Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-05-09
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| '"'"S " oo "dut no IoHgeF. IL is the
strong man without air and without room.
and determined to have them, or at least
to die gallantly in the struggle for them.
1t is the rrepressible expansion of over
compressed human energies 1t is tie ex-
odus otthe nations. It's the outpourinp
OF the too full blood of the old world into
The all capacous veins of the new world.
~ as TIC. Foundation IN Aa,erica Of RcpuJLi-
can empires to oUtcount IN mum6eyS ata out,
v,e m st'engM tie parent States Of Throne.
say thdt as the tcork qppointed'of Col foy
as 10 do, aoim the JleS$iRy of God upot as.
! Mdt wok zoe 10jH do. If rivers run, across
our path, we willbridgo them ;ifmouutajns
nse up to stop us, Nro will tunnel them Is
deserts appear, we will reclaim and cnit;.
yate them; if oceans intervene. wa viii nav
! igate them to which last. end, so long as
there's an oak left OH earth, gallant ships
shall continue to be launched iuto the wa
ters OF this our. Merrinlae No material
obstacle can arrest our progress. We WOO
this fair nature which lies before us and we
WOO il as its conquoi or, like the vikings of
the old time winning their brides of the sea
open combat. ] say this in the same
confidence of conviction as one who, seeing
the sun set forth from the portals of the
East, may speak of its onwards course 10
the West. For time was when the United
States were but weak little colonies of Eng
land, scattered along the seashore. Then
they overflowed the Allegbauies ioto the
valley of the Mississippi. Next they ab.
sorbed the vast domain of France from
Lake Superior all around TO the Gulf of
Mexico, and Westward to Oregon. Next
they possessed themselves of the two Flori-
das, and then of Texas. Aud finally they
have marched on through New Mexico III
to remote California. But in our conquest
ofnature with our stalwart arms, and with
our dauntless hearts to back them, it han.
pens that mon, nations, races, may, must,
will, perish before us. That is inevitable
There can be no change for the better save
at the expense Of that which is-onc ocn-
Grafton gives place to another. Out of
decay springs fresh life. The tribes of In
dians who hunted over the land, without
occupying it, retire before us like the hunt
ell deer aud the buffalo themselyes,-d deep
er and deeper into the inuermost recesses
OF the Continent And the IIispano. Mexi-
cans, wasting away by apparent incapacity
ot self government, are suffering one pro-
vince after ranother of theirs to relapse into
pristine dcsoIation, aud thus become pre-
pared to receive the people and the laws of
the United States. All that is now histo-
ry. Yet, wise men saw long before that
so 1t was to he. From the present theyin.
terred the future, and spoke Of it with the
positivcness and precision ofinspircd proph.
ecy.
FAMINE IN WESTERN IowA.--A cores
pondept Of the ST. Louis Republican, writ
ing from ST. Joseph, Missouri, under date
of April 18th, says that, while on a recent
viSitto Western Iowa, he met long trains
of wagons going, as the drivers said, into
Egypt to purchase eorn!n The severe and
protracted winter had pressed hard upon
the newly arrived Immigrants, who had not
had time to prepare for its rigors, while the
and bacon, had presented the alternative of
famine, or sending into Missouri for sup.
plies.
DEATH FROM 1IYDRopnop1A. "A death
from that horrible se--hydrophobia-
occurred in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
The victim being achild only seven years Of
age. The bite was inflicted some two
months since, and the insidious poison had
remained latent until with few days. The
dog was shot Immediately after the occur
renee. The wound, which was iuponlhe
back of the hand, scarcely punctured the
skin, and not the slightest approximations
were entertaI1ed or any unfortunate result
until within dayEor two, when il was too
late fos medical skillto be of any avail.
THE "NovEI BANK CASE. Our read.
ers will remember that il was stated few
days ago that the Union, Bank Of French
town, N, j., hadindicted certain parties for
a conspiracy To- break HE bank, basing the
charge upon the allegation that the defend
ants had eenprivately collecting notes ex-
eeeding%the amount Of specie 10 the bank
for the purpose of making run upon il,
having the notes protested, bargaining with
notary or Justice TO protest them forless
thanihe awfuIfeqs, and subsequently fling
the protested notes with The State I'reasu-
rer. The damages were laid ut $4,000, and
the jury, after twenty four hours of delber-
alton, returned a verdict of one dollar for
the bank, leaving eachparty to pay its own
costs. This, appears to sustain the princi
pie, though it cannot be said Chat the plain
tifs have made much by The operation. Il
would seem 10 be questionable, nevertheless,
whetheEit was notsan unwise Experiment 10
atiemptto punish a creditor for asking the
payment of its notes when fairly due and
payable, In this way every run" upon a
bank would bO criminal, and Ills not likely
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