Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-06-29
VARIETY.
English Views.

English Views.
TFrom the London Times, May 221
'Yeloall attention to the letter of Mr.. Clay,
Y Minister from the United States to ST. Peters
burg. This lively letter writer proposes six
h questions, three relating to his own country,
~ three relating to England The first qucs-
ftion lho is more successful in asking thun an
8 s@ering, What are we fighting for ?".-
$50 I: We are fighting" says Mr. Clay, "for ma
& tionality aud liberty" We can understand
4 fight for nationality between different races,
but afghtfo nationality between men of the
same nationality is to us, we candidly confess
ian 3inexplicable enigma; nor can VIC bet
4 tor understand how people, fighting to put
n n down rebellion, to force their fcllow-citzens
4 ITO remain in a Confcderacy which they detcst,
q and 10 submit to institutions which they re-
u pudiate, can bo called the champions of libcr-
4 ty. II the South seriously threatened to
y conduer the North, to put down trial by jury,
q tfeedom OF the press, and representative gov
4 sernment, tho contest might be for liberty;
u as this is not So the introduction of such
topics is mere rhetorical amplif.ation.
W Can you subduc the rcvotcd States Pr
SO OF course, VIC oan," says Mr.. Clay. So on
that point there is no more to be said
SsSssslan you reconstruct the Union when ono
III halt of it has conquered the other?" "No
# SlssthiBg easier" says Mr.. Clay. The victim of
TO day will become the confederate of to-mor
TOW the traitors will be cast out, and the
Union irmer than evcr,-witncss the happy
.lTesutsFof the conquest of Ireland by Eng-
.4slana, repeated over and again, and always re-
4 4peated in vain
8sS Having answered all the questions which
.s he supposes to be addressed to him by Eng
& land, Mr.; Clay becomes the qucstioner and
i asks us where our honor would place us in
Isthis; contest Clearly by the side of the
Union, because, he says, if slavery be extend
sSedSia America, it must be restored in the
West Indies. If any one doubts the force of
Stkis demonstration, we are sorry for it, for
Mr.. Clay has no other to Offer Our examin-
e er next asks us to consider our Interest,"
d Clearly, he says, it is to stand by the Union
= beeeasg they are our best customers, and be-
cause though they have done all they can,
since the separation Of the South gave them
\ the power, to ruin their trade with us, they
z will in spite of their own hostile tariff, re-
main our best customers
lastly comes The momcntous question,
;;sSsH Can England afford to offend the United
zSthtes e" Certainly not says Mr.. Clay,
s.,ts for in half century they will amount to a
klndred millions of people, and will have
IraIlways four thousand miles long" But is
4 81 MI. Clay quite sure that, even if we should
! SHHetssnd them now, the people of America will
III bcaranalice for half century; and, if they
g d6Jis he quite certain that his hundred mil
4, lions will all be members of one Confedera-
Ssscysand that we may not then, as we might
5tsnoW, SECURE either half of the Union as our
Il sallyin.a n war against tho other? Mr. Clay
must really allow us to give our own version
q the honor and interest of England. Our
3 honor and interest is to stand aloof from con-
sStests which in no way concern us, to be con-
tent with our own laws and liberties, without
seeking to impose them upon others: "to
\ seek peace and insure it," and to leave those
ssSylo take the sword to. fall by the sword In
Il swars we will be strictly neutral; in peace VIC
will be the friends of whatever Power may
emerge out of the frightful chaos through
which Mr.. Clay sees his way 50 clearly. And
& that neutrality which is recommended alike
& 3sbJy our interest and by our honor we will not
Violate through fear-no, not of a'hundred
millions of unborn men. Let Mr.. Clay and
Ibis couptrymen look we'll to the present, and
s tM6yWil find enough to occupy their atte,l-
ton without troubling themselves with long
q visions of humiliation and retribution, which
notnan now alive will ever see accomplished.
sg. From the London Times, May 25th.1
s L, War to the knfe-war, if necessary, pushed
tosabsolptc extermination, to the destruction
yg0f cities, the desolation of provinces, the let
& ting loose of millions of ncgros on their pro-
%prietors- rs--theso words furnish brief abstract
4 eof the resolution at which the people aud Gov
Il 8er1nehS Of tho United States appear to have
arrived. Respective lcnity is delegated to
heayop, and Government and people alike
s breathe tho language of massacre and destruc-
8 No potentate against whose sway the
3 sscestral yassals of his house, who followed
4 efathers, to tho Crusades, have risen in
aod revolt, can feel moro acutely the out
4 to bis sovereign rights than the imperious
Democracy Of America, founded on the deola-
& III ion that all men are free and equal, and
Z a every man has q right to seek his we'll.
4 pnd happiness under whatever govern
e & aont he pleases.s The term secession is
eetda to, though, after all, it is probably
most suitable to describe tho action of q
& derbnnd, or q portion Of a federation with.
j j 5st wing itself from tho remainder; because
y eSSsssiDn, like !" federation, }" expresses an
S{| sauality apd correlation of rights,
Sszsf 6 ID oir y,tes9ut mood, tho Northern