Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-10-08
From tile spnrtanburg Express.
Hon. James L, orr-The ,th and the
Presidency.


to urge with zeal the claims of different
Statesmen for the nomin6tiomof the Char
lesion Convention. The interest in this
subject is not confined to the PrcSs--it en-
tends to the people at large, especially in
many of the Southern States. Indeed it
is quite time that interest i'm this subject
should be manifested. \ few months only
and the Charleston Convention will be con-
vcncd
Tlfc dangers bctokencd by the signs of
the times are ncitllcr few nor trivial. The
division which threatens the Democratic
Party, in which alone has heretofore been
found safety for the rights of the South,
instead of rcccding seems approaching. =
The most skiltul plotting only can save the
Democratic Party from mdsntegration, and
the South from imminent peril. We bc.
licvc, however, there is conservatism
enough left in these United States to put
the Ship of State once more upon the
right track, JH,c Chtutc%on CDHccntD"
shoud nominotr Me ,%yht nun. That
man should DC one who has seen years and
service enough toclnstOn the fiery urdor OF
youth, yet young enough to be free from
the entccbling timidity of " "FMyy,%m;
that man should be wise in counsel and
bold in action; he should be o. known to
the whole country. and acceptable to the
conservative, CONSTITUTIONAL law-abding of
all sections-one whose opposition would
he as stern against " Niggcr-Stcalcrs" and
"ilighcr-I advocates of the South as
of the North. And though we know that
mere locality does not make tho man, yet,
we thihk, inasmuch as the last three nomi.
nccS of the Democratic Parity, Cass, Pierce
and Buchanan. as also tlclast tIrcc acting
Presidents, Fillmore. Pierce and Buchan. n,
have all been from the North, that the
next no,nince should be from the South
Have we the proper mnu! We are not
blind to the merits oS tic many diStn-
guished and noble sons of uur sister Sunth,
crn States. Hunter, Toombs, Cobb, Ste
phens, Breckenridge, Clay and others.
are all "good men aud true" But we
think there is yet one whom we may
justly claim rs the" noblcst Roman of them
all''-that one is a loyal, worthy and dis
t,ngushed son of South Carolinn-J .AMES
LAURENS ORR.
When scarcely more than t, cnty one
years OF age, Col. Orr WAS brought out by
his friends asa candidate for the Legislature
in the then election District of Pcndlcton
For some years previous to this time, the
District of Pendlcton, forming singular
exception to all the other Districts in South
Carolina, WIS, (undcr the lead of Hon
Waddy Thompson, then a Representative
in Congress, and subsequently Minister to
Mexico under President IIarrison,) over,
whclmingly Wing. Each party, in 1874,
had its full ticket for the Legislature. Col
Orr, though scarce grown to mrnho>l, was
put forward ms the champion of the Demo
cratic Party, both upon the stump and in
the columns of the "Andersou Guycuc,"
paper he was then editing. The canvass
was one of the most spirited ever witnessed
i'll our Stato--thc result was a most bril-
liant victory, entirely crushing out Whig-
gerry from the District aud returning Col
Orr, the youngest man ON the ticket, at
the head of Delegation consisting of
seven Representatives. Col. Orr received,
if we remember correctly, several hundred
Yates beyond the number of his Party
showing thus, early in life, tact and eau
tion with ability which enabled him to
conduct with such eminent success so
spirited canvass. In 1916, proud and
conlidin@ constituency again returned him
to the Legislature. In 1913, upon Hon.
II. +. Simpsons retiring from Congress,
Col. Orr's friends brought him out for
the succession, in which lie was successful
by Il large majority over Hon. B. +. Perry,
who had been ut that time, for fifteen or
twenty years, one among the leading men
of the Legislature and the State In this
canvass Col. Orr, with many others of tho
best Of Democrats, including Mr. Calhoun,
was driven off from the support of Mr.
Cass for the Presidency, on account of Mr..
Cass' "Squatter " Sovereignty doctrines
contained in the famous Nicholson Letter.
The manner in which Col. Orr discharged
his iuties in Congress, may be inferred
from the fact that after four successive
elections, making eight years, (during
which too the rc-D;stricting of the St,tc,
in 1879, materially changed his Congress
sional District in all which time he never
had any opposition for his oflicc-wc say
no man cvcr'had n more undoubted cvi-
dencc of having done his duty, and hi,
whole duty, than is furnished ON the one
hand by the attachment of Col Orr's con
stLuents for him, and on the otler by his
| elevation 10y common consent and without
any objection by his Democratic associates
in Congress, to the third highest Office
within the gift of the people of the United
States 1t is cheering in these days of
| sectional wrangIing to reflect, that whilst
Col OW,s couSc WAS such az won this
proud distinction abroad, no Representative
t .A.l, "a.