Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-02-04
picKENs COURT HOUSE. s. C. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4, 1860


as standard there to show you how far you,
can disregard these symptoms 1t is II sort
OF Nileomctcr, to show that the water is ri
sing, and if you head it not it will overflow
the country. How many men contributed to
this attack How many knew of its exis-
/ tence |! How many were engaged i'm this plan
to imblne their hands in the Blood of slave
holders 1t is the object of statesmen ia
deal with absolute focts--we have them, and
| have certain proof that there must have been
many menin those Northern regions of the
country who knew of this intended attack. -
Who spoke Who gave notice x single
voice, and that disregarded, aud the matter
broke in upon us as thunder cloud and
Showed you an advance of the feeling against
the South that no man could have believed,
except for this movement. What happened
attcry We see q feeling of sympathy all
over the North. Counsel coming from dis
tant clty-the " Athens Of the country
to defend the murderer Now, we are not
surprised to see men volunteer to defend trai-
tors; but to see men volunteer to defend MUIR
dercrs who had plotted the assassination of in
nocent families, is unhenrd of in the annals
| of jurisprudence. We'll, you take these men
and bring them to trial. How Quietly as
you would any other offenders against your
laws? You find indications of such char,
octer as to force you to bring ont the military
power of the State to keep at bay the sympa-
thizers of the murdercrs. And when You ex-
ccute them, voice of lamentation is heard,
as if Latimer and Ridley were about going to
the stake. You hear bells tolled all over the
North, and to the discredit of our institutions;
(for regard this matter as a discredit to our
whole country; J you see offered in one of
our State Legislatures resolution to adjourn
in honor of John Brown, which failed by on
| ly three votes. / say these are indications
which yon cannot put aside. Every village
bell telled was voice procaiming to Virgin
ia this is the feeling which surrounds us hore.
We all know that familiarity with scenes di-
vests them of their real character; and to a
man daily standing beneath the falls of Mag
ara, dare say, in few weeks, he will begin
to regard it as the ordinary passage of water
down stream, You, in Virginia, have heard
so much of the affair, that, it seems to be
magnifed. Look at it from another point
set itacross the water. Suppose that the ex-
l.plosion at the opera house in Paris, intended
to destroy the Emperor, had been lauded by
every English paper. Suppose it had succec-
dcd, and simultaneously there had appeared
in every English paper an avowal of the act,
a toling of bells in the English villages and
motion to adjourn in the English Parliament
Docs any man suppose that the French nation
would have abidcd that one hour Would
the French armies nave stood still one mo-
mcntY Yet, here we arc in the same posi-
ton. 1t may be said that Louis Napoleon
was tyrant, that he had seized the sceptrc
1 OF his country, and he might have been NAL
| igned as we are at the North. Does any one
suppose that the English nation would not
| have been treated as outlaws by the civilized
world? The Legislatures of the North in
| applaudng this act are guilty of it's commits
sion, and show that they are willing to take
the same stand. But this is not all We
have still further developments. Shortly af-
ter this affair took place, there were elections
at the North, and every Southern man suppo-
sed that the people there would recoil from
the act; and at the New York election we were
told thatit wouldbe shown now that only ex-
treme mon endorsed it,, and tho people at the
polls would condemn it. 1t turns out that
the aboltionists were strong enough to defeat
both parties. Still later, in Congress, we see
l04 men voting in solid column for man
who signed the endorsation of book urging
revolution at the South, and who will make
no retiaction of the act and though many
ballots have taken place, and our friends are
going from banncrto banner, they stand firm
and wait to see if we will be reduced to sub
mission.
Now gentlemen, / have entered into this
matterto show you that we are obliged to review
our relations with the North. That if this
matter pass, hundreds will follow in the foot
steps Of those whom you have driven from
your borders. | have endeayored to ascer
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