Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-05-07

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n who never ceased to oppose us, until the ne
cessities of his political position made it expe
a dient-but it is too bad, at the same tme 10 asl
e us to deIounce an old long tried friend, VIII,
:. has sacrificed himself to our interests Wlla
t friendship do we deserve, if we thus act? AL
. low me TO submit the proofs in support oftht
broad proposition which have asserted.
, Mr. Vun Buren, voted in the New York Con
. vention to confer the highest privilege of n free
men upon negroes. II was carried mainly BY
debled for the fact; that the powerful represen
tation Of forty memhers-from the Stale of New
York, are sent here, in part by negroes.
In 1919. Mr.. Van Buren voted to instruct
Rufus King, then senator in Congress from
New York, to vote against the admission oi
Missouri into the Unon unless slavery was q.
bolished. It is to me, a melancholy illustration
orthe decadence of pnblic feeling, aud of want
of proper tone and spirit in the South. that
one of the prime movers-perhaps the very
prime mover Of that dangerous measure should
not only be urged upon the confidence of the
South, but is so pressed, as the only anoiuted
saviour OF southern institutions. Mr.. Jefferson
said that the news of that movement came upon
him like The cry of fiTe in the night No one
crisis in our public affairs has so excited The
fears Of every patriot--and, most strange and
una.countble lie wholighted the torch. is held
up US our best friend; aud he who extingushed
| it, as our worst enemy. Is this grateful lair,
or ius,7 No later than 1922, Mr. Van Buren,
voted TO restrict the introduction ofslaves into
Florida. IF Congress has the power to restrict
has it not power 10 forbid the introduction OF
slaves into a Terri,ory7 Who denies thisl IF
| k,x, IN wi
may you not restrict it still further to settlers
over eighty years of age, or aItogether7 Look
on lIiat picture, and now look OH this Ii
| 1SpI55 Gen, Hurrison presided over Conven-
! lioll in Indiana. whose object was 10 obtain
modification of the ordinance uf l7S9, SO US to
admit slavery in That Territory. In lol9, Gen.
Harrison was member of Congress from dis
I lricl iii Ohio, containing more dbOitlOnrsts
than any other in the Slu!e. The Missouri
| QUESTION, raised by Mr. Van Buren aid his as
SOCRATES, was broug ght before Congress. ltwas
one OF those trying occasions winch lew nien
| have the muru. courage to lueet. Gen. ii. had
-and acted worlnily Of hts own iauie, and the
patrlut uulue which ne had imlIcried from Il no.
| Die a.cesior. lie was told, II you vote with the
South, you will destroy yourself. 'Iliat Is
pruuable," ne repncd, but II Is better lhai l
should destroy myself than to destroy lie Con-
stllulun OF NV CoIniry"-am exprcssGn and
uu ucl, sulnciei, OF themselves, to stuuip MN
pahIut. lie vutrd with iwn utarir, uni only
Two, from tile nvli-siaye Suites, to su,ain the
chartered RI. hts Oi tne oouln: =, ;;,1,.,;,.;,,ns
stufiu Diirst upon TIE HEAD ol any man. AL Tue
| next ciectiUu ne WAS, Notwithstanding Ills EYER
wneIuu, popuIarry, bea.er i"r Co"Sress-
and never was more vItuperatlon and Oppru-
briun hesped upon any man, tnhli iIe suheieu.
The town ul Che,iut was III his district, AMI la
that nciglIborhu0d there We're more aDolitiunisis
tnam any where else III the State a"d lnhie
lie denuncuI0n ui Gen. llarrlsOli, WAS moS'
violent. La 1885, the prOlc "i Cnhi"t fG-
! uIeuiberins his punlIc SERVICES ahd willing
| tu iorsi.e-uut 10 forget Ills great pulitca.
crI,iie, IUr abolition hud la, reused, nul diiiiili
| ,sl,ed-ilvited iIIin 10 pubic dililcr Ills
tneIuS urged hlni 10 nlane iio aiitSuh ID aooii-
| uuu-lhal u leilt respect u iiiUse Mhp Eau
invited hIrui avery la sc portion Oi whom were
| ubuIluli,ss, detliulued lIIat he should make
| NO al .uSlum tulhe past. Heat Unce drterhiilcd
tuat he would not. Dut, OH ills wuyt Cnev"l,
lie found The dangerous SpIrltnl abolition more
| rife than ever. He uele. mined lO rcbuhe II
and lie DID So | wish OIL 10 remember, tiiat
| tins speech was not ulLde ~ slave muluefs Dut
that there was IIOt Il man III IN aSsediDy, Wa"
was nul opposed to avery aud large mum
per OF tie.n ippl. .tonlsls. 10 sac'l III assem-.
my, lie ned the following language:
.Iuere Is, however, Il subject now besllllhg
IN ,u,l,te them (rhc Southern Slates.j III rela.
tiu,, TO which, II tiIeIr alarni has any foundation
mo re .dtiye silualiUn in winch tiey may stand
10 suine OF the States, will be tile yer, reverse 10
! VIVA. II now is. 1 ailude to u supposed dispo-
sutton in some individuals in the noii-siavehnli-
1 inv States to Interfere with lIe slave population
olsthe other States for tie purpose of forcing
tneir euauc, patton. j do not cali your. Ut
lenlIOn 10 this subject, iellpw-citize'.s' Ioh
| t,e apprehension tnat there IS u tiah u
mongst you who will lend Ills a;d y pro-
! Itet So pre-. ilaut WITH mischief ana stili less
!, luat there Is State in the Unlon which c"ilu
be broushtto gire,t counlelIaiice. but such
are the feelings OF onr Southern brethren upon
this sub ,ect-such their views, ana their Jus'
views, OF the evils which all interference oi this
kind would bring upon them, that long before
il would reach tile polni OF receiving the sane
tuu Of Stule, the evil OF the attempt woiid D.;
:. cnns,iInmated, US far US we are c0ncerlea' oy
dissolution tile Union. II there Is any prIii-
ciple oftlle Constitution OF the United Suites
less dsputuble than amy other, 1t Is, that tue
siuve population Is under lie exclusive cohlfoi
of the states which possess them II there is
any measure likely 10 rvet chains and blast the
prospects of the negroes Tor emancipation 1t
isthe interference Of Unauthorized persolls-
Can my one, who. is acquainted with the Gper,
a,ions ii the human, mind, d"hbt t'is' We huve
seen how restive our Southern brethren nave
hpeu from supposed violation of their political
rirhts. What must be the consequence oil uil
acknowledged violation OF these rights, onI
everv man Of sensa must admit it 10 be so,)
Combined with an Insulting interference with
their domestic concernsl =
81 ,ciu not stop to inquire into ihe 1notires q
,bos. ,.ho are engaged in this fatal and uncOnsti
t tmional project There may De some ,ehO haze en-
Garsed in i,oihout properly considering ats con
s,o,sness ,oio are actuated By bencrolent and Or
t tuous principles. But, if such there are ] an
Germ certain that, should,hey continue their presen
course, their telloccitizens ,ria ere t0ns' e"rs
tIs pitucs ,ohich hare undone their country" (,
,sl,uId he asked II there Il NJ way b)