Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-08-18
POLL 1r rOOAG.
From the Southern Guardian.
Letter from Hon. w. w Boyc

Letter from Hon W. w Boyce.
SABINE FARM, August Sd, 1860.
Gentlemcn.-My high respect for you in
duccs me to hasten reply to your note
Ii Lincoln be elected, | think the Southern
States should withdraw from the Union all,
1t not all, then rs many rs will, and if no 9TH
or, South Carolina alone, in the promptest
manner, and by tho most direct means
10 comprehend the full significance of Lin
coln S election, VIC must remember the princi-
pies, the character and the sentiment of the
Republican party.
The vital principle Of this party is negro
equality, the only logical .fnuie of which is
emancipation. TO sec this, it is only ncccssa-
rv to look at their platform, which, though
intended for obvious reasons ofpolicy to appear
conservative, yet raises the veil in part This
platform says eve hold that all men arc crea-
ted equal, that they are endowed by their Gre
ator with certain iunlienablc rights that
among these, are life, liberty" &c. and this
on the motion of MIR. Gdtlings This is in
tended to include negroes. 1t follows there
fore, according to Republican faith, that no
one crn be righlfully held in slavery
Slavery, then, is great wrong.
The Republican party are bound, there
fore, 50 tjras their constitutional power goes, to
remove that wrong. At present their pract
cal point of attack is the Territories when
this question snail no longer exist, then the
District of Columbia will receive their attcn-
tion, and so on with the other outposts of
slavery. Surprising these ontposts disposed
Of then the movement necessarily must be d,
rooted against slavery in the States. The par
ty will be bound to exercise its constitutional
powers to destroy slavery in the States 1t
hn l.
the Republicans, to agitate the question so MS
ish slavery. Aud as soon as the admission of
new free States. qnd the change of status of
some of the border states furnished the nccos-
Republican party would be. sure to demand
Statcs The Republican party has but one
Wilson of Massachusetts, one of the ablest
men in thc Republican party comprchcndcd
the mission of his pnrty when he said in Dos
ton, (" tell you here tonight, that the aeita
ton Of human slavery will continue while the
foot OF slave presses the soil of the Amcri-
can Republic"
scrtinnnism- 1t is party confined entirely
d Northern men. The idea of the majority
scc,. N banding together for the purpose OF
seizing non the Government, is at war with
the spri, of the Constitutions The great
idea of the Constitution is the equality of the
States. The seizure of the Government by
one scutioA is II practical revelation i'm the
come the master States, and the Southern
tot. inly into -, id
is not the Union into which our fathers en-
tion of Washington, Southern stakeholder,
who had humblcd England
~ new order of things which the RcpuD-
lean pG,.s p 'poscs to introduce would be in
augurntcd by tn, administration of Lincoln,
a Northern Aboltionlo,, %ho would humble
the South. Between the two odministra-
tions what profound gull Thn first repro
scntcd the perfect equality of the y, '"s, tie
second would represent the domination of '.
North and the subiugation of the South. A
half dozen unsuccessful campaigns could not
put the Soath in a moro abject condition.
BY the sentiment of this party, mean its
nntagonisn to the South. 1t requires no
elaborate proof to show that the feeling of
this party is that of hostility to the South, -
ne tone OF the hcpuoilcan press, the temper
of public speeches, such as arc delivered by
summer and Lovcjoy, and other leading men
in the party. the sympathy for John Brown,
tho very agitation of the slavery question, and
numerous other facts which might be cited,
show that the great passion on which the Re-
publican party rests is hatred to the South
Such being the Republican party, for tho
South to consent to its domination, is to con-
sent to death Not that opprehcnd any
startling measures of aggression by this party
Immediately. No, its policy is too obviously
a wise moderation, md it's leaders are men of
toomuch sagacity, to be driven ahead of their
programme. But the mere fact of such par
ty taking possession of tho Federal Govern
mont, with the acquiescence of the South,
will bethe most fatal blow the South has ever
received. The whole power and patronage of
the Government will be placed upon the side