Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-05-19
The Facts.

Senator Brown, of Ca, 10 his reply to
the attacks Of Senator Frye, of Maine, upon
the people of the South says:
"There was period 10 tho history of
Massachusetts, and New Engleud whom the
slave trade was very profitable. Georgia
never engaged in it; sla. cry was prohibited
in her original charter, aud she manfulIy
resisted for time. And as noticed tho
other day in booL 70 the Library that /
thiak good authority, in the COM veution
that framed the Constitution Of the United
States, Georgia md South Carolina made it
condition precedent to the Union that tho
Importation of slaves within q Reasonable
time should DO prohibited. Now England
do not think wade that condition prece-
dent. Those who ms dc the trade profita-
hle Insisted on a longer time to import.
When you imported tho slaves their labor
was not found to be very remnueratiye on
the barren and bleak hills and shores OF
Massachusetts, and New England There
was more congenia oipe; there was
place where the cotton grew and the to-
bacco grew, and various productions that
you could not raiso in New England, and
your ancestry brought them down and sold
them to US, and our ancestors bought them
from you and paid their money for them,
and you took that money and 1 presume
you put it into brick and mortar aud into
fisheries and factories and shipping; and
you went to work building upon it,
1t was substantial wealth to you, and YOU
know how to take care of tho dollar.
"But there is another reason why YOU are
rch and we are poor. During the time We
held slave property guaran eed to us by the
Constitution, and since that time, the far.
ners and planters, the mechanics and the
laooring clarses of this country generally
have been taxed under tho tariff laws Of
the United States to build up aud maintain
New Eogland factories and New England
interests With the money you have re-
ccived from that source and iron, the fish
cries at the expense or under the protection
of the Government, and from the importa-
tion OF saees and from other sources, you
have grown rich aud powerful, while we by
the loss OF slaves purchased from you have
grown poor. Hence you are able to ap-
propriate large suns for educational pur-
poses while we are not able to raise like
sums.
"You grew rich first by the importation Of
slaves and by selling them to US, and you
invested your money we'll. We held them
for Two or three generations and we made
their labor profitable; but some time after
tho trade bad ocased to be profitable and we
were prosperous these high moral ideus
which tho Seuator referred to whore he
| contrasted civilization in New England
founded on the Bible and tho school book
with bnrbarism in tho South, Us he termed
it-.thcse moral ideas quickeped the oon i.
science Of Massachusetts, and New England
to suoh an extsnt that they saw toe horrors
OF slavery, aud a vail went up over it aud
they we're 50 shocked that they absolutely
violated the compact Of the Constitution, i,
aud their Senators will not deDy it. in re-
fusing to carry ont tie agreement of Mas
saohusetts when the agreement was formed
that she would roDder back to the owner
his fugitive slave when he went into your
States. And the honorable Senator from
Maine tells US of a very disgraceful scene
there, us he considers it, where the troops
, had to be called out to the number of 1000
, or some other,large number, to execute this
law and return poor negro back to slavery
again.
'lo the days when your fathers called
them bIaokamoors, and when they wero
proper traffic, that sympathy was not 80
lively, conscience was not then 80 quick
ened. But though we had bought the
property, and paid you for it, owned it, and
! though 1t had been condition preceden,
/; to the formation Of the Union aud the
adoption of the Constitution that you would
agree to, surrender fugitives to US when
they fed, and though you had agreed t.