Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-11-10
VOL. XII.---NO. Is
Judge Douglas in Atlanta.


The editor of the Augusta Dispatch hcarF-
Judge Douglas in Atlanta; he speaks thus oly
his effort: h,
The Executive Committee Of tho Breckenot
ridge Club of Fulton county propoundeda
through the Inteligenccr, thefoioYing ouestc
tions, asking categorical answer re
First Qucstion-Has not each State ther
sovereign right to decide for itself what shall
be sufficient cause for withdrawal from thee
Union? It
Second Question--If, upon the election oft
Abraham Lincoln, any one Southern State ind
sovereign convention assembled should decide
to withdraw from the Union, would the Fed.
eral Government have the right to coerce her
back into the Union, and would you assist thel
Federal Government in cocrcing her? 1
Third Question-lf you answer that thd
right of secession is only the right to revolul
tionize inherent in all pcoplc-then would not
the citizens of said State withdrawing, by ex4
erclsing the right OF revolution, be acting as
traitors and rebels to the Federal Government, !.
and would ycu aid in their punishment as.
such
lie said inasmuch as questions of similar
import had@ been propounded to him before,
and answered on condition that Breckenridge
would answer them, aud that gentleman had
not done so, 1T was simply impertinent in the
Club to PROFOUND them to him. To this a.
voice replied, "You are impertnent YOURSELF"
Mr. Douglas proceeded in very firm and bold
manner to reitcratc his position at Norfolk,
and declared that he had no sympathy what
ever for breaking up this Union under any
preteNt whatever 1T was intended to last
torever-a pe'pethal bond of Union-ths he
repeated with cmphasis-the Constitution had
provided for bringing in new States, but had
made no provision for them to go out, and
therefore disunion was revolution. "There
was no grievance for which the Constitution
and laws do not offer remedy" These con
solldation doctrines were received with marks
of disapprobation, and the complete evasion of
the questions must have been Shumliatinr to
those who boast that Mr.. Douglas never
lodges. 8
THE FALL OF TIE LEAF-A PROSE VIEW.
We wonder if all the poets who have given
us such delicious versions of the balmy month
OF October are possessed of wives and house
holds at home? All very nice to talk about
the music of dropping leaves, and the rainbow
fingered frost, aud the golden shaze over the
hills, and the year dying in beautiful decay.
Ask the women folks what they think of the
mild October, and you will probably get some
new ideas on the subject. Ask them what
they think of hitcwash pals and torn up
carpets, and Z" Fall cleaning" which has cot
to be done, the house clean or dirty. They
VIII enllghten you in prose point of view.
Goal being carted in-smutty faced men tram
ping through kitchen and cellar-clouGs of
sable dust settling all over the furniture, and
the dresses-and the temper too, We are
afraid, of women in general. Woolens being
unpacEed from their ccrcments of camphor,
and cedar, and red pepper; sneezings, unut-
terable, aud loud lamentations over the ruin
wrought in the hundred dollar furs by the
indiscriminatiug moths. Jackets out grown
by dear, thoughtless little scamps who won't
stop expanding the Winter rig too small
and too tight, until the deSparing house
keeper is almost tempted to believe that some
malevolent brownie has spirited away the
wardrobe of her little folks, and interposed
another in It's stead. Winter sewing is to be
accomplished; Winter pickles and preserves
to be looked after-curtatns, and comforters,
and overcoats, and shawls, all to be hunted
up, and repaired, and sat in council over. 1t
is particularly strange that women fail to per
oeive the poetic glores of the misty month of
the falling leaf? They have enough to do in
looking after its practical department.. AL
most everything in this mundane sphere has
two sides to it, the sentimental and the real
and so has the month of October
life WustratcdJ
HEALTHFULNESS OF APPIEs-There II
scarcely an article of vegetable food, sa8
Halls Journal of Health more universally
loved, than the apple. Why every farmer in
the nation has not an apple orchard, where