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

~ uIst caItou IOr lO,VVV troops, pro-
olaimcd n blockade of tho insurreotionists,
denounced priyateering, and made a call for
throe years navy. These measures were
yentured upon under the popular demand
md public necessity, trustingto their ratifca.
ton by Congress Soon after, it was consid.
3 Screda duty to authorize tile commanding scv.
thcpubic icsafctyrcquircdit. This was nccessa
syto the execution of the laws. Tho continu-
uncc of the law made in such extreme tender.
ness of tue liberty of the citizen, practically
relieved moro of the glty than the iuoecut.
TO state the question more directly: Ara
nll the laws but Que to be uncxccutcd; and
tho Government go to pieces lost one be VIC.
lated But it was believed that the suspcn
sion OF the writ ofhuJcus c0,pus was not un-
constitutional.
The forbearancc of the Government had
boon so extraordinary and long continued as
to induce foreign nations to simpc their ac-
tion on the supposition ofan carly dissolution.
The Administration was concerned ..bout this,
but now happy to state that t'o sovereignty
of tho United is now everywhere practically
respected, and sympathy with the Govern.
mcnt manifested throughout the world
The reports of the Secretaries will give de-
called information, and the Executive and De-
partments arc rcady to sunplv anv cm;ssinus
necessary to guide YOUR delibcrtions 7 w.
commend the adoption of measures TO mako
the contest short a,ld decisive, and, that Won
idace at the Governments disposal at least
four hundred thousand men aud four hundred
millions of money, that number OF mon being
about one tenth of the available men within
the willing region, and that sum one ctwcnty-
third of the wealth of the men who ,,ccm vii
ling to dcvotc their property to that object
The whole six hundred millions would involve
n less debt per head than the proportion IN thc
revolutionary war.
Surely the motive now is MS strong os then.
Might the result now be worth to the world
ten times the number of men and ten times
the amount of money. Legislative sanction
is only necessary, the material for the work
being abundant the greatest perplexity of
the Government is to avoid receiving men
faster than they aro prepared. Tho pcoplc
will then have Government, If tire Govern.
mcnt do its part of the duty.
While porceptibly there is little difference
between secession and revolution, the movers
knew they could never raise their treason to
rospcctnbility by a name implying n violation
Of law thoy could only advance indirectlv in
tho teeth Of the noble sentiments of the neo.
pie.
They commenced with an insidnus public
sentiment, and invented ingenious sophisms.
which,, if considered logically, followed ali
incidents to the destruction Of the Union.-
The sophism is legal, peaceful withdrawal,
without the consent of the Union. This su
gar coated rebellion drugged the public mind
during thirty years, and placed good men in
arms against the Governments The sopl,isn,
derives currency from the ussumptiou of some
impotcnt supremacy pertaining to State
The States have neither moro nor less than
reserved spowcr--no one of them being n State
Of tho Union. The original ones passed into
the Union before custing OH the British colo
nal dependence, and the new ones came in
from a condition of dependence. Even if it
was during II temporary Independence, it was
meyer designed II State, The words sover-
eign Stuto arc not in the Constitution. nor,
as it is believed, in any State Constitution.
Here follows an elaborate argument against
tic right Of secession. 1t is questioned
whether the people OF every state, cxccpt
South Carolina, are not IN favor Of the Uniou;
the contrary has noi been demonstrated,
though oar advcrsarios have adopted IT,
Some passages in Tie Dccara'ion Of ndn-
pandenco, IN which j; is said 'all men arc
created equal, are emitted. Their Consti
t,'lon, Instead OF we, the people," has,
= we, the deputies of the sovereign and indc.
pendent States. > Why ignore the rights of
men7--the authority of the people? This is
essentially the pcoplc's contest M, h,nny