Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1847-10-20

tribunal had been threatened by Northern
fanatics. TIE spirit ofthe whole Northern
people was violently opposed to the exercise
Of the right. So easy was it, he said, for
runaways TO elude the charms OF their mas
ters, that slavery in the States adjoining
lhe non-slave- holding was merely nom
inal. But Northern fanatics had not Stop.
ped here. BY libellous pamphlets aud
calumaiuus prints, they had left no means
unessayed to excite discussions here aud
To brid up the institutions of the South
10 the derision Of The world. So great was
this evil, that the President directed the
Postmaster General TO prevent the trans
mission of the Objectionable packages by
the public mail. Under color oflhe right
OF petition, aboI,ionism had in the halls
of Congress made an insdious attack upon
the institutions Of the South. The spirit
which rescinded The 2lsl Rule was good
index oil The feeling Of Congress on The
slavery question. Mr.. Burt said that
since the admission Of louisiana no slave
State has been admitted into rhe Union
but under convoy of a nonslaveholdinS.
lie iustanced Florida and others. lie al
luied 10 The manifesto Of Jahn Qnlncy
Adams, that Texas should never he al.
United into this Unun as slavelolding
State in confirmation on the same view
all showing the deep and settled feeling OF
the North on this subject. He referred
10 the taants of The North, that The South
had compromised the interests Of the Union
in the settlement Of the Oregon question,
for no other reason than that the NOrtn-
west territory lay north, OF the Missouri
compromise.
lie entered into minute aud elaborate
history of The agitation Of the slavery ques-
ton in Congress down to the passage ol
the Wimot Proviso.-rhe North had
manifested the same spirit throughout. aud
now with a majority Of forty in the House
with sixteen out Of thirty States, her au-
ticipalions Of future success are mol un-
founded. lie advcrted to the danger which
would result 20 the South from the passage
Of the Wilmol Provisu, in producing a
great dispruporlion between the white and
slave population, and as a consequence
affecting The value labor, and the security
Of that species of property, MIR. Burr
thought that no treaty would be concluded
with Mexico without large acquisitions Of
territory by this Government, ard in adj
vocaling the right Of the South TO partl'
licipation in the fruits of victory, he paid
touching tribute to the chivalrous bearing
and heroic sacrifices Of those sons Of the
South, who in The present war had SD
nobly sustained the honor of their counlry's
flag.
The above is but hasly glance at some
o(ihe topics upon which Mr.. Burt dwelt
with great force aud eloquence. To do
the speech justice would require ampler
space. Ii was heard with profuund al
lenliun and received with merited ap.
plause.
On motion Of Thos. Thomson, Esq, the
Preamble and Resolutions, as a body,wcr.
unanimously adopted.
The Chairman recommended 70 the
support Of tue meeting an enterprise which
originated in Charleston for the establish
menl of paper al Washington, to "war'n
and rally" the South on the slavery qucs-
ton. and called upon The friends OF lha
enterprise to aiIix their names 10 tho sub
acIiaI;aa iat i'll; Aa VII III
this meeting be published in the Banner,
and other papers of the STATE.
THOS. e. PERRIN, Chm.
Iuc,AT " !, H.: IL: LonAx' Secretaries.