Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-01-12
PIcNENs COURT HOUSE, c. SATURDAY, JANUARY II, 1861

thcning them with direct taxes for three ffths
Of their slaves; by authorizing the importa-
tion of slaves for twenty years and by stipu-
lating for the rendition Of fugitiycS from
labor.
We affirm that these ends for which this
Government was instituted have been defeat
ed, and the Government itself has been mado
destructive of them by the action of the non
slayoholdmg States. Those States have as
sumcd the right of deciding upon the propri.
ETY. Of our domestic Institutions; and have
denied the rights of property established in
fifteen of the States and recognized by the
Constitution; they have denounced as sinful
the institution of Slavery; they have permit
ted the open establishment among them Of
societies, whose avowcd object is to disturb
the peace and to cloign the property of the
citizens of other States. They have cncour-
aged and assisted thousands of our slaves to
leave thcir homes; and those who remain,
have been iucitcG By cmissaries books and
pictures to scrvilc iusurrcctiun
For twenty-five years this agitation has
been steadily increasing, until it has now Sc
cured to its aid the power of the Common
Government Observing the forms of the
Constitutions a sectional party has found with
in that article establishing the Executive De.
partmcnt, the means of subvcrting the Consti-
tuition itself a geographical line has been
drawn across the Union, and all the States
north Of that line have united in the election
OF a man to the high Office of President of the
United States whose opinions and purposes
are hostile to slavery. he is to be entrusted
with the administration of the Common Gov
crnmcnt, because he has declared that that
Government cannot endure permanently
Hale a., 1,.1r e., Al ~
mind must rest in the belief that Slavery is
in the course of ultimate extinction
This sectional combination for the subvcr-
sion of the Constitution, has been aided in
some of the States by ccvating to citizenship,
persons, who, by the Supreme Law of the
land, arc incapable of becoming citizcns and
their votes have been used to inaueuratc a
new policy, hostile to the South, ard dastruc
tive of its peace and safety.
On the 4th March next, this party will take
possession of the Government 1t has an
nounccd, that the South shall be excluded
from the common Territory; that the Judicial
Tribunals shall be made sectional, and that
war must be wngcA against slavery until it
shall cease throughout tho United States.
The Guarantees of the Constitution will
then no longer exist; the equal rights of the
will no longer have the powcrof scfgovcrn.
mHnt or scliprotcrton, and the Federal Gov
crnmcnt will have become their enemy.
Sectional interest and animosty will deepen
the irritation, and all hope of remedy is rem
dcrcd vain, by the fact that public opinion at
the North has invested great political error
with the sanctions of more erroneous rcli.
gious belief
n 1,o I, ~ ~
ma, by our delegates, in Convention assembled.
appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world
for the rcctitudc of our intentions, have sol!
cmnly declared that the Union heretofore OK.
isting between this State and the other States
of North America, is dissolved, and that the
State of South Carolina has resumed her posi-
ton among the nations of the world, as n sep.
aratc and Independent State; with full power
to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances,
establish commerce, and to do all other acts
and things which Independent States may Of
right do.
EXECUTIVE AuTupRlrY-T The Natio,,al Li'c,.
HgeHccr of Wednesday, has the following para.
graph Of advice in relation to the seeding
States:
And while upon this subject, VIC may add
that tho unsettled state of the relations between
South Carolina and the United States calls for
some definite determination of the question Mt
the hands of Congress. The subject has all eady
assumed proportions which give it gravity
that places it beyond easy and satisfactory ad
instmcnt by the Executive Department alone
The President, I'VE doubt. not, will at an early
day invoke tho attention of tho National Legis-
laturo to this topic in all it's rotations, that he
may he released from the dilemma in which he
is placed under the obligation to execute the
laws on the one hand. and the inability, or Mt
least the omission. to do so on the other. Ac.
cording to the theory of all administrative gov
crnment, he shoid either be clothed with power
to enforce the laws. or the laws themselves
should be suspended with regard TO the States
in which it is deemed incxpcdicnt or is found
impossible to do so. At the present time when
the civil machinery Of the Federal Governn ent
has fallen into total wreck in South Carolina it
would doubtless bo futile to clothe the President
with additional eTsoitive authority since in the
absence of NIL cipH organization, any such au-
thoritY would lack the political basis upon
which it, should proceed according to the genius
OF our institutions. And. moreover. in the pres.
ept temper of the public mind, it cannot be
doubted that any such resort would be MS mpo.
lltic in practice as it is untepable in thcory.--
But totbe repeal or suspension of ali United
States Laws with regard to South Carolina or
any other seeding State, wo do not conceive
that any valid objection can apply, as, without
compromising the legitimate authority Of the
Federal Government, ii tthcsame time respects
the wishes and will of the States in question.
by relieving them from tho forms of Federal
domination If, i'm time, wiser counsel should
prevail. the temporary breach might be closed
by n re enactment of the United States laws"
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STATIsTIcTs OF 1860. Daring the year
1860. ffty.one persons died at ages exceed
ing 100 years. The oldest of these was NIilly
Lamar, slave, who died in Georgia at the