Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-06-10

7 II atf;nrds US cause for exultation as South
Carolinians, to feel assured that our people
have at length resolved to prove to the country,
that they have lost none Of the spirit for which
they have heretofore been distinguished. From
the intelligence we received last evening, we
are enabled 10 substitute this, for dn editorial
Of bitter complaint and vexa,ion. If our infor-
nation be correct, Volunteer Corps are now
rapidly forming in all parts Of the State. Com.
panes have already been nearly completed, in
Charleston in Richland, in Kershaw. in stump.
ter, in Union. in Pickers, and in AbhevlIle :
and Edgefield has made up and organized n
company amounting to about eighty Of the
handsomest and mos, accomplished young men
of the district This looks like going to work
properly--it locks like we were resolved TO act
the part ofmrn and patriols.
We trust that the spirit of our district will
take wings-and that every district in South
Carolina will take courage, and offer its full
quota Of Volunteers, before the Inspector Gen.
erai leaves Charleston.
The public meetings we have held bere, and
the resolutions we have passed, have had q
highly beneficial effect. The minds of the peo
pie have been enlightened, and they have been
aroused to proper sense Of their duty. And
we would suggest that every district in the
State should likewise assemble It's citizens to.
gether, 10 take concil. whether we shall act al
this crisis, as becomes our former reputation:
The cool Indifference which has been mani.
fesiet by some Of the leading public Journal.
OF this State. to the slaughter Of our brethren
on the Rio Grande, and to the war which is
now raging on our frontiers. is highly calculat'
ed to mislead the people. and to chill their pa
triotism-itis is Il stain upon our eschmtchion-lt
is disgrace to South Carolina" There is
something rotten in Denmark" 1t should he
corrected by the people in their primary assem-
bes. Since the commencement of this war,
We have seen much in some of our ablest news
papers, to excite the indign ton Of every true
patriot Editors that can sneer at the efforts ol
the country in time of war, to rally ir its own
defence, are unworthy to represent the views
of free people,
We earnestly hope that our fellow citizens
in all the districts, will meet together aud give
an expression Of their own views.
At a called meeting of the Edgclield Vo!un'
teers, on Monday last, the following gentlemen
were elected officers:
P. S. BROOKS, Captain.
w. C. MUGAGNE, 1st. Lieutenant.
WM. P. JONES, I'd. Lieutenant.
On motion, the following resolutions were
adopted by the Company:
WHEREAS, Messrs. Cheves Johnson, Will
liam Sims, L. S. Goode. john F.. Schmidt, B.
]. Brown, james O'Bannon, Bn!ivar Jones,
and David Boswell, gentlemen not OF our dis
trct, prompted by the gallant spirit, which
chavacterlzes every true Carulinian have asso
cia,ed themselves with this company for the
Mexican war:
Be it therefore rcsolrcd, That we give them
must cordial reception into onr rt nks, and
exteud to them, with warmth, the right hand Of
brotherly afe ctiou. ..ss: - 8 =, - ~
Be it rcsolDcd, That copy Of these rcs2lu-
tons, expressive of our approbatior be for
warded IN each of these gentlemen.
On motion, ,resotced. That the Volunteer
corps now organized for The Mexican war, bear
the name Of. OLD 9J BOYS"