Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1849-06-06

Our institutions are the same, anu our
destiny must be the same. Consultation
with them. cordial harmony and concert,
will give US strength and power in the
future conflicts that may arise If we
move in concert there is no difficulty in
preserving our peculiar rights and the
Union too. five bury all past jea!ousies
and rivalships, and come together in united
and patriotic feeling, the danger will be
past, and tie Union, with all its consecra-
ted gloues. becomes perpetual.
in the Southern communities of this
Union, the division in population is not
into capitalists and laborers, but between
the black and the white races, where all
political power is openly vested in the lat
Ter. We own labor itself as well as its
proceeds, and thus ere, to all inteuts and
purposes, both laborers and capitalists.
The consequence is that we become the
conservative portion Of the Conlederacy.
NJ ost great struggles in government arise
from the conflicts between capital and
labor, and the Northern States, from their
organization, cannot escape that conflict.
la the great contests and interests that
arise through the exertion of the taxing
power by the Federal Government, we are
necessarily thrown on the side Of justice
and equality, and become identified with
popular rights. Concert of action and
consultation, then, wilh+our sister South
ern States to preserve our own peculiar
rights, is not only essential to our political
Liberties. but makes US the conservative
power Of the Union itself; without the
balance from our power, this complex sys-
tenn of conflicting interests would run into
dissolution.
The history Of the last twelve months,
amongst the most enlightened people OF
Europe, has taught the world to feel that
Governments are not 80 stable and sacred
as they were formerly supposed to be-.
The lesson may have its influence here as
we'll as elsewhere. One great considera-
lion that has heretofore bound this Union
together arose from the fear that European
Governments, with monarchical institu.
tions, might interfere to conquer or subsi-
disc fragments of the Confederacy. The
extraordinary developments Of the last
twelve months have entirely dispelled that
fear. The day has passed when their Gov
ernuents can ever again interfere in Amer
lean politics. Under these circumstances
there never was period when justice, for
bearance, and a strict adherence to the
wise compromises of the Constitution,
were more necessary 10 preserve and per-
petuate this Union. Unjust and uncon-
stitutional interference on delicate and
vital question, if preserved in, may finally
excite pacific, but proud, and brave peo-
pie, maddencd by insult and wanton wrong,
10 take steps from which there can be no
retreat with honor, and the consequences
uf which no man can (orcsee. If the swords
of freemen should ever once tremble in
their scabbards, from the perpetration of
insult and wrong, the magic spell that
binds US to this Union will be dissolved,
and that hallowed devotion which we have
been taught in the consecrated recollec-
lions of the past TO cherish forit, will be
forgotten amiSthe fierce eEonhicts that pIusr
arise, when States will organise with the
will and the power to be free and indepen-
uCut, 0thS Consequences what luCJ may.
At the present time we should carefully
avoid doing anything calculated to isolate
South Carolina from her sister Southern
States. But we should ever remember
that the embems of State sovereignty rise
all around US. The Declaration OF Inde-
pendence itself; the articles of Conledera-
ton. and the Constitution of the Union.
all proclaim the separate sovereignty and
independence Of the States in any final
issue that may arise.
Waiting the progress Of events, we, at
present, adopt and re-affirm the resolutions
of Virginia, and pledge ourselves to CO.
operate with her in any emergency that
may occur.
POPULATION OF CHARLEsToN.-A cen
sus has just been taken of the city of Char.
lesion. and we regret 20 learn that The
population Of that ancient and hospita5le
city is on the decrease. A census taken