Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-02-27
From the Southern Christian Advocate.
Col. Wade Hamilton

OF Col. Wade Hampton, in one of the most
responsible relations that man can hold to
his fcllow-men. Col FL was ON a visit to
the Southwest, aud died suddenly ON his
plantation, on the 9th Instant:
"Whhe many beautifully appropriate
obituary notices of this beloved and honor
Ell gentleman have, since the short period
OF his demise, appeared in the public prints
yet we deem the full measure of his praise
has not been written, until his character as
master has been, at least in some measure
portrayed. And although we can, at best
but touch upon this part of his character
can but family exhibit the daily excelenco
of his life in this responsible relation. still
that the high example be not altogether
lost, the noble lesson not entirely unread by
those to whom personally or BY character
nc was stranger we are induced to say
what we know, and testify what, we have
seen in respect to this view of the character
OF this model of Southern planter. and
noble Carolina gentleman. Aud while We
affirm that, however we'll and noby he per
formed all tho duties of life, vet, in that
most difficult duty TO his servants. he most
excclled, we will be borne out not only by
the public and his most intimate associates,
but by his attached and now bercaved and
sorrowing servants themselves, who are
even now wailing his requiem long and loud
as his beloved remains are borne from their
sight forever. A noble pioneer, munif-
cent patron OF our missions to the negroes
by yextensive influence and weighty exam
pie, he, in a thousand instances, smoothcd
the path for the disheartened, toil-worn
oh c,,l l.
welcome, generous sum, did the preacher
to his people always receive from him.
No mistake about has subscription; others
might fail, might give grudgingy, or stint
edly, but not so this liberal-hcarted man.
May the blessings of those ready to perish
for the Gospel, supplied through his means
or influence, descend upon his children to
the latest generation.
s "Thc Congarcc Mission of the Church
South, (South Carolina Conference of
which he was the pioneer, to which, since
ITS existence, he has given energy and Wig.
or, would be itself his noble monument; !.
but the far South-wesRs tceming planta-
tion of immortal souls saved through his
instrumchtdlity shall, in the day of eterni-
ty, we may trust, be his crown of rejoicing.
Col. Hampton, the most experienced most
practical, most successful of planters, taking
hold Gin the way he did everything he had
at heart) of this great religious interest,
gave tone, gave authority, to the thing at
once, and thus opened new fields of infu-
oncc of untold extent, to the Gospel minis
ter. Then, his humane and consideratc
treatment of his poor dependents, in such
beautiful harmony with his care for their
immortal interests, held up to the most sor-
did and 4obtuse a pattern which often cap
tiyated or constrained to imitation. TO the
hard man, the churl, the purse proud,
though cold, reserved, inaccessible so
to the humble slave, the tilloro of his field.
Ills ear was ever open to his cry, and OPP
preston rule he was suffered not to fear
Cor feel. II the Bible view of this patriarch
al relation of master to servants as exhib-
tied by Col. Hampton. was more often Civ
On to the world, how differently would, in
course of time, be looked upon and COM
mented on, this much maligncd institution
ofour Southern States.
"a brief notice of Col. Hampton's char
acter, as christian master, we have thought
due the readers of the South Carolina Ad-
vocate, to whom his name has been so long
known as associated with our domestic mis-.
sion t4
fMay his good name, in this connection
especially, beas ointment poured forth +"
"M NJ"
Columbia, $, e., February 10, 1858.
INTERESTING FROM KANSAS THE
Legislature of Kansas has passed bill,
over the veto of Gov. Denver, removing the
Territorial capitalize Minncoio, q little vii
lage formerly known as Ccntropolis. 1t is
about twenty miles south of Lawrence. -
The Governor in his veto message, speak
ing of the new cnpital, says
"No buildings have been prepared for
the use of the officers, nor can there be
within a month or six weeks intervening,
nor have been able to ascertain that the.
townof 1Iinhcolo has anything more than
a descriptive existence.
a bill, said to have been drawn up by
Mr.. Martin =, Conway, late of Baltimore, I.
has passed one branch of tho Legislature,
the substance of which is given by "a cores
pondont of the Cincinnnti Gazette, as fol-
lows; 4 I'D
The preamble sets form. that neither tho
LoeomptoB Convention nor Constitution
have any just authoritg or shadow Of au.
thorlty, from the people of Kansas,
It then goes ON to provide that for tho
dictator 10 declare, by official proclama-
tion, the Lecompton Constitution to be the
constitution of tho State af Kansas, or call
r 's.t. . A -