Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-22


artlcss child, whose mind iastinctiyely recoied
from the utteranoe Of falsehood--an officer
charged with important military concerns by
his native colony--a commander-in-chief of
his aroused countrymen, in the war of the
revolution, himself disbanding his troops, and
minutely accounting for his supplies when
the conflict was oyer---a Chief Magistrate of
the Union, which sprung from his heroic de-
votion, in the assertion of their rights, by the
last argument which appeals to kings-in all
these, the fact is undcvatingly disclosed, that
the use of his function was ever uppermost in
! his thoughts, and its personal dignity least
For his genius, let the long line of victories,
which commenced with the, first fatal collision
at Lexington, and ended in the surrender at
Yorktown, and his inauguration of the execu-
tive office, under circumstances of the grayest
and most perplexing complication, speak, as
they have spoken, and will continue to speak
forever. 1t is not his genius which concerns
us now; but the exalted-the august-tho
transcendent purity of motive, which guided
its inspiration and crowned its schemes Nor
did it 90 unrewardod. The prime clement in
what now seems to have tecn ordained, us the
model character of new and powerful people
the pioneers of fresh and vigorous civii-
zation, it was distinguished with measure of
worldly glory, which it has never entered the
brain of contriving pacemnn to conceive
1t was ordained, not only that he should be
9 first in peace, and first in war, and FIRST in
the hearts of his countrymen," but that his
name should, throughout the habitable globe,
wherever man is raised above the level of the
brute, become the shining synonyms of Patri-
otism and Liberty, That pilgrims from every
cline, to which the broad sun turns its uni
versal fires, should gather around his grave us
n holy shrine, and, challenging our exclusive
appropriation of his fame, claim it, in the
name of all nations and of all times, as the
glorious heritage of common humanity :
Nor did the blessings of an approving Provi-
dcnce stop here; but, in that solemn hour,
when earthly distinctions shrink into nothing
ness, and the pomp aud vanity of human pow
cr vanish from the vicw-when the life that
has been led is tested by contact with the con
fines of a world, which mysteriously opens to
receive us, for veal or for woe, miustcring
angels were at his side, to light his palld fca-
lures with bcatfc smile, and to prompt those
immortal words the simplest and yet the most
nomcntous he ever breathed, al am dying,
but, thank Cod am not afraid to die
Language can add nothing to the pcrsua-
sivc force Of such an example. In adducing
it, feel | have exhausted my subject and
that the seeker after the true aims of life, will
find them all in that constant translation of
interior goodness and truth into his deeds
whatever they may be, which makes the paths
of existence luminous with love, and takes the
sting from death
BE HAPPY IS YOU ARE.-Wifc and mo-
ther, are you tired and out of patience with
your husbands and your chillrcn's demands
upon your time and attention? Are you
tempted to speak out angry feelings to that
faithful but perhaps, some time needless or
cXacting husband of yours or to scold and
fret at those sweet and beautiful ones? Do
you groan and say, What fool | was to
marry, and leave my fathers house, whore
lived at case anil in peace ?" Are you, by
reason of the care and wearrncss of body
which wifehood and motherhood must bring,
forgctful of, and ungrateful for, their com
forts and their Joys? Oh wife and mother,
what if a stroke should smite your husband
and lay him low? What if your children
should be snatchcd from your arms and from
| your bosom? What if there were no soft little
innoccnts to nestle in your arms, and to love
yon or receive your love? How would it be
with you then? BE patient and kind, dear
wife; be unwearying and long-suffcring, dear
hloUher IOf you know not now long you may
have with you your best and dearest treasures
you know not how long you may tarry with
them Let there be nothing for you to re-
member but sweetness and love unutterablo, if
you arc called to leave them by the Ways
BE patient, be pitiful, be tender all, for death
will stop sooner or later between them and
you. And oh ! what would you do if you
should be doomed to sit solitary and forsakcn
through years and years 4? BE happy as you
are, even with all your trials; for, believe it,
thou wife of loving and true husband, there
is no lot in life so blessed rs thine own.
Georgiana III rbcrt.
THE Marquis de Faviercs, great borrow.
er and notoriously bad paymastcr, called on
Samuel Bernard, the great fnancier, one NOR.
ming, and said Z" Sir, am going to aston.
ish you; | am the Marquis dc Favieres
do not know you, and / come to borrow five
hundred louis of you" +" Sir" replied Bcr
nard, " am going to astonish you yet more
know you, and yet am goin!; to lend them
to you"
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