Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-05-03

ERae Decency OF Abolition.
The Boston Journal gives the fol-
lowing account of an abolition row
in the freniont Iemple;
AJblitioa Gth6ring.-A strife a.
rose between Abby Folsom;and MIR.
MellhI, as to which sb~pld occupy
the floor. Abby carried fhe day. and
delivered one Of characteristic speech
es. Mellin trieda ain for the floor,
but, a scene OF great confusion,
was put down by the audience.
Mrs. t'ulsom demonstrated against
this infringement of the right of tree
speech in terms neither guarded nor
mild. and was finally seized by two
men and dragged out of the room,
crying, "murder, murder" at the top
of her voice. The manner in which
she was taken down stairs was not
marked in any degree of gentIeness
-theSmen taking hold of her by the
arms and allowing her lower limbs
to drag from stair 10 stair. When
the parties had reached the bottom
of the stairs, some young men stand
ing by attempt TO rescue her from the
men who were dragging her along,
aud some hard blows passed between
the parties. She was finally taken
into one of the rooms, and the crowd
dispersed.
The Transcript, referring to the
same affair says:
Abby was thrust ont and thrown
upon the floor i'll the vestibule, while
two persons had fisticuff engage
ment over her PROSTATE person; some
claiming that she should be heard
and others insisting upon. her ejec-
ton.
Such are the creatures who desc
crate the hol y name of freedom, and
would seek in their blinded and be-
sotted vanity, to overthrow a gov
ernment so rich in blessings to hu-
manlty as our own. How long must
our patience be thus abused I'm.
Y. Spirit of the Union.
The Ti-Wceky Smhe,m Patriot.
We have received the first mum
ber ofthis 6aeu IDEAL ola liberal, bold
and manly political paper in which
the Yankee putting system of publish
ing hattering, one-sided letters, is
cunningly kept up. We do not pre-
tend 20 say whether these letters are
genuine or not, but one thing we do
know, and that is, that the letter pur-
porting to be from Laurens District,
be it written by whom ii may, con-
talns no less than seven mis-state-
ments, three of which the writer, if
he knows anything of the people OF
the State or District, must have
known were not true, viz: LIST. That
the people Of the State have been
sedulously kept in worse than Egyp-
tian darkness by the press of the
State ID. That the advocates ol
separate secession had alleged had
alleged that Col. Irby would tamely
submit to encroachments upon his
rights and liberties 3D. That nine
teen-twentieths of the yeomanry OF
Laurens District were opposed to
separate State secession.
Now, we assert that each one OF
the above statements of this literary
classmate of Judge Baxter's is uItue
while the other four in the same let
ter are calculated TO create errone.
GUS impressions. The second SEN
tence, too, in letter from "a native
Carolina gentleman,Gn Charleston,
who has served South Carolina with
honor and distinction in the councils
of his State, and the Congress of the
United States, contains a palpable
falsehood, in stating that the press in
South Carolina is closed to anything
like freedom of discussion, for we
venture to say there is not paper in
the State, unless it is the Southern
Patriot itself, which would not pub
lish anything from cable
source on either side of the great DO.
litlcal questions of the day, more es-
pecialIy if requested TO do so in as
polite terms asI. w. Hayne request
ed the Southern Patriot to publish
his communication, which was de-
MED.
We could also show from this let
ter, not only that it contained other
mis-statements, but that it contains
sentlmants ofas rank toryism as ever
fell from the lips Of the vilest tory OF
the revolution, but at would be un-
necessary to do so, for the. wise and
just policy ofthe Southern Patriot, in
not publishing anything said against