Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-02-04

\ tions---a proposition which no man, with any
sense of justice, could have objected to.
I Here WAS read the statement by Senator
Clayton of the proceedings of this committees,
/ in which an account of the defeat of the prop-
ositon for an equal division is given, and also
! the defeat of the proposition to leave the ques.
/ tion to the Supreme Court. 80
1t was then that Virginia passed her reso2
lutions Of lS49 relative to the adoption of the
! Wilmot Proviso, which were seen by South
Carolina and adopted by her. In the mean
I time a new President was elected, who directi
ed his military Governor in California TO orr
! ganne the Territory, giving everybody Las.
cars, Chinese and whoever might be there
the right to be called together and say what
direction the property of the United States
ought to take. And tHis body met and deciz
ded that no slavery should be permitted With
in the Territory. The Wilmot ProYiso had
been defeated in Congress; but the PresidAnE
by his tpse dicU pessed it through California
| Now, we of South Carolina, thought that Che
Constitution of California was in fact thesWil4
mot Proviso, and that beingppt in force, was
the same as if the Wilmot Proviso had been
d6 t"tto, the work of Congress. Wetholght
that its going into operation was sufficient
cause for secession under the Resolutions OF
Virginia, and supposed that,in going forward
we were. merely leading the column Of an ar
my already made, prohibiting slavery in the
District of Columbia was unlawful. If it Is
unlawful there if it be siT--which is the
trouble-is it not immoral and improperto
sell slaves from one State to another? Seeing
these measures of 1850, we disavowed thein
and called Convention, aud very large ma.
jority of the people of South Carolina would
have been in favor of secession, if the aThef>--
States would have given their countenance to
the movement. But again Virginia adopted
resolutions requesting us ofSoush Carolina to 5
desist from the meditated secession. Wedi
desist and at great pain. We had supposed
that we were sustained by Virginia Wehad
to 80 around and canvass the State and stop
her from secession, and when the Conventions
met it declared it ineXpedient to secedc.--
The Southern States except South Carolina,
accepted the Compromise measures 81
What has been the result2 Let us 20 n
step further and VIC shall soon see The next.
measure for adjustment was Kansas Tho
South had becnquieted and matters remained
IN statue quo. Gentemcn from the North y
said let us take this whole matter out of Cou-}t
gress, and we shall have peace, and the Kan
Sila- eoTaaiS0 act was plsSeols2 ssalA y5
when State was admitted to theS5 49,
should be left to the people to regnfSfd the
institution of slavery according to their win.
At the same time the judicial arm Vas iater-
posed The Dred-Scott decision was renaeYed
and those interested were impressed with the
belief that the yexed question was scttleby w
But what do we Sec? Abolitionism 81 'ickens
into Emigrant Aid Societies, and dder at
waged which, had ii been nearer yirgffpr,uarY
South Carolina, would haycbeen wade - SSeI
1t was put down by federal troops, butthe
boodhounds were trained there to be let losse
No. II i Al-A A ~
Kansas-Nebr0ska act has driven Kansas away
from us. The repeal of the Missouri ComprS
mise came too late for the South for tiie
North refused to conccde to her that portiosi
ofterritory South of 36 80, and aeelared tllak y
1t should remain open. They have, too, take
from Texas what is equivalent to another
State. Now, gentlemen, we are standing
with the two aections of the country face to
face with each other. Tho North in the ter
ritories says not a Shareholder shall have pro
lection for his property therein; and withina
few days past Nebraska haSpassed an act pro-
hibiting our institutionsG within her lnita
Weare divided by. a geographical lne---they
having nosympathy with us, or we with tliessess,l
Gentlemen, contrast the position Of fIiings
now with what they were when small party
OF Abolitionists gathered around Birney as
their candidate for Presdcnt This party has
Deeh used by the other pollticaf parties of the
North, until at last it has taken the power in
its own hapds. Look at the last Presidential
election Were we not in doubt till the last
moment, whether we should not have to take
astep which we yet may haycto tqke2 PENN
sylvonia was taken from them by the good ge-
MUS of Mr.. Buchanan ana his friends, and t
they were Defeated. But is merely respite.
Shall we wait till the locks of the Sampson
have grown again, or shall we now erect bar
riers against his cncroachments? If any
man reckon that during the present, genera
alton there will be change in the senti,saeht
of the North, he reckons badly. Let him
look at the cause 1t has been produced by
the whole system of education of this eenes,i-
ton. At the North books have been given
their children to teach them by pictures and
words to abhor slavery. Ina public sehocis4.
Philadelphia there is lecture given weekly
upon the subject Of slavery. They know tlsst
tho women give tone to the next generation.
and they take possession Of the minds Of the
young ladies even in their school days
Then comes the pulpit, where tho ilapfcs
sions Of this eduestian arc made sons
beEeg Ihethifd elemcnt Is the pro i,st
gregt third power which seatters is abnsSA
our institutions So prsfpsely that the esild
from the time he hears thceasiest words sre5, !.
his m0thcf'S lins IL fail,shf ~ 3ie5;o6x sf,