Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-04-02
From the same, of Feb. IS.

From the same, of Feb. IS.
We made up our mind not to blemlsh
our account oil the grateful honors paid
Yesterday to the memory of Gen. lIaynn
with the dissonance of even just complaints;
and it is with pain, and, far more in sor-
row than in anger, that we feel conslraln-
ed in separate article to make an unpleas-
ant aIlusion in connexion with subject
from which above all others, we wished 10
exclude and exercise the accursed tend
of party. We think, however, that the
members of the Union party have been
treated with singular and unaccount-
able want Of deicacy and kindness, on
both occasions when they assembled,
in a,nity and fraternal feeling, with
their old political opponents, TO pay COM
mon tribute to the beloved and lamented
object of tho late imposing ceremonial.
At the call of the City Council, the .citi-
zens Of Charleston and the Neck, without
distinction Of party, met at the city Hall,
in order TO mingle their sorrow, and vote
a joint tribute Of respect, on the occasion,
which had deprived our country. Of such
an eminent citizen as Gen. Hayne--one,
who, but short period before, had re-
ceived from our community, then recent
ly emerged from party Conflict of un-
common ferceness and rancour, the ex-
allied honor of a unanimous election as
the first salarisd Mayor of The City,
What then must have been the pain and
modification Of one of the great divisions
Of that bcrcaved and mourning assembly,
how deeptheir blush of shame for others,
not for themselves, when they found the
occasion of common sorrow, seized on for
the intrusion ofparly politics, if moi party
feeling, and heard, i'll the preamble, sub
mitted by the successor in office orthe de-
ceased, acting as the organ cfa Council, q
majority o. ,chich ,rere, andare Union men,
their unqualified assent challenged to The
doctrine Of State interposition, or nullifi-
cation, as the righ,ful remedy. against al
lodged expressions Of The general govern
ment, Respect for the memory Of the
deceased, an unwillingness 10 make his
obsequcs a scene Of wrangling--an hon
orable delicacy--kept their lips silent then
although their bosoms boiled with just
Observation-Disclosures they forbore and
they forgaue--and they were eI en- willing
10 unite in further honors to The illustrious
dead, in the hope, nay confidence, that
they would not again be alike wounded
and asgreved. Yesterday, they cane
ouce more, in the full expansion of brolher-
ly feeling, TO lay common ohlalion of
grief and honor OIL the tomb of HAYHE-
and we mourn to say it; that their feel
ings were grated and their PATIENCE abused
by n long and elaborate exposition and
yiudicaton ofthe doctrines Qualification.
We charge on the Orator no exhibition Of
ill-feeling, no unkind intentions; he thought
perhaps, tha, he was but speaking history
but his taste and his judgment were
sorelv al fault, and misled him into course
necessarily offensive 10 large portion Of
his audience, who went there 10 honor the
dead, not 10 he instructed by The living in
theories Of Government or party cEeeds.
This part of the Grafton was Indeed most
obnoxiously out Of place--as much so as
if The Union party, on the occasion of the
death of one of their distinguished men,
bcrs, were 10 invite their once alienated,
but now reconciled brethren, to COM
minsle their sorrows for the dead and
the Union eulogist were TO forget him
self so much as 10 intrude into his dis
course an exposition and vindication
of Unionism, as the opposite OF nulli-
fcation.
The doctrine advocated by Gen. NJ
| Dufiie, of course, meets now, as it has ev-
er met our unqualified dissent. We op-
pose 10 it doctrine hallowed by the shade
of Washington, and embraced by an i'm
menscly preponderating majority of the
States of the Union-and we accept the
tribunal, to which he refers the arbitre-
ment of The question,-posterity. The
past sends its appreciation of our creed,
from the graves of our illuslrious ancestors,
the present brings rs the overwhelming
approval Of millions Of freemen, aud We
court with confidence the award ofthe fu-
ture. When his Eulogy shall bepublished
as we suppose it will he, we shall take oc-
casion to enter the lists more formally with
General M'DulIie. In the mean time we
beg leave respectfully TO remind him that
il was he who taught us. that "if, after the
National judiciary have solemuly affirmed
the constilulionaIity Of law, ills still to
be resisted by The State rulers, the consti.
tuition is literally at an end; revolution
of the Government is already accomplish
ed, and anarchy waves his horrid sceptre
over the broken altars Of this unhappy
Union"
We have written the foregoing remarks
without any feeling either towards Gen.
M'Duiie, or the other parties concerned:
our editorial, yesterday, shews the spirit in
which we went to the funeral celebration,
and we repeat that il is with unfeigned
sorrow that we find the necessity Of this
article imposed upon us by the injudicious
course of others. But we also repeat tina,
we can forgive much to brethren, and,
however ungenerously we may have been
served, we will not unJury the ~hatchet at