Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-10-06
Ex.speaker Orr to Hon. Amos Kendall.

NY Dear OF nave received your favor
of the 9th inst. Your age, experience and
ability entltIo your opinions to great weight
on every rejecting mind, aud regret to learn
from your letter that you dissent from ny re-
commendation that the honor and safety of
the South require its prompt secession from
the Union, i'll the event of the election of
Black Republican to the Presidency. You
say your mind is equally clear that the South
has long had peaceful remedy within her
own reaeh, and has it still, though impaired
by the recent conduct of some of her sons. ="
You would greatly oblge ME by Il full exposi-
tion of your opinions upon that point as we'll
as the remedy to be rcsortcd to by us, should
tic Government i'll November pass into the
hands of party whose declared purpose is to
destroy our property, amounting in value at
the present time to not less that three billions
one hundred and fifty millions of dollars
Can 1T be prudent, safe or manly in the
South to submit to the domination of a party
whose declared purpose is to destroy such an
amount OF property and subycrt our whole So
cla and industrial policy
In glancingat at the evil and remedy, invite
specially your attention:
l. To the persistent refusal of many of the
free States and to large bodies of men in all
of them to execute the Fugitive Slave law.
2. To the untirng efforts of fanatics who
come to the slave States under the guisc of
preachers, teachers, &c, in inveigling away
our slaves, and to the general sympathy with
their nctarious purposes cvincod by the facili-
tics furnished them by the underground rail
road in spiritng away our slaves beyond the
reach Of their owners
B. To the raid of John Brown and the SYM
pathy which his wcll-mcrited execution
evoked
t. To the recent insurrcctiouary movements
IN Texas projected and carried out by Abo-
litlon cmisSarics, where the inccndiary torch
OF the slave, lighted by Abolition traitors, has
reduced to ashes one million of dollars worth
OF property and where the timely discovery of
the hcliSh scheme alone saved the lives of
thousands of men, women and children
These are the natural and necessary results
of the teachings of Black Rcpubcansm and
IT we have such developments under an Ad-
mnlStration which Processes to guard our
constitutional rights, in the name of Heaven,
what may we not expect when great party
takes the Government and its machinery un-
der its control, avowing openly its purpose to
be the extirration of African slavery whcrcv-
er it exists?
! Is it wise, if we do not mean to submit to
can President to bc in,mgur,tcd and MT hin,
in possession of tb, Amy the NV tbo
Treasury. the nrmorics ana arscnai:' tho ti,o
rublic rropcrtv-in f,ct tLr ,vhoic mac5;ncrv v
of the Govcrrmnnt with ;ts .n,onJants on5
annurtcnoncos If tLn SnrtIr ssI,o,,II tL;,L.
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within her borders. unless at tbc nn;nt of tLo
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