Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-02
ANOTHER LINK BRokEN.--Tbe

existed, by an interchange of Dele
gates, between the General Associa
ton of Massachusetts (Copprega
tionaD and the Old School Genera
Assembly ofthe Presbyterian Church
has been broken off, in consequence
of the interference of the forme,
body with the latter, on the subject
OF slavery. The Assembly affe,
passing resolution to the effect tha,
such interference was offensive, and
IT continued, must lead to an inter.
ruption OF the correspondence be.
tween the two bodies, appointed
Rev. DIR. Baker, of Texas, as their
Delegate to the Association, but he
declined, and the subject was then
laid upon the table. The Associa.
tion at their meeting since held, pass.
eel a resolution that although desi.
rous to continue the correspondence,
yet being in doubt whether the Gen.
eral Assembly, by their recent action,
did not intend to discourage such a
continuance, they would omit ap-
pointing a delegate until the views
OF the Assembly should be more dis.
tinctly developed. The Presbyterian,
the organ of the General Assembly;
after giYing a sketch Of the proceed
lngs OF the Association, speaks ofthe
Suspension of the correspondence ais
a"settled fact" and expresses a be-
llet that 1t "will never be renewed.
unless the Association retract.as II
is nota all prob able that tho Asso-
clation will retract. They are not
in a mood for so doing. We NAV
therefore consider the correspon-
dence as broken off; result more to
be regretted in a political than in an
ecclesiastical point Of view. The
Methodist and Baptist churches have
already been sundered by this ques-
ton OF slavery; the Presbyterian
church was divided partly on this
ground; and now occurs new run
ture of relations from the same cause.
Every such an incilent is the break
ing is the breaking of a strand in the
cable which binds North and South
in unity. When certain number
of strands shall be broken, the rest
s!i give @sTe VIC %ay {: ti 6 matter afs course,
unless some of the broken ones shall
In the meantime be restored, or 9TH
ers substituted in their place. The
political strands are apparently as
much shattered as the ecclesiastical.
1t is time for men who love the Un-
ion, TO rally in its defence.-M Y.
Journal Of Commerce.
HE PORTUGUESE CLAIMs--PRI-
GENERAL ARMSTRONG;.
The news of the state of things exis-
ting at Lisbon, between the Portu-
guese government and the American
squadron there, gives particular IN
terest to the affair Of the privateer
General Armstrong, destroyed by a
British naval force at Fayal, in 1914,
and now intimately connected, as
one ofits causes, with the misunder-
standing, SO likely, it would appear,
to lead to a serious rapture between
the two countries. The Philadelphia
Bulletin says:
The event made a great noise at
the time, the defence having been
heroic to the last degree. The Arm
strong was lying in that port, when a
British cruiser, accompanied by a
frigate entered the harbor, and the
same night endeavered to cut her out
out the boats were repelled by the
privateer's crew. Another attack
was made, at midnight, no less than
fourteen launches participating in it;
but this was also repelled, the British
losing three boats, in one of which
were fifty men, of whom 3ut single
one was saved. In all the enemy
lost 10 killed.
The next morning, despairing Of
further defence, for the British now
hauled one Of their ships up close to
the Armstrong, the Americans aban-
doned their brig, when the foe burned
her. AS all this took place witI,i,i a
half cables length of the Portuguese
fort, claim for indemni6cation is lust,
as the authorities at Fayal ought to
have protected the Americans. 53l
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Mr.. WEDsTER's LATE SPEEoH,--
AS matter of interest to our read
crs, we append the following extract
from the late speech of MI. Webster
on the Compromise, which will per-
haps be his last expression of opinion
on the subject as a Senator. Let him
be Judged by his own words and acts,
and not by the premature and full
some eplogies ofthose who for their
own purposes, would heap comtnen-
datlon on him for supposed sacrifices
which lie himself d;scIaims,
!. So far as we can iIld6e, he has s.ta-