Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-08
The Northern DemocracY.
We copy the following summary from

when Florida was an applicant for adj
mission into the Union as a sovereign State
in lo45, with slavery, the vote on her ad-
| mission stood thus: In the House, North
ern Democrats, yeas So, nays 4. All the
members of all other parties of the North,
numbering 81, voted in the negative In
the Senate, all Me Northern Democrats,
numbering IL, voted in the affirmative,
while all the Northern men bclopging to
other parties, numbering 0, voted against
it. But for the votes of these Northern
Democrats, Florida would not have been
admitted into the Union as a State.
Take now the question of the annexation
| of Texas Who III the North voted for it,
, who against it? In the House of Repre-
sentatives 81 Northern Democrats voted
for it, and only against it; while not a
single man from the North of any party
voted forit. All others, numbering AZ.
voted against il. But for Northern Demo
cratic votes, Texas would not have been ain
nexed
! Letus now take the Fugitive Slave Law
On the adoption of this law the vote stood
thus: Northern Democrats, yeas %, nays
IL all others from the North, yeas 3,
nays 62. But three Northern votes out
side of the Democratic party Thus it is
clear that the Fugitive Slave Law would
| never have been passed without the aid of
| Northern Democrats.
Let us now consider the Nebraska bill
that most trying and terrific Of all meas
ures to the Northern Democracy That
measure, undor which courage quailed and
virtue was seduccdAthat measure which.
in the North, made apostacy virtue and
| fidelity a crime; which made an Abolition
list an angel and Democrat. deyl--an
ordeal the most fearful of all to which the
Northern Democracy have ever been sub
jccted. On this question how did the vote
stand? The Northern Democrats who yo-
ted for it in the House were As. Not one
Northern man Of any other party voted for
it. They all voted against it to the num-
ber of 81. In the Senate, tho Northern
Democrats whovoted for it were Ia; against
it, 4, No Northern Wing or (of course)
Abolitionist voted for it,,
Now, our conclusion, drawn from all
these facts, is, that the South owes debt
of gratitude, rot to the North, but to the
Northern Democracy, which should not be
forgotten. True, they did but their duty,
and nothing more; but they performed
that duty when, at the North, treason com
mandeda high reward, and fidelity suffered
a severe. punishment.
BRIGHAM YoUNG,-The Buffalo Adver-
tiscr says that Brigham Young formerly
lived in that State near the dividing line
between Ontario and Monroe Counties
"He;was a lazy rapscalhon, and lived in
los Shanty, with dilapidated, patient suf-
tcring wife, surrounded by a host of tow
headed children Occasionally he made
up lot of axe hclves and traded them off.
for sugar and tea; in other fits Of industry,
he would do a day work in the hay field
for ncighbor, hoe the potatoes in his own
little patclr, u pound 6lotL1q for his wife
on a washing day IIc would wander off
from his wife, leaving. her to suffer actual
want, except when relieved by the neigh
bors. People were getting very tired of
Brigham when Mornonism turned up, He
was Just the man for the religion, and the
religion seemed expressly adapted to nm
He became an cXhorter, held neighborhood
imeotings, ranted aud 1o%led his doctrines
into the minds of others as weak as himself,
! and finally went West with the rest of them,
where he has developed his power untilthe
] poor, miserable, rustic loafer is Governor
of a territory and the chief prophet of a
great religions sect He has Just the mix
turo Of shrewdness and folly which is re-
quircd for success in fonaticisrn or quack-
cry. a wiser man couldn hold his place.
| a man must be half fool aud half knavc
to boa successful jquQc&"
| I. . = ,,t { y .
JUDeE BuRne, Of South Carolina, rode
lon horseback from circuit, to circuit, &C.
companiea by a servant, who was directed
to keep close behind him, while lie medi-
ta,ed as pleased himself by the way. jog
| cling along in this way, on one occasioB,
the servant pr >ssed upioonearto the horse
which he rode, and which happened to be
anillnstufsd brute, aud the CONSEQUENCE
was that the horse kicked the negFo,op the
leg, who, observing that it had not inter.
fupted his masters study, sprang offshis
borse, and, picking up q stone, threwit at
the beast, which. it 1uluckily m'"sed, AID
took effect between the Judges shoulders.
The instant the negro saw what had been
done, he fell: in tho road with bis hand
casped around his leg, and crying out in
| apparent agony. AS soon as the judge
could straighten himself, he turned around
apd said 10 the PROSTATE negro, Stephen,
child Shqtails youa" sIor, massa," was
the reply,ayouf horse, just now kicked me
on the leg and almost broke it,~ "Well,
child,' said theJudge, che just now Kicked
me between the shonlders,anl almost broke
| my back, toop N@
Il KIND words are the brightest flowers of