Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-01


not act without Georgia, Alabama and Mis-
sisSippi The Colonel knows very we'll that
he is perfectly safe in waiting for Georgia.
lie would not be more so i'll waiting for Ma
ryland and Kentucky.
This agitation of disunion is calculated
foo, to damage seriously the prospects of
Breckenridge and Lame in the Southern
States, well as in the Northern States. -
Bells party and Douglas friends North and
South will make capital out Of it, to the in
jury of Brcckinridgc.
! go for Breckenridge in this contest, with
all my heart, and will say, under existing
circumstances, that it shows a want of wisdom
or fcalty to the South for any Southern man
to oppose him Nothing can be moro inju,
dcious than the starting of Douglas ticket
in any Southern state. It's only tendency
will be to give the vote Of the State to Bell,
and paralyzc the strength of the South
Nor do think any Breckenridge ticket
should be started in non.slavcholding state.
Its effect will be to give the vote of such
State to the Black Republicans 1t would
be much better to have Douglas in the Pres
ilcncy than I.incph. But it is almost Ger
tain that ii two Democratic tickets are run in
the Northern Stptcs that Douglas will not
carry single State
wrosg that Judge Douglas friends should
have urged his claims So strongly as they did
in the Charleston Convention The South
was entitled to the President The election
depended on the Sonth. She had the Dem
ocratlc strength in great degree The South
MAS prGiudiccd against Douglas, . no
doubt may of the SGccdcrs had rather sec Lin
coin elected
The Charleston Convention ought to have
boon composed of National Democrats, and
then there would have been no rliviion in
our ranks. Mr.. Ianccy and his friends had
no more right to a seat in the Convention
: than Mr. Il. b. Rhctt and his friends had. -
They stood on the same platform, AID
| thought, and so said to my Convention friends,
that they cvinccd unnccccssary Squoamish-
ness after following Mr. Yanccy out OF the
/ Convention, to refuse the pro!crcd lead OF Mr..
Rhett after they got out
With uncommon ability, Mr. Boycc, in
! 1881, exposed the folly Of separate State ac-
ton and secession. Why he has now changed
| am at loss to know. It would be we'll for
him to take up some of his old arguments and
answer them. He might find it hard to do
But still, unti they are answered, they must
have their Influence on the public mind.
Col. Orr declared in the Columbia Con
vcnton and scaled it with an oath, $50 help
me i;OI, whilst the Federal Government is
administered on Constitutional principles nci.
ther my hand or my voice shall ever be raised
against this Union" Now the election OF
Abe Lincoln will violate no Constitutional
principle, or provision of the Constitution =
! When such violation occurs under Incolns
Administration, the whole South may be
united, and policy and patriotism dictate that
| SlDnIu wait fill tln uinl.fi,,
1t may be that I am mistaken in suppo-
sing slavery to be out of the reach of the AS
saults of its foes, and if 50 | will be as ready
as any one to defend it at the sacrifice of the
! Union itself, as much as value the Union.
But am not willing to act prcmaturcly when
| there Is no danger. As to dissolve the Tn
ZION on a mere abstraction, the right to carry
! slaves where shareholders desire to carry
them, and where they would be worthless if
carried am opposed to it now and forever;
and Shall cndcavor to defend the rights of
the South in the C,.On, where | think they
have been heretofore properly defended, and
may still be defended ii the South is true TO
| herself and united in that defence
! That nlI who were dsunionists should
hay" rHJoiccd at the breaking up Of the Dem
ocrntIc Convention in Charleston is very
natural. They saw in that moyomcnt the
destruction of the National Democracy and
their defeat III the coming Presidential ccc-
ton. They saw in the future the election
of Black Republican, and knew what
powerful lever it would be in their hands to
WELD against the Union. But that any friend
to the Federal Union and lover of the peace
and quiet of the Republic should have re-
Jolccd ut such dire calamity is most anna
zng. The Democratic party had Eccn the
/ friends of the South and the rights of the
States, the supporters and defenders of the
Constitution, and the only Just and wise ruler
of the Government from its foundation to the
present time. Under their administration
the boundaries of the Republic had been en-
lnr9ed by tbs acquisition of Louisiana, Flor
ida, Texas, California and Oregon. The
rights and honor of the Republic had been
gdllantly defended in war with Great
Britain and with Mexico. How any pa
I triot could chucklc and grin over the death of
this glorious old party, is more than can
comprehend
But 1t does seem that, for years past, there
has been at the South systematic organiza
ton to weaken and drive from the Democrat
ic party all who stand by it and fight for it
In the Northern States, Their aim is to sec
tonnizc parties, as the Black Republicans
have done at the North as the Fcdcralists
did during the war of 1872! all of which
Washington denounced as fatal to the Rcpub.
lie, fatal to onr lndcpcndeecr, and fatal to
| liberty itself.