Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-08-04
From the Federal Union1
MIR. CALHOUN'S REPLY TO COLONEL
RENTON


matter, we have given place to this
anxiously expected production. We felt
that it was due to Mr Calhoun, as well
as to our readers, to do so, because he
has been most Indignantly assailed, and
his argument is so closely connected, that
the reader cannot fully feel its power
without he considers it as a whole and in
all its parts. Few things have cmanated
from Mr.. Calhoun, during his long and
cyentful public life, characterized by SUI
perior indications of intellectual power,
lofty patriotism, and exalted moral recti-
tude. Who can pcruse it without ad-
miring its perspicuity, its irresistible logic
and the inimitable skill with which he
meets and overthrows his adversary, at
every point? Who can fail to perceive
in the deep pathos, as well rs the pro-
found indignation at the effrontcry and
perfdity of his insolent assalant. which
pervade every paragraph, evidence of the
purest patriotism and the most ardent de-
Yotion to the South? Who can contem-
plate the frankness of its statements and
the unflinching boldness with which he
meets every charge, and not be impress
ed with the conviction, that it is an hon
est document, and that lis author was
inspired with that moral omipotence,
which is ever the offspring of conscious
rcctitudc?
For more than twenty years Col. Ben
ton has hated Mr.. Calhoun. He has
exhibited it on all occasions. and he has
assailcd him in every variety of form,
with the utmost conceivable malgnity.
Mr Calhoun is a man of great personal
amiability, and aversc to acrimonious con
troversy This, together with his unut-
tcrablc contempt for Col. Benton, has
usually prevented him from noticing his
assaults. Col. Benton has known all
this, and has presumed upon it. He
thought Mr. Calhom's forbcarancc would
still give impunity to his malignity. lie
was mistaken. !, He went a step too far.
dlr. Calhoun could endure his mere per
sonal abuse without emotion. But when
Benton sought TO iniuse the whole South,
and to conceal his own treason by dcs-
troying confdcncc.in the fidelity and pa
triotism of Mr.. Calhoun he invaded holy
ground; for he who touches the South.ta,
harm her will not fail to findaiu- mr.. Cal
houn an antagonist OF fearful power,
armed and ready for the conflict. This
was Bcnton's folly. He might have
abused Mr.. Calhoun personally as much
as he pleased. 1t would have passed as
the baying of a Watchdog. But when
he venturcd 10 wound the South he
awoke the indignant artillery of the great
Carolinian, and iii its deadly play he has
fallen, and will descend.
"J'o the vile dust from whence be sprmp
eUnwept unhonored, aud ,nlsung."
BEET Rpor VIEEGAR.-Alany families
purehasc.their vinegar at very consider
BILE annual EXPENSE; some "make do"
with very indifferent article; and others,
for want of a little knowledge and less
industry, go without. It's an easy mat
ter, however, to be at all times supplied
with good vinegar, and that, too, without
much expense. The juice of enc bushol
of sugar bccts, worth twenty-five cents.
and which any farmer can raise without
cost, will make from five tosix gallons of
vinegar, equal to the best made of cider
wine. Crate the bcets, having first
washed them, and express the Juice in
cheese prass, or in many other ways in
which little ingenuity can suggest and
put the liquor into an empty barrel; coy
er the bng hole with gauzc, and set it
IN the sun, and in twelve or fifteen days
1t will be ready for use.
ROMAN REruBL1c AcKxowLEDeEp. -
a letter from Rome Jun l6, in the New
York Post, written by gentleman who
formerly held a diplomatic appointment
from our Government, states that one of
South American States has been the first
10 acknowledged the new Republic.
This was done on that day, through the
Minister of the South American State
referred to. The same writer says, that
the English and Paris papers arc full or!
misrepresentation with regard to shines
in Rome, and that the French NAV force
an entrance, but the Government will
never surrender. He adds:
'"The Republic has established the Ro-
man Catholic as the religion of the Gov
eminent; they viii receive The pope as
The ecclesiastical head of the church, but