Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-08

expression of esteem and kindness. But it is
altogether different in the State of Massachu
setts. Here l can play no part; | can affect
no disguise; because, although not son of
Massachusetts, nor even of New England
born, feel and know it my duty to confess
that if / have ever studied the interests of NV
country and of humanity, have studied in
the school of Massachusetts, rCheers and
cries of Good" If | have ever conceived
resolution to maintain the rights and interests
OF these free States in the Union of the Con
tedcracy, | learned it from Massachusetts,
Honewed cheering. 1t is twenty-five years
ago, not lar from this season, when a distin-
guIshed and venerable statesman of Massachu-
setts had retired to his home, few miles in
the suburbs of your city, under the ccnsure of
his tcllow-citzens, driven home to his quarters
by the peltings of remorseless pro. slavery peo-
pie, that L, younger then, of course than
am now, made pilgrimage from my own
home, which was not molcsted on my way to
the Sage OF Quincy applause there to
learn from him what became a citizen of the
United States, in view of the dcporable con,
dltIon OF the intelligence and sentiment of the
country under It's decentralization by the power
OF slavery. And there received, and thence
have derived every resolution, every scLti-
ment that has animated and inspired me in
thc performance OF my duty as n citizen of the
United States all this time | know, indeed
that those sentiments have not always been
popular, even IN the State of Massachusetts,
know that citizens of Massachusetts,, as we'll
as citizens OF other States, have ATTEMPTED to
drive the disciples of that illustrious teacher
from their policy. But it is tonight that
ain free to confess that whenever any man
wherever he might be found, whether he was
OF Northern or Southern birth, whether he
was OF the "solid men of Boston," or of the
light men of Mississippi, has assaled nc for
the maintenance of those doctrines | have
sought to commune with his spirit, and to
learn from him whether the thing i'm which
was engaged was well and worthily DONE
W hat commentary upon the wisdom of man
is given in this single fact, that fifteen wears
only after the death of John Quincy Adams
the people of the United States, who hurled
him from power and from place, are calling to
the head of tie nation, to the very scat from
which he was expelled, Abraham Lincoln
enthusiastic cheers whose claim to that
seat is that he confesscs the obligation of that
higher law-[applause1 which the Sage of
Quincy proclaimed, and that he avows him
self, for veal OF woe, forlfe or death, soldier
on the side of freedom in the irrcprcssiblc con
met between freedom and slavery. Pro
lonSed cheering This gentlemen, is my
SIMPLE confession. ] desire now only to say
to you that you have arrived at the last stage
OF this conflict before you reach the triumph
winch is to inaugurae the great policy into
the government of the United States -
lChecrs. You will bear yourselves manful-
y. 1T behoovcs you solid men of Boston, ii
you are here "a voice, "'rhey are and if
the solid men are not here, then the lighter
men of Massachusetts, to hear onward and
forward, first in the ranks, the flag of freedom
lChecm.l L am somewhat turned about,
confess to you, by the strange languages and
dialects to which listen here laughter l.
but believe shall speak accurately if | say
| have been "down Fast" and bring YOU
the assurance from atquarter, that the whole
li#st is coming up to this conflict with the res
luton, the determination and the confidence
of victory. Applause.l should not alludc
to my own State If it were not that some Dem
ocrats | have heard make strong claims upon
the popular vote in the State of New York
| have not often been mistaken, and ! there
fore venture to correct these remarks of others
laughter and applausc], by saying to you
what said to the Republicans of Maine, when
they told me it was moderate enough to saw
that they have twenty thousand majority for
Lincoln and Ilamlin, but that they had some
uneasiness about the State of New York, that
they might set down their majority in Maine
at their own figure, and then multiply it by
four, and they would approximate the MAORI
ty in the State of New York [Loud cheers
and cries of "good." But have the same
testimony to give you, substantially, in relation
to all the free States together, with the assu.
rance that, for the first time, this banner will
be unfurlcd in safety in many of the slave
States But let not your thoughts and OK
pcctatlons be confined tc the present hour. |
tell you, fellow citizons, that with this victory
comes the end of the power of slavery in the
United States. [Cheers. L think | may
assume that Democrat is a man who main,
talns the creed of one or the other branch of
the Democratic party the present day AS
suming that it be 50, tell you, in all sincerity,
that the last Democrat in the United States is
born Great laughter and cheering. A
voice" | hope so. Gentlemen, it remains
only to thank you for this kind reception and
to express my best wishes for your individual
health and happiness, and for the prosperity
and greatness of your noble city and interest
ing and honorcd State.
Gov. Seward retired amid enthusiastic and
continued plaudts
ALDEN AT LARGE.--The notorious horse
thief james H. Robbins atlas Alden, broke
the Jail at Sandcrsye, Georgia. on the 18th
instant, and is again at large. He had, as we
lao. frDn le