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

/ SldNCS-T-uuy, WHOSE ltIsJ ACT was 10 give up,
good and sound, slave to his Roman master
The followers of this lowly apostle say that
they cannot hold friendship with the holders
of slaves, nor worship, with them at a com
i mon altar. Do they not profess that the Bi-
BILE is common to us all, and have they rcpu-
dated Saint Paul himself; and if Paul could
take fugitive slave he had converted, and
send him back to his master, could not they ?
Surely, if in region like the Roman Empire
with millions and millions of slaves. there
could be union from the Euphrates to the
pillars of Hercules; if Vandols, Goths and
Ostra.Goths could live in Que community,
how comes it that we cannot rest in America
with men of one race, and with common iusti-
tutions? You can see that this fanaticism eff
tects the whole under current of society, and
is it to be supposed that those who reject our
Union in religious matters, on account of it,
will 90 with us in other matters Do yea
not see that what Calhoun prophcsied has
come? He said that 9" the dcluded agitatols
must be told that our institutions are no af-
fair of theirs" Now, shall presently show
that instead of these agitotors being told this
We have surrendered at discretion. We
have now shown the admixturc of fanatcism
with the element of power, and we shall now
show the combination of the two.
The admission of Texas was the next great
point raised in the history of the county,.
Texas had been refused admission to the
Union by several Presidents, aud the time
that 1t was brought distinctly to notice was in
1919, when it was seen that England had
taken notice of the opposition. The Worlds
Convention met IN London, and New Eng
land sent representatives to it. The great
desire OF the Worlds Convention was to ex-
tnguish slavery, and it proposed to Lord
Aberdeen to make loan to the Republic of
Texas, provided the money should be used
to abolish slavery in the Southern States
that Republic being on their border. There
was debate in Parliament, in which Lord
Brougham called attention to the position of
Texas and its capacities, and recommended
to unite with it in the abolition of slavery
in other American States. He inquired Of
Lord Aberdeen what the Ministry bad done
on the subject. Lord Aberdeen replied that
he could not open the correspondence to the
House, but that England was endeavorin9
to bring about a satisfactory solution of the
question,
Again do we owe our preservation to Vir-
gina. Just then John Tyler tool, his seat.
The man who had filled the Office before him,
and who would have carried out Lord Broug-
hams views, whether he knew them or not,
had been set aside by the people, and the
providence Of God had elevated Mr. Tyler.
John Tyler called Abel Upshur, dstin-
guished son of Virginia, to his councils
They entered into correspondence with the
Minister of Texas, but just when the plan
was being contaminated mysterious Provi-
dencc removed Mr. Upshur by the explosion
on board the Princeton. John G. Calhoun
took his place, and in fourteen days the treaty
with Texas was signed and ready for execu-
ton. This treaty not only rescued Texas
from aboitiouism, but if Lord Brougham was
right, rescued the whole South. But these
gentlemen who made the treaty could not exc
cute it, .Jnst then Presidential nomination
was to take place and this great question en-
tered into it. Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Clay
came out OH the same against the admission
of Texas, and the treaty failed. But there
arose voice of indignation throughout the
land which resulted in the destruction of both
these men. Tho change was SO great that at
the next Congress the treaty was ratified, only
three days before President Tyler vacated his
Office. The next President desired to recall
the messenger with the treaty, but it was too
late. Texas was then admitted, and the act
of admission provided that she might be divi-
ded into five slave States. AT that time there
were twenty.siX States in the Union--the
North and South having thirteen each-and
out of territory there were FIVE to be added to
the North. They already had ii majority of
the House of Representatives and there was
no further need of an addition to theirpower.
Ii this state Of things had remained, the bal
ance of power would have been continued;
but, unfortunately, the next year the Mexican
war took place, and the Wilmot Proviso was
attached to an appropriation bill providing
that no money should be expended for the ac
QUESTION of territory from Mexico in which
slavery should exist. Southern statesmen
were opposed to acquiring more territory, but
we're oyerrulcd, and the next question was
whether the territory for which the South had
fought should be denied to her citizens
whether, after sending our men to the plains
of Mexico, fighting its armies and assailing
its fortrcsses, the North should $ to us, you
are shareholders. yon cannot enter here Well
might the South make q stand against this.
The Wilmot Proviso was only defeated by
maneuvering in the Senate, for it did pass in
the House of Representatives, in form; but
the Senate returned the appropriation bill
without the Proyiso, and it passed
In 1847 you passed resolution in this
body, that il, in disregard of the spirit of the
Missouri Compromise, the fearful issue were
forced upon the country, by the adoption of
the Wilmot Proviso the people of Virginia
could have no difficulty IN deoidino between