Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-12-03
MISCELLANY.
From the Camden Journal.
Letters to the Chestnut Dinner.

Fort HILL, Sept. -, 1850.
Gc"hc","": | regret it will not be in
my power to accept your invitation to at
tend a public dinner, to be given to Scna
tor Chestnut, by the citzcus of Kcrshaw
District, on the 2Sth inst.
The views of one occupying the distin.
gu!Shc'l position of your fellow citizen, will
be looked for with great interest in the
present truly alarming condition of the
South; say alarming, because the South
!uua not seem To realize the multiplied
troubles in store for her, if Il remedy, as
acute as the disease, is not applied to arrest
the fearful invoads that have been made
upon her rights. SO constantly and in
sidiouSIy have We been attackcd-so impo-
tent has been our positions to resist the in
raSon, that every candid mindmust admit
the South has lost and the North gained
all towards cffccting the consummation she
has followed up so diabolically, and has SO
much mt hcart-the utter destruction of
our present organism of society. I'm this
Union all hope Of future slave States is
gone, and the policy of the South has been
50 compromising and trcachcrous to herself.
that now the mask is dropped, and we arc
boldly told the issue is a death struggle be-
tween hircing and slave States Strange
to say, we are counsellcS by prominent
Southern men to take it quictly-to trust
IN radical changes in Northern public opin-
i"n-that political millennium is coming
when the Hydra with its many heads of
lust for naticiSm--maignan ha
trcd-and undiSguiscd envy. will lie down
pcoce"bly with the yielding, compromising,
lnmblkc national conservatism Of the
South.
From small beginning in 1888, The
organized anti-slavcry party has swclcd
into dimensions to embrace all the non.
slavcholdng States. The party calculators
for the next Presidential election, even in
the South, must admit that no Southern
man-umcsS he be renegade stands any
chance in the canvass cf 1860, and the
only prospect for the spoilsmcn is toacccpt
candidate from the hostile section, who
can draw off sufficient strength of free
soil votes in the electoral College, to offer
chance to the cupdity of the South, to
elect a tainted President. Concqdc what
is almost mpossibc--success How stands
the South In either alternative the clcc-
tion of a frcc-soilcr or black republican.
the North carries her principles into power,
and the pressure from that quarter will
stamp the policy of the next administration
The people of the Territories will be clothed
with sovereignty, and Congress will not in
tcrferc to protect the STAKEHOLDER in the
common territory of all the States, and the
area of slave States will be even more com
pressed than at present PrcSidcnt-making.
or Presidents cannot save the South. III
fourteen proud sovercigntirs cannot, either
collectively or sngly, take their own affairs
in,o their own hands, no event can be
clearer in the future than that they will be
the most oppressed and accurscd section
that ever submitted to the denomination of
n race who pant to sec dscord and ruin de-
vastntc Our country.
TO show how far forbcarancc, upon the
part of the South, has alrcady gone, the
almost certainty is ahead OF Black Re
publican President being elected in 1860
by Northern voters exclusively; +; such is
their prcpondcrancc already acquired in the
Electoral College, by the past concessions
of the South Instead of startling the
South into immediate preparation for ac-
ton, such has been the iuroads already made
upon her spirit, that somc arc to be found
ready to declare in advance, that the rcoui
sitions of the Constitution will be complied
with. and the election of Black Rcpubi-
can President will be "purcIy Constitutions