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A ' "TtX/ KEOWEE COURIER. " TO THINE OWN SELF UK THUIC, ANI) IT MUST FOLLOW, A8 TIIB MOIIT TI1E !'AY, TIIOU CAN'ST NOT THEN UK KAL8K TO ANY MAN." | VOI,. 3. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1850. NO 7 THE 1 inrr lilmsplf in 1 KGOWKG COURIER, FttlNTKO AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY TRIMMIER <fc LEWIS. W. K. Easjley, E'litor. TERMS. Oiio Dollar and Fifty Cents f<>r one year's subscription when paid within three months, Two dollars if payment is delayed to the close of the subscription year. All subscriptions not clcarly limited, will bo considered nn made for an indefinite time, and continued tllia tmcontmuance is ordered and all arrearages pai J. Advertisement* inserted At 75 cents per square for tl?e first insertion, nnd 37 1-2 eta. for each continued insertion. Liberal deductions j 'made to those advertising by the year. I?" All Oommunicat ioi.i <liould be address ed to the Publishers post paid. Southern Convention TIKMAIltiS OK JUDGE BEVERLY fUCKKR. J udge Tucker said it gave him much pleasure to have the opportunity now of addressing the Convention, and to rember when ho did so before, it was for the purpose of allaying excitement. ' It was not for one in whose veins time had chilled the firo of youth and weaken "cdthe force of imagination, to cnll down ! tb<?. nntilnimn of llm : ...u .miuiiva, UUK IIU WISH I ed to speak the words of truth mid sober- | ness, those becoming his years, lie j rose to answer his colleague from Virgin- ' I* ia, (Mr. Gholson) .?lio had asked?in case the compromise bill was passed, would he" bo willing to dissolve the Union? Ho was prepared to answer that ques lion; And when lie hnd answered it, his colleague would be about ns lie was before. His colleague wns an able lawyer, and would hardly put such a question into a bill. He should be willing to have I the compromise bill r>nssod with amendments, if they would let him amend. If be wa.sask?d what ho would do if it passed without amendments, the gentleman himself could not answer tho question, and he was not prepared to answer. It j was because tliey saw there was danger j ....VI um >IVK >nvn tiiu OI U, mat tlicy were there. He had not come i here with foregone conclusions. He had I the declaration of Virginia?that she was | prepared at all hazards, and to the last J extremity to resist the adoption of the j WUmqi Proviso. The California bill I differed from the Wilmot Proviso, as the ! man who burns down a house differs I from the burglar. Jt would be for the j Legislature of his State to sav wlmf. nr.- i tion should bo taken in the Inst resort. On that point ho was not prepared to an- i swer. lie hnd snid he wns prcpnred to 6pcak moderately. If the Address reported i had been such as was proposed by others, ' lie should havo voted for it, although he should try to persuiide others to think as lie did. He was not sorry the debate had been gotten up, for each gentleman prcsen-owed his best thoughts to the Convention. The debate had, howover, taken a very discuesive charcter. It hnd brought up almost everything relating to theso questions. Ho ropeated he was Srcpiu uu 10 spcnK soberly. omo had spoken as if there was danger and apprehension of strife. IIo saw nothing of the sort from the manifestations hero. IIo spoke not only without fear, but with a hope full of joy till expectation. In his temper of mind, he was | prepared to put away all manner of "wrath any doubting," but unfortunately this temper was peculiar to himself. A senso of danger not visible, seemed to pervade the minds of many, and ho knew too much of the laws which govern mind to know thf\t&uch could act properly. lie wished to show tlio people of tho South that they had nothing to fear. If he saw a boy running into tho water J pt tho sight of his own snadow, ho would | say, slop'. tMU la not the devil. lie would tell p, revolutionary anecdote interesting to liim. The late J udgo Johnson said that during the Revolutionary wnr, ho was attracted to o company attached to Washington's corps?a corps that always * had plenty of fighting to do. Captain ?- " ' * *" juumy iwk uiiiirgo oi mm, Kept Jmn on his right, imd chnrgcd him to stay by him. Thoy mot on ono ocoasion a party of the enemy's drngoona about equal in numbprs, and both sides chock full of fight Hp found himsplf opposed to a poor lpoking fellow mountod on a ponv, and in tho fight, ho charged furiously upon him at a rattling paco, expooting to ride over him and cleave him to tho saddle. But striking with great force, bis fldver&ary parried the blow, a^d h?