Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-12-21

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States, either native or ioreignersnat-
uralized or unnaturalized, I6O acres
of land, on the very reasonable con-
ditions that it (the l60 acres) be ia
ken into possession. The Abolition
lists rejoice with great JOY" at the
anticipated success Of this liberal
scheme, as it IS to be the means Of
coloniSing many of the Soathern
States, which contain large bodies of
public lands, with their INDECENT
brethren, and thus they hope to in
troduce sort of ,Dooden horse within
our walls, from which armed men
will issue to burn and destroy with
the fire and sword Of abolition tanati-.
cism. We are drawing out this ar
ticle to much greater length than
we intended, but while we are upon
the subject we had as well say, that
the men who rule us find themselves
just now in rather awkward position
in relation to money matters; they
find the public debt to be about lOO,-
100000 dollars, the income about
40,000,000, and the current expendi-
turcs about So or 6O,0O0,OOO, and
they are in quandary how to raise
the deficit, retrench, cconomise thew
cannot, tor it is not in the nature ofa
yankee when he has his hands in the
pockets of another TO take out emp
ty; the natural expenditures of the
Government cannot be dispensed
with, the interest on the public debt
is TO be paid, and besides they have
extensive schemes of internal i'm
provements which, now they havo
everything their own way, must be
put into operation. So you sec clear
ly enough, the great question is, hov
is the money to be raised? The pub
lie lands have been so disposed of
that no revenue is to be expected
Ii ON them for years to come, so that
some recommend to meet the exi-
gencies of the times a recourse to
loans, others to an increase of tariff
duties, and others again, direct taxa
tons, this latter measure however
will not be adopted, as, in that case,
the North would pay with the South
an equal share Of taxes.
Hon. J. nj. MAsoN.-Our readers
will be pleased to hear that the BEG.
islature of Virginia has reelected to
seat in the Senate this honest and
true hearted man. The most perse-
verlng efforts were made by the
friends of compromise, now better
known as "submissionists," to break
him down, every sinew was strained,
every means was employed, the most
popular men were placed in nomina-
ton, but all in vain. Mason was re-
elected by an overwhelming MAORI
ty-and thus, while by this election,
the truckeiing and time-serving poll
tlcians OF the country have again
been shown that the only road to an
honorable fame is that into which
truth and honesty would direct them,
and that
*"1he purest treasure mortal times afford,
| Is spotlsss reputation"
the people of Virginia, by endorsing
the acts of this fearless and uncom
promising defender of the South,
proclaim their sense of the true inn
port and bearing of those infamous
measures Which he, in the last ses-
sion of Cor Tess, so bravely resisted.
We congratulate the whole South,
not simply forhis reelection, butal
for that maninity of sentiment it
eyinces to bein existence ii the State
of Virginia.
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The GEoRGIA CONVENTION. Ts,e
Committee appointed to prepare and
report for the cor siderarion Of the
Convention, action appropriate to the
occasion on which the hare assem-
bled, ahaving," in their own lars
guage, "carefully considered the pa