Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-08-18

JA'o"s Hee O0eUtpOTt OUu0O Uu2etR.
COL. WIGFALL AND GEN'L.
HOUSTON.
We fully designed giving synopsis of
the speeches of Gen. Houston and Col.
Wigfall, at Marshall, but for want of
space we are obliged to make our notice
of them brief, Notwithstanding the in
clemency of the day, the concourse of
hail, healthy tinged, honest-faced people
was immense, We must confess, that if
we ever entertained an opinion preiudicial
to the beauty, honesty. gallantry, and
hospitality of the good people Of Texas.
that opinion was forever banished from
our mind during our temporary sojourn
IN Marshall. To use the expressive Ian
guage of the Hero of San Jacinto "the
Texans are the cleverest people in the
world" But, poulo naqiora caaamus.
Gen. Houston's speech was an able and
ingenious, though, we think, unsuccessful,
defence of his vote upon the Oregon bill.
He evidently attempted, and doubtless
expected, to honegfuggle the good hearers.
and get up q general hurrah for "Old
SAM" The onus of his speech was
TRADE Of virulent abuse, indiscriminately
heaped upon John c. Calhoun and the
Southern Address. He made no allusion
to his deviation from the a0ritten instruc-
tions of his constituents, sent him at the
same time that he received his appoint.
ment from the Texan Legislature. He
made no excuse for publishing his free
soil letter in the organ Of the Wing party.
He mentioned not word that fell from
his devout lips, when the abolitionist at
the North, calculated the 10 t,iumphe!
But he expatiated with Ciceronian pecu-
harity, upon his identity with the early
history of Texas. Battles, tolls, hard
ships and sufferings were recounted and
the achievements of himself passed ouer
to the no small admiration of the silent
auditor. He dilated with sepulchral voice,
and moving diction, upon the attempt of
some to take from him his fair fame, and
the waving plume OF his bright destiny.
His speech was interlarded with rich and
racy anecdotes, which we relished but
for the life of us, we could not relish the
doctrines they were intended to season,
and render paiatable. Gen. Houston is a
calm, dignifed, impressive, and self-pos-
sessed speaker. His address and manner
are captivating beyond description: and
his action, that which enters largely into
the composition of the orator, is graceful
and easy. His eagle eye, his engaging
manner, his clear, deep tened voice, and
bis inimitable faculty of recitation, COM
bined with good common sense, mother
wit, and overpowering irony and sarcasm,
entities hin to no mediocre position in the
scale of oratorical merit.
When Gen. Houston finished hi ,speech,
the very welkm rang with call for Col.
Wigfall. This gentleman mounted the
stand, armed with documentary weapons,
ready alike for defence and attack. We
saw at once that the wug of wer" was
coming, as the bold, daring, and indomi-
table Colonel, with resolute mein, steady
nerve. and impassioned manner, brandisho
ed his rapier over the opposing Greek.
He held him up to public reprobation,"
and heaped Pelion upon Ossa with such
dexterity, that we verify thought the old
Generals world wide fame no more than
the "visual line which girt him round"
The couplet occurred to us:
~ pity the man whom the public gaze
Has made the object of censqre, or praise,
We cannot too highly estimate Col.
Wigfall for his prompt, energetic, and
patriotic defence Of Southern rights.
While spch man raises his eloquent
voice for the Star State, no ambitious and
Senator can miSrepresent her
with impunity, Col. Wigfalps powers
of analytical and logical augmentation,
and his extensive political knowledge,
designate him as no ordinary man. He
is sound democrat, an unswerying ad-
vocate Of the Institutions of the South,
and a formidable foe upon the stump. In
the progress, and future history Of Texas,
II requires 70 gerat divination TO see, that
the name Of Colonel u. r. Wigfall viii
be prominently inscribed upon the page
that Survives the wreck of nations.