/ find 0 M.u.gi/i vii |iituiilllg UVCT his horse's head was constrained to cling to the mane. In his fear,expecting momentarily to feel the blow of his antacjo-. nist's sword uj>on his head, he tried to draw it with iustinctive fear under the cape of his coat, when a blow from Manly s sword scattered tho brains of his foe, and relieved him from the danger, lie had ever sinco believed that men were very incapable of proper reasoning under tho influence of fear. Mr. Wnlistpf for > , vnv uuv^uu |jur|iusu of preventing disunion, had put forth the 'raw head and bloody bones' dictum, that session could be peaceable. Mr. Webster?for their purposes were different, had . ^ught to make it appear that in case of dissolution, wars would ensue. What did these words of Mr. "Webster's mean? They could have no other meaning, but fch.ltifnny portion of the South tried to relievo itself by secession, it would be followed by coercion on the part of the wu?i - .1 " .tovvui ii iiai ?vu? iiiia lh;:1 " iiiwiitiuw, u mere frutam fulmcn. You must lay down on your face and suffer your pocket to be picked,or we will cut your tlnoat; which, being interpreted, means the Compromise! lie understood?for lie did not read speeches now a-days, they made him sick?that Mr. Clay and Mr. Cass, that'Northern man with southern prin- j ciples,' said tho snmn thing. A formidable triumvirate! All triumvirates were formidable! It was tho position of men like Cjesar, Pompcy, and Crassus! Ciesarand Pompey had Crassus to hold tho straws whilst the game was played. Gen oral Cass was made a cat's paw and did nol know what lie was thero for, any more than Lentulus did, acting for Anthony and Augustus. Defend him from the triumviiates?from the plans of men coming from diflerent quarters, all for themselves and 'the devil take the hindmost.' There was mischief brewing; and one of them will be 4hrust aside, and never more be heard of. Augustus had his provine, Anthony his. and they left ouuivtuiiig in uiu nanus oi t lie stllkohol- j (lor io be played for. "When rogues i fall out, honest men conic by their own.' What had these men n commpn? Had j they not been vituperating each other for i years? lie did not know what Mr. Clay I and Webster had between them, but he thought Mr. Clay knew why Mr. Clay j had not been the candidate of his party repeatedly. '"NVhile the grass grows the steed starves." What said the prophecy some four thousand years ngo? 'Dan shall be a serpent by the way?he shall bite the horse's heels so that (ho rider shall fall backwards.' There was not on earth a man whose heart bowed down morn I.* - * .v.wvi.iuuij in uiu jjicHuncc 01 iruo greatness than his own: whilst hu nbhorred man worship. It was natural for a man to look \ip, to seek for something between him and divinity?to make an idol of almost anything! Under tho healthy influence of this passion, we raised our eyes to Washington. Others looked up to some bull, Apis! Some in the political church found it in Clay, some in Cass, and some in Webster! In My. Clay, he did seo something to admire, in Gen. Cass something, about Mr. Webster?nothing. lie could not understand <i.? -i?u ? r?ny uiuj' siiuutu roveronoe Ulay, but in the 'god like'?ns they call him at the North, he could not see anything. Even in Jupiter Tonans, when his character was debased by debauchery and prolligacy he could not sco anything to command admiration. Thoro was Cass! When Achilles was going to the Trojan war, he received from tho oracle what meant one thing, or another. The Ni- j cholson letter was such a thing! It meant something for one side?a different thing for anothor. lie was glad that his friend had strickcn from tho Address Mr. Clay's namo. for ho wnnM Knvo nothing personal in that document. Ho waa sorry to wear out his poor voice in talking of theso matters. He had said that Mr. Webster's menacc was a mere brutam /almen/ Ho could put a case. Suppose Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Lou- I jsiana should form a Southern Oonfeder-1 acy? Suppose thoy, driven (.