Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1848-07-12
From the Charleston Mercuru.


Of Judge Smith were adopted, and tn
Wing Resolutions of Mr.. Prioleau re
jccled, and South Carolina then becam
Democratic State. Is she now read
to surrender all that the struggles Wit
Whiggery, even unto Notification, hav
gained? Was she ready to draw bIoo'
rather than yield 10 Wing measures
high tariff, rnion Of Bank and Stale
National Debt, a system of lntelna
Expenditures to justify heavy taxes
division of the Sales of Public Lands
lest the duties nigh, be lowered? Has
all The conf ct Of the pas, produced
only The miserable abortion of joining
the very WLig party itself. because il
sets up "A candidate it would NOT selec
unless il was we'll assured he could BE-
moulded to suit their views, because he
is SO ignorant of politics as not 10 know
his own mind? H. is boldly set up by
the Wings as no Wing, and by the Abo-
liiionisls because he is free soil advo'
cate, and by the Slave States because
he is true on The great question! II The
less uan knows the more he is to he
trusted, he that knows nothing is The.
best President. Is not this "a King
who can do no wrong," at once! We
want President whose age and expert
ence on the subject of Republican, not
Military, Goveln:ncnr can be relied on.
To elect a man a President and then
send him to school to learn politics, is
supreme folly. If Gen. Taylor is not
ready TO give all the Abolition Wings,
from Pal(icy to Webster, the benefit of
the 4zth Article of War, in true Jack
son style, he won't do for US. II re-.
quires disinlecling perfume TO cover
the strong SAVIOR of Federalism he has
acquired IN the Wing Convention. If
he does hold Abolitionism and tho VIII.
mot Provlso 6 moral treason" 10 the
Constitution, will not the Northern
Wings be SO abject as to give up all
their principles but those seven precious
ones, styled by Randolph 1.-TWO loaXss,
4 Sfhis principles :" How are tie
mighty fai!sn! Old Clay, honest, old,
worn out Clay not to be allowed TO set
in the big Chair and wander over the
White House in his last days, but put
out ON the commons 10 die forgotten.
and his place supplied by one whose
strongest claim is that no one can say,
not even himself, what his opinions are
upon the great political questions which
asilate the Nation! When Napoleon
repudia,ed Josephine, his destiny was
fixed. He struck the heart that was
truly his, and leaned upon stranger.
His fate was predicted and accomplished.
The deserrion of Henry Clay has
blasted forever the Wing party as such.
Ii is like woman taken in adultery.
1t has los, its character and gone after
strange idols. No one will again be-
lieve in Wing principles, when a WING
Convention will seek out for candidate
who shows the least possible attachment
for them! who, in fact, is palmed oil
on " Southern Democrats" as having
no Wing principles at all, olmosf-a
homeopathic Whig-whom you cannot
tell from a Democrat, but for his Con.
veutiou, Phlladclphia-endorsement 1t
is impossible that inc Democracy can
be chiselled by such a device by a party
afraid or ashamed TO fight under their
old and venerable flag. There mus. be
some way to keep the great body OF
r. epnblicans together. Let US try oIr'
selves, and see if we have no Democrat
of our own-nei,i:er the B"rnbufneIs
nor Hunkers can adopt Taylor Is
there no one whom both would unite on'
another nomination all round. We
have two party candidates. Let US
have now a peoples candidate-'ur
Woodbury. or Calhoun against Clay
and let honest Wigs and Democrats
have candidate of their own. If it is
true, that Cass is not 10 be relied on or
the slavery question, .he Sou'h ca"no
touch him. Ia, lor cannot get the votes
of the Northern Wing States if he fully
and uncqulvocaly avuws his resolution
TO veto any measure Of Congress in any
way controlling slavery in the States q
Territories !; and if he does not, wha
nducement can South Carolina hav,
to abandon all the principles she wa
ready to maintain at the point of th'
bayonet to vote for him?
If Taylor loses the Wings, who arr
Proviso men, Cass must 20 in, or
third and bona fde avowed Whig candi
date will get those States. The onl,
real q, estior for South Carolina is
Will Cass be true ON the Constitutions
question as 10 the right of Congress I
touch the question of slovery7 A! tn
North he is as sold 10 the South. Th
Wings here state he is a P'oviso' or (;
Ieas, quasi Proviso man. Can a. an
one, speaking from authority, definite'
settle that point? The Dcmocra