Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-12-14

W u'I .ieSilc W a'old whatever mISnt expose
it to the slightest danger.
| The great interests Of the country require
Immediate relief from these cnactmcnts. Bus
mess in the South 1t paralyzcd by sense of
general Insecurity, by the terror OF confisoa-
ton, and the dread Of negro SUPREMACY. The
/ Southern trade, from which the North would
/ have derived 80 great profit under gov ern.
mcnt of law, still ansuiches, and can never
revive until it ceases to be fettcted by the ar
btrary power which makes all it's operations
unsafe. That rich country-the richest in
natural resources the world ever saws worse
than lost if it be not soon placed under tho
protection of free Constitution. Instead of
being as it ought to be, source of wealth and
power, it will become an intolcrablc burden
upon the rest of the nation
Another reason for retracing our steps, will
doubtless be seer by Congress in the late man
lfcstatlons of public opinion upon this subject.
We live in country where the popular will
always cntorccs obedience to itself, sooner or
later. 1t is vain to think of opposing it with
anything short Of legal authority, backed by
overwhelming force. 1t cannot have escaped
| your attention that from the day On which
CONGRESS fairly and formally presented tho
proposition to govern the Southern States by
military force, with view to the ultimate es
adjustment OF negro supremacy every ex-
preston OF the general sentiment has been
more or less adverse to it. The affections Of
this generation cannot be detached from tho
institutions of their ancestors Their deter
nlnatlon to preserve the inheritance of free
government in their own hands, and transmit
1t undivided and unmparcd to their own nos
tcrlty, is too strong to be successfully opposed
Every weaker passion will disappear before
that love of liberty and law for which tho
american people arc distinguished above all
others in the World.
How far the duty of the President F" to pre-
serve, protect, and defend the constitution"
requires rim to 90 in opposing an unconstitu
tional act Of Congress, is yerv serious and
Important question, on which have deibera-
ted much, and felt extremely anxious to reach
! proper conclusion. Where an act has been
passed according to the forms of the constitu
ton by the supreme legislative authority, and
is regularly enrolled amoug the public statutes
| of the country. Executive resistance to it.
especially in times of high party cxcitcment.
would be likely to produce violent collision
between the respective adherents of the two
Branches of the Government. This would bo
stInPij civil war; and civil war must be re-
sorted to only as the last remedy for the worst
OF evils. Whatever might tend to provoke it
shoHld be most carefully avoided. a faithful
a"a conscientious Magistrate will conccde
very much to honest error, and somethinp
even to pervcrsc malice, before he will cndan.
ger the public peace and he will not adont
torcibie measures, or such as might lead to
force, as long as those which are pcaccable re-
main open to him or to his constituents. II,
IS true that cases may occur in which the Ex.
ecuilve would be compelled to stand on j, ),
rights, and maintain them, regardless of -,
consequences If Congress should pass a. a.
act which is not only in papabc conflict r,;.l,
the constitution, but will certainly, if @, ,r,;oa
out, produce immediate and irreparable ;,,;au..
to the organic structure of the Cove, = 49,.
and if there be neither judicial rcr NJ A., 60
the wrongs it nfiicts, nor power in tho nso,p ~
to protect themselves without the ofs,.Hi"I HI'r.' ,
of their elected defenderif, for ost .oea .ha
legislative department. should pass ~, a,.t ,.sa
through oil the forms of law, to a.boIish > o. ~
ordinate department of the Go yernmcn,
sucn case the President mus take tho b;ah
responsibilities of his Office, I'd save 10 ~
OF the nation at all hazards. The so.callea l,
reconstruction acts, though ns plainly uncon- neon
stitu'ona! as any that can be imac;nc5 ,vono
not brlieved to be within the class last mo,, mo,o
TONED The people were not wholly disarmed
ol s,e power OF sol!,defcnce. ,, n all the North
ern states they still held in their hands tho
y. - " .'io oai'o!, and it was safn t,>
believe that in due timc thew would oomo a,o 20 20
the rescue of their ow a institutions I t. tn;uou :"
me pleasure to AID that tho appeal to sn"S o''s
common constituents wns not tato oN
ana that ny confidence in their wsdor, 's.n,
S'f.uc SEEMS not to have been mispleoo,, az"
It's well and publicly known tr,a, 80.
Ir"Gas have been perpctratcd on .ho Tno. "oamous
and that colossal fortunes na.,o taa no rcasury,
the public expense THIS sneoioo Doon ~ MADE at
ton has increased. is :ocroos;na, u eoorruP-
mnshcd will s; bring us into totsl ohd II rni not d
nass'ace' The public creditors and tho tax hu
"''. are alike interested in an honest admin
,stratlon OF the finances, and neither class nil,
'ong endure the large. handed robbcries of Tho
recent past For this discrcditable state 80
,hinss there arc several causes. Some of these
taxes are so laid ns to present an irrcsistoh,o
temptation to ovade payment Tho proot snn,a
which officers may win by connivance ot franJ
create pressure which is more than tho wiz
tue OF many can withstand and there can ho
no no doubt that the open disregard of constitn.
tlonn obligations ayowcd by some of tho high.
est and most Influential men in the connfry
has greatly weakened the moral sense Of tbo.1o
who serve in subordinate places. The, ynon.
scs Sc, OF the United States, including interest on
the public debt, are more than six times n.
much as they were seven years ago. no col.
lcct and dlsburse this vast amount requires
careful supervision, MS we'll as systematic viz.