Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-07-17


Bill 10 Amend the Constitution.-This
bill, altering The tenure OF The office oil
Judge in This Stale. will he found among
the advertisements on our firsr page. II
was ordered by the Legislature to be pub
lished. for the examination and considera
lion of the people, that they may provide
for its rejection or confirmation. at the
next session, as they deem best; and we
therefore recommend it 10 their notice.
The errors in the signatures, OF the Presi-
dent of the Senate siguing as "Speaker OF
The House of Representatives" and the
Speaker Of the House, as President Of the
Senale," we Ialtribuled, in copying the
advertisements from The Mercury last week
TO the printer, and corrected them but
Mr., Arthur, the efficient aud vigilant
Deputy Secretary of State, seeing this ap-
praised US that they were so copied from
the original certificate SO the Bill in his
Office, and that he had of course 10 certify
10 that Bill and certificate as they are, and
the correction Of the errors in the adver.
tisement, rendered his certificate there in
correct. We therefore now publish them
as they stand in the original; and the errors
of course originated from The document,
in complete stale, exceptthe names, with
Speaker, &c. and President. &C., already
written under the blanks left for the names.
being Inadvertently handed las all the Acts
had just been) FIRST 10 the President and
then 10 the Speaker instead of the reverse
as their official titles were written. No
blame can fairly attach 10 these errors, as
amid The hurry aud confusion under which
such thiugs are usually done, late at night.
and at the heel of The session. it is next to
impossible always to avoid them, or 10
have more competent. careful, and vgilant
officers, than the present ones generally.
South Carolinian.
BY The late papers we learn, that there
has been meeting held in Russell county,
Alabama, and resolutions adopted propo'
sing Southern Convention Of the Slave
holding Slaies, 10 assemble at Richmond
Virginia, in October next, to consider what
course should be pursued, to meet the
present exigency of affairs. 1t high time
The South should begin to consider the
measures that should be taken to meet the
coming storm. But we do not feel alto
selher satisfied Of the propriety of the time
specified for The meeting Of that Conven'
lion. lfheld before the election for Presi
dent such measures may be adopted oI
suggested as would irriate, and excite the
North, and he attended with sad conse-
quences. We are for a Convention i'm
medialely after the Presidential election
Our institutions have been assailed, the
2lsl rule abolished, and we may now ex,
pect no quarters from Northern abolition
lists. We should prepare, ihen, to defend
and maintain them as they are. or die by
them; for without them, we cannot exist
And can we be Indifferent to the position
England has assumed on this question, or
the efforts she is making under the false.
and deeeifu guise of philanthropy, 10
abolish slavery! Strange to say that there
are intelligent men in the South, who are
connected too with The institutions of sla-
very, who are misled by party phrezy-
so intent upon making Clay President
that they are lost 10 their own interests
NOR will they awake from their lettIargy,
until the hand of the aboliionist is on their
property. Look over many Of the whie
prints Of The day, and show us one if you
can. iha, admits that the institution oe sla
very Is in danger-though in the very
face Of this, the abolition party Of the
North is daily gaining ground-and Eng
land avows il her determination 10 be un-
ceasins in her efforts, until slavery shall
be abolished all over The world. When
we consider these facts, we say it is time
10 acl.-AbbcuiNe Banner.