Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-01-04

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shall be called an ACT for the preyen-
tion of frauds and abuses!
We all know what II mears. The
Protectionists wish 10 smuggle the
subject before Congress, and give
their shape TO 1T afterwards. Their
whole press N Iaboring TO that
end for months. The President
pressed the protective policy upon
Congress in his Message. The re-
por, of the Secretary of the Treasu-
ry is full of it. Mr.. Clay is the or
gan and head of the party in the
Senate, and he is not ashamed TO
sneak up TO this object in The manner
shown above.
The prevention Of frauds and a
buses, forsooth. The only frauds
he protective party can be suspected
OF willingness TO prevent, are such
as tend 10 diminish the revenue by
the smuggling of goods, Or their low
valuation. Have they forgotten the
debates on the passage of the tariff
of lS46i Have they forgotten that
the then Secretary of the Treasury,
Mr.. Walker, made e. Inmates of The
revenues TO accrue from that meas
ure. which were derided by all the
oracIes of the protective party, from
Mr.. Webster down to Abbott Law
renee, as mere eXtravagance-httle
better tnan lunacy! Let them look
At the returns of revenue since then,
and they will find that Mr.. Walkers
calculations have not only been equal
ed, but exceeded in every year, and
the revenue is now far more than he
anticipated. Could there be a
more conclusive evidence that IT is
in no sensible degree injured by
frauds! Doubtless there are petty
frauds practised, as there always will
be uiider every revenue measure; but
the protective party will practice
more fraud TO get one tariff through
Congress. than all the rogues of I'M
porters would contrive in quarter
of century. And when by every
species of trick, and falschood, and
corrupt appliance in Congress, they
have gained their end, it will be moth
ing else than legal commission TO
practice fraud forever by the whole
sale on all The people of the United
States.
[Char'eston Mercury.
The BITERs BIr. The bitter does
some ,imesgel'bitien. %Aboiilionsm
some times get humbue ged bu never
SO beautifully asin case which came
10 my knowledge 10 day. During the
great excitement few days since,
growing out ofthe execution of the
Fugitive Slave law, al tha East, n
!oaiing vagahond of a negro who had
been a 'weA-nown dock ioafer, about
our docks for some years past, took
a journey TO Union Village in this
State, on some business connected
with the do-nothings society of which
Sambo is "a most industrious member.
The abolitlonists there asked him if
he was fugitive Save! Cuffee, to
carry on ajoke, (for the felIeris a prac-
tical joker replied in the affirmative
whereupon they treated him very
kindly; raised money for him and
gave him good dinners, some very ex
cellent clothing and, with letters from
brother this, TO somebody that, sent
him on his way from town to town,
everywhere receiving The same alten-
hon a al Union village. AT last,
having reached Whitehall, Sambo
thought he would come back to New
York. and resume dock loafng again
having made money and comforta.
bles enough in the Fugitive Slave
"buslness''t o make him tolerably in
dependent during the winter He
tells the story Of his adventures with
great gusto, and particularly The dis
tinguished attention paid to him by
the big folks" He spent several
days at the house of Ex-Governor
Slade. Of Vermont, Barnnow, advises
his fellow loafers and the free blacks
generally, togo into de business and
make em fortune ;" The cream of
the joke in this case, is 10 he found i'm
the fact, that the fellow was never
South ofMason's and Dixons line in
his lifel he has born at Saratoga in this
State in 1920, lived in Pennsylvania
and latterly in this city, but never in
slave State. The ''documents :"
given him by so, of the abolition
gentry he fell in with are exceeding
rich.--- PennSyludnian.