Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-03-03
The Power of the South.

Il
Days ago in Congress by Mr.. Keitt of South
Carolina
What spectacle does the South now nrc-
sent to the world The South, with her
m"t'','rsS resources and splendid domain, and
WITH millions Of millions of gallant people,
still clmgiug toths Uuion, though she knows
1t only 10y expressions. What has she given
to IT IN the past She has Given blood and
treasure, gcuius and stltcsuanship, courage
and arms. Nm illustriuus SOutherncr rous-
cd the colonies to resistance an lustrious
Southcrncr led the armies of the Revolution
to victory; an iIustrious Southemcr built up
thus Government from foundation stone to
batticment and parapct. Nor have her CON
tributjoms in modern times been stintcd. She
gave the men who led the republic safely
through! the second war of independence.
she "nvc the men, too, who, in the late war
with Mexico, carried your arms to the famed
cHp'toI Of tn" enemy aud illustrated them by
series OF victories unmatched even by those
OF Cortcz. Splendid, also as has been her
contributions to arms and statcsnanahip, she
has added no 7camty treasures to American
literature u every field of letters she has
lett her footprints, and when the names of all
other american authors are FORGOTTEN soyn
that of lmimore Cooper, the admiration of
po>tcrity will continue to brighten round tho
memory Of one She has given to the world as
the grsat wizard of American romance"
(~l"".s) Yes. the South has made a histo-
~, nn empire, aud civilization, aud she can
dcfN.d thcmall.
WY, then, docs the South pause in the cs-
t,'">hncut of an independent government
E ho@'use she is under the spell of the
T. t It's traditions and its memories, and be-
r.'uS' Siio hopes for a " returning sense of ius-
tice at the North, which may secure her
safety in The Union Day by day the spell is
di>so'ving, and when she lcspairs of this {" re-
wrn'u" sense of Justice e''-and many of her
truoSt sons have already dcsparcd of it-she
VIII Shttcrt the bonds of the Union, and vim
dc"to neutrality-suspicious. Should the Repub-
Ilran party succeed in the next Presidential
c!rction my advice to the South is, to snap
the cords of tic Union at once and forever.
app'n'"''" tho superior cutanglemcnts and
q T; nt' % TIE border States, and will look
at i.re only to the states further South
ihcy must withdraw from the Union, and
|H''0"SN a con.eu"racy Tor themselves. This
they cam do without d-iurbing their social
SYSTEM in hclr'Nt degree Their State gov
crnments arc sufficient Gorall domestic purpo-
Scs, and a federal one can be organized among
themselves in time to meet all foreign aims or
complications. What would such confcdcr-
AcN have to fear Nothing. Absolutely no.
thing Foreign Powers would court her alli-
"hcc, and no government on this continent
would dare to invade her
ms mon, great and powerful as it is,
can be tumhlcd down by the act of any one
%outhern state IT Florida withdraw, the
rS"crai Governmcnt would not dare to attack
her, 1t Lli' ItS bands would dissolve as if
m',tCd by Lightning. I.cta Southern State
w''hdra" ana wherever her flag floats it will
be respected, for IT will be the armed hand
ana the whole South Will rush to its defence,
ana would emerge from the struggle with an
organized slaYeholdlng confcderacy. And how
vast would be the power of the South +! She
Is 5. now more imperial than Rome ever was
~. ~, ny some catnc!ySm OF nature, the great
" est, win Its fertile fields and rich harvcsts
we're '"St TO c'rth' mankind would only pause
lor moment IN contemplating the ruin, as
So''' '''tfuI catastrophe OF nature. If the
N''''' WIN Its crowded mosts and vast facto-
f,'S were ut "Singie stroke swallowed up in an
%oSSs' commerce would still move on, and the
'ooy>''lS o, power matt only for moment
OF an eve, be struck into primcval chaos, how
would it be? The civilized world would
avert her face. the advance of nations would
be arrested, and every throne in Europe would
nc reduced to dust and ashes Yes, the South
has the monopoly of tropical productions, and
upon them hang the dcstinies of peace, civil
Znt'on ana empire. And the South, with all