Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-19
The African Emigration sohama

ictcE VI poN' SoDD, anu the effort at cYadinp
our laws and renewing the slave trade:
We not only regard the Sccretary's letter
conclusive on every phase and point of the
question involved, and that it was tho only
proper and statcsmanlike response to the nn-
pllcation which the Administration could
give, but looking at the case as on its face an
EFFORT to enter upon the importation of wild
and savage Africans, never mind in what char
acter OF for what purpose into this country.
we deprecate and condemn it at large, and
depouncc it as unworthy of those gentlemen
ana dlsrespcctinI to this community
Ii the voyage was really intended, upon n
clearance being given to the vessel, there was
some purpose in it. Was it that there is so
muchtravel or voluntary emigration from
Africa to this country, that the parties sought
prottln the transportation of the sable pas
SenScrs This cannot bo pretended; or if
So neither the pretcncc nor the business
would be reputable.
Was it to introduce Africans rs permanent
ly free residents of the United States, wheth
or at the north or South 2 If so, the object
was still worse. What attempt to mingle
In tins country Africans and barbarians. on
a legal and level with white Angio-Saxon
irccmen in a civilized republic! The very
thought makes every American recoil. Sure
~ this was not contemplated
But was the object of the voyage to bring
the African emigrants to the United States
TO be made slaves or apprentices to labor?
Such must have been the secret motive-Atbe
real ultimate design. Will Messrs. Iaftte
d Co., deny it? Yet the Secretary's letter
clearly shows that the laws of Congress. both
IN letter and spirit, prohibit an importation
for these purposes to any part of the United
States. Does it become Southern citizens to
undertake or countenance clandestinc viola
tons of the laws of the land? These laws
are not alone federal cnactments; they arc
also the laws of South Carolina by her: own
legislation
Her Act of 1885 provides that, cit shall
not be lawful for any free negro or person of
color to migrate into this State, or be brought
orr, or introduced into its limits, under any pre-
text whatever, by land or by water.'' The
enactment is general rs to all the African un-
enslavcd race from any part of the world
Doesit become Carolnians, and tho comfy of
tho State with the others to violate the spirit
OF ms law, and to attempt to introduce such
lnterdlcted persons into other States. or to
Drlng them through other States into this
Was it intended in violation of the State law
to bring the vessel back to Charleston?
sEHRdlggn nMSIs4Sfs Hfss Lats9 Co. or their
OF the African emigrants before arrival, and
subjected themselves to the penalties of the
law against the slave to capture and treatment
as pirates. and to the forfeitures and punish
ment of the law of South Carolina? We
would not do them the wrong of the supposi-
ton. 9etwhat else can we suppose, except
that they intended clandcstinc landing, en-
slayemcnt and sale of the emigrants (?) in
some part ofthe South, for AN apprenticeship
in her limits would be abused, But let us
presume an apprenticeship TO have been in
tnnIn1 mt hoy l..
violation of law, the intention therefore repre-
hensiblc, and the business itself, in every
view, disrcputable? And when, and where,
and how has the South ever expressed q de-
sire for, or approval of African apprenticeship
in her limits, or the residence of African saw
ages in her midst? Her system is one of
ameliorated African slavery, involving nativ-
ity, obedience, order and affections. under
the supervision ofdomestic authority, the gra-
datlon OF neutrality-suspicious., and tho control
OF established laws. Law, humanity, socie-
ty, or domestic peace, civilization, political
integrity and dignity, plead trumpct-tougued
against such enterprises as the one proposed.
TuRILL1NG SPEECH FROM Bishop
SouLE.-A correspondent of the Columbus
(Geo) Sun, writes from Nashville, MS fol-
lows:
WhenI wrote my last epistle, the Confer
ence was still discussing the expunging res
olutions, which had created great inter
est in the whole community, as was evinccd
by the vast crowd daily assembled in the
Capitol. The modified resolutions were
made the order of the day for yesterday a
vast number of speeches were made many
by way of explanation, defining positions
&c. But the master spirit came forth and
Gained the billows of contention and rage
That great and good old man, the vene-
rable Bishop Soule, addressed the Confer
encc in speech Of great power and thrill
ing effect, He talked TO his people like an
affectionate father giving his dying charge
to his children. Oh lit was overwhelming;
never tilllnylatest breath shall forget his
form, his trembling limbs, his
tremulous voice, in which he expressed his
love to that Church and his brethren. /.
would to God could give you his words;
but 1 can't attempt that. He spoke OF sla-
very as being a civil institution, with which
the Church hadnothing to do The moth
er country (England) fixed the institution
upon us, and without its toloration the Fed
erSS Constitution never would have been
that the clause in the discipline re-
terred aloneto the African slave trade, and
had no business in our general rules; it
ought never to have been pitE there and
in most audible tone exclaimed: any
brethren, letus expunge it, for l have no
hope of meeting you again ip general eoun-
cil." ssss
Bishop Pietce then addressed the Confer
ence in short but eloquent speech, which
smoothed and melted al hearts. The vote