring but O.
low order ofintellect, and but little skill.---
Its requisites are vigor, doclity, fidelity
Such class you must have or you would not
have that class which leads progress, refine
neptand civilization. Itconsttutes the very
mud-sills of society and OF political govern
incnt and YOU mightas well attempt to build
II house in the air, as to build either one or
the other, except on the mud-sis. Fortu-
| natC.y for the South, she found a race adapt
/ ed TO that purpose to her hand. race in
| ferior to herself, but cminently qualified in
temper, in vigor in docihty, III capacity to
stand the climate, to answerallher purposes.
| We use them for the purpose, and call them
| slaves. We are old-fashioned at the South
yet; it is q word discarded now by ears po-
lite: but will not characterize that class at
the North with that term but yon have 1t;
it is there; it is everywhere it is eternal.
The Senator from New York said yesterdaf
ihat the whole world had abolished slavery.
Ay, the name, butnot the thing; and all til.
| powers of tho earth cannot abolish it. God
| only eau. do it when he ropcals the fiat. "the
| poor yeaways have with you;" for the man
who lives by daily labor, and scarcely lives,
at that, and who has to put out his labor in
nj tl, In
1T; III short, your whole class of manual la
horcrs aud operatives, as you call them, arc
slaves. The difference between us is, that
| our slaves arc hired for lifeaplwell compen-
satod; there is no starvation, no begging, 40
want OF employment among our people and
not too much employment either. Ioursare
hired by the day, not cared for, and scuntily
compensated, which may be proved in tho
most deplorablc manner. at any hour, in any
street i'll any of your large towns. Why, sir,
you meet more beggars in one day, in any
sngl street of tho city of Now York, than
you would meet in a lifetime in. the
whole South Our slaves are black, of
another, inferior race. The stot@s in which
we have placed them'is an elevation. They
are elevated from the condition in which God
hrst created them, by being made our slave
None of that race on the whole face of the
globe can be compared with the slaves of tho
South, and they knowit They are happy,
content unaspiring. and utterly incapable,
from Intellectual degradation, everto give us
any trouble by their aspirations.
Your slaves are white, fyour own race:
you are brothers of one blood They are
yotr equals in natural endowment of intel-
Leo, and Il ey feel CALLED by theirdcg a lation,
Our slaves do not vote. We give them no
political power, Yours do vote and hcihg
the majority. they are the repositories of ali
your political power. If they knew the tre-
mendous secret, that the ballot COX is stronger
than an army with bayoncts, and could COM
blnc, where would you be? Your society
would bereconstructed, your government re-
eonstrooted your property divided, not es
they have mistakenly attempted to initiate
such proceedings by yineeting in parks with
arms in their hands, but by the quiet process
OF the ballot-box. You have been making
ar upon us to ouryery "Reminiscences How
would you like for us to send lecturers or az
itators North, to teach these people this, to
aid and assist in combining, and to lead
then3 t+ -t st-;
MrIWilson and others. Send them along.
Mr, Hammond. You saysend tlIem North.
There is no need of that They are coming
here. They are laundering at our doors for
homestcads Of one hundred and sixty acres
of land for nothing, and Southern Senators
are supportingit Nay, they are assembling,
as have said, with arms in their hands, and
MOlh ub Dl,OUu n wear ana
hours a,day. Have you heard that the ghost
-ot Mendoza is stalking in the streets of your
bg cities; that the inquisition is at hand?
There is ahoat a fearful rumor that there have
been consultations forvigiIance committees.
You know what that means already Iran
sient5and temporary causes have TINS far
been yonr preservation. The great West haa
been open to. your surplus population, and
your hordes OF semi barbarian emigrants, who
are crowdmg inyea by year, They make
great movement, and you call it progress
WhitherH tits progress; hut it is progress
towards Vigilance committees. Yhe South
fhayesustainod you in o great measure, You
areour factors, You bring and carry for us
One hundred and fifty million dollars of our
money passes, annually through your hands
Much OF 1T sticks; all Of itassiststo keep your
together and in motion. Suppose
we were to discharge you; suppose %o we're
TO take our business out of Your hands; we
should consign you to anarchy and poverty.
4ousscon'paht, Of the rulo of the South
that has been another cause TINT has pre-
scrSedyou. We hayo kept tho Goyornmont
conservative to the great purposes OF, The
Govcrnment We have placed her and kept
her upon the Constitution, and that has be6n
tho eanse of your peace and prosperity. Tho
Senator from New York says that that ia
About TO sbe, at an end that you Intend to
take the Government iTopl us that twill
pass from our hands, Perhaps what he saws
as trues ii may be;' hat do not forgot it~it
can ncyersbef forgotten; it is written on the
briglItost ppysosof hnlaan Ilistofys--that No.
the Shareholders of the South, took our coun.
Try inhor Infancy, and after ruling her for