Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-09-11

T. 4
THE MEANING OF "SoALAwAa THE
Norfolk Journal" which, by the way, is
ono of our most welcome Exchanges, has
found out the derivation of soalawag. Tho
oditor prefers tho use of /" trooly loil," but
admits that scalawag," is word of power
in designating those who claim all thol love for
tho Union and all tho morals of tho universe,
though of yorc, tho most terrible secession
lists and, if truth bo told, tho most salacious
of mankind. Webster defines the word
thus:
ScALAwAu-A miserable scamp (vulgar.)
Only this nothing more. Our friend of tho
"Journal," by no means satisfied, runs q
muck with ctymology to tho following pur.
ports:
| " In Spanish tho word esclavo means slase
Ono of its diminutives is esclavejo. BY
striking out tho termination, as is done when
many words Of the Romance languages are
adopted into the English, wo get esclave
But in Spanish tho is q cultural, of which
the best representative Of our language is u
G-and thus the nearest way Of ew7apey
would be csclavcg. Tho V naturally runs in
to w; whence the pronunciation of esclaueg
easily glideu into csclaweg, or csclsvay, from
tho influence Of tho w on tho next yowel.--
Tho initial q is cut off, as is very common,
and compensation for the loss Of tho Asst syl.
liable is thon made by the insertion before the
Il of an A more naturally than Of any other
lottcr. Escla'oag becomes thus sca1apag.
"Tho whole process il thus: EsoLAvEJo,
EschAyEJ, EscLAvEo, EsCLAwAa, SCALA
| WAC.
"Now, what is the meaning Of esclauejo
a" we remarked above, it is diminutivo Of
esclovo, a slavo. II must, therefore, signify
a littlo slave, or triiling slave, or mean,
worthless slave thence, by metaphor, it is
applied to any mean, worthless fellow what
over, which is tho Specification given to it's
Anglaciscd form Of scALAwAa.
"rhe word probably camo into our lam
guago from our commercial connection with
South America, Cuba, or Mexico"
|
TIE PUD!Au DEBr.--The statement of tho
public debt, published August 1st, 1868,
confess that tho amount of that great "natiou-
al blessing" foots up s2,503, ,534 ,480! These
figures represent an amount of Indebtedness
that few men can comprehend. Its immcnsity
is barely within thc bounds of human calcu-
lation, and would provo appalling to nation
Of Rotllachids, Barings and Peabody's.
1t stands upon tho ruins Of tho Consttu-
tion, amid the crumbling pillars of tho Amcri-
can Republic, q monument of radical misrule,
incompctcncy, villainy and despotisnl. While
it represents tho price of our national ruin
and degradation, it is eloquent of national
bankruptcy, intolcrablo and eternal taxation
and of selfish subjugation of the poor to the
| rioh.
| The tax gathcrers, Of whom it is the fertile
parent, arc now busy in overy street, lane,
highway aud byway in tho land; and are us
disastrous to tho prosperity of tho country
as the seven plaques, to which Pharaoh was
compelled to succumb. They demand taxes
| for
| Tho hat on your head,
| The boots Oh your feet,
The clothes on your person,
| The food you cat,
The tea and coffee you drink,
| The pot it is cooked in,
The cup you drink it out of,
The implements on your farm,
! The tools you work with,
! The paper you write on,
| The pen and ink you use,
The papers and books you :oad,
| The furniture in your house,
The gas or oil you burn,
The coal you consume,
| The stove you burn it in,
The match you light it with,
| Tho medicine you tako,
The tobacco you smoko,
The pipe you smoke it in,
Tho dishes on your tablo, aud
| All you cat off thom.
| Louisville Democrat
Ike uENENAi.3 -This is tho way tho
rodcrals divide:
Dcmocruts George B, Mcclellan, Don
Carlos Buell., W. s. Roscncranz, nonry w.
Slocum, William 3. Franklin, WIS Han.
cock, Tom. Ewing, Jr., James b. gtcadman,