Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-05-01
THE GREENyILLE MOUNTaIyEER.

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We desire to enlist for this old and we'll
conducted Journal, share of the support and
patronage of our District. Perhaps it has,
at this time, smaller circulation among us,
than any of the other papers that come by
our upper mail We do not, of course, de-
sign to mark it out as worthy of encourage
ment beyond these other papers; but we
would only call the attention of our readers
to the peculiar circumstances of its present
condition.
1t is now The immediate competitor of the
only rabid Union Press in South Carolina
This Union paper, which has come into eXis-
tcnce under the auspices Of company Of
nameless gentlemen, with several thousand
negroes at their backs, and with the help, aJ
initio, of Federal patronage, is, from its opn
account, forrishingt to most amazing excess,
and therefore needs no help at our hands,
The Mountaineer, on the other hand, which
makes no prctension to such high-sounding
terms ofconfdence and power, is nevertheless
one of the most respectable and trustworthy
papers of the State, and, as we perceive from
its last issue, has now quite equalled The Pa
triot's very neat and finished external ap-
pearancc, Of which we have heard so much.
The AIountainecr is evidently determined
not to be outstripped, even in cxternals, by
its new and singuarly lucky ncighbor. But,
owing to the fact, that party feeling has run
very high in Greenvillc upon the exciting is
sue of Resistance vs. Submission, the Noun
taineer has, as we understand. lost subscri-
bers, and that too, simply for continuing to
urge, in mild terms, the necessity of prescrv-
ing our State, unshakcn, in the attitude of
determined resistance to the aggressions Of
the Federal Government, and the Importance
Of seizing the present opportunity for ending
the controversy by resort to course of
measures, based upon the old Carolina doc
trine of States Rights. For this grievous
offence, the old South Carolina Press is to
be deserted, and the new Union bantling is
to be met with open arms, and carried up to
the very pinnacle Of popular favor This is
indeed Il wondrous strange thing to happen
in the Palmetto State.
We really must say, that we do not under
stand the people of Greenville. We had not
supposed that detection would thus readily
take root among the mountain boys. And
yet so it is. We do not blame Mr.. PERRY;
for, to say the truth, he is but acting the part
of consistent man. If we are not mistaken
he has always been what he now is, an open
and devoted advocate of preserving the in
tcgrity of the Union unimpaired sto the last
extremity" But we do deprecate the blind
ness and infatuation of those who, at a time
like the present, recant the old political creed
the creed of CALHOUN, McDuFrIE, and
HAYNE, and adopt the principles of WEB
sTEE and of CLAY.
Against these dangerous innovations upon
our ancient doctrines, the Mountaineer is do
ing the State all the service it is capable of
rendering. But it is with minority in its
own District, and needs some assistance to
sustain the fight as it should be done. We
appeal to our people in its behalf
~ A FINE BUILDNG-The Marble Pal
ace of Stewart, in New York, for the sale of
dry goods, is valued on the Assessors book