Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-04-26
KEOWEE COURIER.
Saturday, April 96. 1851.

PRESIDENTIAL ASpIRANTS.-
are atioat that at no distant day there
may be a breaking up of Mr.. Fill
more's cabinet, which will be occa-
stoned by the mutual iealousies of
some of its members; more than one
Of these jgentlemen,haxin9 decided
hankering after the Presidency. MIR.
Fillmore, people say, proposes TO oc-
cupy the position for another torn
Mr. Webster, it is known, looks upon
his own election to that exalted office
as thing much TO be desired; and
Mr.. Crittenden even, is said to have
hopes that he (John ]. Crittenden)
may wake up one of these fine morn
ings and find himself master of the
White House.
BY uniting with Judge Douglass,
the compromiser, some popular south
ern man, the time-serving and place
hunting, ofthe democratic politicians
who curse the country with their cor
ruption, hope again to raise old issues
to re-organize old parties, and by
means of a democratic Adminlstra-
ton lift themselves into office. The
old wings have similar hopes, and
with one or the other of these "rable
routs" sympathise all those ambitious
southern politicians who believe that
Governments were created for no
other purpose than to reward with
lucrative offices the most unscrupu-
lous, and that political creeds are an
ingenious invention by which the
clever may humbug the people
Houston, too-"Sam Houslon"---
"Old Sam''-"the hero and states
man, the hero who fed precipi-
tately from his capital at the rumored
approach of a few ragged Mexicans,
and the stateman who was forced to
acknowledge himself ignorant of the
organic law Of the land-has lifted
his eyes to the Presidency, and to
TO win it is assiduously playing away
at that dirty trickery, to excel in
which he is so eminently qualified.
Old Mr.. Clay seems to have retired
--"alas, poor Yorick !" But in the
meantime that willy inscrutable ma
gician, the dark impenetrable Sc
ward is calmly weaving his meshes
around the northern people, and con
lident in the support of New York
and New England, expects to throw
the election into the House of Rep.
resentatives and come out the Presi-
dent.
SOUTH CAROLINA THE ONLY HOPE
OF THE SoUTH.-We have been kind
ly permitted to make the following
extract from letter, just received by
a friend, from a highly intelligent
gentlcmen who has for some time
been travelling in the south western
States. We give it, without note or
comment, in the hope that should any
trembling alarmist read it he may
find some faint assurance that he
timid need not fly or the brave fear
to be nadly sacrificed;
81 am often asked, what will So.
Carolina do? and ] invariably an
swer she will secede.' The eyes of
the southwest are fixed upon her,
and though, should she secede, she
will for time stand alone, it is my
honest and deliberate opinion that
her separate secession will, in short
time, unite with her all with whom
she would desire union; and should
coercion be attempted thousands and
tens OF thousands of the brave and
free will flock to her standard. I have
not conversed with single man of
any influence in these States who is
not with us heart and soul; and all
agree that should South Carolina
neglect to act the cause is lost. On
the banks of the Warrior / met Col.
Johnston, brother of the Hon. Job
Johnston; he said to me, s'without
the action of your State all is lost,
and if she in her extremity should
need my services, / and mine are
hare, - ,,oc,i,, L. n, s..,1. l. - -. 4 -. d