Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-11-17
The Alabama Resolutions.

ITeSident Of tie United States
Whereas, anti-slavery agitation persisteutly
continued in the .slaveholdng States OF
this Union, for more than third of centu-
ry marked at every stage of its progress by
contempt for the obligations of law and sane
tity OF compacts, evincing a deadly hostility to
the rights and institutions of the Southern
people, and settled purpose to effect their
overthrow, even by the subversion of the Con
stitution and at the hazard of violence and
bloodshcd; and whereas, sectional party
calling itself Republican, committed alike by
its own acts and anteccdents, and the public
avowals and secret Vaccinations of it's leaders
to the execution of these atrocious designs,
has acquired the ascendancy in nearly every
Northern State, and hopes, by success in the
approaching Presidential election, to seize the
Government itself; and whereas, to permit
SUCH seizure by those whose unmistakable
ann Is to pervcrt its whole machinery to the
destruction of a portion of its members would
be an act of suicidal folly and madness almost
without parallel in history; and whereas,
the General Assembly of Alabama, represent,
ing people loyalty devoted to the Union of
the Constitution, but scorning the Union
which fanaticism would erect upon its ruins,
deem it their solemn duty to provide, in ad.
vance, the means by which they may escape
such peril and dishonor, and devise new secu-
rites for perpctuating the blessings of liberty
to themselves and their posterity Therefore,
lst. BE 1t Resoloed Jy the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of tie State of A.
d6ama, an General assembly conoened, That
upon the happening of the contingency con.
tempIntcd in the foregoing preamble namely,
the election of President advocating the
principles and actions of the party in the
Nortbprn Sfotos. Al ID
party, it shall be the duty of the Governor,
and he is hereby required forthwith to issue
his proclamation calling upon the qualified
voters of this State to assemble ON Monday
not more than forty days after the date of said
proclamation, at the several places of voting
III their respective counties, to elect delegates
to Convention of the State, to consider, de-
tcrmnc and do whatever in the opinion of said
Convention the rights, interests and honor of
the State of Alabama requires to be done for
their protection.
I'd. BE IL fttrther ReSolved, That said Con
vention shall assemble at the State Capitol on
the second Monday following said election.
3D. BE tuwhcr ResolOed, That it shall
be the duty of the Governor, as soon as posi-
bic, to issue writs of election to the Shcrifs
OF the several counties, commanding them to
hold an election on the said Monday so dcsig.
mated by the Governor, as provided for in these
Joint resolutions, for the choosing of as MANY
delegates from each county to said Convention
as the several counties shall be entitled to
members in the House of Representatives of
the General Assembly, and said election shall
be held at the usual places of voting in the re-
spcctivc counties, and the polls shall be opened
undet the rules and regulations now governing
the election of members to the General AS
sembly of this State, and said election shall
be governed in all respects by the laws then
In existence, regulating the election of nom
bers to the House of Representatives of the
General Assembly and the persons elected
thcrcat as delegates, shall be returned in like
manner, and the pay, both milage and per
diem OF the delegates to said Convention, and
the several officers thereof shall be the same as
that fixed by law for the members and officers
of said House Of Representatives
4th. BE 1t furthcr RcsolOcd, That copies
OF the foregoing preamble and resolutions be
forwarded by the Governor. as soon as posi-
bic, to our Senators and Rcpresentatiytes ts'i% in
Congress, aud to each of the Governors of our
sister States of the South
Approved February oath, 1860.
SUPPORT To Sourm CARoLiNA.-The f,llo,y.
ing Is another indication that the ewes of the
| DouIn arc now upon Snnth Carolina, and that
she is to be tho Sardinia of this politcnl move.
ment. 1t was addressed to Gen Simons, Speak
| er IF the IIouse:
| WASHINGTON. November 7.-1he WASHING.
ton National Volunteers proffer their services
to South Carolina, IN case OF her withdrawal
from the Union. Southern men here are with
South Carolina
WASHINGTON, November 5.-Rumors said
to cmanatc from the same source that notified
Gov. Wise of Browns raid, have reached
Governor J.ctcher, of Virginia, who last week
instituted system of military patrols along
the Potomac, in all the river Counties lie
also despatched Col. Dimmick, of the State
Guard, to Washington to purchase firearms.
ST. JosEPn's Mo-, Nov 6.-The PONY
Express from San Francisco has just arrived.
Its adviccs are to the 9th ult The Repub-
llcans were betting heavy on carrying the
State for Lincoln
The Oregon Legislature has adjourned till
spring. Both Houses have disagreed to the
proposition for resembling the late Senatorial
election.
How THE LONDON TINES is PRINTED
London correspondent of the Philadelphia Lei0.
er having visited the Office ant press room of
the Great Thunderer," communicates the fol-
lowing interesting facts, which came under his
observation:
They uso nine tons of paper dav---enough
to reach Dover, eightythree miles. The water
to wet the paper is raised by an engine, and,
going through perforated zinc cylinder, falls
on an enulcss blanket, and vets twenty.four
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