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

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prepared; and the very efforts we must
make to prevent such results will better
( prepare Us than any course we can pursue
that | can see. We must be prepared, !
say, to take care of ourselves, whatefcr may
come 1t is clear that tho slayehuldng
States Of this confodcracy, whatever haz-
ards they may choose to incur by remaining
iii alliance with n majority Of fnon-savehold-
crs now so infamed against them, must
ever and at all times held their dcstinics in
their own hands They can never permit
any foreign power to lcgislato in reference
to their peculiar industrial System; whcth-
or to abolish or modify, or impose undue
burdens on it. Such legislation must be
resisted with all our means, and without
| regard to any consequences. If it should
80 happen that the free States of this Union,
being now, and always to be, in majority,
do establish political line between the two
sections and the two systems of labor, leg
islate upon it and maintain it, then they
will constitute power as foreign to us as
any nation in the world, and We cannot sub
nit to it. Whatever the weak and de-
| fonccIcss colonies of other countries may
have submitted to, before these Southern
States viii be placed in the condition of ST.
Domingo or Jamaica, or one at all approx
inating to it, they will rend this Union in
to fragments and plunge the world in run.
1T IL in their power to do both, for the
world cannot get on without them and, if
ruthless fanatcism and brute force combine,
under whatever names, and with whatever
authority, to ride them down, they will car
iy with them the pillars of the temple, of
civilization, and force common fate on all
| mankind.
There are many who believe chat some
such a catastrophe is inevitable 1t cannot
be denied that, from appearances, here and
elsewhere, it is entirely possible, and it may
not be unwse for all Of us to suppose it
probable. Although think 3hat the ranks
OF our enemies arc broken and the moral
victory won, [ am far from ptoclaiming that
the battle is over, and that we have row
only to gather the fruits of our suocess-
Nany battle has been won and lost again,
by oyerweening confidence, by reckless pur-
suit, or by turning aside for the sake of
spoil. Let us fall into none of these errors;
for we arc still in the very heat and tur-
MOL of this great conflict, and all might
yet he lost. What ! wish to impress upon
you Is, that there is hope for oHort-tti-
umph Tor union, energy and perseverance.
1t las fallen upon the Shareholders of the
South to conduct this question of African
slavery to lis final conclusion. Such ia our
fate. 1t is inuYitablc. Let US chscrfully
accept and maufutly perform our destined
parts aud Go it with no diBtrust of God :;
with no misgiyiaga Of our cause or of our
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to lily from dangers which cannot be avoid
ed, which have not been proven to be in
surmountable, and which |, for one, believe
that we can conquer After what has been
achieved by divided south, now that it is
almost thoroughly united now that we
nave President and his Cabinet; major
ity IL both Houses of Congress; Supreme
/ Court Of the United States and still hosts
OF allies in the free States, all substantial
~ concuning with US in our construction
! of the constitution, and under its obliga-
tions earnestly battling with us for the main
tenancc Gt our l!ghts and intcrcsts--we owe
1t to our country, to ourselves, to the world
aad to postcrlty, 70 cast aside all weak fears;
ali petty or impracticable issues all mere
wranging and vitupcraton, personal and
sectional, and move forward with the dig
mty OF conscious strength and the calm
ness of undoubtcd courage, to the over
throw Of every false theory of government,
and every sentimental scheme for or.aniz
ing labor; carrying with us the constitution
of our fathers, and, if we can their Union
But the slave States constituting, and as
think forever to constitute, numerical
minority, can, however, accomplish nothing
/ Ill ti.is oniOn, without inc ain of faithful
allies in the free States. 1t has been of
late too much tic habit in the South to
mstrust all such a!lics-to disparage, to
denouncc and drive them from us. Moth
ing could be more unw,sc OF more unjust
1t Is distrusting the truth and Justice of
our own cause, Or caluminating human ma
turc, to doubt that there are in the free
States thousands of sound thinking, true
hearted and gallant men, who concur es-
sentially in our views, and are ready to
make common cause with us. Nay, it is
falsifyinS history and fact. During the late
session saw men acting cordially and Wig.
orousy with us against the positive instruc
tlons of their excited constituents, at the
hazard of political mortyrdom; and in two
instances that martyrdom was consulnma-
ted before the adjournment Shall we do
no honor to such men? Shall we pay no
tribute to such heroic devotion to truth, to
justice, and the constitution Shall we
reviIc them in common with all northern
men, because many rcvile and some have
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