Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1849-12-19
THE GEORGIA WUIGS.

| Wv 'ASS rcuGTul UnlOt,
makes the following just aud forcbIe re-
marks. on The position rakea by Messrs.
Tn"nhs and Stephens Il Washington
1.-The course which these gentlemen
have pursued in Withholding their vote
from MIR. Winthrop for Speaker, has excl.
led In The bosnm Of every palriuic Geor
elan, emotions Of unminel,d Qualification.
II is true, he is no more an aboIiionist
than be was TWO years ago. no, are The
evidences of his hostility To the South any
more strongly developed. but time has
arrived when that Southern Rerreseula-
tive is recreant TO ais duty-a traitor to bis
country, who for parry. or any other pur-
pose, does mol guard with the strictest visi-
lance every post, through which the Soulh
may be assailed. Wo are reioced shat
Nlessrs. Toombs and Stephens have al last
had their eyes opened 10 Ihe impending
danger. and have indicated a disposition
20 sever The mere'ricious alliancs which
has been largely Instrumental in its cred
ton.
But we forbear, for the present, 10 saw.
more. The whole South. waits with anx.
ious solcilude. the developments of the
future. The eyes Of every patrio, in
Georgia. are now intenIly fixed upon the
little band Of Southern Wings who have
struck for their country"
That The course Of these gentlemen will
be sustained by their parry in Georgia.
there is no doubt. |, will bs more than
culdly approved; it will he hailed and Sc
conded. Tue Georgia Wings fully appre.
ciae the issue that is now rendered 10 them:
-dishonor and destruction on the one side:
manly and unliinching defeuce of their
rights on The olhcr. The Legislature of
that State will show, lha, there is no longer
Wing aud Democrat OH this question. The
common brotherhood of interests, rights
and character, is our boud Of union in this
struggle.
Apparently, even The political gamblers
in Washington, are beginning TO dream
that there are things which cannot be
bought and sold in that market. or course
they are shocked and indignant at The dis
coyery. but they are also frightened. "Po-
tomac," the correspondent fine Baltimore
Patriot, who writes behind the curtains of
one Of the Departments, after profusely
soft .soaping Mr.. Thos. Butler King, and
lamentng that he is no there to bring the
ltieorgia delegation hack to The pen, goes
on Id speak Of them as follows:
"rhe course which his Wing his col.
leagues have chosen to pursue is deeply
regretted by all Wings here. So far as Mr..
Stephens is concerned, it Ia astounding.
His hold upon the hearts Of lhe Wings
everywhere has been very great. They
all believed him 10 be pure Whig. as
Well as pure man. His voIe, therefore,
fell like thunderbolt from cleat shy
upon their understandings"
1t were well the understandings
which could only be thus walked, should
be kept in better training herrahcr.-
There will he many such thunderholts out
Of the Southern skies ere long. The pol
iticians have been besotted. il they have
supposed they could play with he char
acler and the very existence Of great
pooplo wi'h"u, rnisiug storm; befure,
whose violence they would be as chat.
We have in Mr.. CaheI's course p,of Of
the feeling of The Florida Wings. Party
is forgotten in presence Of this Question. in
Georgia, n Alabama, in Mississippi, in
Tennessee. We shall 6nd is id all The
South. The people are becoming tine.
and with their united power. they will
burs, ere long on the heads Of that foul
league Of demasngues and fanatics. who
have dared To question their right 10 be in
the Conederaty on terms Of equality with
the other S.ate.-Char. Mercury: