Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-01-26
Carolinians,

mans is taken from the correspondence of the
New York EDening Post:
They arc commonly tall, fuc-looking
men, these South Carolinians, generally with
strongly-marked features, reticent in express
sion, unequivocally resolute and earnest, often
watchful. You see few violent, not many
coarse faces among them, hardly any vulgar
ones They have mostly good forchcads !;
acquilinc noses arc decidedly in the majority :
am almost at loss to recall snub one
| They incline to dark hair, sometimes worn
rather long exercising an ordinary American
latitude with respect to beard, mustache, and
whiskcrs. | have noticed very fine, winning,
halle eyes among them, but will not venture
to pronounce upon it as a speciality; in con-
vcrsation, the better class of them look
straight at you, trait the historian of Fred
crick, the Second. called the treat and of
Friedrich Wilhelm, his father approves Of
Generally erect and well made, even when not
very muscular seldom obese, sometimes spare,
/ | ann inclined to think no better raw material
; for soldier is cXtant than that ccntcring on
physical South Carolina.
The old men have keen, gcntcmauly high
toned often nervous faces. | noticed a mem
Der of the seeding convention on the evening
of the memorable Thursday subsequent to the
vcrsing with soldier of fortune, one of the
many attracted hithcr by the event of the
time and its opportunities. He was closely
shaved had grayish brown hair strongly
marked sensitive, eager, roGncd physiognomy.
which might have appcrtancd to any court Of
the Old World and his nervous "Thcn we
shall all be slaves to the Black Republicans"
was unSpcakably suggestive. His style of
countenancc, and that of the placid simple
minded pantcr-nonc the less expressive of
strong convictions, upon which he is fully
prepared to stake his life and propcrty-arc
the two types Of old age which at present en-
counter ono in Charleston.
Some of the young and middlc-agcd men
might sit for their portraits as the ideal of
American manhood. There arc, to be sure.
among the former, occasional fragile figures
and grccn-looling couutcnanccs fOolishly
/ ahamc with the excitement of the hour, or
hard featured, uncultivatcd ones among the
latter, men with eyes too near together, or
ominously dccp-sct, and mouths that might
easily look cruel on occasion, but these appear
exceptional Charleston generally offers fa-
vorablc samples of Southern physognomy
What is often claimed, sometimes not in
the best of taste, by Southcrnors, and as often
rdiculcd at the North, n superior sense of
courtesy and refinement to the average of
American society has some foundation i'm
fact, though | think the genuine qualities
confined to the few and Occasionally co cxis-
tent with glaring Inconsistencies for which
the "pcculiar institution" " and its logical
consequences have to answer An educated
South Caroinian is externally gravcr, gentler,
more scrupulous Of observing the little nice
ties of behavior than we of the North his
conversation reveals less vulgarism, his Eng
lish often displaying what Mrs Malnprop
dcsignntcs a nice arrangements of epithct
He seldom uses badinagc, rescnts it quicker
is altogether a less complex and rather one
one to deal with when his projadices are
aroused. TO busy moncy.loving Northern
er, whose knocking about in the world has
rendered him practically cosmopolitan, and
has worn out any local attachments he may
have possessed, the intensity of preference
for his own particular State and section of
the country in the breast of true Southcrner
is something inconceivable. | find I have
got from manners to characteristics however,
as one creates the other the transition is nat.
ural
Sclfrcspcctive and rather disposed to stand
on his dignity, incradically persuaded of his
own superiority, proud o. his State nationality
and of South Caroina's reputation for rash
courage never dstrusting the possibility of
her or himself being in the wrong, the son of
the Palmetto State seems to combine the
home affections of the Englisliman, the clan
nishncss of the Irishman, the vindictivc pas
sons of the Italian.