Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-03-06
WAI[.H[AtLLA, S. C.:s
Friday Morning, March 6. 1865,
The Shadows Creep On Apace.


The political sky is overcast. Hungry
clouds scud across tho heavens. Thunders
rumble family in the distance Biokoring
Slightnings play along the horizon 'syerge. The
mild meopshine Of peaoo has given place to
the grim tranquility of awful expectation, -
and yet, We are not badly scared
'Tis true the muse Of history warns us not
\ to believe in mans capacity for self.govern-
sment :-she points with ghostly finger far up
the corridor Of time, and we look and SEQ
that it is s!rewn thick with tho wrecks of
former republics.
But we close our eyes and strive to believe
+ that tho same remorsccss destiny awaits not
the "model Republic" c"-that the infant Her
Soulos will strangle tho Radical serpents that
] ] menace its young life, and come forth from
the trial with renewed strength, lusticr siu-
Sews and the dauntlcss courage that is born Of
conscious power.
.6f Wo still cherish an afTcctionatc reverence
for that constitution which once spread it's
protecting sogis over tho confratcrnity of
States. We recall with sigh tho earlier and
purcr days of the republic, when titanic in
telleots guided by hearts thrc ,bing with
forvld patriotism, stroye for m ,stery in the
1 halls of our National Legislat ire when
lSW EBsrER with mind as massive IS the gran
Ssite hills of his native New pshirc-CIAY
4 lute-voiced and vcr-tongucd' like cxpc.
rienoed Nestor
g In porsuaion skilled
Words sweet as honey from his lips distilled
n N0 n r,p In npNuo "a .4l.u
CALHOUN, with name as puro and unsul.
lied as the7ioicles pendent from Diana's tom
pie when these, and others of scarcely less
note, guided the whirlwind and directed the
storm Of popular passion.
But, alas, these giants arc slumbcring with
their fathers, and men Of Liliputian mould
have usurped their places. In the room of
these great senators who watched with ical-
ousvigilancc the slightest infraotion of our
Primal Law who stroye with unromittinp
zeal TO counteract that tendency to latitudin-
Gus Interpretation which has since practically
annulled that instrument we see trucklina
demagogues, Davids in tho armor of Saul,
playing such fantastic tricks before high
Heaven as make the angels weep" Many
Of these these eminent men seeing the " mystery Of
4 lnlqulty already working in their day." lifted
their. heir warning voices against those pernicious
doctrines of which we are now rcapino tho
baieful influence.
II Said DANIEL WEBSTER, March 7, 1850
II the internal fanatics and aboltionists ever
get power in their hands, they will override
the Constitution, set the Supreme Court at
defiance, change and make laws to suit them
selves, lay violent hands on those who differ
with with them in their opinions or dare question
their tinfallbility, and finally bankrupt the
country and ,delugc it with blood"
81 These words Of T" truth and soberncss," ut
! tered with prophetic ken, an eye pieroing the
mists sts of futurity, wero regarded tAc,, as tho
B idle ebulitions Of partisan rancor-the mo-
mfentary effervescencco of political excitement.
a few, however, treasured them up in their
y hearts and pondered upon them, gazing fearful
~ upon the loweringan constantly increasing
sloud that i1ung eyon at that carly day, NUT
tering any threatening upon the horizons
edge. i.ss
he blaokness Of its utter deso1ation and
5stiie uisohaiSeio OF Its wrath were reserved to
sourstay and TO us who have boon Witnesses
of the crimes wrought in the name Of liberty,
during the past five years, and who arc now
4 beeholding with sinking hearts the onward
strides imperialism, they sound not SO much
l like the confident utterance of philosophic
statesman, as the sober rehearsal Of yoritablc
history. Calhoun, too, on divers occasions.
predictedthe career. of tho Republican party
IL Ill tho event Of their attai1ipg power with
,.e such marvellous fidelity to the truth as It has
been @ evolved by history, that we would fain
reproduce his precise words for the gratiaca-
tiotiE Of our readers had we the speech at hand
t5ls suflicient TO say that he exactly skotchod
tlae present .posturo of affairs predicting The
'disfsanc hiselnent Of Southern Worth and IL.
telligencoi and the etfranciisenioat Of the
Ignorant slaves the ssotting aside Of all tho
POI cMQltstitutiohal safeguards against contraliza-|
tion Of power, and tlio final settling down :of
tho bloa ness 81 AN
irresponsi AZ despo He though j, land
sime its evoutions, has tho business
IF opintop, that tho part ;nowiin power
You'd gorut)le at no aoE. ar