Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-03-08
WAsHINeToN, Feb. d, 1851.
SENATE.

ate, upon the mode practised by the
Government In paying Indian annui-
ties; and Messrs. Ewing, Turney,
Douglass and Gwin had discussion
upon the proceedings in the House OF
Representatives upon certain rcsolu-
Of inquiry introduced in that body by
Mr.. Richardson, of Illinois.
A motion to reconsider the vote by
which the bill for the relief of the
Tennessee and Georgia Railroad
Company, was laid on the table, was
discussed, and then postponed.
a message was then received from
the President in response to Mr..
Clay's resolution. The President has
received no official information vet in
regard to the case. He repeats the
laws of the United States which au-
thorise the United States marshals TO
hire prisons for the confinement of
persons. He also states that the laws
require proclamation before the au-
thorities can call into exercise the
military authority. He urges that
this latter be amended. He declares
his design to execute the law to the
utmost extent of his power.
Mr.. Clay moved the message be re
ierred TO the committee OH the itidi-
clary. He addressed the Senate in
terms denunciatory of the conduct of
those who took part in the affair at
Boston, particularly y the white men
under whose instigations and induce
ments the deluded negroes were urg-
ed to take these steps. He denonn-
ced, IN no very measured terms, the
proceedings of Mr.. Geo. Thomson,
Of England.
|. Mr.. Hale followed, pronouncinp
the proclamation of the President an
lmpolltic, unwise, unnecessary, futile,
idle, weak proceeding.
Mr.. Clay replied and Mr.. Hale re-
joined with much warmth.
Mr.. Mason contended that the law
could never be executed without a
change in sentiment of the people of
the North. To surrender up the flu
gltlve slaves was a duty required bv
the constitution. Massachusetts had
laws upon her statute books which
forbade the execution of the law by
her officers and citizens. He held
Massachusetts false to her federal OBJ
legations.
Mr.. Cass agreed with Mr.. CLAW.
lie justified the acts OF the President
and had no fear but he would do his
duty.
Mr.. Dickson followed, contendine
that the law could and would be eX,
ecuteH.
MIR: Clay continued the debate
with Mr.. Hale.
MIR. Butler Contended that the law
was worthless as any law would be.
The North had determined relentless
war upon the institutions of the South,
and no legislation could avert the GER
tain doom ofthe South.
MIR. Davis, Mass. contended that
the affair at Boston was one of those
cases which might arise anywhere,
After further debate, the MESSAGE
was referred to the committee on the
Judiciary, and the Senate adjourned.
Scandal and Legitimacy.
Perhaps we ought to say illegiti-
macy lnasmuch as scandal and it are
most frequently brother and sister
for.he former is masculine and the
latter feminine--a ccording to the
grammarians, we say:
On these subjects, the Paris CORES
pondent Of the Philadelphia Ledger
has piquant dissertation. He en-
deavors to show that the Yankee is
becoming a very respectable charac-
ter in Europe, and concludes it is
mainly because he has lots of money,
(perhaps his abolition helps,) for he
observes that that is now getting TO
be the only test Of genuine nobility
the other sort being so mixed up
with bar sinisters, thatnobody knows
who's who, or whence any aristo-
cratic body parontage is derived.
We extract below some interest
ing paragraphs:
In Europe it is a question what is
legitimate. The head of Halland
House mo mean authority consider
ing, the unmentionable on dts of
scenes enacted in that place-in his |
memoirs, gives the following bit of
scandal, done to turn.
cit is said that George iii obiec-
ted TO any union with that branch ofI
the House of Brandenburg, with an
observation drawn from the seanda-
lous chronicles ofBefiin, viz: that
none ofhis childron should ally them
selvna with fho IhiIdraf, re Gnk ...s.