Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-08-25

obvious remedy. Make that clear in the Con
stitutou, which thcy Cnot the Abo!itonsty
only, but the Northern people generality. af
feet to consider doubtful Take away the
power to abolish slavery in the District of
Columbia, aud in the Territories south of the
line established by the Missouri compromise.
Shut the subject of slavery forever out of
the Halls of Congress, whore it has been
most falthlcssly introduced; and let our sister
States agree to do what the laws of nations re-
quirc of every friendly pcoplc-rcstrain their
citizcns from combining and plotting the over
throw of our institutions. If such amend
ments are proposed, and adopted by the con
sttutonal mnjnrity-thc South will have re-
pose, and the Union be pcrpctmatcd But if
they are rejected, it will conclusively prove to
the South that tho Union ought to be dissolv
cd We can hold no terms of alliance with
deliberate open enemies, who seize (or permit
their people to scizc) upon the opportunity af-
fordcd by a friendly connection with thcm for
other purposes, to accomplish the overthrow
OF our institutions; and when required to dis
avow tho hostility, and cease the aggression
decline to do either. But have no doubt
such amendments to the Constitution, if pro
posed in time before the spirit of abolition
has infected the public mind, will be adopted.
They take nothing from the North, while
, they arc necessary to the South And when
considered as undoubtedly they will be, as
presenting the alternative of a dissolution of
the Union, cannot believe that fanaticism
has already so far maddcncd public opinion as
to induce their rejection. The Union with
the South Is too valuable to the North, in the
estimation of all sober mcu, to be surrendered
Tor the mere privilege (Which cannot, in fact,
be prcScrvcd) OF aggression upon the rights
OF others. The Union is their very best
guarantee for the continuance of their free
institutions The time is rapidly approach
ing, when, their population becoming dense,
the competition for bread will be Intensely in
creased and universal suffrage will give to
those who have no property, the absolute con-
troll OF the property and legislation of the
country. Their history may then grow dar-
Kcr, and present new page f"r the reading
OF man, They may then learn the truth in
ali Its horrors, that the dcSpotsm of numbers
may be the most terrible that can scourgc a
fallen people, In the South, the laborcr does
not control the deStiuics of the country
hNery white man is privileged being. Sci
tlshncss and honor alike impcls him to an al
lance with his race, and (whcthcr he possess
cs property or nor) to uphold the institutions
IN which, in fact chiefly exists the property
OF the country; whilst the very existence of
slavery around him gives loGtcr tone of in
dependence, and higher estimate of liberty.
let it be remembered that no Republic has
cvev yet been long maintained without the in
sttutlon OF slavery. Nor are these United
States by any means clear exception to this
great fact, Slavery has not existed it is true,
IN the Northern States but those States have
IN Mt oil A. Al ~
States, through whom its salutary influence
has been experienced. The South has been,
from its origin, the balance wheel in this Con
'edemcy. That tendency to the absorption
and concentration of all power in Governments
winch is the natural tendency of their dcmoc-
racIcs' has been continually pressing upon the
Contederacy from the North, and as contnu-
ally countcractcd by the South Upon what
question has the Constitution ever proved any
barrier to the wishes of the people of the
North If their views had pievalcd. what
now would have its limitations, with all its
special grants construed away into few gene
raj absorbing powers? Alien and scelition
laws would have placed the Government
above the animadvcrsion of the people. By
protecting tariffs, and systems of internal i'm
proycments, the whole property of the coun.
try would have been under the control of one
mighty, central agency, to be collected and
dlsburscd as sectional majority should re-
quirc All those checks and balances, which
the sclishncss Of man renders necessary to
freedom in Government would have been an
nihiatcd-thc Constitution virtually destroy
ed-and simple dcspotism erected in its
stead. The South, on account of her insti-
tutlons of slavery, has been the sentinel over
the Constitution; and if the experiment of
written consultations has succeeded amongst
u.s. it has been to her fidelity in guarding the
Constitution of the United States, that this
success should be mainly nscribcd. But tLcse
are speculative benefits, which, however cor
rect, am aware may be disputed or denied
let us, then, turn to things indisputabIc =
the profit and loss account with the Northern
States, under the fiscal operation of the Union
Look to the protection given to the shipping
interest, belonging almost exclusively to the
North, monopoly of the whole coasting
trade, and heavy tonnage duties, by which
prodigious advantages over the shippingof of for
egn nations are given for its encouragement
will not recur to the vexcd question under
the tariff whether, producing three .sourtbs of
the exports of the Union, the South does not
pay three -fourths of the revenue of the Gov
ernment collected upon the imports; but, sup.
posing the different sections of the Union to
pay the revenue equally, mark the prodgious
benefit resulting to the Northern and Middle
States by the system ofindirect, instead of di-
rect, taxation. If the latter system of taxation
was adopted (unquestionably the fairest, upon