Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-10-20
ierment---nevcr contain any Intoxicating
quality; and the longer it is kept the moro
palatablc it becomes"
CANADA.

A movement is evidently in progress
in Canada to effect the annexation of
those provinces to III. Urited States.
Ii the tone of the pres, be any indica
ton of public sentiment, there can be no
doubt but that sentiment is in favor of an
ncXation. The following is from the
Montreal Herald:
"Ofall our brethren of the press in
Lower Canada, our old friend the Tran
script, and our old opponent, the Pilot
are now, we be licve, left tho sole adyo-
Gates of a continuance of our colanial re-
ations with the mother country. The
latter indeed, we can scarcely look upon
as the advocate of anything beyond the
maintainancc in power of his patrons, the
present ministry. With the TRANSCRIPT
is altogether different. He is, howcv,
or, satisfied of the deplorablc results of
colonial misgovcrnment, sincerely and
honestly of opinion that whatcyeradvan-
tagcs this country would gain by anncxa-
ton to the United States, would fail to rc-
pay us for the loss Of our monarchical in-
stitutions. So long as, at whatever cost,
the people OF Canada were contcnted
with their necessary and subordinate
condition as colonists of Great Britain,
it would have been clearly absurd ior
them to have sought forany institutions
inconsistent with the principles of the I'm
perial government; but having arrived at
the conclusion that it is no longer for their
interest to maintain their political con-
nection with the mother country, few can
be so blind as not TO see that the mate
rla!s 20 found Constitutional Monarchy,
on this continent do not exist. The
Transcript says:-"We are forced to the
conclusion that in this city the friends of
annexation are tn be found in the ultra
conservative party, and the most demo
cratic andropublican of the French"
So far from tho friends of annexation in
this city being limited to the parties nam
ed to the Transcript, the real difficulty is
to discover who are the opponents of an
nexation. Among the warmest advo-
Gates are to be found our leading citizens
of both national origins, of cvory shade in
politics, of every religious denomination.
The Transcript altogether mistakes the
character of what has heretofore been
called the conservative party ofLower
Canada" Lord Durham understood
them better. They have no traits in com
mon with either English Torics," or
"Vendean noblesSe, but are, as Lord DUR
ham correctly enough described them,
Fan independent and somewhat turbulent
democracy" fully prepared, we sincerely
believe, to adopt themselves to, and ac-
cept, in good faith, the Institutions under
which they have seen their neighbors, in
the United States, attain degree of pros
perity and social advancement infinitely
surprising their own" r..i.. -
PENNSYLVANIA ELEomoN,-T The Phil
adclphia Bulletin (Whig) of Thursday
evening has returns from % of the 63
counties Of the State, with a comparison
of the vote FOR Canal Commissioner with
that of last year for the sane Office, when
the Democratic candidate was elected by
about 1000 majority, The Democratic
gain on that vote in the 25 counties is
near 10000, The Democrats will re-
cover their ascendaney in the Senate, and
have large majority in the House
Mccwry. -