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

The PRoGRESS OF ABoLTTIoNIsM.-The
Boston TraUeler 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
twenty-five years since the famous riot i'm Bos.
ton known afterwards as the mob of the
Gentlemen in Broadcloth," when an Abo-
lltlon meeting was broken up, and VIM.
Lloyd Garrison came near losing his life
The riot occurred in the afternoon of the day
that part of Washington street between State
street and Dock square being filed with peo-
pie, who began expressing their animosity
with shouts of dcrison at a small meeting of
Abolltionlsts gathered in building near the
entrance OF Dock square. A sign of the Bos-
ton Li6crdtor 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 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 lie
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
-4doocete, edited by Hon. B. L. Hallett, came
out in powerful leader, denouncing the
inertncss of the authorities, and declaring
that it was the duty of the Mayor, if he
could not disperse the mob by any other
mems, to plant cannon and sweep the street
It's curious fact, That the Rev Samuel
j.. May, warm Aboitionist, was mobbed at
Montepelicr, and Gerritt Smith and Beriah
Green at Utica, New York, on the same day,
October 21, 1885
s} ROMANTIC SUIcIDB.--A grocer's appren-
tlce, fine young man, of twenty five, named
Arsene, who loved literature neither wisely
nor well, lately hung himself in his master s
house, in Paris. Upon his table, amidst n
heap OF books, was found the following letter,
the photography of which was not on a par
with the stylej 81 a,n but grocer and
shall never be anything else. always think
sof that carfcature representing grocer stand
Ing ON the threshold of his door, and making
this reflection Born to be man and con
demned to be agrocer.' He who thus Judged
our calllng wis ia the right. For many
years I have tried to improve my mind /
have read, and even copied out books which
I don't understand. All this nuddles NV
head, and ( find that become more and more
stupid every day, The longer | live the
worse shall be: Now;I remember to have read
somewhere that man should apply his in.
tclligence to be useful tos humanity, and as I
sec shall never be fit for anything but to
weigh cheese and dried pluit,s, / have made
up my mind TO 50 to another world which I
have heard Of, aud see whether there NAV
not be place for me there. / ask pardon Of
my bfethren for speaking in this disparaging
way Of our common profession; but I defy
them to point out single instance of a gro
Ger having ever made his way to higher po-
sltion, There are plenty of manufacturers who
have become deputies aud are decorated and
loaded with all sorts Of honors, but the like
has never happened TO grocer. For these
reasons have determined to hang myself -
/ beg my parents to erect simple tombstone
to my memory, and to inscfibe upon It these
words, Born TO be man died gfocer.s'
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