Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1850-12-05

the sovereignty of the States The whole
authority of the Federal Government, gran,
ted and usurped, which is now concentrated
in the will of an absolute and interested ma
iority. is hereafter to be welded for the en-
elusive benefit of the Northern or stronger
interest. To its ambition and cupidity fifteen
members of the constitutional compact, by
whose wealth the Government IS supported
and our eonfederates enriched, are to DC com
PEELED ANONYMOUSLY to minister. In wofa'
the Congress of the United States is no long,
er to be the executor of the will OF co-sover-
eign States, but Of party banded together
by the two-fold incentive Of sectional aggran-
dizement and public plundcr.
If the fundamental object Of our federatlve
system have been designedly perverted, there
is no remedy i'll the ordinary checks on power
The ballot box is Intellectual, and the press
powerless in its appeals to an oppressor aea1
to cntreaty, to argument, and the admonlllonS
of humanity and patriotism. In federas
Council it is certain that the voice OF the MI
nority will never again be needed BY SLOW,
cautious, but regular process, the rights OF
the people and the sovereignty OF the SCUM,
ern States will be curtailed until their tolai
eytincuishment is effected. BY multiplying
the number of free States, resisting all at
tempts 10 enlarge the area OF the slavehola-
inr community, and discriminating between
the rights of Northern and Southern persons
and property, another decade will not have
passed before the General Government Will
enforce edicts, greater in their results on hu-
man liberty and the progress of political en-
lightenment than ever enanated from lhe
worst forms of despotism. Before that pc
riod arrives, the existence of South Carolina,
as co-partner in a great commonwealth, VIII
have ceased. Merged in the limits OF con-
tigous provinces, the truthful memorials OF
her history will lie scattered over her hills
and valleys. On the printed page the tale OF
her origin and progress may be found, but the
real causes and manner OF her political en-
tinction will never there be read
The North and South differ Fundamentally
| in institutions, and from the frame work OF
their social organization they need different
laws. While strong government, win all
the appliances Of extensive patronage, IS ne
cessary to the former, mild aud equal sys-
tenn of legal restraints is required by the lat
ter. The restriction on foreign commerce Is
the policy of the one. free trade that OF the
other The North is from necessity COM
mercial and manufacturing people, the South
an agricultural community. While the for
mer seeks an enlargement of the powers OF
the Federal Government, in order to enable 1t
to profit by the wealth of the producing
States, the latter, impelled by the principle OF
self-preservation, strives to confine the COM
mon agent within we'll defined and narrow
bounds In the one section, capital and labor
are theoretically equal, but from influences
perhaps incapable of controlment, they rre
practically antagonistic; in the other, capital
is superior TO labor, and the relation between
them is u moral one The character and in.
tcrcsts of each insure the harmonious action
of both, in all their operations. These dis
cordant materials in our federal structure art
mainly, if not exclusively, rc!erable TO tho
positions respectively assigned the parties by
nature. Such is the adverse tendency of tina
position in relation to one Of tllcm-thc lar
ger section-that it seems TO be IN impera
live duty on lis part to promote, under tht
pretence of the general welfare, the success
Of measures purely sectional in their appll
: retian. ~
; the offspring of the moran --ernp.i of til,
human heart. The lesser. numerically, ant
richer interest, has always been the subject O
plumber by the greater and poorer interest
1t is historically true moreover. that in every
COufcdcrlcy, where the principle OF the con
current majority is not practically recognised
the centripetal is stronger than The ccntrifu
gal tendency Of the parties; further, that il
the Legislative branch Of the government al
usurpaions generally commence, and are nlii
matcly acquiesced in by yotisra adSTpart.
ments. In relation AtoEonr 'eeIIcral institu.
tions, the Conslituf5f, in its most important
provisions7kSs, in effect, been so essentially
changed, that the Union created by it no lon.
ger exists. Its guarantees, from the rcyolu-
ton which has been practically accomplished
over US, have been overthrown. and consoli-
dated government having its discretion and
will as the measure Of its powers is now the
government of the Union. Every compro-
mise too, into which tie South has entered,
including the compromises incorporated in the
great charter of public liberties, has been ut
terly disregarded.
By legislative devices, our people now as
heretofore, are not only in effect dcspoilcd of
the profits Of their industry, but their conlri-
buttons to Inc public purse con;inuc to be cx-
pended III unjust proportions, to further the
interests of the revilers and sappcrs Of their
domestic altars. While by Congressional
enactments, the North in tie various BRAN
ches Of industry, have been forced into 4
condition Of uncxamplcd wealth and power,
the advancement Of the South, so prodiyally
furnished by nature with all the elements Of
prosperity and greatness, has occupied posi-
lion far below that it would have reached,
had the Confederation been composed of one
people in interest and feeling. The North
and South in the palmy days Of the Republic,
both reyerenced and loved the Union for the
immcasurablc blessings it insured. Unhap-
PLY, it is now maintained by the former 10
eifectuatc its long cherished dcsign-the dis
reimbursement and degradation Of the latter.
If asked for the evidence of these grave
accusations against the governments and pco-
pie, whose support and friendship We once
so dearly valued, asoint with grief of heart,
to the often perpSedated, Or attempted en-
eroachments by Congress on The reserved
rights Of the States the incendiary rcsolu-
tons of State Legislatures; the sweeping
denunciations emanating from different asso.
Citations, formed for the special end of car
rying throughout our borders the torch OF in
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