Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-09-19
State Politics.

Tho Wiusboro Register notices the com-
ments OF the Lancaster Ledger on The Mcr-
cury's report Of the Charleston election
and says:
The Ledger has, in our opinion, truly
OWNED the ullerior object of this move,
ment. 1t is intended to have influence in
the Senatorial election. We have seen for
some time design TO bring odium upon
those men who favored the Cincinnati Con
not favoring the movement, yet refused to
prescribe these who did, as has appeared
in the Charleston elections, since then, for
Congress, for State Senate, and recently
for Legislature. These men are first read
out of the States Rights party and, wheth-
or willing or not, branded as Nationals"
The next feature in the design is TO i'm
press and inculcate the idea that they are
untrustworby, and that they are so devo-
ted TO party as to be willing to sacrifice the
South for party. This charge taken in its
full import, its implied desttution of prin-
ciple, and ignoble betrayal of country, is a
stupcndous slauder which we had hoped no
paper in this State would prefer against
any portion Of their fellow citizens. 1t is
an indecorum which has never characters
ed the press of our State, whose citizens
have sufficient moey of patriotism to
render them united people when the hour
Of danger arrives to elicit an actual exhibi-
ton Of patriotism. Suck indecorum is not
yet of native growth. We can not for a
moment entertain the opinion that native
born Caroliuians would imputc such wo-
(ul deficiency of principle against native
Carolnians 1t smacks Of the licentious.
ness of Northern journalism
Now upon what does this rest On the
assumption that those who favored ;he Gin
cinnati Convention abandoned States Rights
aud can no longer rally under its banner.
! If that be the test, who are States Rights
men outside of South Carolina? If the
anti.convenionists, wrapt in their close
communion, are the only States Rights
men, the non parcls Of the South, then is
the whole South lost; for outside of South
Carolina all are Convention Democrats
But it is satisfactory to know that all anti
couventonists arc not so proscriptive.
If TO unite with the other Southern States
in sacrifice of country to party then the
South is already sacrificed hySAhat very
unaninriiy WHICH it was hobed>$ould prove
her salvation
HORRIBLE SCENE AT A GALLows.-
The Manchester Gng.) Guardian, of the
| llth, tells of the execution at Stafford, OF
a murderer named George Jackson, which
was witnessed by at least three thousand
pcrSons--mcn, women, and children
Many were boys, and a considerable num-
Der of womcn-the latter in one or two
cases carrying young children.
Within the gaol most appalling scene
was presented. During the early part of
the night jackson had dozed and continu-
ed quiet and apparently composed Hc ap-
pcarcd in a state of torpor and unable to
collect his thoughts, or to reply to qucs-
tions put to him but on the officers of the
gaol rousing him and reminding him of his
approaching doom he became fearfully ex
cited, sobbed and groaned, and betrayed
the most abject and pitiablc detection. Ir
this wretched state he continued until
brought out of the condemned cell for the
purpose of being pinioncd. His sobs and
groans now increased to intensity. The
cxhortations of the chaplain and assistant
chaplain were addressed to him in vain,
and nothing but ordinations of ooh
dear J" uttered in tones of anguish, fell
from his lips.
For about two minutes before he was re-
moved he was calm, but when at length the
knell tollcd, and he was taken up to be
carried to the place of execution he strug,
gled violently, and the exclamations were
G g.
were required to bear him along. Mr..
Hand, the Acting Sheriff, and Col. Hogg,
the chief constable, accompanied by the
chaplain and assistant chaplain, proceeded
the melancholy procession to the drop. He
struggled on the way from time to time
with all his might, eXclaiming and sobbng
as he was borne along, and mingling his
groans with the cntreaty Lord have mercy
upon me-. So violent were his struggles
that before taken to the drop it was found
necessary to tie his feet, and he was carried
in the helpless and struggling state to the
chair placed for him on the drop. The
rope was at once placed around his neck,
and the cap pulled over his head by the
executioner, but by violent effort he re-
] moved the latter. The cap was again adj
justed, and his hands were forcibly held
but he had nearly succeeded in pulling it
off again, and had just wrenchcd himself
from the chair when the drop fell. Aftc,
few convulsiyc throcs, he ceased to exist
The crowd then quietly dispersed, and
aftct hanging for the usual time, the body
was finally cut down, and buried within
the precincts of the gaol,
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