Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-01-28
Northern School Books.


institutions of the South, the school books of
the North which flooded the South-in foct
we have had no other school books-hove
been filed with Aboltionism, and if not with
the outrightuess of Lonefellow's anti.slaycrv
can't the book, nevertheless, sounted tbnt
way, and had the tant of Northern fanaticism
in them Now that our students of medi.
cine have come home to stand by home insti
tutions-it.is time that home institutions stood
by them. We are not saying that medical
students should not use the books best calcu-
lated to teach them their dutcs---mcdical
books do not interfere with the slavery oucs-
ton--but we do say the books in which they
arc taught to read, and from which they de-
rive their first impressions, should be sound,
conservative and constitutional. There is
treason to the South in many of these North
crn school books And they have made us
very squcamish until lately in proclaiming the
moral right of slavery
Mr.. O'Conor, Northern man. has snol,cn
out as strongly and us truly for the instim-
ton OF slavery as Senator Hammond himself
in his most able exposition on that subject
We have been too much in the habit of apol
ogi2ing for slavery, where we should have
justified it as it is justified in Paul's most
beautiful letter to Philemon, as well as in the
Old Testament. 1t is these Instructions, nav.
assertions, of the moral wrong of slavery
which our youths read in these Northern
school books which give an early bias to their
lmprcssions-imprcssions upon which they do
not reason, and the result is that when MANY
OF them come to their second childhood i'm
their last wills and testamcnts, they libcrate
their slaves and fill the country with miser-
able herd Of free negroes.
We must stop this Northern inundation of
school books Have we not Southern men
capable of compiling them? Have we not
Southern literature from which much of
the compilation might be made? How ma
ny beautiful things, just fit for such books,
have Writ, and Lcgarc and GrmLc and 9th
crs written, to say nothing of the political
speeches of our Southern and Western orators
of the slave States, whose names and elooucnce
are true to the Constitution and are able
eXpositors of it? IIalock said, of certain of
this class of school book makers and Aboli-
tlon preachers:
That dls2;n they Were gallant and God'y making love
And gaining, by what they call hook and crook.
A decent living. The virgnuns look
Upon them with as favorable eyes
AS Gabriel on the dead in Paradise"
Good reason have we. But Halleck saws
these arc but New England's "out-casts :"
but why should they come to us? "Words
are things" said Nimbcau-and sometimes
they are very potent things in the influence
OF young minds, and sometimes they are fatal
things, as Mr.. Seward will find in the utter
ancc of iwcprcssibc conflict" sentiment,
and in his endorsement of Helpers "impcnd-
ing crisis. "-Richmond Enqujrcr.
THE PRESIDENTS Work AND IT'S RE-
suLrs.-Thc Washington correspondent of
the New York Times Gan opposition iournaO
speaks as follows Of the Industrious habits of
President Buchanan whose robust health and
activity at his advanced age, excite no little
wonder:
He enters his Office at a m. every morn
ing, having taken light breakfast at I! !;
and there works steadily at his desk, receiving
visitors, reading letters and writing messages
and orders until 4 o'clock each afternoon, cx
cept on days when the Cabinet is called to-
gethcr for the transaction of special business.
These Cabinet meetings generally commence
at | p. M, and sometimes last four and five,
and oftcntmcs six hours Each evening AGAIN
the President has to devote several hours to
receiving visitors on public and political bust
ness, supervising reports from the depart
mcnts, and pulling up any arrcaagcs of labor
which the day,hours may have left unfinished
Never was there a more laborious man in the
same high oficc--and never one, perhaps,
whose real and earnest desire to serve the
public interests has been so disastrously mis-
conceived.
Another letter says:
lie is the hardest WORKING man in Wash