Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-07-14

C0nueSAne wh0t no believes oOn6CientiouBly to
be tho abuses and corrnptons Of this Govern.
instigator of assassination. and that no un-
certainty on this point might be left on tho
mind Of the reader, the article referred to
particular transaotton in which lie (Mr. c.
was, personally concerned. lie would not
condescend to defend himself in relation to
matters Sontained in..he paragraph TIM. had
been read: they needed no dofonce. What
on the Post Office reports The Post Office,
1t was acknowledged on ali hands, stood con-
vioted OF enormous abuses, not to say cor
ruptions. He had risen in his phce to oom-
ment .gonornlly on tho abuses thus exhib.
tied, he hnd made no personni alusons
whatever. He spoke OF tho corraptions of
the times and of them mainly, though this he
did say. that tho evil was bot 80 muNh to be
attributed to any dofeot in the WORKING Of
the machinery rs in the Administration
| itself. Yet these general denunciatio1s In
these broad terms are asserted by the Govern
ment official organ az warranting an individs
nal to mako this attempt at assassination.
Gould he have wantonly said that which
| would have authorized assassination. no would
have been little better than tho assassin him,
self.
The Globe reiterated it's charges from day
to day. Two eminent physicians examined
Lawrence with reference to his sanity and
reported on tho case. The Glcee, referring
| to this report, snys:
1t will be seen, on reading their joint state-
ment that his mind has given way under the
political excitement created by the narmiats
in Congress. who, for II season, threw the
whole country into CONSERVATION by their
| dreadMl predictions and unrcmitting impre-
cntfohs against the President. This execu.
nf ho oioti H.
the orators and which then teemcd from the
press and became tho cherished and fumiliar
sentiment of every desperate man in tho
country, seems firmly to have embraced the
conviction that the loss Of his business and
all tho misfortunes Of his own wrc.chcd con.
dition wcro produced by the President.
On perus,l OF the statements Of Dr. Cnusin
and Sewell, it will bo seen that he reusnned
altogether upon the dolasions of the artificial
pnnio and that the remedy with him was iD
effect somewhat that Of the politicians who
desired to put tho President out Of the way
by destroying hin, politically. whilo their
more weak minded partisan lnnkcd upon the
destruction of the Presidents life aa q moro
direct and certain mode Of ccompliehing the
object. lie supposed that If the President
werc dead. Mr.. Clay, Mr.. Webster or Nj.
Calhoun would succeed aud that oil the
mischiefs they depicted would be at an end.
No one can read the paper furnished us
by Drs. Causin and Sewell without porceiving
that the nssaesn's mind was precisely in that
morbid state which turned the dreams of the
excited enemies Of the Administration into
realities. While Mr.. Calhoun proclaimed q
revolution" THE suffering proselyte. who
could not pay his board, went toundly to
work to produce it.
Nothing moro seems to have been expected
to result from those remarks Of tho Globe
than to awaken tho prejudices Of the pooplo
against the distinguished leaders of tho op-
position to Gen. Jaokson's Administration,
although he insinuation Is thrown out that
they may have entered into o conspiracy and
employed. Lawrence as their agent. This pur
pose however, was discaimed by tho Globe. But
rs regards Senator George Poindexter, of
Mississippi, a distinct charge Of conspiracy
with Lawrence was made and atfidavits were
produced from citizons to sustain it. These
afidavits wero laid before tho President and
he gave full credenco to tlem. Tho atlantis,
David Stewart and Mordccai Foy, made oath
that they had seen Lawrence 60 into the
dwelling of Poindoxter on the Tuesday pre-
ceding the attompt to nssassinato the Presi.
dent. Foy said he had seen him 20 in from
time to time. and Stewart profcssed to have
seen them in conversation ''in Poindexter'a
passage"
Mr.. Poindextcr demumdod an investigation.
A committee was appointed and tho result
was complete exoneration of that gentleman
as might hive boon oxpootod from his wells
known honorable character. Stewart. one Of
the atlantis, was proven to bo man Of dcs'
picable character and Foy was not believed.
Tho Globe admitted that the charge agninst
the Senator was without foundation. But it
seems that Gen. jackson adhered to his vio-
lont suspicious. Miss Martineau was IN
Washington and attended the funeral of Mr..
Davis, when the attempted assass;n s;nation
occurred. Sho gives tho following account
Of the excitement and the animcsities which
tho afTair produced:
1t SO happened that VIC wors engaged to
party at MIR. Poindoster's tho very evening of
tho attack upon the President. There
was 80 tremendous n thunder storm that our
host and hcstcss wero disappointed of almost
all their guests except ourselves and wo had
difficulty in merely crossing the street, being
Obliged to have planks laid across the flood,
which gashed between the carriage and the
steps of tho door. Tho conversation turned
upon the event OF the morning. | knew
,ittlo Of the quarrel which wns now to be 80
dreadfully aggravated but the moro I after
! wards hoard tho moro admired tho modcra-
ton with which Mr.. Poindoxter spoke of his
foe that night, and as often as subsequently
met him.
had intended to visit tho President tho
day after the funeral, but heard 80 much of
his determination to consider tho attack a
political affair and had so littlo wish to hear
it so treated against tho better knowledge of
nil the y orld that l stayed away no lono