Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-02-09

We have been traduced and denounced thro
their pulpits, their press, their orators and
their statesmen as unworthy Of equality with
them as States, and even as their interiors in
sociul point of view. Their people have
united in overwhelming majorties at the re-
cent elections upon issues which openly in
volvcd our peace and existence, to put into
power party who entertain the deepest and
most malignant hostility to our institutions
and to our people. This is the great overt
act of tho people at the ballot.box, from which
there is no appeal to any higher tribunal un-
der our system of government. They have
agreed to place at the head of the army and
navy a President, not for the protection of
the rights and peace of our people under
common inheritance, fixed and transmitted
by express charters from the very origin of
the Government, but with open and avowcd
principles of deep and settled hostility, and
with pledges made by him at the head of
powerful party for the final determination OF
institutions essential to our power us people,
and to the peace of our society.
We have been forced to resume our original
powers of Government and to assert our sepa-
.Ate sovereignty ms a State, in order to seek
that protection which we were compelled to
believe would be given to us and to our peol
pie under the power Of such party and such
a Chief Magistrate, Under these circum-
stances, however much [ might be disposed to
yield the most profound respect to the State
of Virginia, and to any suggestion from her,
yet it is difficult to perceive upon what
grounds this State could agree to send Com
nissioncrs to Washington, to meet Commits
sioners from tho Northern States as well as
from tho Southern States. 1t might only re-
suit in deeper and wider difficulties and con-
Fusion.
But | refer the whole matter, with great
dctcrcncc, to your wisdom and decision, ho-
ping in any event, that the kindest and most
espcctabcreply may be made to Virginia.
Perhaps it is not improper to state that this
State has agreed, through her Convention, to
meet delegates from the other seeding States
at Montgomery, on the 4th of February, and
our Convention has actually appointed dele
gates to attend this meeting from these States.
The object of this Convention of States at
Montgomery, will be to form, Immediately,
common government for the States that have
seeded, and by an efficient organization, to
secure their permanent independence beyond
the reach of any contingency. It.would, OBJ
viously, be impolitic for this State to send del
egatcs to meeting at Washington, appointed
for the same day, to meet States of the North,
with amy view to preserve or to reconstruct
the Federal Union with them, when we have
agreed first to meet our sister seeding States,
to whom we owe our deepest obligations, and
feel bound by every tie to make no compro-
mise with any other powers until we have
h'rmcd with them separate and independent
nation. II. w. PIoKENs
The resolutions from the Senate in relation
to the mission of the Commissioner from Vic
ginia, were then read by the Speaker, and a
message of concurrence was sent.
The following isa list of the officers of the
late u. s. Navy, who have arrived in this,
their native State, CIR are known to be on
their way home:
Captain d. N. Ingraham.
Commander III. j. Hartstenc.
Licutcnants James il. North, John Rut-
ledge, Thomas b. Huger, Alex +. Marley,
j. r. Hamilton, w. G.. Dozier, Thomas p.
Pcot, Philip Porcher.
Passed Assistant Surgeon A. NJ. Lynah
Master W. Il. Evans
Assistant Surgeon Charles y. Lining
Midshipmen John Grimball, b. L. Perry,
Il. I'll, .Bacot, #. ri. Thomas, j. T. Walker.
IJNGLAND AND TIE bCOlJ IIlERNt tOONFEDH-
RACY.-Thc news from Toronto o.day that
the British Government Intends to acknowl-
edge the independence of the Southern Con
fedcracy as soon as it is regularly organized
and makes application in due diplomatic form,
creates profound sensation in the city.
The journal which makes this announce
ment-thc Toronto LGader-is high official
authority, and of its correctness, in this case,
the most intelligent of our people here do not
appear TO have amy doubt. ~"
The General Convention of the Cotton
States, it will be remembered, assemblies at
Montgomery, Ala, or the 4th Of February. a
month ip' advance of Lincoln's inauguration.
The programme is, to organize Provisional
Government at once, with President, Vice
President, etc, and then despatch ambassadors
to England and France for recognition as an
independent power, so as to besready for con-
sequences, whatever tlrey may be, under the
Republican regime, by March 4th.
The cautious and very diplomatic speech
of the British Premier at the s lthampton
dinner, on the 9th, strongly adverse to :, CO.
crcion now unquostionably means muoh,
in this conrcction-and the meaning may be
intervention besides recogmtion,+-in case
we goto work cutting one apother's throats,
and blowing one another's brains out.
Az ~ '~4 [M T. Erprcss.s
MfIIPARY APPOINTMENTS follow
ing appointments blythe Govcrnor %cro ooa7
iirned by the Senate On Monday night in Ex-
eeutiye session 4~-C ss -.
= RIG NJ. DunoVant, Brigadicr General