Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-01-07
Congress-.


In She House Of Representatives, Mr. Val
landighum was quoting from the Helper Book,
wiich he was arrested therein by
Mr. AsmMoRE. With the permission of
the gentleman, desire to make statement
just at this point,
Mr. NALLANDIGuAM. In a moment |
will read this first:
Our plan then is
|. TO make war (opcnly or secretly, as
| circumstances may dictate upon the proper
ty of the Shareholders and their abcttorS-not
for its destruction, if that can easily be avoid.
e'l, but to convert it to the use of the slaves
If it cannot be thus converted then We advise
its destruction. Teach the slaves to burn
their masters buildings, to kill their cattle
and horses, to conceal or destroy farming utcn
sis, to abandon labor in seed time and har-
vest, and let crops perish. Make slavery un-
profitable in this way if it can be done in no
other.
"2. To make stockholders objects of dcri
sion and contempt, by flogging them whencv-
er they shall be guilty of hog@ing their slaves
That circular has ;notc attached to it, upon
which was to be written the name of some
non-slavchodcr in the South with whom cor
rcspcndcncc is to be opened for the purpose
Of carrying out TIC bloody designs of this as
sociatiou.
Mr. AsnMoEE. Mr. Clerk, to show that
the people Of the free States or portion of
thcm-of those banded together for the par
pose of making assaults upon the Institution
of sIaycry-arc, at this very moment, carry
ing out part of that programme, avail NY
| self of the courtesy of the gentleman from
Ohio to announce on the floor of this House
that, at this very time, their cmmSsarics are
at this worl; " South Carolina, and that we
have now in Jail, mt the court house ut Green
vile, placed there only u few days since, one
of the viest and most infamous creatures
that ever dcIilcd the face of this fair cnrt'i.
who was caught with these bcll<S in his hand,
and who had distributed no less than ton or
twelve copies oft among the negroes and poor
white men of that district
Mr.. CoBD, Gin his scat) Well, they'll
hang him.
Mr. ASHMoHE. Yes, sir; they will hang
him, and we will hang any such men who
come into that congressional district TAp.
| pausc IN the galleries, 7, sir, come here
from, perhaps, the most conservative and
| Cnion-loving district of South Carolina. and
have myself been tauntcd with submission
ism in my native State and with being too
much Union man; since have taken my
f, acat upon this floor, such has been the work
of these vile emissarics in South Carolina
am glad of an opportunity to state the fact
without Intending to engage in discussion -
/ Only a few days since this cmissary of these
/ Black Republicans, Harold willis, was at
! his work when it was announced to some of
! the leading gentlemen of that (Grcenvilc)
district that such mischicvous and Infamous
attempt was being made to arouse the slave
| population Of the district and array the non
| Shareholder against the stakeholder they i'm
mcdlatcly went to work and ferrcttcd out in a
single day seven copies of that infamous Help
er book-the work of an Infamous renegade
thief from our sister State, North Carolina
lappIausc in the galleries "a man who dare
not show his face upon the soil which gave
him birth. Sir he whose heart is so black
that he could assail the mother who bore him
Is bAckcr than ! can paint. Renewed ap
plauSc. Yes, sir; and when the effects oil
this cmlSsary were searched, not only were
there copies of that work found in his poss
! cSSioii, bat an extensive correspondence Was
discovered between him and various persons
ID dlilcrcnt portions of the North and he had
| pacard over his mantlc-piccc setting forth
in large and glaring letters that any and all
could be supplied with it free of Charge and
~ VI N''' ~ applying III Jhc OIHCc OF the
Tribune, in the city of New York lie went
about his work secretly and at the midnight
| hour; whilst others were asleep, whilst all the
honest men the country were wrapt i'm slum,
Der. he was prowling through the highways
and 10y ways of the land distributing this book
to the -savcholding whites and the ne
"rocS. And let me tell the gentlemen on the
Republican side of the House that the men
who came forward and announced that this
mischcvous work was going ON were non
Shareholders. \ good gentlemen, whom I
have known from my infancy, and who never
owned IL slave in his life was the first to de-
nouncc the rascally treason attempted to be
perpctrotcd. [Applausc in the galleries +
The man, Wyllis, was Immediately seized and
the results which I have stated followed :;
aud, sir, he has made revelations which | am
not vet prepared to make upon this floor and
which, when the time comes, | will make and
fortity with the testimony of the best men in
the good old district Of Grccnvillc-thc Union
district of South Carolina This is the work
that these gentlcmen have been recommend
ing and that has been going on, ON the part
! of the emissarics of those who indorscd the
Helper book
said Mr. Clerk, that did not intend to
engage in any discussion. | merely wished
to state the facts, and it struck me that il was
a good opportunity to do so when my friend
from Ohio was reading the shameless and in
famous passages from that most Infamous book
and from the circular kindred in its charac
ter. [Applousc.l