Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-02-06

SIUO,0OO,000 are to 100000, so are the rea-
sons i'll support of to those against the ap-
preparations made ut the last session.
Now these are mathematical calculations,
having in them no soul or generous feeling
or regard to Honor. They are as if Honor
was not Il part Of the commonwealth Of
South Carolina. But is it not her chief
riclIes-her priceless-her incStimable wealth!
Why, wherever they be, in wlatevc. distant
land or differing climes, do they proudly call
themselves by Cardinals name? Why arc
her memories ever fresh, ever holy, as are the
sacred rcmcmbranccs of mother? Why
through all her coasts do the warm glowing
souls Of her sons seem rs if fused into one,
and that one great heart TO burn with one
deslrc-to demonstrate how much they will
do and suffer and hazard to uphold her cause
to defend and preserve her rights? Blucr
heavens encirclc mightier and wcalihcr and
more beautiful lands. Feeble she may be,
except in the might of justce-poor, except
in Truth, in Generosity and Refinement, and
unlovely, except in the attractivencSs of her
virtues; but in these, aud who have been her
supcriors, VINO indeed her equals! What
Caroliniaa would exchange he- history for a
nightier empire than the Queen City ever
extended her dominion over! What Of his
energies would nc withhold frotn her that the
great deeds CT the past may be reproduced in
the future, and that rs time rolls on more
rays OF Glory may gather around her name! !!
Shame be then on his degenerate soul who
would seat himself to reckon up how much
it may be well for him 10 sacrifice to main
tain it. The only question, which South Caro-
lima has to seek reply to, is what is the path
of Honor? and to that question, in her pre-
sent position, what reply can be made but that
she Must dissolve a connection as dishonor-
ing to her as it is fatal to her interests. Even
had she not made solemn resolutions which
truth and consistency require that she should
carry into execution, now that their conditions
are performed-had she not committed her
self by n single expression Of opinion is to
her relations to the Union, yet that must be
u voluntary blindness that does not ste the
injustice that has been done her, the degElda-
ton which is before her by the deprivation
of her equality with her sister States, and
what is Therefore the only course she can
with honor pursue. TO remain leagucd with
those who have robbed and degraded U.s.
What is it but to invite further robbery and
degradation, if further degradation there can
be than the state of him who cravenly sub
mts to wrong!
We, the actors in the scenes, arc now
about, ourselves, to write in ndelible rharac.
tcrs the history of our own times. As is the
beginning so will be the end Let Patrio-
tism, Truth and Courage cmblazou the first
pages of the Chronicle, and each leaf, as il
Shall he added, shall be more gloriously illu-
minated; but let timidity, Inconsistency, va
cillation, seize upon the actors, and disaster
and defeat will deface the narrative, and it
will commence, progress and conclude, a
melancholy talo of shame. Shame to fall on
our State? Never. Virginius devoted his
daughter to death to save her from dishonor.
Rather than she should be dishonored what
true-hearted Carolinian but would see her
sunk beneath the mighty waves, if only, as
the Palmetto crest WAS sinking from his sight,
the sun should gild it with his radiance and
SHOW no stain, no shamc upon that coronal.