Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-03-06
GOVERNORS ELECTION.


dents were mistaken in supposng that Edge
field" was opposed TO the election of Col. J. r.
Richardson. We never thought that Col. 4.
would meet with any serious opposition; and
congratulate his friends upon tile unanimous
support which. it is now manifest. he will re-
ceive in this section of the State.
1t will be seen, by referring 10 the extracts,
which we to-day publish on this SUBJECT that
the Union party have long since buried the
hachet. It is blotupon the escntcheonot o"r
party, which should be Immediately removed,
that, whilst we have been protesting to forget
and forgive, we have been carrying on sys-
tenn Of persecution against the Union men, Let
those who think that we are charac,erising the
conduct Of the State r. Party. in harsher terms
than it deserves, ,recoect that for the last Syears
the gentlemen ofthe Union party. have been
almost entirely excluded from all Offices ofhonor
or profit in this State. Ifto exclude gentlemen
from offices. the duties Of which they are COM
petent to discharge, simply because they once
differed from us. on political question, now oil
no practical utility, be not persecution: we have
quite mistaken the meaning of the word. 1--we
regard ei,herthe reputation ofour State orthc in
,erests ofthe South we will act upon this poll
cy no longer. The great political parties of
this country are divided upon the question of
State Rights or consolidation. The Sub Treas
ury party is desirous Of diminishing, whilst the
other is in avoro of increasing the powers Of the
General Government. The Sub-Treasury
party therefore is the State Rights party. Aud
those who are opposing the Sub-Treasury how
ever honest they may be in tlieir opposi ion.
are opposing our principles and cannot receive
our support.
We hope that the State Rights party will re-
member that Notification is not now the ques-
ton at issnc, and that the Sub-Treasury is. We
urge them to be cautious because we believe
that ..plo,s have been laid-iuduciions danger
ous" to distract our State by presenting false
issues 10 the people and revvins pnrty fends
long since forgotten. Let not the actors "be-
hind the curtain" think that they can keep con-
cealed. Who are interested in preventing the
Sub-Treasury question from being made The
touch-stone of poli,icl orthodoxy in this Statel
Certainly none bu; those whose opposition to
the Sub-Treasnry has thrown them into mi
nority. aud hope to get into ma. ori,v, by re-
viv,ng the Notification question. "Snb-Treas-
ury" is our watchword. Without it none can
pass, and we diStrust all who learned not this
shibboleth at the breast. Those gentlemen
from whom Mr. Clay received his information.
before pronouncng his drunken prophecies
in the Senate will he taught that John C.. Cal
houn wears a corseet Of public confidence.
more impervious to the arrows of their maig-
nity, than was the steel coat Of De Bracey 10
the shafts Of Lock!ey. Let them continue to
assail him-their bolts W i bu; rebound upon
themselves. "The purpose You undertake, is
dangerous; the friends you hare named, uncer-
tain; the time itself unsorted; and vour whole
plot too light for the counterpoise ofsn great an
opposition"
Colonel Richardson is known as the Dem
cratic, Suh-Treasury candidate. Can Sub
Treasury man. consistently oppose him. whilst
a Clay and Bank candidate is in the field ma-
neurringl" Does not Col. Hammond occupy
this position. if Judge johnson is not to be with
drawn IfJudgc ]. is to he withdrawn, why
is his name still Kept before the public! Is it
not obviously e the purpose Of dividing the
Union party. and then transferring his votes to
Col. HI If they expect to gull the Union
men by "arts like these" till they "grow gen
tie. traciabe. and tame as geese, they will find
in their defeat, that they have missed their men.
We pnblis, III auother column, an account Of
a District, Agricultural Society, which was
formed in Barnwe!l. in January last twill
be seen that many of the first men of the Dis
trict. became members. and were appointed as
Committees to report OF various important
subjects. This is highly creditable 10 them, and
speaks well for the public spirit Of the citizens
tof that section of the State. Agricultural So
tcieties have also been formed in many other
Districts We hail this as a good omen Such
Societies cannot but be productive Of great
good. They tend TO excite III the minds of our
citizens an interest in behalf Of Agriculture,
which has so long been declining in our State.
Ia concern abou. this subject certainly gilmore
Importance to the common veal. as has been
|pithily remarked. than about the mcrc abs'rac.
kious ofpsli,icians Those who only write and
think about the latter, aIe too often uscl"sslv
employed, and like the characters described by
the poet,
ain wandering mazes lost"
Several years ago, there was an Agricultural
Society in Edge6eld. Several Of our leading
men were members of it. Why was it suf:
frred to la"gnish and de7 We know, that
there is enough ofin,elIigence and public spir,