Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-05-14
Seward in the South.

IN. Ill. Sewardisa n politcau--a shrcwd
adroit,' skilltul, wary tactician. The con-
ccit of the Presidency is no new tangled
idea with him; he has been possessed of it
ever since he was first elected Governor of
the State, and was called " Little Scrrel
Top" because, like Martin Van Buycn. his
hair was red. His oliicul course has been
governed BY two policics--A Aboltionism to
gain the North, and lavish expenditure
of public money to Southern spcndthrifts,
and other intrigucs by which to obtain a
footing at the South. No measure has
been presented to the Senate, since he has
had seat in it, proposing to appropriate
dc!'or OF money or grant a Government f. =
vor in which the Sonth or any Southern
man was interested, hut what las found am
advocate III him. No Southern man of
distinction visited the capital, but Seward
was the first to call !; and in his intercourse
with Southern Senators, no ohscquousncss
was too humiliating for his Uriuh Heap
disposition.
Nor is this all that our dappcr Senator
has done to make friends at the South ;
he has gone iurtl II. We have the
assurance of more tI,an one man of
high position and entire crcliability that cur
Senator has made private pledges, that he
has entered into implied stpulatiors which
compromise him deeply On tAu slavery
question 1t is said that ~pccch in
which he declared that ,nc slavery battle
lad been fought out WAS intended as a
trclcrto sec how far hc could venture
uponanew ground, which would render
him less obnoxious to the South, but that
finding this position very hazardous to his
interests ut tile North, he lost no time in
taking the blck track, ard made the fu-
NOUS reasonable Spcechat Rochcstcrin the
campaign of last November, in this State.
His late visit toa Virginia plantation, in
which he took good care to give out pri
vatcly, for Southern circulation, that he had
grossly erred as tothc workingof the pccu-
liar institution, was another preparatory
movement in the same direction, and he
has succeeded in prevailing upon south
crn man of distinction to become his guest
this summer at Auburn, in order to get a
Southern SOCIAL recognition, that he may
make foundation for Il Southern political
status
These arc not the moves Of Il statesman
they are the tricks of a small politician.
Clay, Calhoun or Webster would have
suffered political crucfxiom before resor-
ting 10 stratcgems of so base character. -
How beautifully the course of Calhoun, rs
the exponent OF Southern idea. contrasts
with the cunning of Seward, who though
risen to notoricty as tho leader of an ex-
clusively Eastern section seeks national
prcicrment by deception. But the South
cannot be banboczled. The hopes foun-
ded upon strategy like this cannot avail.
There are great principles underlying the
political economy of the South. She has
always contcndcd for those rights cuaran-
tecd by the Federal compact, and by the
Constitution, and nothing more. Here
patriotic masses cannot be led even bv her
own sons if rccreapt to her institutions
much less by an Eastern advcnturer dis
tinguished for nothing but Abolition fan
atlcism. 1t will be a fearful day for the
South, and she knows it, when man like
Seward shall seize the rcins of govern
mcnt. When that hour comes, if it ever
shall come, then, indeed have we reached
the crises of dissolution. This fair nation.
Ell compact will have been made in vain
and the experiment of American sclfsov.
crnmcnt will have proved failure. The
American people will submit to the rule of
II tyrant, but never to the tricks of a dem
ogog"o,-N y. Do,A Nc~s.
n MARRIAGE DECLARED.-- There was
one case of some litteinterest, which camc
before the Court last week, to test the valid.
ty of marriage. 1t came up in tho form
OF an action to recover from the defendant
compensation for the board of his wife
Some eighteen months since, marriage
ceremony was performed by an indi&idual
claiming to be a Magistrate, but who in
reality wos not, and Of the parties united
together, the "worso half" intended the
thing rs mere Jest; but it was sufficient
ly evident from the testimony, that the wo-
man in the case was not only herself very
much in earnest, but believed the gallant
gay l.otlario" to be equally so. The hon
cy.moon was decidedly short one, as all
parties admitted, and the newly y-madc Ben
cdict departed after an hour or so, uncon-
scious that the silkcn chains of the pseudo
Magistrate we're tied in too hard knot
to be undonc but by death The case came
up ON Tuesday, and the Court very prop
erly decided that the marriage contract
was valid and binding, and gavc decree
for the plaintiff.
We need scarcely say that we approve
most heartily Of the law of marriage, as it
exists in our Statc. Nothing further is
necessary to establish the validity of mar
ragc than the consent of the parties cx-
pressed before competent witnesses Tho