Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-03-26

. expressed better feeling aud earnest cndeavt
. AZ atoIement shown and felt ia the p,onr
ratiheat'0n Of constitutional amendments b
r the Southern Statos ut tho olose of tho 49,.
. Not accepting the war AZ a confessed f.ls
"''p on the part Of those who inauyuratod it
"'s =" error wh'oh now only time can cure
anu winch even at this lato date, We shoull
endcasor to pa~lliate. Experiencing, mo, /,
over M AL have done, the frightfal oost o,
the arh..ra'aent Of the sword, LOT ~, IN rho
future cling closer than ever to the Cous.itu.
ZION ~ our only safeguard. 1t IL to be hoped
t"at not until the burdens Vow pressing upoa
ua with saoh fearful weight arc removed will
our people t'r .et the lesson. Of the war and
tiiat' remembering them from whatever oauss
peace between sections aud St,tos nav ha
perpetual.
The history of late events in our country.
AS well as OF the greatest governments of an.
o'1ht and modern ii mes, t.aohe, th.t W h,v.
everything to fear fr,m a departure from tho
letter anu spirit Of the Consultation. and sh.
u"uue aseeniancy OF .unn showed to assume
power Ia what are considered desperate emsr.
genc,as. Sylla, on becoming muster Of Kou..,
Ut once adopted measures to crush hi, en.mi..
and to consolidate the power Of his par.y.-
lie established military colonie. throu ,h,,,
Italy; deprived Of the full R,nan franchise
the inhabitants Of the Italian towns who had
opposed his u>urpatiun outsc.t pd their I.n3u
"''d gave them to his soldiers aud conferred
oIi'zcush'p upon a great number Of slaves ha-
longing to those who had prescribed him.
thus Creating at Rome II kind of body guard
Tor ms protection. After having given Rome
over to slaughter, aud tyranuized Aeyond al
example over those opposed to him and th.
''@lnas. his terrible Instruments of wrong
sylla could yet feel safe in laying down the
e"sIyns OF power so dreadiully abused, aud in
'h'ngtiny freely with the families and friends !
"t his 'Lyrild victims. The fear which he
had inspired continued alter his voluntary
addiction, aud even in retirement Lis will
was law to a people who had permitted them
serves TO DC en,Isved. What but .a,subtiie
knowledge and conviction taM9 thSS Roman
had bccotue changed, diSSSH5dVS34Ngaa aud
utterly broi'en in spirit could have induced I
TINS daring assumption? What but public
to consequences so terrible as to
cave r''he even to every calamity whichds
subsequently bcfell her could have iustiGSHIi
ne conclusions Of the dictator and tyraut in \
his startling experiment?
We fad that in the time which has since
'IaSped human nature and exisencies to gov.
'rn'n"nt have not greatly changed. who, a
ew years past, in contemplating our future,
'ouId have supposed that ia a brief period of
utter experience everything demanded in the
OF military emergency, or dictated by
'nPr'oe, would come to be considered as mere
OF course that consumption, oonfs
'"t'on, loss of personal liberty. the subsection
I States to military rule, and disfranchise. :
'ent' with the extension of the right of suf-
rage merely to accomplish party ends, would
ecelve the passive submission, if not acquies.
enee, of the people Of the rrpuolic7 t,
1t has been clearly demonstrated, by recent =
that enoroachments upon the =,
Constitution cannot be prevented by the :
alone, however devoted or deter. :.
he may he, and that unless the people =
there is no power under the Consti- :.
't'on to check a dominant majority of two ,
in the Congress Of the United States. ;.
n appeal to the nation, however, is attended +
it'll too much delay to meet an emergency. :
lille, if left free to act, the people would :.
rrcct, IN time, such evils ss might follow :,
usurpntion, there is dagger that the :,
me power which disregards the Constitution "
II deprive them of the right to change their :.
lcrs, except by revolution. We have al. =,
'dy seen the jurisdiction of tho Judiciary ~
'cumscribed when it was unprecedented that ="
G court would decide against laws having =
r their sole object the supremacy of party, ~
'lle tho veto power, lodged in the Executive -
tho Constitution for tho interest and pro = -
'tion OF the people, and exercised by Wash. q.
,ton and his successors, has been rendered .. u
gntory by a partisan majority of twc-thirds =,
each branch of the National Legislature. o.
c Constitution evidently contemplatcs that 5"
en- a bill is returned with tho Prcsidosss
%cctions it will be calmly reconsidorcd by Tn
ngrcss. Such, however, has not been the gu
office under tho present party rule. 1t has an
'o'no evident that men who pass a bill un. NC
partisan influences are not likely, through VI
riotio motives to admit thor error. and hn
reby weaken their own organizations by pr
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