> it, should be compelled to sccedo. Where was tho power on earth to lift a hand against it? Would New England? Every one knew that her neocssities for cotton would compel her to bo quiet. Every body knew that, she had taken from the South seven hundred millions ">f dollars, and had not left it to iH!?. 8ho had realised it?had put it in factories, ships and palaces. What bcoumo of those, with tho cotton cutoff? Hor marblo pnlaces would bo open for thoso who choso to occupy them, liko thoso of Venice, and her moronnnt princcs would skulk in obsoure corners, livery nan in England was interested in this question too, and wo should liavo Ucr capitalists I swarming over hero. The impossibility I I of having any ro. ort to violence was j j plain. If New England interfered, England and all the world would cry out stop! to enable the ?Sfouth to go on and I ii\M!:<? ' ' 1 A .......v. vwwvft.. n Hat wouiu coercion UoY Could the /South ho coerced buck into the Union? Could you get back South Carolina, if she should go out? The attempt would be of such suicidal folly as was never heard of! You might as well say, that if Orpheus had been the only j man in the world, the women would have I filled him. lie did not believe tlmtTonnesseo and Kentucky would permit their Northern neighbors to cross their territory to attack their Southern frienes! I The moment that 6cccssion takes placc, the moment a breach is made, that mo[ mcnt the word Union loses its charm. (Suppose North Carolina, on this question, was met with an invitation to join the Union, would she not stand by her sister ?S(ates? lie begged leave to supV; _ i i .1 I ,,?. ii^uiki 13 trowuca in uie j tobacco market by Kentucky and Missouri. Suppose such a confederacy? that Clny could keep Kentuky, and I3cnten Missouri. Tho Southern States would only havejy^ make some slight commercial coitfHsions to England to get five or ten <!B^s knocked off of the duty on tobacco, and Kentucky and .Missouri could not sell a pound in the En gnsn market. . I'cople understand these things! But suppose tho confederacy .embraced all the (Southern States, a country from the Chesapeake to tho Gulf of 3/exico, and the Rocky .Mountains; and what could she want? There would be a homogeneous population?lies of blood, and a harmony uninterrupted. No nation has ever existed with so magnificent a prospect, as would be presented by this view of the case. What wou'd be wanting? Anything in commerce?manufac[ tures? Virginia included coal and water-power in abundance. What could they want, suppose this thing done? ,.,,.,,1.1 i.~ ? 1 1 .. nviu iivuiu uu j uiiiis^ivaiiiii: one had now to sustain herself against the competition of nil New England, and was crying out about the tariff. Yet she had the Southern market. Take away the tariff, and she goes to the markets of the world, in opposition to New England, and she would at once bo tho workshop of the /South; and instead of being on the margin and contending for the markets with New England and New York, she would have it all to herself. Theiewas Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. What Ohio . would do, he did r.ot know?she was a j sort of nondescript. She had industry, I skill, wealth, commerce, and all that, j Hut when you go ashore at the 'Queen ! City,' you would think sho was imported j from Germany. There was a littlo. nf tlm I Irish brogue, to be sure. She had all the elements of greatness, but she was a problem. One of the most beautiful features of the slavery system was that the association of the whites and blacks had elevated the latter. Association;* be- i tween equals would generally elevate one i class at the expense of the other. Our system had made the negro pretty much of ft gentleman! The Ohio man has noth in^' but the hog, and he cannot make anything of him. 7hcre v. as one thing unto reminded him of?it was a green and standing pool?aye, a cess pool. lie was conscious that he had tried the paticnco of the audience. A tired man speaking to a tirod audience, vas like a tired man riding a tired horse! lie had not said a tenth part of what lie had meant to say! lie came hero with his ! mind charged, and lie might as well attempt to drain Lake Erie through a goose quill as attempt to bring out all in j his mind through his speech, lie had i said nothinrr of r.orrmrnmisnn. hut. lm , would say lie was sick of them. Tie had ! always lost by them, arid they had all I come from the same quai ter. Some of ; the agitation might have been gotten up i for the sako of the credit of pacification. But he was too much fatigued to speak, and would close. The Missouri Link.?The "X" corrcs' pondent of the Ualtimoro Sun writes: i I have made special inquiries, and theic is not one member from Pennsylva; nia who will or can vote for tho Missouri compromise; and if Pennsylvania will not vote for it, what other Northorn State will ? I dofy tho advocates of tho jl/issouri lino to namo me throo Northern mem bers, democratic or whig, who will posi| tivcly vot for the missouri line. This is 1 the true stato of the case, ami if the Southern