Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-05-22
EDGEFIELD
WEDNESDAY, May %, 1914.

uVWSt Re UuGss
REMUNERATION MEETING.
The citizens of the-District OF
Edgefeld, are requested to meet
in the Court House, on Sale Day
in June next, for the purpose Of
expressing their views, as to the
remuneration of Texas to the
United States.
OT 1t affords us pleasure TO insert the aboye
call for meeting. We doubt not that it will
be responded to from every section of the Dis
tric,. Let the people assemble aud consider
their grievances, and consult together. There
are, we believe, but few Wings in the District,
but we invite those few to join u.s. If their
candidate is opposed to remuneration, is the
man who ,oas ours. This is no time to think
of men, our country is in danger. She must
be rescued nop, cor be forever fallen" The
Texas question, however important, is not the
only one that demands our. attention. II will
be recollected, that in 1882, South Carolina
declared that after certain day, no duties
should be collected, within her limits, under
the Tariff of 1928. Before the arrival of the
DAY specified, Mr.. Clay (who, but a few months
before, had congratulated the Senate. that pro-
lection OF Northern manufactures, was the set
tied policy of the government introduced, into
the Senate, a bill modifying materially the bill
Of 1923, and providing that, in 1912, protection
should cease, and tnut duties should then be laid
with view TO revenue only. South Carolina
suspended her ordinance till the bill should be
passed. or be rejected. 1t was passed. The
principle Of protection was yielded, and Mr..
Clay, its great champion, was made to say that
i, was no longer to be " the settled policy of the
government" We waited ten long years, and
on the day we were to be blessed with "Free
Trade" Protective Tariff, more prohibitary
and odious, in all its FIXTURES, than the bill of
1928, was passed. II was passed in. June by
awIess Wing majority. The elections were to
come on in October. We believed that the
next Congress would be Democratic. That
party had pledged themselves TO repeal the
Tariff. if elected, and we believed they would
redeem their pledges. They too have failed us.
We regret to see, that in the Charleston reso-
lulions this question is not alluded to. Impor-
,ant as the Texas question is to us, il is not
more important than the Tariff question. IF
Texas be not re.auuexed we must loose our
slave property; but if the Tariff be not repeal
ed, we care not whether we be permitted to
keep it or not for IL ,oi7t be rendered useless to
US. We are no,o bu. the Oocrsccrs ofour Nor
hcrn Masters. We are permitted to keep our
negroes and work ,nem; but they TAKE THE
PROFITS. Ifthis state Of things is to continue,
they may take our negroes also. We do not
desire TO get up an excitement on this question.
We wish simply 10 bring tito the view Of the
people, that they may consider it calmly, and
when they have done so, determine deliberate
Iy, W ha, their dnty to themselves and to their
State require them to do.
By our exchanges we find that meetings have
either taken place, or are about TO take place,
in every District in our State, and in a majority
ofthe States in the Union.
1t is expected that the Hon. F. w. Pickens
and some two or three other prominent gentle
men, will address the meeting
P The weather for the last week has been
very warm, without any raini we have had
occasional signs, but have always been disap-
pointed by the wind-the crops and gardens
in this vicinity are nearly "used up" vegela'
ton in particular. looks as if it could not stand
much longer without at least small shower
At the moment Of closing our form there was
slight sprinkle. but the wind blew too strong
for it to last long enough to do any SERVICE
Perseverance" has been received, and
shall appear in our next.
U According to promise, we have this Gay
published, on our first page, the reply OF the
editor of the Hamburg Journal to our cores
pondent Carolina" We are always willing
to show "fair play" to all parties, and nope
that the editor of the Journal, moved by the
good feelings ofjustice to all, will not refuse to
publish the remarks Of" Carolina"
Temperance Convsntion.-The call Of the
Chairman Of the State Temperance Society,
for meeting ofthe State Temperance Conyen.
ton, to take place in this village, 3lst day Of
July next, will be fonnd in ourcolumnsto to day..
We feel satisfied that the friends Of the cause,
io this section of country, whom we are proud
10 say are very numerous, win be. happy to
NEE, their fellow.laborers in This glorious work
MIR. Culpeper, who is at present delivering
Lectures ON the subject of Temperance, has
,,,;II;n,naoa IN amend few dayS