Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1865-09-23
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prOprlate places IN TIE Federal Union, and y
any attempt OH the part of Congress, or of tha
Administration, to prevent them from so do
ing, will be nothing more nor less than piece
Of upwarranted usurpation which should call
forth the swiftcst denunciaSion of an indignant
people, i,
We believe that all the Democratic plat
forms thus far enunciated by the. several State
and County Conventions, cover substantially
the ground above indicated and if the Dem
ocratic party throughout the country shall be-
wise and discreet enough to follow the exam
pie of their predecessors, in this movement to-
regencrate the party by resuscitating it's time
honorcd principles, there will be most speedy
aud certain triumph awarded it at the polls Of
the coming elections What We want now is {
a welldefned chart Of our principles There
SHOULD be no new interpretations, looking to-
mere party expedcncy, but firm and steady
reliance on past convictions and experience,
as our surest guarantees Of success. From !,
present indications the Democratic party of
the country will everywhere be a unit in It's
action; and this most fortunate result will be
brought about by it's ceasing to box the polit-
ical compass, and FUN into the eye Of the wind,
to accommodate itself to the floating political
hcresies Of the day. The questions which it
has to graptle with and master, are all'viSal,
living ones Tho "high crimes and low mis-
demeanors of tho. party in power; their
wicked and most dastddly attempt; to place
the people Of the South under the domination J
of the negro; their nonstrous assumption Of
the, right of the Northern States to govern
and control those at She South. as more con-
qneled dependenaies;st their linsuherab arro--a
$yaiice in claiming
all tho s'loyalty :" there is III the land their
misthicvous demands on the Federal Execu-
tive for the. exercise Of unwarranted and$un-
called for powers in the arrest and punishment,
4 of political offenders, and the colossal proper
tions of the public debt which their folly and
madness have driven us into contracting, pre-
sent such an array of questions for party con-
sidefation at this time, that there can be no.
possible margin for controversy in our own (
ranks Let us therefore everywhere close up
our columns, and BY one unitM, determined
effort, make the future triumphs Of the De
mocracy as glorious as is the memoryof their
past achievements. s
AN AGE OF NIAaN1ruDE!---We live in tho
age of great events. Everything which is
done now is on a scale Of magnitude never
before contemplated. The gigantic Atlantic
cable is being laid by the largest slip in the
world The Suez Canal, uniting the Mediter-
ranean and Red Seas, will soon be completed
The tunnel through the Alps at Mount Cenia
will find no impeachment to its successful con-
structiohDy tho discovery Of theamost I'M.
0penctrablc quartz The Hoosic tunnel will
be a fat accompi. The city Of Chicago is
about to be supplied with water from Lake
Michigan by tunnel bored under its bed
In this city, on Saturday we had another evi-. !.
dencc of the magnitude with which things are
done in these days. Six enormous boilers,
one Of which alone weighed sixty tonsy were
safely put on hoard the Sun-boat Dunderberg
with mechanical precision, and an case which
to those uninitiatcd in the business looks ros- 4
iti'pely marvellous. The pondorous machine
ry, tho largest ever built, was deposited on the
hull Of the largest iro,'-clad ever constructed
without the slightest difficulty or disaster,---
These are afew Of the works Of immense mag
nitadc which characterize the present age.
Nc,o Yoak HerdM q
a DARING, OUTRAGE. As Mr. II. G,
ANiskcn,an was riding, ON THURSDAY last, to-
wards Orangeburg, on the State Road,sshe was
attacked about dusk, when within fifteen miles
Of that town. by,a negro man, who, after de-
nlanding his money, forcibly@ dragged him
from his horse and rifed his pockets Of $500
in gold and between forty and fifty dollarsim 1
This gentleman states that be (
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