Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-08-25


in the drama and it will be prepared to en-
force its legislation. All regard to our rights
and the Constitution will then be gone, and it
will bea question of mere naked, unpriuciplcd
power. And we ave 10 wait until the issue is
thus presented, before we seek to protect our
selves. Why, even the last poor privilege of
the Indian Brahmin, of Lighting our own fu.
neral fires, will then be denied us.
There is no one 50 weak but he must pre-
ccivc, that whilst the spirit of abolition in the
North is increasing, slavery in the South, i'll
all the frontier States is decreasing Look
at Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky-oncc pow
crful slave States. With the decline of the
value of their great staple, tobacco, and the
immcncc demand for slave labor in the rich
cotton fields of the South, their slaves have
left and are leaving their soil. 1t is true,
that in these States in common with the
rest of the South, the insolcnt prctentons
and wicked interference of Abolitionsts
have aroused a spirit of resistance, and set
tied more deeply the dcto mnation to main
tain, as their undoubtcd right, the institution
of slavery, at every hazard. With them,
also, as with us, | understand, the question
OF slavery, in its moral and religious aspects,
has been lately most carefully examined
and the result is, amongst the Shareholders, at
least thorough conviction, that the institu
ton is sanctioned by christianity and best
for the race over whom it prevails But in
tercst may accomplish what neither con-
science commands, nor power can exort and,
III few years, these States may only nomi
nally hold slaves They may be lukcwarm
upon this subject. But it is for us-for us,
whose climate and soil will permit no other
laborcr to cultivate our plants;-for us with
whom 1T is question not for cxpedicncy but
of existence, personal and national-stcrnly
and promptly to place this vital matter at
rest Delay, not only physically but moral
ly, will weaken every day our capacity to
redress ourselves The most delicate scnsi-
bllitics will become dull by habitual outrage
The proude,t spirit be broken by insult long
tolerated. The high sense of national hon
or and character, which is the strongest bull
wark of peoples liberty, may become vast
cd and lost under the influence of tcazng
a5ltatlon-vain, harassing contcnton-and
insults and contumely continually endured
and that apathy to the public interest ard
welfare which is sure prelude to nations
downfall, gradually steal over the public
mind. Men will then be looking out for
chances, and be filled with vain hopes and
fears Instead of relying upon themselves,
they will be leaning upon others, until the
dread catastrophe comes, and sweeps them
shricking down the rapids. The path of
safety and honoris ever the same. TO delay
demanding our rights, is gencraly to abandon
them.
The Southern States arc destined to no
common fate in the history of nations They
VIII be amongst the greatest and frccst, or
the most abjcct of nations. History presents
no such combination for Republican liberty,
as that which exists amongst them. The AZ
rlcan for the laborcr-thu Anglo-Saxo for
the master and ruler, Both races will be
exalted and benefited by the relation We
dare not be passive with the responsibilities
which our situation involves. We must,
we will awakc-f not to glory to infamy
if not for defence, for destruction most mis-,
c@blcj if not to triumph-to- fall, to die
we arc allowed written by the hand of phi
lanthropy: Hero lie the mcancst onnrea
sors and towards who ever polluted the earth
with their blood"
When two or more parties coalesce to beat
another, they establish at least one point
that neither of them had any remaining hone
of succeeding separately When all the odds
and ends coalesce against Lincoln they confess
that, but for their coalition he would have
beaten them. And when the Douglass men
OF the slave States bargain with the Bellmen
OF those States to ego snacks" in an effort
to take those States away from Breckenridge,
they admit that Breckinridgc is stronger in
those States than either Douglas or BELL
For, mind you, they arc not conspirng there
to beat Lincoln--whose strength in that
quarter is not fcarcd-but to run Brcckinridpo
under
by this coalition, the Douglas men confess
that they arc not the National Democracy
In the Democratic States, they combine with
the anti-Dcmocrats TO beat what they thus
confess to be the regular Democratic party
And they will fai! even in this It's only re-
suit will be to put Douglas in 1860 where
Van Burcn brought up in 184S.
[N Y. Tribune.
Hon. p. O. HERBERT, Ex-Governor of
Louisiana, writes to the New Orleans Courier.
quoting passage of his message to tho Leg,
islature, in 1856, in which he claimed that
dlsunion was inevitably approaching. Events,
he thinks, have verified the opinion he then
advanced. He concludes as follows:
"The secession of the Southern delegates
at Charleston and Baltimore, upon prifioi-
Pile sosvital to us, and the final nominatidhsof
Messrs, Breckinridge and Lane upon his
principle, prove that the South has at last
come to her senses, and openly declared her
determination to accept {" the responsibilities
forced upon her" For once, the issue is
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