Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-10-02
EagehelA Court Mouse, s. c., October Q. is44.

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if these combinations, be not resisted
Look at the great Democratic family o
the North aud Easl, how it hobbies along
in spiritless paraIylic movement, likt
that Of the halt aud the lame; Look al rht
great and good Old Dominion how it ha:
sunk and fallen, how its glory has gone
down look al your own shameless Southern
deseriions. Whal is The cause of the
deplorable condition Of our politics? Wha
IS the cause of that general g loomy discon-
tent and uncertainty which prevail amone
he people concerning their political move
n.ents; Of the inideily so shamefully ex-
United by their representatives, who have
substituted the liIlle schemes of faction aud
personal resentment for the great interests
II their country! You see Southern Sen
snors voting for tariff which they them
selves have repeatedly condemned and re-
rohated, aud Western Senators against
he annexation of Texas. which their con-
,rilnents, to man. anxiously wished to
scquire -Wha is the cause of those
.lootny clouds which lour in lie pnlical
4kv; Of that fearful dread which all good
men suffer ola fatal disruption Of our noble
Institutions? Dark as This picture may
be and certainly is, exclude bul single
group Of the numerous Dramatis persona
let hut The scene change so as 10 exclude
from the stage a few hundred oversrnwn
capitalists, The governors Of power looms
aud spinning jennies, and a very small!
number of reckless fanatic abnlitionists,
and all will be Iieht and life. We shall
immediately see The sky brighten aud the
clouds disperse. We shall discover free
PORTABLE and increasing commerce, feed
Ing and sustaining prosperous agriculture;
high prices for the produce ofthe soil. and
cheap supplies for its cultivaIors, with
union. harmony and frarernal love binding
! together the whole people Of The whole
country. The good old Democracy trl-
umphauI and the molely band Of Whig-
ism-"Here bit of blackstone, aud there
a BIT Of whi,e"-tiding lis head in feeble
uess and defeat. The whole union -four
ishing, and the South loyal, conlented
and happy. Texas bounding and strength,
ening our borders and increasing our wealth
aud greatness. In The name Of God, what
faulty has come over :he people that they
do not discover the petty and odious ihral-
dom in which they are bound and by which
the greatest boons and blessings tf Provi-
Gence are threatened with entire subversion
aud even, in effect, turned into curses.
But to return from this TOO long but inter
esling disgression in which we have looked
with kind of prophetic VISION. we think
l ~ n hn IN nj mr.
tant day. When three or fur States shall
arise with unbenchins front, and unite
heartily and resoluiely. others will speedily
join them and our relief will in all likeli
hood, be peaceably accomplished. and the
Union preserved. Yet let noI this blessed
hope be relied upon with confidence. but
anticipate worse result and be prepared
10 meet it.
But we shall put al hazard that Union
which we so much love and honor, in
which we purchased a partnership with
so many sacrifices, aud he forced out of il
BY that very people against whom we
have heretofore defended il! It is, my
opinion, a lamentable truth, Thar, that
hazard must be met and il is idle and
even dangerous 10 besiaIe in avowing il
as the possible result. however much we
NAV depreca,e it.-There are worse evils
than disunion and we can hardly doubt tha,
we have been long suffering under Them.
But. If the dissolution Of the Union be a
great evil. aud it certainly will be so to The
American people. and would be so to US.
if We were permitted to enjny its benefits,
The gull, and The reproach will rest upon
those who wanIonly provoked it and those
who wanlonly have suffered it to take
place. Yes wanlonly, for the Historian
must record The fact, tina, the sacrifice OF
that glorious Institution which might have
secured and perpetuated, TO distant pos
teriry and greatness Of twenty mil lions OF
people. at this time, and of more than an
hundred to no every remote fulurly, was
made 10 crafty the inoridlnate avarice of
few score mot mnrel of great capitalists,
in samll section Of the country, and the
| furious madness of smaller number oI
fanatical abolilinnsts, who combined to.
geIher 10 oppress the interests and TO des-
troy the peace and happiness of the peo-
pie fihe Southern States, who, TO their
honor Of Humanity resisted and overthrew
their wicked designs"
Before God. we do not wish disuuion.
LIE, the Government he justly administered
and we willglory in the Union and give i,
our whole hearts and strength, in Peace
and War, as we have done before when
some of its most noisy euloeisls, at The
present time. were moi in ranks with US
when they were almost in the ranks of a
foreign enemy. But who has heretofore
spoken of disunion? Whence did the odi
tious term originate! not surely from The
South. II rane in The chill blast of he
North and East. By what description oI
person has the idea. al any lime, been pu,
forth at the South! what man of note
whal great public assembly of The South
has heretofore spoke Of dIsunion. Bu
among those who have recently taken il
under their pecnIiar guardianship The