Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-08
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premature, move or ill-digested counscE
which may form but pretext for division
in the South. Our true policy is moderate
language with firm position, aud with these
the p.QScrSaton of ain unbrokcn Southern
lime. premature and isolated movements
viii divide us, and upon that division may
follow the fall of our power. The slave
holding States have common interests, and
they must have common destiny To
talk of Virginia sinking into Freesoilism is
idle; and to suggest that the other South
efn States separate from hcrto organize an
immcdiatosystem ofaction-an idea thrown
out by the Mercury in the course of this
discussion--ist to suggest political suicide
Virginia has 100000 slaves to- day, and will
continue to hold more than any, other State,
unless it be, perhaps, Texas. Before she
can become a Freesoil State, even leaving
her prominent slave interests out of the
question, she must first forget that her
Lees, her Randolphs and her Masons ever
lived. The blood that now runs warmly
gushing from her great heart, whose every
pulsation is for the South, must first be
turned into new channels The records of
her glorious past must first be torn to pie
ces and tramplcd in the dust by her dcgcn-
crate, Abolitionized children of coming
day. Not'till- thon will Yigini, forget her
destiny, or cease to stand forth and assist
in guarding and defending Southern rights
under the Constitution, or, if forced to it.,
above the Constitution. -.
. At present we occupy the position of
standing by the Government where it stands
on the Constitution. IF the issues of the
day should be changed, and our enemies
break down the Supreme Court, or seize the
Executive power, subvert the Senate, and
by fraud or otherwise, restore the Missouri
Compromise or any Kindred measure, and
repealsthe Fugitive Slave Law, then We are
for war;. The questions involved are deli
cato in the last degree and mighty in their
consequences. The attitude and prospects
of the South are better, now than they have
been for years. Her cause is on rising
ground. Her chances of success were ney-
or more rational or assured. But any pre-
eipitaney at this iuncture might result in
rc-aotion and aioss of position. As mat
ters stand, VIC hold that it bchoopes us to
act on the defensive, true to tho relations
we bear to. our sister States of the South,
and trne,. too, to our relations under the
Federal compact tothe Statesof the North.
Our desire is not SO much to affiliate (as
the Mercury tcfmsit) with the Democratic
party North, as to act in cordial harmony
With the Democratic party South. Aslong,
thouSb as we are in the Union, and tho
Government is with us on the Constitution,
I'VE owelit to ourselves, wo owe it to poster
ty, to discharge all our duties faithfully Il a.
aderthe compact, Then, should the last
extremity be forced upon us, VIC can take
the step for separate Independence, and
our course willcommend itself to the ma
tons of the earth. being right in its wis
dom and mighty in itsj,lsticc. -. ~
THE. CtNefENa NaTr TRAGEDY IL [loefner,
who killed his wife in Cincinnati, and af-
forwards murdered Mr. Horton, and then
cut his own throat and wrists, lis still living
and likely to rccovcrst e,,f
Hestill persists, the Cincinnati CONNER
ciill SAYS. through the medium of pencil
and slate, in thcjstatementSwhie he made
on the afternoon of the murder, insisting
that no had discovered MIR. Horton and his
swife, in aeriminal act and 30 far from, feel:
ing repentance for What he has done, he
glories in his revenge, and processes that
he would pursue the Same action were he
again placed in like circumstances. Pre-,
Sxiops tokilhng his wife he had an altcrca-
tion with her, IN hleeourse of which she
struck him With the bladesof {, knife across
the nose, and there is slight cut which
would appear to endorse tIiis part of tho
story, He then, according to his own state.
nlents forced her 30 swallow poison, after
which ihe strangled her with q .handker.
chief lie appears to gloat with sayag6
delight IN the "reminiscences OF his crimes,
and while giving llis penciled details a fen
dish grim illhmines his saturnine .codnte-
nance, He hass d nervous, bilious tenn
spcrament al dark swsrthy conlplexion /;
more resembling that of o. Spaniard than d
German, and ~ powerful we'll developed
frame. q N 4'8aa
From circumstances which we have
glanced at it appears to be probable that he
is, and has been foraome time, partially de-
ranged, owing to a severe blow which he
received on the bead 9 ,feg yeofs since.
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THE Iadians, iustle mountains, says a
/ EValifornie paper, have a cunning device,
by which they can get within arrowshot Of
deer TO accomplish this object, they
stretct q bark string for a long distance,
along the brow of q hill, almost as high
from the ground as a deer's chest. The
dcery coming across this obstacle, and not
feeling always disposed to jjumpit. will fol
low the line, ia hope for an opening 10 get
by. While porforming this man@yre, Inc
ie very likslY brougDt towards aenae ambush
from whence ne gets an ron Iii III b ribs.
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