Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-11-14
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Thc following ispn extract says tho Ma
tiopal mtclligehcor) ifom alctterof . high
IL respectable and nltslllgent citizen of
Baltinoro TO q Glcnd n tliis oity, n II gives
a most deplorsble picture OF baltimore, but
dcplorable us tilt, the picture Is not a now
one to our readors
BABTIMohE, 'Noyenlber 8.
a word now with regard to the election.
Inthis city had hoped, from the omises
of Mayor Swnnn to the Governor and citi-
zens, that the Democrats would have been
protected in their attempts to exercise the
proud privilege of an American citizen
viz tile elective franchise; but how viii
lainously have we been deceived Notonly
have thousands been denied that privilege
whose nlisfortune it was TO be born in an
other CLINE, (manY of whom had resided
here for ortwcnty, thirty and forty years, but
others who We're born OH Amcrie;1l soil to
the numJer OF several thousand, some of
whom had 9een engaged III thcWaref 1917
II, and oetended this very city from the
inyasiou ofa British soldery This know
ofmy own personal observation. The plau
adopted to detersueh from voting was to
approach every person witha Know Moth
ing ticket, and if they refused taking them,
t91. issue threats and to drive them from the
places of voting. In ono instsuce, in
were three sons s.of lawful aec. and q fatber q
who had lived l,cre, fos fen Il, tyyc ye ycars
they we're ali comneIled fo5 Ace the nolls
without voting. rather tb;m ba beaten from
them. u,
In almost every instance whcyc for
ed down aud beaten in q most brutal man.
ner, and half.grown youths were disguised
and made to vote the Know Nothing tick
ct. The torch of tho ineendiary LIGHTED
up the dwellings, of Democratic voters ore
the close of tliS day S bFntaIity Of, the part
of tho rufians. The papeJs do not contain.
one-sixteenth mari. .of the ddines of ycster-
day, simply because the reporfers we're do.
tered bS fears of teiug assaulted hereafter
The intelligence from other portions Of the
State is cheering to the Dcmocrats--morc
especially from the Nofth.westcrn as Won
will perceive by tomorrow s papcrs This
city is a doomed city, and many will be
compelled to 90 fF,al, il for peaceful sccu-
rity and the exercise Of freemaa,s rights.
God knows Ldesire 10 leave 10, and | trust
in God that Something viii turn up, to my
advantage by which may be enabled to
ito SO.
WHAT THE PARsoxs ARE ,AT.--Iohn
Van Buron, in his speech atl lrammany Hal,
accounted for the falling off in the New
England parson force as,folIows:
Gle wished to say. one word to them in
regard to the position assumed by Mr.. Bu-
chanafs in his recent letter TO the forty par
SONS. They rceoIIeeted thatlast year there
was an address TO Congress by some thfec
thousand parsons, and he WAS sure that
they would agree with, him that il was a
subject of cougrafulation that that number
was now reduced to forty. TLumghtcr.1
We had como downin the Kansas excite
mcnt from shrcc thopsand 10 forty The
Rev. Mr.. Kalloch and tive thousand nine
hundred and fifty nine cther parsohs seem
cd to have taken to other business than
having charge of Kansas. laughter
Forty men, in their address to President
Buchanan, took him to task for the course
he had seen fit to parst,c IN regard to Kan
sas affairs; end he replied to them in a let
ter which, though brief, was as conclusive
andunanswerable, In his AIr. Van Burcn's)
iHtlgne ent, as any production that had fall
len nom any statesman during the present
century,
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