ultras will mako tho .Missouri com! promise a sine jma non?30 dog. 30 m. j or fight?they must look round to see I wliothor tho men who are willing to agi : late for the lino will ulso insist on it at j tho peril of treason. Tho indications are, as far as we can discord) to the J/i^guri bwfi IV ill nvt m be given, much less offered, by the North. If the South takes less, she would be guilty of treason?treason to herself, to her people, and poster'ty! The glib charge of treason is getting too stale to produce much elfeet upon the movements of the Southern people, and we trust there are f'jw of them can be frightened from the firm maintenance of their rights by such bugbears. Til'7 GAME OF FRUSTRATION. The -Sew-York Ilcrul draws the following strong picture of the effects which would be produced on the North by the adoption of the policy recommended by Mr G'lingman, to the Southern minority, in case they should be pressed to the wall by an unscrupulous majority. Highly colored as the picture may seem it yet is no exag?ration?as any reflecting man who looks at it in the right light will clear- i ly see. With such a power in their hands, the i use of which would be both legitimate j and pronei under the cimmwfnnonc lim. can Southern men delude themselves into a belief of the powerlessness of the South ?and base their support of the "best we can get" platform on such grounds. We adduce this testimony from a Northern source, to show how idle such ap- j prehensions on the part of the really are. j [Columbia Telegraph. 1 he Herald says* We believe the southern members of | Congrc. v have determined to pursue the j course which Mr. Wilmot has indicated j that the* minority will pursue?stopping I legislation, and refusing to pay the appro- j priations. Mr Clay thinks so too. As honest journalists, it is our duty to warn ' ,fn -rn.- -i -r iiivuinvio Vll Ul 11113 UilllgtT U1 such a course. it would end in revolu- , tion. We will mark out a few of the rc- ! suits of such a procedure, The millions collected by government in specie, if looked up by not being appro- ' printed, and disbursed, for three months, | would produce the most awful etils in 1 this great commercial city, which is the ! business heart of the Union. Derangement in its vital functions, would carry j commercial death to every extremity and portion of our frame. If Congress do not vote tho appropri- j ations beforo they adjourn, it will break ' two-lhirdsof tho banks and canitalists in i Wall-st. from Trinity Church to Watcr-st. ; on both sides of the wayv It wil make bankrupts of every leading merchant in South-st. from the battery to the Oatharine-st. ferry. Every American -.cock would go down ton, twenty, thirty, or | fifty cents on the dollar. Railroad stocks ; could not be given away. Every citizen , whose bread and butter is derived from , the interest of such investments, would , be ruined and destitute. Ileal estate i wou d fall at once. The erection of buil- j dings, the building of ships, thcmanufac- ( taring of goods, would be all suspended, and nearly all the laborers in this city would be idle and out of employ. Gaunt ruin and haccrard miserv. dressed in Beck's brst silks nnd satins, would v<alk about onr streets, from the Battery to Union Place There would be 110 private carriages, no operas, no game dinners, no omnibusaes, no hacks, no carts, or anything of the kind, running over Broadway and disturbing tho pavers and people. Let the basis of all mercantile operations?the specie?bo locked up in tho custom house, and tho thing is done. In a word, such a scene of ruin and distress as would ho brought upon the Northern Suites by the . simple refusal of the minority in Congress j to vote the appropriations, is beyond the j power of any ordinary broker or block- I head to imagine, or any poet or pen to j pourtrav. lhe Northern (States are in a fair vay to bring about thi t crisis, by meddling with the Southern institutions, Excithmknt in Texas.?The news from Santa T'V, in relation to the return of Major Neighbours, and the action of Ool. Monroe, the New Mexican Commissioner, which we publish yesterday, it appears has created intense excitement in Texas, as appears by the following extracts from somo of the journals of tint &tatc. The Washington Ranger "JLhis intelligence lias caused considerable excitement about Austin and tho wholo West. Nearly every man is willing to shoulder his gun, and demand the rights of Texas at the cannon's mouth. G^n. Taylor is much mistaken if ho ox pectsTexans to submit to this injury and nsult. We understand that Governor