Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-03-23

-------~----- % ---s1--Ez2-
shall bo repealed or modified and all the
officers appointed by tho same shall remain in
oihce until their successor are appointed and
qualified, or the Offices abolished
2. All debts contracted and engagements
entered into before the adoption Of this Con.
sttution shall be as valid against the Con
tedcrate States under this Constitution as un
der the Provisional Government ~
.. This Constitution, and the laws of the
Confederate States, made in pursuance there
OF, and all treaties made, or which shall be
made under the authority of the Confederate
= States, shall DC the supreme law of the land
and the Judges III cyery'State shall be bound
thereby. anything in she constitution or laws
OF any State to the contrary Notwithstanding.
4. The Senators and Representatives be-
fore mentioned and the members of the scv-
eIal State Legislatures, and all executive and
judicial officers, both of the Confederate
states and of the several States, shall be
bound by oath or affirmation, to support this
Constitution; but no religious test shall ever
be required as qualification to any Office or
public trust under the Confederate States
D. The enumeration, in the Constitution
Of certain rights, shall not be construed to
deny or disparage others retained by the poo
pie of the several States
6. The powers not delegated to the Con-
iedoratc States by the Constitution, nor pro-
hibted by it to the States, arc reserved to the
States respectively, or to the people thereof
ARTICLE VII
/. The ratiications of the Conventions of
five States shall be sufficient for the establish.
ment of this Constitution between the States
so ratifying the same.
2. When five States shall have ratified this
Constitution, in the manner before specified.
the Congress under the Provisional Constitu-
ton, shall prescribe the time for holding the
election of President and Vice President; and
for the meeting of the Electoral College; and
for counting the votes, and inaugurating the
President They shall also prescribe the time
FOR holding the first election of mcmbors of
Congress under this Constitution, and the
time for assembling the same. Until the as
scmbllng OF such Congress, the Congress un-
der the Provisional Constitution shall continue
20 exercise the Legislative powers granted
them; not extending beyond the time limited
by the Constitution of the Provisional Gov
ernmcnt.
Adopted, unanimously, March IL, 1861.
IMPORTANT FROM TExAs.-GAI.vEsTo
March ll.-Gov. Houston has refused to re-
eognzo the State Convention. He considers
that its functions terminated in submitting
the Secession Ordinance to the people He
tells the Convention that he and the Lerslo.
lure, which meets on the 18th instant will
attend to public questions. He favors the
holding of Convention to change the State
bpt
Southern Confcderacy. The Convention in
reply, have passed an ordinance claiming full
sovereign powers, promising to consummatc.
Texas with the Confederate States.
The Convention will at once require MI
GiffcorSof che State to take an oath of alcc
ance to support the new Government and car
ry out the Convention ordinances. 1t is re-
ported that Clark will be put in Gov. Hous-
tons place, if the latter refuses to take the
oath. 1t is also reported that Governor
Houston is raising troops on his own account
Fifteen hundred Texan troops arc at and
near Brownsville.
BnAzos, March 6.-Arranccmcnts have
been made for the Federal troops to leave rs
soon as means of transportation shall be pro.
vlded. The steamer Daniel Webster is wait
ing outside.
TIE LATEST.
NEW ORLEANS, March 13--Thc Calves
ton Cic'1'on, of the 1lth, says that the sur
render OF Fort Brown was agreed upon oui-
city by the Texas Commissioners and Can.
tain Hill. The Ne'os says the fort will be
given up soon, and transportation be found
for the troops. The Texas troops at Brazos
aye represented to be fortifying thc island SO
as to render it imprcgnablc.
ENGLISH FEELING TOWARDS THE SouTH
ERN CoNFEDERACY-The disposition of the
English people to recognize the new Govern
ment of the Cotton States as soon as
possible, may be CLEANED from the debate in
Slse English Parliament on Mr.. Caves resolu-
lions in reference to the slave trade Even
MIR. Buxton, the well known Aboltionist. had
no objection to offer to its recognition, provi
ded the Southern Confedcracy bound itself
not to reopen the slave trade. AS this has
been already donc-not merely by clause in
the Constitution, but by the veto by Prcsi-
dent Davis of an Act introduced into the
Montgomery Congress, rendering the slave
traffic misdcmeanor instead of piracy-no
further opposition is to be anticipated in that
quarter. The conviction expressed by Re.
publican Journals, that the European Gov
crnmenCs, but particularly that of England,
would hesitate long before they acknowledged
a Power with slavery as its basis, is therefore
about IN bn f,lsifod Tho Enoi;ob ouo g..