Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-09-11
POLITICAL.
From the Nashville Union, august %.
The BEDFORD MASS MI ETINa-THE Hon
F. w. PIcKENs-MK GANsEvuoKr
vi MELVELLE

4 T. w. .TIChENS-WR "ASSEVUOhf
MELVILLE.
We regret that mistake occurred r
une of the names Of The Bedford County
Committee of Invitation, in The nolice o.
the mass meeting proposed to be held al
ShelbyvilIe, in that county, on The 9Th
INST The names of tho committee are
Robt. Matthews, {not Rob. j. Caruthers.)
WI. Whilhorne, and Geo. w: Buchanan.
All the democratic volunteer companies
Of Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama,
and all citizens, of all parties, wlleresoever
residing-and fhe ladies mnre especially
are all respectfully invited to attend. We
hope the meeting will he great one, and
such as becomes the.ancient democratic re
nown of Old Bedford. -.
Mr.. Gansev"orr MelveIlr, distinguished
public speaker from New York, will be
present by Invitation. The ion. F. W..
Pickens Of South Carolina, lale a member
Of Congress from that Slate, will also he
present as ali invited guest. We have
before expressed our regret for the acct.
cental causes which prevented Mr.. Pick
ems from being al The democratic mass
meeting in this city tasi week We feel
consoled for the disappointment; however,
BY ItIe fact, that he will have an ample op.
portunily of being heard by a large and
highly respectable uudeure at Bedford,
where great numbers of citizens will be
present from other counties We know,
and lee sure, that great injustice has been
done to South Carolina, her Statesmen
and the great budy Of her true democracy,
in altribuiing to them .pnions and designs
Of treachery 10 the Constitution and The
Unior.. The democracy of thar State. as
a body, feel all III ardent attachments,
and patriotic devotion 10 The common good
of our country, in all its secliars and d.
visions, as are professed and felt by our
democracy. In The present great conlesi
-in the election Of our own distinguished
fellow citizen to the Presidency-they feel
the same warm and enthusiastic zeal by
which our own bosoms are actualed. They
wish, in sincerity and truth, 10 promote
the election of Polk and Dallas, by the
same honorable means which we feel jus
!tiea a qsiaS apGar Grs for shs sp@e
people of the whole Union-lhe perpelua.
lion forever Of our blessed institutions uu-
der the Constitution. TO avoid all future
apprehension, and to guard against the ef
fec,s Of the ISLANDERS and traduc!ion of a
proslilu,ed press-and in the propagation
of which slander Mr.. Clay has par'icipa'
led in The forgelfuluess Of what is due to
himself and his poslion--we hope every
citizen of Tennessee, whncan make q con
venien,, will go 10 SheIbyville, and hear
Mr.. Pickens. y, He is now a private citizen
of South Carolina, having voluntarily re-
Iiiguished his sea, in,. Congress, and. CAN
have no wish, desire, or purpose 10 accom-
pish, but such aa may rebound to the
common good and honor Of the whole
ouun,Iy- lie will he fund 10 be the able,
the lsue, and faithful representative Of the
feelings and wishes Of The democracy of
the Snu,h-especislly Of South Carolina
and Georgia. He will scatter the late
whig ISLANDERS upon his Stale and her de-
motjcracy to The four winds. r@