Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-04-09
Eagefeld Court House, S. c., Aprh 9, As4o.

become so obtuse in feeling as to have per-
ceived nothing TO offend the Union party
in Gen. M'Duffip's discourse, actually
feltfhe wish that every man of that party
could have heard Gen. M'Dufie inculcate
The Doctrine, and sound the praises of
Modification. Wonderful liberalitv! a.
mazing generosity to The one parly-pa-
ternal kindness to the other! And This
Union man, too, we are lold, is ga better
judge of delicacy" than we are. View
der if this or either of The other contentca
Union men referred to by the Mercury, is
The same gentleman, who was once re-
buked by The Mercury for vulgarily, in
declaring at public meeting that ''the
Nullifers were lice crawling on the backs
Of the community"
We repeat here, however. that we do
not charge Gen. M'Duifie with having III.
tered any offensive alIuson 10 The Union
party; all that we charge is, that he abused
The patience, and wounded the feelings of
the Union men present, by a misplaced
and ill-'imed advocacy of Notification, to
Tar greater extent than was nenessary,
IN even Nulli6er, 10 illustrate the char
acler aud services Of Gen. Hayne, and
that loo, with warmth of expression,
which necessarily implied blame aud re-
proach on The opponents ofihat doctrine:
The very delicate and sensitiue Union men,
alluded to by the Mercury. heard Gen.
M'Dulhe say, for instance, that Gen. Jack
sons Proclamation (which the Unionparty
approved) "preached a crusade" or "was
crusade against South Carolina" and
this. we presume, he heard with delight,
and was therefore anxious 10 have the
whole Union party participate in his &C.
Stacy. There were other expressions,
more objectionable than that we have cited,
but we forbear. lest we might misquoie;
as many parts of Gen. M DUTIES discourse
fell indislinclly upon our ear. We heard
enough of it however. to be well assured
of our main ground of exception, that ii
was defence and vindicatiou of nuliica-
lion, elaborated at most proractetl length
-anl on this ground we base our opinion
that il was out ofplace, oul of season, and
necessarily offensive To the Union men
who inviedthe delivery of the Eulogy. or
who assembled 10 hear it. IF Gen. Nj
Duiie had confined himselfto brief allu-
sion to notification, or even defence of it.
so far as itwasnecessarily involved in The
illustration of Gen. Haynes character and
career, representing the doctrine. however,
rs a debateable one, and one on which The
best and wisest men Of the Union, both in
past and present times. entertained war
ring opinions, our complaint may then
have been groundless, hut against his loug
and elaborate dissertation on the doctrine.
and dogmalic assertion Of its correctness,
we insist an both The right and propriety
of our exception. When Gen. M'Dufie's
kulogy, shall he put in print, we will be
able, by citations from it, more fully to
vindicae the course we have pursued
and un'i then, perhaps, we may suffer in
justice from the hostile or the prejudiced.
We have hui one more topic, which at
present demands extended comment.--
The Mercury accuses US of an "ungener-
Gus stab al Mr.. Pinckney." The Mercu-
ry vindicaling Mr.. Pinckney against the
Courier! The Mercnry-which bu, a few
years back, denounced him ''as traitor 10
the South" and which once opposed him
for Congress, and twice for the Mayoratv,
with bitter and uncompromisine hostility.
When Mr.. Pinckney was assaiIed with
storm of obloquy aud reproacIl, by the en-.
tire notification press, for his manly and
independent course on the abolition ques-
lion in Congress. the Courier sloud np fer
him on principle. and did battle for him
and with him against his foes, aud so far
are we from having made "an ungenerous
stab At Mr.. Pinckney," in our exception
TO his course al the public meeting. called,
without distinction of party, to do honor
to the memory Of Gen. I1ayne, and ex.
press The public and common grief for his
death, that we are rather entitled to regard
his conduct on that occasion san ungener.
ons stab" al us. well authorising us 10 en-.
claim 'et tu Brute!" What was Mr..
Pinckney's course in that affair." As Nav
or Of the City, and as The organ Of The
City Council Of Charleston. then, as now,
containing majority Of Union men, he
was appointed to present preamble and
resolutions 10 The mixed meeting, suitable
to The mournful occasion. The preamble,
which he submitted, without previous a.
doplion by The Council, and the speech,
with which he presaced it, contained sew
eral illusions offensive 10 the Union men
present aud The preamble especially, con-
tanned a positive assertion of notification,
or State interposition as the righlful rem
edy for alleged expressions of the General
Government. We were shocked and in
dignant a, The time, and our feelings met
with warm response, personally express
ed to us,from many generous nulifiers pres
enl; and indeed, so far as we can learn,
the feeling Of disapprobation was almost
universal among both Union men and
Nullifers. One Nulifer said to us, that
had he been Union man, he would have
felt it his duty 10 have risen and move to
expunge the Objectionable passages, and
that when he saw a distinguished member
the Union party rise, he made cure tha,
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