Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-30
from the N. Y. Post.l
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Keltt in the Character OF Ancient

Keltt in the Character OF Ancient
Pistol ais
A daily newspaper is not the place for
caricatures, but as the rage for pictorial
illustrations is on the increase, it may here
after become so. The time may arrive
when the proceedings of Congress, if they
continue to be of the same dignity with
those of the present session, will be repre-
sented to the eye in series of comic de-
signs. Mr. Kcitt, of South Carolina, is one
of the most mirth-provoking of all the
members of the House of Representatives.
He closed fowery speech, yesterday, with
some uncommonly brave words. "The
South" he said, tasks no protection from
mortal man or power. She will protect
herself with her own right hand. She
would drive back the hordes of northern
minions who might advance against her
She will march on further and further
south, and around her flag will be civilt-
cation brighter than the sunbeams around
the mountains spread. Her destinies will
be fulfilled, and then damned be he who
first cries, hold, enough ~
Mr.. Keitt's bravNdo, put into the form of
a pictorial illustration, would perhaps be
represented somewhat in this manner: On
one side of river might be seen man
quietly attending to his business, wedding
his garden, perhaps, or posting his &C
counts On the other might be shown
person, with q countenance bearing re-
markable resemblance to Mr.. Keitt, strut
ting about, brandishing huge broad
sword, and believing out to the quiet
citizen on the other:' 81 shall protect my
self with my own right hand, come on If
you dare; shall drive you back"-the
quiet citizen all the while continuing to
weed his garden or post his day book
o
with his design; but when Mr.. Keitt pro-
ceeds to say that if the North comes on
"the South will march further and further
South, ;" he might be puzzled with the con-
tradiction. To representthe South driving
back "the minions oft North" by march
ing to greater distance from them would
be little difficult.
Mr.. Keitt must have been as much aware
as any body of the intense Stiffness of the
defiance he uttered. He knows very we'll
that there is no set of men at the North
who are in the least disposed to attack the
South. The North is minding its own
business, fully occupied with its tillage, its
trade and its mills. 1t engages in no
emnncipating expeditions, nor encourages
any; but it insists that when the territories
arc open to settlement, there shall be no
institutions planted in them which are abb
horrent to its sense of humanity and re-
pugnant to the ideas of liberty entertained
by the founders of our republic. The
North insists that no institution shall be
plnntcd in the territories which shall de-
prive northern men of freedom of speech,
and subject them to coat of tar and
feathers when. they come to sojourn in
them. The South is welcome to protect
itself, but it has nothing to protect itself
against. Mr.. Keitt's military strut, and
the flourishesz he cuts with his broad-
sword, make him Ns ridiculous. as shop
keeper in Broadway would be, if he were
togdress every day in the uniform of the
volunteer company to. which he belongs,
and stalk backwards and forwards before
his door, armed with the musket he car
ries on field, days aud reviews, telling the
passers-by to attack him if they dare.
We are sorry for Mr.. Kcitt, but it is not
our fault if he is laughed at.