Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1847-02-24
The Merican War, Slauery-Wilmot Pro.

they will sulier the Three Million BIZ 10
pass, without amendment, the North shall
have no occasion 10 complain ofthe treaty
that will be made with Mexico. That Is
to say, The President promises that he will
take no cession Of territory south OF The
parable! of 36s 80, and that, therefore, the
slavery question will be avoided. This is
said 10 be the reason for the determine.
ton of many Of the Northern democratic
members 10 vote against Wilmol's provi-
so. The proposition for boundary made
by Mr.. Sewer, comes very near to this
line, and is probably intended 10 lit it.
The line OF 36e 30' leaves SanIa Fe 90 to
the north of it, and every point on the Pa
cific that is desirable 10 non-slaveholding
Staes."
We read the above in the Couritr of
Monday, in letter from It's Washington
Correspondent Of the Filth February. We
had ourselves been put in possession from
high authority, of something of The same
kind; indeed the facts are said to have
come from parties in the negotiation, but
we have had so abiding a confidence in
tie fidelity Of the President, that we have
not been able to creil charge which
would consign him to the unmitisated
condemnation cf the slave States, If true.
The treason 70 them, their institutions,
their character, and heir very existence
would be 0 deep and unnatural a parricde
that LAM uase would be wanting TO give
expression 10 the universal indignation
which would consume the author. Ii is
impossible that son Of The South would
sign treaty which would be national
libel on the people aud institutions Of 6t-
teen States; and which would deprive
them, for reasons the most humlialing TO
their feelings and degrading to their self
respec:, of any snare in the lands they had
aided by their best blood and their treas:
ufes 10 win. Nay, we cannot believe that
Mr.. Polk would ever put such an indigni-
~ on the people of Tennessee, EouisiaHa.
Maryland aud Mississippi, whose gallant
sons stormed Monterey, as to larn them
dissracefulIy oul Of the very lands they
won with their swords, because being
slave holders, they are unfit 10 be the
equals ofthe Nor.h and the West.
In what has the South the Slave.hol
ding States, been lacking? Have their
uuleers been less daring, less True, less
firm The experiment, lei who will try
il to lamper with .such men-to debase
them or the country they represent, is too
mad and too wicked for any President,
much less one who is Southern man,
and who has been elected aud sustained
by SO large porlion of the Southern
people.
For what reward could Mr.. Polk bar.
Ter his honor and his coun.ry's existence.
by such hearlless betrayal of them :
The reward would be power-a re-elec-
liou-secured by the support Of the ene-
eoe,iv,,, At the head OF
whom would be Joshua Giddings, JOHN
Quincy Adams, backed by tie Sias
Wright Democrats. II is impossible. Mr..
Polk cannot desire recollection. lie has
over aud over again declared most SOL
ennly his determination not to serve
again. If he has declined power at hon.
arabic mems hands, would he how degrade
himself aud betray his friends and country
10 get il at such base sources I? and by
such base means! Ii is inposshle-we
will uol believe it.
Bat why is it there is such commolion,
why are The elements 50 profoundly moved
to their foundations al Washington Is
there no cause no ground for alarm ald
anxiety to the Slave States? Far, very
for from it. Never we believe in their
history have the people of the Slave
States, encountered crisis Of more vital
dangers. He mast be blind indeed who
does not sec the fatal blows aimed by pre-
tended friends, Democrats Of the North
and West, in conjunction with old bitter
enemies, at The power aud the very exis.
tence Of the Slave States, through their
institutions. The WiImot provso is an
extnguisher, III becomes the rule of ac-
ton. on their character and their power.
They are 10 be subjusated and lrampled
on-taXed Of their treasures and drained Of
their best blood, TO conquer lands from
which they are TO be driven as unworthy
10 inha5it-kicked, spurned and despsed.
And these lands on heir own very borders,
are to be made The nurseries Of strength in
which new enemies to them and their
institutions are to be planled, 10 add 10 he
already oversrown power Of proud oppres-
sors. a belt of new States is to he drawn
all around them as wall Of fire. within
whose Anaconda embrace they may
writhe and struggle as they please. but they
will inevitably be crushed and swallowed
up al last.
Better now to face this danger--to meet
ii at once while we are strong aud equal--
while our men have arms in their hands,
and spirit aud soul is left to defend the
rights their Fathers won in times past.
Char. Mercury.
Can ii be so ?-The following state
menI published in The New York Courier,
we have NOT met with elsewhere. II il be