Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-05-03
KEOWEE COURIER.
Saturday, May 8, 1851.
The Southern Patriot and
NHP. Webster.

MP. webster.
The Southern Patriot of the 26th
ult., takes occasion to say, in com
mentlng OH Mr. Webster's speech at
Annapolis:
"The South is greatly indebted to Mr.. Webster
Tor the bold and patriotic rebuke which he has
giuen to the abolitionists of the North. In this
matter, too, he has made them take steps bac k
ward, and caused the citizens of Boston to return
the fugitive SLAVES found amongst them The
position of Mr.. Webster in his great speech in the
Senate ON this subject attracted the admiration of
Mr. Calhoun, and caused him to say, as we have
been informed, that if Mr.. Webster settled this
p"rtentous question, the South ought to reward
hi with the Presidency"
The South under obligations to
MIR. Webster! for sooth!- this is
something new and startling, and de-
serves to be stored away carefully
among the wonderful discoveries of
this wonderful age. In all kindness,
we would beg to be permitted to sug-
gest to the Patriot the propriety of
securing the copyright Of this origin
al ifsea- or perchance it may be pira4
ted. In the same spirit we would
ask why the South should be grateful
to MIR. Webster;-but the answer is
at hand-'because ofthe bold and pa
trlotic rebukes which he has given to
the abolitionists of the North MIR.
Webster rebuking the abolitionists!
how strangely it sounds how appo-
site! how well timedl In all the
sentences ahoat in this wide, wide
world, is there one so novel, so start
ling, SO out of the order of things, SO
pregnant with meaning, so fraught
with suggestions as this?-'Webster
rebuking the aboltionists' The crea-
tor rebuking the creature for perfor-
ming the Office of its creation! The
magician rebuking the evil spirit his
spells have conjured up. For is he not
the great magician whose spells have
mainly contributed to raise the spirit
of abolition which has breathed upon
and wlthered by its pestiferous breath
the bright hopes Of our country? Has
he not been the great high priest,
who for years ministered in it's tenn
pies, day and night feeding the fires
that burned on its unholy altars? Yes,
and in view of the part which he, for
years, had acted in reference 10 this
matter, when in 1850, he came to
Washington to meet those who had
assembled there IN the hope ofaver-
ting the ruin which was threatened
by the bowling tempests of fanati-
cism, which, gathering in the North
and West, had burst upon the coun-
try; well might he have exclaimed
with the foul spirit in Manfred,
"Im the rider of the wind,
The stiITer Of the storm;
The hurricane I've left behind
lsyet with lightning warm"
And now, when he sees that this
storm which he has helped to raise
is about to destroy him and his hopes
Of power with the destruction of the
Union, because he, prompted by the
instinct Of self preservation, seeks TO
lessen its fury, we the victims. for this
great favor and condescension Oil his
part, are TO bow in humble gratitude,
and kiss with meek alteration the
hem of his garment; or at least we
are expected 10 hurrah at his heels,
and reward him with the Presiden-
cy. Reward a man because, after
having brought a great calamity up
on the country, and after seeing that
he is about to suffer in common with
the rest, he grows repentant.
Suppose some malicious person
should, in the night time, when 9TH
ers slept in fancied security, open the
dykes and let the ocean in upon Hol-