Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-19

Mr.. Toombs, but determined to appoint a
committee to ascertain if the report was
true. MIR. Kenan then proposed that if it
should be correct I should be put forward
for Vico President. Judge Nisbet said, II
second that heartily" Mr. Toombs said,
81 do, too; what do you say, Aleok?" re.
pliod that had not been in the movement,
and doubted tho policy Of my assuming
any office. But still there might be reu-
sons why should, as for the sake of har-
mony; that if wcro to have any, do
oidedly preferred tho Vice Presidency to
any o(fico in tho government, but would
not accept it unless it should be rendered
me unanimously by tue States aud by every
delegate. Mr.. Crawford was then appointed
to US, first, whether tho report as to tho
action OF those States was true; andiBbooond,
If my nomination would bo acceptable to
tho entiro body. Very soon he returned
aud announced that both the conditions
wcro fulfilled. afterward learned that
tho action of the States alluded to was based
upon intelligence received by them the night
before that Mr.. Cobb would bo presented
by tho Georgia delegation and that Mr..
Davis was not Their choice. Toombs was
the choice of tho Florida, the Louisiana
and the South Carolina delegations.
"Did not Mississippi desire MIR. Davis?"
"They did not. They wished him to bo
Commander. in. Chief of the Army. That
was what no wished also. He did not desire
to be President"
CHARACTER SKETCHES.
Speaking of somo of the prominent men
of tho timo he said:
Nobody 10 moro misunderstood than
Seward. He is frequently spoken Of as o
lcador OF public opinion; but it is q great
mistake--it leads him. He is always quick
to sec its drift, and whom ho does he in.
stantly follows and seems to lead, like boys
OF military procession, who seem to lead
the march by following in front of the
music.
Of President Johnson he said:
johnson prefers to do things indirectly.
IIo looks ono way and rows another. It is
he really dcsiros to 500 the South restored to
all its rights. AS for Stanton ho is mon,-
ster Of evil. 1t is strange the influence he
has to keep himself in the Cabinet. In the
case Of Mrs. Surratt his conduct was sick :
oning to humanity.
Being asked if he still retained his high
opinion of General Grant he answered:
I do. Ho is ON unsophisticated, honest
and, I think, as yet unambitious man.
Thore is great deal of dovlopment for
Grant yet He is young and will yet have
more important destiny than be has had
thus far. / DO not doubt that he is q
patriot Tho Radicals pretend to claim
him, bat they know that he is not with
them. He says little about politics, but
what ho does say is to tho point. For in
stance, one day when ouled to 500 him he
was speaking about the Radical policy, and
snid, "Tho true policy should be to make
friends of enemies. Tho policy of the
prosont majority is to make onemies Of
friends" Ono Of the party asked him if it
vas trus that he had been tincd for fast
driving on the street. He answered, eyes,
I was. I expect tho next thing will 90
that they will take mo before the Frcedman's
Bureau"
In 1870 he wrote to Mr.. Johnston:
You ask what now think of Grant. I
think of him just as I did on the first 40
quaintance. My opinion Of the man has
not changed, either as to his ability or fu-
turo career, since our interview at City Point
in 1865. am now inclined to think from
his surroundings that his policy is tending
to empire, and whether he will succeed or
not will depend upon whether there arc
brains or patriotism euough combined in
the land to defoat his purpose. have not
yet reached satisfactory solution of this
question | am upon it as [ was upon the
question Of our success during the war.
The difficulty was not with tho deople, but
with their leaders. An overwhelming major.
ity of the people of the United States are do.
voted to tho institutions Of their ancestors
and arc utterly opposed to anything like
monarchy or Imperialism. All they want
to drive usurpors from powcr is tho load of
bold, wise, sagaoious, discreet, patriotic
standard bearers, through constitutional
channels and instrumentalities.
This life of Mr.. Stephens is unquestion.
ably valuable addition to tho history Of our
OWL war, for it gives opinions and motives
that historians can rarely reach. His biog.
raphers have dono their work well.
A SINGULAR CoMMUNITY.--Ju Jack.
son, of Georgia, writing from Iowa to tho
Wesleyan, snys: "In Iowa, some hundred
miles before you roach tho Missouri, there
of fron,