Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-05-26
Human Glory

The showQarag,nphs below teach lessons of lu-
mility that will not soon be forgotten How vain
and empty is all human glory? Read:
AL&XANDsr, after having climbed the dizzy lcehts
of ambition, and with lis temples bound With
chnpIets dipped in the blood of countless nations
looked down upon II conquered world and went
that there was not another city for hin, to conquer
set city on fire, and died in scene of dcbauch.
Hannibal, after having, to the astonishmcnt and
CONSERVATION of Rome, passed the Alps attcr hay
ing put to flight the armies of the mistress of the
worid, and stripped three bushels of rolJ rinps
from the fingers of her slaughtered knights. and
made her ioundationq quake-fcd from his country,
bcinS chased by one of those who cxuhingly uu,y
his name to that of God, and called him IIn,ni.
i'n, 'iiel at last by poison administered hy his
land.
Caesar, after having conquered eight hun,lrcl
cities, and dyed his clothes in the blood of one
million of his foes, after having pursued TO dco,h
the only rival he had on earth, MAS miscrnbty
nss"sslnnte! by those he considered his nearest
Iieh's, anu IN that very place the attainment of
which had been his creates. ambition
Bonaparte, whose mandate hings and empcrors
oOeyeu, after having filled the cnth with the terror
OF ms name, dcmgcd it with blood and clothed
the world with sackcoth closed his days in lonely
Observation-Disclosures literally exiled from the worli
yet where he could sometimes see his countrv q
banner waving over the deep but which could not
or would not bring him aid.
Thus four great men, who, from tile peculiar
SITUATION OF their portraits, seemed to stand the
representation of all whom the world calls orcot-
those four who each in turn made the earth trem-
bie TO its center by their simple tread, scyerally
uied-one by intoNicnion or, as some suppose by
poison mingled in wne--on a suicide--onc m,,r-
dered by his friends, and one in lonely exile.
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Tie TENNESSEE DEMocRACY--The signs indi.
cate the approach of an ugly difficulty betwixt
our ichnessee Democracy The friends of the
mTjority platform and the friends of the minor
ty platform arc active in Drumming up Demo.
cratic sentiment in favor of each. The Tcnes.
see delegation refused to scccdo, and thereby
hanSs tale. WIZ the Democracy of the State
sustain them? Will the Democracy of the State
rePudiote and condemn them? These are the
questions. Already the friends of rival plat
forms hayo made significant demonstrations.
and huge surging sea of bad feeling is run.
nlng in. between them. 1t is related In Italian
history that during y certain battle, so intent
were the combatants on destroying ono another,
that terrible earthquake shook the field with
out either army being conscious of it. Lot the
Democratic conbatants expect an earthoeake
that will make them conscious of its presence
Memphis Buticti.
WAsuINGToN, Wednesday, May 16, 1860
If any political estimate at Chicago be pre-
dicated upon an expectation that the Democra.
oy will not reunite at Baltimore, it had hotter
be promptly dismissed Arrangements are
now in progress to bring both wings together
on tho basis Of the Tennessee resolution. which
is acceptable to Davis, Toombs, Hunter, Iyer.
son, Brown and nearly all the Southern Sena-
tors and Members. That point carried as it
will be, By the aid of New York and part OF
New England, the rest will follow naturally
quiet but extended movement is making to
put Guthrie on that platform, and that Is urged
because his last vote at Charleston was equally
divided between the North aud the South.