Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-07-13

FSSs 80 sisSstSh ihaci'ui9eiy at thc pu0inS
sef legislative prudence; yet, when the pros.
hot-headed federutions Of America was near,
the House, ,switb one accord, deprecated dc.
Sss. ~!;a.!sos: ~ Southern i,usuii-
ty or Nofthorn connections. - **
But the dcnialof an audience to Mr.. Greg.
ory is, perhaps, the most significant point of
ALL Tho House of Commons has felt TINT the
United States Government would rather there
should be no discussion on the contest between
themselves and the Southcrncrs. Tho Gov.
ornmcnt of the United States takes its stapd,
on document to whicl, all living Americans
arc to be bound, because n tenth part of their
number agreed to it sevcnty.iyc years ago
To enter into legal or constitutional disquisi.
tions would in this case only endunger the
theory according to which the United States
still claim tho allegiance of the Southern
States. This claim, is almost identical with
those which Kings, or Cardinals, orsovcrcign
communities have advanced as often as rebel
lion has broken out against them.
That tho Southcrncrs have no right to as
sumo any powers but those which their fore
fathers reserved to their respective Statcs--in
other words; that authority and positive law
determine the status of people, instcod of
actual desires Of the majority~-is the doctrine
Of the North, and though we conceive it to be
the most wholesome, and, in fact, necessary to
the existence Of any large State, yet it is cer-
tain that it has never obtained in the Amcri
can Union, and that the late President, Mr.
Buchanan, did not fail to rcpudiatc it, and to
acknowledge that it WAS within the power of
each State to scccdc by tho exercise of what
he called revolutionary right.
In fact, as is almost always the case when
war breaks out, there is no question to argue
The Confederate States exist by breach of
tho Ct institution which was pot provided for
because it was held to be impossible When
the impoverished, msgoverncd, and almost
ruined original States combined to form sin
gle nationality, there can be no doubt that
they had no atterthought, and that, though
they battlcd on the terms of entrance into the
Union, yet when once there they considered
themselves fused into one nation All the
elaborate argument of President Davis fails to
show that the Constitution provided the means
OF Its own destruction, and that, while pro-
claiming that it was the supreme law e the
land, 1t organized machinery for setting it's
plaincst dictates at defiance.
We all know that, from an international
point OF view, the origin of the Confederate
States docs not appear very consistent with
the laws Of any morality, political or other
But on the other hand, there is the logic of
facts. Secession ,,s been complete Gov.
ernment has been organized ut Montgomery
to which no less than eleven States of the
American Union pay implicit obedience AS
b general rule, the most successful revolutions
in Europe must pass through phase of anar-
chy. There was anarchy in Sicily and Naples
when Garabaldi invaded them, and even in
| lS48 it may be said that the flight of Louis
Philippe was followed by period of violence
which might have justified tho former rulers
in reasscrting their power if possible
! but far different is the case of the Seeded
States There the State governments are cv-
erything; and when South Carolina and Lou
siana broke off from the North, they carried
| every clement of political life with thcm.-
! with the exception of a military force, they
had every attribute and every right of indc
prhdent communities. Their President (Da-
vls) boasts, with some reason, tlut the course
OF regular administration is not altered, and
that the prctcncc Of the Northcrncrs to find Il
rebellion in States well ordered and content
shows their Ignorance Of the South and the
tyranny with which they would bend it to
their wishes.
But these parties arc ready to avcngc on us
any advantage which advcrsarics may gain
from European interference. The North is
the more powerful Of the two; it is nearer to
| us, and speaks louder than the sccessionists,
and we consequently consider it more than it's
opponent when the question of neutrality is
concerned. But it does not follow that the
anger of the Confcdcratcs might not also be of
much Inconvenience, if not danger, to Eng
land They are not likely to threaten us or
to assault us, without Il threat; they have no
minister to withdraw, and no navy to gct into
conflicts with. But people who control the
great crop which feeds three or four millions
OF Ensllshmcn must always be of some inpor.
tancc i'll the eyes of an Assembly like the
1lousc of Commons; and not merely 10 avoid
present trouble, but to dcprrcac future ha-
tired, the representatives of the British nution
wisely refused to discuss the merits of the in
ocnsed and implacablc combatants.
COMMERCIAL ALARM ON TIE WAR QUESTION
in FRANcE--A PETITION FROM THE CHAM
Der OF COMMERCE. TO THE SENATE
From tho London Shipping Gazette, June 141
The progress of hostilitics in America, and
the prospect they hold out of injury and in
convenience to the French trade have induced
the Chambers of Commerce of Marscics,
Bordeaux, Dunkrk and other leading ports
OF France, to petition the French Senate, to
say that, seeing priyatccring is abolished and
tho commerce, even of l,clligercnts, safe under
the neutral flag, merchant slrs not carrying
contraband Of war should not be liable to can.
ture. This would, if complied with, amount,
g.a IN no Frn,,o Sn ~