The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1848-02-16

GENERAL TAYLoR.-It is no longer
possible to shut the eye to the manifestation
OF General Taylor's popularity. AS in the
great popular movements of 1928 and lS4O,
when General Jackson and General Harri.
son were candidates for the Presidency, so
now every indication points to General
Iaylor as the "man OF the peoples choice"
1t IS not altogether his military services
which render him so popular Scott has
nearly, if not quite, rivalled his achieve
ments, yet the pulse of the community does
not throb responsive to Scott. Worth, But.
ler and Smith, have all covered themselves
with glory, yet the people do not think of
them as candidates. 1t is the practical good
sense, the unseifish patriotism, the capaci-
ty to control hi,nselfas we'll as others, that
makes General Taylor such favori,e.
He that ruleth himself himself is greater
than he that taketh city," says Holy Writ,
and General Taylor has frequent proved
that he can keep his temper as as we'll as
conquer the enemy. Justice is not done
to the people, in reference to their choice of
military cheiiains. The common crv is
that military glory is a sure passport to po-
pularity in the United States. We DENY
this, al least in the sense in which it is as
serted OF the crowd Of Generals who
have wor,hily served their country, only
Washington, Jackson and Harrison, have
been elevated to the Presidency, and neither
OF these would have been the choice of the
people, had not the peoples faith in their
honesty been as great as the admiration Of
their military abilities.
The New York Herald was RIGHT when
it said Of Taylor:
6 The election Of General Taylor springs,
in great measure, from the national i'm.
pulses OF patriotism towards great and no
bic character, who has pursued his way
modestly and quietly through the world.
without looking to the right or to the left,
and onl y endeavoring to do his duty.
!here is not another candidate named in
the public prints that can display so fair an
escutcheon as General TAYLOR can"
Philadelphia Bulletin.
AWFUL TRAGEDY On Saturday night
last two negro traders from Parson County
N. g., OF the names of Thomas p. Trottcr
and Richard Bolton were murdered in Ran
doiph County, G., near Harrison's Store, by
two OF their own negroes! The particulars
as communicated to us by Mr.. J. H. Palmer
OF Lumpkin, through the hands of Mister
Thornton of the same place are as follows:
The murdered men had encamped for the
night, a few miles to the westward of Cuth.
bert, between that place and Eufaula, Ala,
having with them the three negroes, two
men and one boy. While lying together
on mattress, asleep, the negro men took
position, one OH eachsside of their victims,
and at given signal, cut their throats with
razor Irotter was not so fatally cut as
was Bolton, and was able to jump up, when
he was despatched with an axe The bodies
were then carried off mile distant and
thrown from bridge into a creek, when
the muderers proceeded to secure the money
and burn the notes and papers f,he decea-
sed, and having set on fire the bloody mat
tress, put out with the carryaI and horses
: in the direction of Marion County taking
the boy with them. The discovery ofthe
murder was made on Sunday morning, from
the flre having communicated to the woods,
at the scene Of tradegy, which drew the at
tention OF the neighbors to the spot, when
after short search, the mangled bodies of
the murdered men were found, as before
stated. Pursuit was immediately made,
and the negroes were overtaken in Marion
Couaty, and brought to Lumpkin, where an
examination was had and these particulars
elected from the confession of the negroes
They were taken to Randolph county to a
wal, the penalty of the law for their awful
crime
HE New STArEs.-The following will
show the time when the new States or
those not included in the sold thirteen. were
admitted to the Union.
Vermont-originally was part of New
! York, and was admitted into the Union
2 March 4, 1881.
z .Kentucky-formerly part of Virginia,
admitted into the Union June 1, 1892.
Tennessee-formed of Territory ceded
! to the United States by the State of North
Carolina; admitted into the Union June ], i,
5sl796.
sa.@ Ohio--formed out Of part of the territory
{ o.. .aWe esl of the river Ohio: admitted into