Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-11-10

The PRoGRESS or ABoLITIoNIsM.- Tile
Boston Irnveier notices some occurrences in
by-gone days, which compared with the public
sentiment at present existing in Boston, afford
striking illustration of the steady and on
ward course of what was deemed in those
days, wild fanaticism. 1t says:
Yesterday, October 21st, 1860, completed
twentyf years since the famous riot in Bos.
ton, known afterwards as the mob of the
Gentlemen in Broadcloth," when an Abo-
lltion meeting was broken up, and Wm
Lloyd Garrison came near losing his life
The riot occurred in the Afternoon of the dav
that part of Washington street between State
street and Dock square being filed with peo-
pie. who began expressing their animosity
with shouts Of dcrsion Mt n small meeting of
Aboltionists gathered in building near the
entrance OF Dock square. A sign of the Bos-
ton LtOcrdtor was torn down and broken
Finally the mob got upon the tracks of Mr.
Garrison, who, as he was making his way
through the buildings to Wilson's lane, was
seized aud a rope placed about his neck, with
the idea of hanging him from window.
AT this point, however, he was rescued and
taken to the City Hall, then at the head of
State street No other place of safety could
be found, but the Jail, and to that place he
was taken in carriage, by the Mayor, and
kept for the night. On the way, however,
he mob who were in sharp pursuit, nearly
overturned the carriage by casting ropes
around it. The next morning the Boston
-Ad0Ocate, edited by Hon.. b. Il. Hallett, came
out in a powerful leader, denouncing the
inertncss of the authorities, and declaring
that it was the duty of the Mayor, if he
could rot diSperse the mob by any other
naanQ' f,, ySl,nf ,,on,o,, .,>l
tits a curious fact, that the Rev Samuel
j. May, warm Aboltionist, was mobbed at
Montepeicr, and Gerritt Smith and Beriah
Green at Utica, New York, ON the same day.
October 21, 1885.
3. ROMANTIC SUTcIpE.--A groccr's appren-
tlce. fine young man, of twenty-five, named
Arsene, who loved literature neither wisely
nor well, lately hung himself in his masters
house, in Paris Upon his table, amidst
heap of books, was found the following letter,
the orthogrophy of which was not on par
with the style; al arn but a grocer and
shall never be anything else always think
OF that caricature representing grocer stand
ing on the threshold of his door, and making
this reflection Born to BIO man and con
demned to be groccr,' lie who thus jndped
our calling was ia the right. For many
years have tried to improve my mind i
have read, and even copied out books which
Y don't understand. All this muddIes my
head, and find that become more and more
stupid every day, The longer / live the
worse shall be. Now, I remember 10 have read
somewhere that man should apply his in
teliigence to be useful toz humanity, and as I
see 4 shall never be fit for anything but to
weigh cheese and dried plu,ns, have made
up my mind to go to another world which [
have heard OF, aud see whether there may
not be place for me there ask pardon Of
my brethren for speaking in this disparaging
way Of our common profession; bat defy
them topoint out a single instance of a gro
Ger having ever made his way to higher po-
sition. There are plenty of manufacturers who
have become deputies aud are decorated aud
loaded with all sorts of honofs, but tho like
has never happened to grocer For these
reasons I have determined to hang myself. -
| beg my parents to erect simple tom bstone
to my memory, and to inscfibe upon it these
words, Born TO be man, died grocefs"
s----.. f
paAcrIcg aows from principle; for as man
thinksYo willlhe cot.