Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-03-02
KEOW EE COURIER
March g, 1850.

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The Editor of the Messenger full of years,
and in his own estimation, full of wisdom, seeks
in his last paper to stave Off the controversy
between us on the subject of the Bank to what
he is pleased to call the ignorance of the young
man of the Courier. Now, ifthose who seek to
correct the errors of others, would first pluck
the mote out of their own eye" and be satisfied
that there is at least probable cause Of pros.
ecution, much trouble and hard feelings would
be saved. But how different from this has
been the conduct of this sage of the Messenger
He first attacks us for mn error of twenty
thousand dollars, which could not be typo.
graphical error this charge was shown to be
entirely erroneous and unGounded,-he' then
rlght-about faces, and assumes the position
that we had charged the Bank with funds over
whichit hadno control: in this charge he is re-
pulsed and driven back, and he now takes shel-
ter under the subtefugc that he has sent us to
our books, and that atignorance was all he intend
cd to impute to us. Whenever a champion re
sorts to ridcule and personalities, it is n certain
index that he has been beaten, and he only re-
sorts to such weapons to cover a shameful ro
treat Now let us turn back chapter or so.
ana seeit the Messenger at first misunderstood
that calculation. In his issue of the 25th of
January, he, in taking up the cudgel to assist
his friend r., after commenting on, and copvna
our calculations says,
This old Bank has lived through many such
calculations of its opponents and continued to
pay the interest and principal of tie State debt
MS they fell due, and will continue to do so un.
til the end of the time, if Let alone
The above aie lis words, the italics only arc
ours. Did the Messenger then understand it as
referring to the State debit But to slip this
seer ofhis last plank and leaves him completely
exposed, we would ask our readers to remem.
member that his article was written rs mn ap.
pendix to the communication of his correspon-
dent r., and he refers to that communication as
having partly answered our leader ON the sub
Ject of the Bank, and undertakes for his part to
make the answer complete. Then it is certain
ly plain, that the article of the Messenger from
which we have quoted must be taken in con
nection with the dignified and gentlemanly
communication of r., and r. say: ut is known
o'most persons, that the Bank is expressly
charged with The payment of the interest on
large portion of the public debt" &c, and then
ives an extract from the last annual report of
the President and Directors ofthc Bank to show
that large amount oi the profits of the Bank
had been applied to this purpose. Can there
be doubt yet remaining MS to the understand
ing which the Messenger first had of our arti.
Gle 1t is evident that r. understood our cal
culation as referring to the public debt, and the
Messenger has placed himself in n dilemma.
and may take which horn he pleases; that is he
must admit his first understanding of That cal
culation to have been as to tse public debt, or
subject himself to the imputation that he rush.
ed INTO the contest moi knowing at what he was
gong to strike And we must confess that ye
have no high estimate Of the powers and parts
OF any one, who, upon examination of our cal
culatlon can fail to underestimate; for it does
seem to us that it is so plain that no one with n
thlmble full of brains can mistake. But. asks
the Messenger, if it was intended ms a state.
ment of the public debt, why was not the Ran
dolph Stock put downl We now find that to
bring our articles within the comprehension of
the Messenger, we shall have to be exceedingly
plain. We had thought that we used tolcrable
plain English, but have just now learned that if
two things are blended that it is entirely be-
yond the brains of the Messenger His inon;.
ry ms to the Randolph Stock also shows that he
commenced and has carried on this controyer
sy without either reflection or examination For
II he had betaken himselfto his books. he cor
tainly could have ascertained that the whole
amount of the State debt was S2.31osoe OIL
\ Well, is not that exactly the amount of our cal.
culationl It then would surely have been
plain to a financcr not half SO great as tho
Rothschilds that this Randolph Stock was IN