Hell has made a prcmptory demand on tho U. S. Government for tho rights of our <Sftate, and should this have no cfFect, he will doubtless march with volunteer foro^9, and that portion of country which of right belongs to us." Tho Houston Telegraph, in publishing ?ol. Monroe's proclamation, says; "This is but anothe of tho stealthy and unprincipled acts of Oeu. Taylor to rob the /Southern States of their dourest privileges. A more open baso act of Government tyranny has perhaps never before been perpetrated. Texas bides her time " The Galveston News, in doing likewise, 8.:vs: "Wc can only Buy that we arc glad the true issue has been at last presented to our citizens We shall now soon know wiiPinerour citizens arc ready to meet tliat issue anil defend their rights at all hazards, or whether they will tamely give up their rights at all hazards, or whether they will tamely give up their rights xn view of the superior power against which we shall have to contend, in order to maintain them." The Galveston Journal, in reference to the proclamation, says: " ITe forbear comment until a fuither dcvclopemcntof facts. It looks, though, wonderfully like a part of the system of tactics that has been adopted to extort from Texas a sale and surrender of that Territory." Tin-: Navvoo Tkmpi.k again Dkstuoyeo.?A fatality seems to attend the temple at Nauvoo. It was finished by the Mormons in 1815, was ncarlv destroyed by Ore in J 848, mid on lhc?UTt!i of May a tremendous hurricane demolished the walls, 'l'iie Icarian community of socialist!?, under Cabot,-lmd purchased it, and were engaged in repairing it, with a view to fitting it up for schools,, studying and meeting halls, and a great refectory for a thousand persons. The surrounding buildings were also demolished, and in tho wash-house, where six Jcariun women were washing, there was so sudden an inundation from the rising creek that tho woman had to escapc through the win gows. i ne community arc going to undortakc the erection of another large and lino building* TIIE SOUTH CAROLINA DELEG A- * *TI0N. We can scarccly say what we wish to say of the conduct of tln^South Carolina delegates to tlio coift'cntioti without reminding thcnyihat Jthe citizens of their state are somciimoirheld up as bugbears to frighten timid southern politicians with. They know how earnestly it has been charged, by way ot reploach, that the "/S'outh Carolina disunionist's would con trol the convention," and will, wo hope, pardon us for an expression of the gratification wo felt in seeing these, imputations so effectually dispelled bv their uction. They have lived them all down, in than two weeks. They declined taking that lead in tho proceeding which would have been conceded to their ability as statesmen, and m.tuned only anxious that the positions taken should be such ns to enable South Carolina to follow the lead of other sta'es. There was less of a disposition on their i r 1 * xl - 'I jniiv m cuuuui iiiiu nnu muit man on me part of any other delegation, and quite as much of ii disposition to conciliate ?md harmonize. They have entirely icvolutionized the opinion here which suspected them of luko-warmneas to the Union, and have won golden opinions from all classes for their state, their cause, and them-; selves," [Nashvillo Union. Tin: Bird and the S.vake.?Interesting Incident.?We take the following interesting paragraph from the Mobile Tribune' "Two gentlemen of our acquaintance, of unimpeachable voracity; witnessed a a sccne the other day worth recording/ ^1.0, ~r J. 11 * tjf UUOliUVU 410 lliu U13WIIIUC Ul DUIIlt thirty feet from them very strango and unaccountable, conduct on the part of a bird?commonly called the "cow bird," resembling in color and shnpn tho mocking bird of this region; though somewhat smaller. Oil watching it narrowly thoy discovered that it was engaged in a conflict with a snake some eighteen or twenty inches ia length. In a few moments the bird was victorious. It suddenly caught the snako by tho head, and flying' with it to an old pino tree, succeeded, after a hard struggle, in fastening it on a pointed splinter. Thus pinioned, tho snako wns entirely helpless. Tho bird wAtnhcfi if. for a moment. with annarentlv "" IT - j the utmost compluconcy, and then contiunftd its reprst, devouring within ten or fifteen minutes three fourths of the length of tho snake. A soldier on trial for habitual drunkncss, was addressed bp tho President: 'Prisoner, you aro prosecuted for habitual drunkenness, what have you to plead ir? your defence?' Nothing please your honor, but an .labilual thirst,