Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-03-09
AFFAIRS IN WAsHTNGTON

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tacturee food for the appetite they have
created We have all along thought Mr.
Webster would come forward with some.
ttirS more worthy of Southern consid.
Grafton than the Clay compromise, and
the telegraphic correspondence of the
New York Herald iustifies Ctr an,icipa.
ton. We give it, leaving the prediction
to await ful6lment - Carofinian.
"Mr Webster is preparing. and has
nearly completed, the outlines and details
fan original compromise that will settle
the controversy. He will take high con
s'itutiona ground, and will lead the North
forward with terms from which the South
will not desire to break away. 1t is pos
slble that he may introduce his plan with
powerful speech this coming week,
though it is possible he will defer his ac-
tlon till the week after. 1fucr will de-
pend upon Mr.. Calhour's progress.
"Mr Calhoun is engaged in debating
his speech, which will be read in the Sen
ate. and which may be expected about
Thursday. should nothing intervene to
preclude the intention It will be. I re-.
gret to fear. Mr.. Calhoun's last public
effort, and undoubtedly superior to every
other. great as many of his speeches have
been during his career as a statesman.
The nature Of his maladv is such that re.
pose, at least, must be insisted upon, to
guard him against speedy danger
However. if he behold the settlement of
the controversy now, he may he cons H.
ed at the close of his life. by the refcc-
tion that it will never again distract tn,
South, to whose interest he has so signal
~ and SUCCESSFULLY, for her welfare. de-
voted his splendid talents and his life"
EfecattOe interference an California;
Mr.. Andrew Marshall who went from
this city to California, and is now in San
francisco, has kindly sent us a copy of
the Alta California of the 3lst Dccemhcr.
we are pleased TO see so fair specimen
OF typography from that prosperous in
iant city. itseems we'll edited, and Inc
contents we find very interesting. Among
other items which attracted our ait n
tion Is an editorial comment on n recent
prospectus of new whig paper that has
been put 70 th there by a Mr.. Craze,
formerly editor of whig paper in Rich
mond, Va. The prospectus goes on to
say;
The undersigned commences his en-.
terpri;e backed by the supper oethe Ad.
ministration, and the whig pprty of the
Union. and the commercial interests.
Appended to this is list, says the AL
ia California, of some fifty names of poll.
ticians and merchants. headed by Presi-
dent Tavlor, and including the name Of
Hon. Thomas Butler King, another
guardian ofCalifornia.'
We wonderif the funds to establish
this whlg paper or any portion, are con-
trlbuled from the secret service fund of
the administration, or from the contingent
fund. out which Mr.. Kings eight dollars
a day. and all his travelling expenses be-
sides have been paid.
Truly our 'no-party' President is car
rying out his mo- party notions in GU
rious way. We hope Congress will
probe his California operations to the
bottom, and that The people of the
South will give them their especial al
sention.-- Constituti nal;sf.
Some of the Northern Legislatures, in
their hypocritical resolutions about slave
ry, express the most devoted attachment
to the GLORIOUS Union"-as Mey under
stand and would have it--thcreby imply
ing rhat Southeners who kick against
their aggressive imperlincnce are dis
unionis,s! Notwithstanding all this, how
ever these sanc'ifed patriots do not seem
to love the Union gnite well enoug', to
make the smallest sacrifice of prejudice
or assumption to preserve and perpet,.ate
1t. Nor is their love of Union sufficient
ly overpowering to cure them of thc
pharasaical self-,ighteousress, and of
their affected unhappiness because of the
existence among their neighbors of an in
Ftiiution which they themselves nev, dis
covered to be Sinful until they first
found it unsuited 10. and "unaroftoJ2e"
in. thri" No thern climate. IF there is
any thing under heaven calculated TO
nrou the Indignation of an honest and
sincere patriot, it is to see men thus i'm
piously and profantly assuming the grrbl
OF heaven to serve he devil in."-z.Jt,ck-
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