Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-19
wALuALLA SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY prEnBrR 49, 1878

necessary preparations of men and money,
arms aud munitions, &c., to meet tho emer
gonoy. speak plainly and frankly. 1t
is no timc for humbug, resolutions arc gas.
conadc No step should bo tukon unless
We intend to stick TO the Constitutional
Union at every hazard. For myself after
thinking of this subject rs dispassionately
as could for several days under tho exotic.
ment here, hesitate not to say that, in my
opinion, maintenance Of our honor to say
nothing Of vindication of our rights, re-
quires us to resist tho aggression. In my
course here, while shall pursue in all
things the policy which shall believe will
most likely avort such result, yet shall
yield nothing to tho aggressor. 1t Is bee
coming bootess now to quarrel with our.
selves about who contributed most to the
present state of things l believe the
agitators of the South for several years havo
done moro to effect it than oil others united.
But rs Southern men we must lock things
in the faoo as we find them. Our fortunes
arc united and our destiny must bo common.
1t is oIso boollcss to count the chances of
success in n struggle with tho Federal Co
vornmcnt No people who arc not fit ior
tho lowest degradation count the cost or
hazard of defending their honor or their
rights. 1t is botter to fall in manly strug-
gle than to live and fatton 10 inglorious
case. Ard would rather to day sec tho
whole Southern race buried in honorable
graves than SOC them insolcntly trampled
over by such ounting, whining, pulling
hypoorites as arc now setting themselves mp
as their judges and reformcrs. 1 would
rather SEQ Georgia share the fate of Hun
gary or Poland than sec her trucking to the
dictation of Northern hordes of Goths aud
Vsndals who arc now threatening her With
their power.
But this is the gloomicst side of the
picture. do not think we should bo so
easily subdued. Wehavo spirit and energy,
and VIC should have friends also. Let US,
then, be firm. These views give you in
tho worst aspect of the question. Perhaps
oil this may bo nvcrted. shall do all in
my power to avert it.
TIE SECRET or HIS LEE.
Hc writes to his brother:
Tho secret of my life has been--rcvongo
reversed. That is, to rise superior to tho
neglect or ocntumoly Of the mean Of man
kind, by doing them good instead Of horn.
A determination to war even against fate;
to moet the world in all its forces; to master
evil with good, and to lcavo no foo standing
in my rear. My greatest courage has been
drawn from my deepest despair, aud tho
greatest efforts of my life have been fruits
of a determination, firm resolve, excited
by 80 slight thing as a look. This feeling,
this princip plo-call it what you willis the
handspring Of my action. When 1 have
looked upon the world and seen it filled
with knaves and fools, aud have seen in tho
whole waste not Quo well of water from
| which could draw drop to slako my
thirsting, pnrohed soul, with all hopes
| blighted; when have been roady to lilo
down and die under the weight OF that
grief which is greater than all other griefs-
A young heart desoate
! In the wide world.
SIGNS or CIVIL WAR.
Iu 1860 he wrote to the same brother:
NOVEMBER 3Q.--L am daily becoming
more and moro confirmed in the opinion
that all efforts to save the Union will bc un.
avai,ing. Tho truth is our loadoas arc
public men who have takon hold Of this
question do not desire to continue it on any
terms. They do not wish any redress of
wrongs; they are disunionists per SC and
avail themselves of present circumstances
to press thoir objects, and my present con-
viotion is that they will curry tho State with
them by largo majority. What say on
this point is for your reflection own only. [
writo just as would talk to you, that you,
for your own information, may know what
I think of the ultimate course of events,
and not with the view either to influence
your Judgment or that Of others, much less
their action, rs might bc tho case were my
opinions knowu, as my opinions may be
erroneous. let tho popular will bo as fairly
represented rs possible.
From Georgia he writes in January cf the
same year:
Now We have real causes of complaint
,ainst the North-or, at least, against
certain States of tho North--oauses which,
if not redrcssed, would juetify tho extreme
course, tho ultima ratio, on tho part of the
South. These, however, are barely glanced
at in the South Carolina address. These
causes are tho "Personal Liberty Ao.s," as
they arc called in several of tho Northern
States. Other acts of their Legislatures
which openly and avowedly rofuse obedience
to or compliance with their constitutional
obligation to return fugitive slaves. These
aets are in fragrant violation of oonstitu-
tional obligations, and they constitute the
only causo, in my opinion, which can justify
secession. All other complaints are founded
on throatoned dangers which may mover
come, and which feel worry sure GOULD be
avorted if tho South would pursue judi.