Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-03-16


the South, or she must march to the conflict
against them. There is left no middle course;
there is left no more pence; war must settle
the conflict; aud tho God of battle give VIC
tory to the right
| We must be invaded by Davis or by Lin
coin. The former csn rally fifty thousand of
the best and bravest sons of Virginia, who
will rush with willing hearts and ready hands
to the standard that protects the rights and
defends the honor of the South--for every
traitor heart that offers aid to Lincoln there
will be many, many who will glory in the OPP
portunity to avenge the treason by sharp and
sudden death. Let not Yirginans be arrayed
against each other, and since we cannot avoid
war, let us determine that together, as people
of the same State, we will defend each other
and preserve the soil of the. State from the
polluting foot of the Black Republican in
vader.
The question, "where shall Virginia go ?"
is answered by Mr.. Lincoln She must 60
to war-and she must decide with whom she
wars-whether with those who have suffered
her wrongs, or with those who have inflicted
her injuries
Our ultimate destruction pales before the
present emergency. TO war ! to arms is
now the cry, and when peace is declared, if
ever, in our day, Virginia mhy decide where
she will finally rest. But for the present she
has no choice left; war with Lincoln or with
| Davis is the choice left u.s. Read the Inuu-
gural carefully, and then let every reader de,
manl of his delegate in the Convention the
prompt measures of defence which it is now
apparent VIC must make.
GPichmomd Ka.) Enquircr.
TIE INAuGURAL.--Mr. Lincoln has spo
ken. An address so remarkable in the exist
ing conjecture of affairs, never emanated from
the Executive chief of country either in an
cient or modern times. 1t breathes both peace
and war. Full of honied phrases, it seems
to look towards Cancellation, while it no less
plainly points to coercion. 1t thus wears
double face. The smooth and oily words but
poorly mask positive intent AID persistent
purpose to enforce submission to the will of
majority. If any additional proof were re-
quircd of the iuuuinpetomoy of this representa-
tive man of Western Black Republicanism, it
would be this address, destitute of all states
manlike views, md deeply imprcgnatcd with
the intolerance of partizan. That such
man should have been elevated to the dignity
of headship in powerful Republic, affords
melancholy evidence Of party ascendancy and
the impcrfection of human institutions.
If the matter of this inaugural is thus fauI-
ty-if the opinions are contradictory, what
shall be said Of The style 1t is loose, un.
schorlarly, feeble. Full of rcpetitions where
it is not obscure it is puerile; and where there
is least defect of precision and porspecuity,
there is nothing but common place. Aiming
at being profound and philosophical the wri
ter becomes entangled in misty political meta
physics. Thatsuch an address should go forth
to Europe as the initiation speech of Chief
Magistrate of the old American Union, must
be mortifying indeed to the supporters of
parsonage, who is not, judging from hisspeci-
men, fit to adorn the Executive chair of small
municipality. AS CIR as we are able to inter
pret the Delphic utterance thus put before the
American people, we concludes
L. That Lincoln is unfavorable to compro-
mise, by amendment of the Constitution, un-
less by convention of the States
2. That he is opposed to separation, or in
other words, to a recognition of the indcpend
ence of the seeded States unless by an appeal
also to national convention
3. That he is adverse to coercion in direct
mnnncr--that is to an invasion of the seeded
States with a.vicw to compel their submis
sion but what form coercion is to assume he
does not condescend to stata-wc presume
that of Blockade. This is then his plan of
" enforcement of the Laws."j with inimt,-
bic obscuracy he intimates that there will be
no attempt to " force obnoxious strangers
among the people, in any interior locality, to
borrow one of his choicest phrases, in execu-
ting the laws" We should like to know how
this is to be explained and har,nonized with
another of his remarks, II shall take care as
the Constitution expressly enjoins upon me,
that the laws of the Union be faithfully exc
outed in all the States" An interior local
ty " is, we suppose, an exception in his view
of all the States.
Again he says "Thc power confidcd to me
will BE- used to hold, occupy and possess the
property and places belonging to the Govern.
ment and to collect the duties on Imports ="
How the power may exist to collect the du-
ties on imports by means of Naval force,
"interior localities" " can be riade to give up
the property in possession, nomiuay the
property of the Federal Government, but vir-
tually the property of the Seeded States,
without Invasion and the shedding of blood,
which he disclaims, the oracle does not in
form us. We presume that another revela.
tion of executive views will enlightcn us as
to this mystery. On the whole this Inaugu.
raj Address is not more discrcditablc to the
literary reputation of the country than it will
be witness on record of sectional intolerance
and unreasoning fanaticism.
Charleston Neos.
The Wilmington Hcrald, conservative, }
says:
Mr.. Lincoln's Inaugural Address, which