Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-10-02

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death for want of room to expand. Thi
interest, therefore, cordially united with tn
free-soiler, whose chief aim was towards off
ces and treasure he was vehemcntly inspired
by the love Of Office and plundcr and hopet
to muzzle any successful opposition from th.
sfave-holding interest. It is humiliating Il
acknowledge that this nefarious conspiracy
has found aid from weak or wicked represen
tatives from the South.
Such are the enemies opposed to us-sucf
are the modes of attack.
viii the separate nationality of South
Carolina enable her successfully to combat
such enemies, orcounteract and defeat such
warfare?
lam solemnly persuaded that it will not
Suppose the State to be placed in that in
dependent solitude into which a party here
are bent upon hurrying us, if they can.
think we shall all agree that the hostile
pressure upun South Carolina will not be
thereby mitigated, whether it proceed from
abroad or from this Continent. Will anv
man be equally confident in asserting, that it
will not derive intensity from our act-that
it will not be concentrated upon us in par
ticular? We have already complained, loud
ly, that we have been isolated; that the shafts
Of debate and of Resolutions have been
hurled especially into our sides. Against
whom shall we complain of isolation when
we have made it complete by our own act,
when we have quit the company of the South
ern States, and for such-reasons as we assign
for it, touching to the quick their honor and
pride? Aye, and will not shafts be then sped
reaching nearer the cure than any ever hurled
by the tongue or the pen, from Washington,
or from Boston? When You are thus isola-
ted, what shall protect you from any bucca-
nier of New England or tho West Indies,
securing the sea-coast and its inlets, in this
same month of September, not for barrel
of Rice, but for cargo of those who make
it? ltis not to the purpose to answer, that
we shall guard our coast. For if that can
be done at all, secession is not necessary to
that end. 1t can be as we'll done now. / do
not perceive that the Constitutional prohibi-
ton Oh State to keep in time of peace
"Ships of war;" forms any obstacle or re-
tquires the assent of Congress to the estab-
fishment now of any police nd cat.5 to
meet marauders. But in our Size of iisola-
ton what chance have yousfor the recovery
of abducted or aGsronding: slaves doubt,
stlS.-Er.I long regard
nicnt and whether in or out Of me Un1oI1,1 10
be public or private benefit; for may live
to ser the day that their re-introducion may
be prohibited by ourselves, on the same poll
cy that leads us to seek the exclusion Of pes
thence by quarantine. The stealing and cor
ruption Of them are the mischcfs. l see not
how these can be remedied by our separate
nationality. Shall we seek redress by letters
of mar9ue and reprsal! Pandora's box will
be opened by that policy. We must either
remain in our shell, like q tcrrapin, or be
beaten at that game. Our privateers will
scarcely prove superior in virtues to the gen.
cral class and coninc themselves 10 enemies
goods and ships, even if our public authority
can indicate clearly the nation of the buc-
cancr.
apprchcnd, that the external commerce
of Charleston must become extinct, or near
ly so, when, and so long rs it shall be the
capital of the Independent and isolated nation
of South Carolina; if il be rot, yet that in
terror States, such as Tennessee ard North
Carolina, will never consent to pay duty
into The treasury of South Carolina in which
they will have no interest, and another into
the treasury of the United States-that if no
duties are levied on imports into Charleston,
we shall have heavy direct taxes to support
our nationality, unless it should be upon q
scale extremely insignificant:
I apprchend that if we have to fight the
United States, we shall, unaided, prove une-
quail to such contest. That if we exist in
peace, with commerce by imports and exports
sutfocated, We shall exist in very unsatis-
factory condition, relieved only by the mel
ancholy consolation that we shall not exist
long That if trade is to be maintained by
smuggling, South Carolina will speedily be-
come bye-word of rcproach among more
than now calumniate her, and III unsuitable
abode for honest men; that no man will look
with pride into our pulpits, our Legislative
halls, our Courts and Jury boxes, our EXecu-
tive Offices, and find them occupied by snug
glcrs That we shall impose upon ourselves
Wilmot Proviso so Stringent as to be CO.
extensive merely with the limits of oGr ter
ritorr, since no slave can be carried beyond
that line without violation of the code Of
that government to which all surrounding
States belong. That when it shall be dis
tinctly undcrstood-wc are to take such po-
sition we shall find the body polite tc have
suffered woefu depletion in persons and
property: That in the struggle TO maintain
ourselves, single-handcd, we shall encounter
rate of taxation that must make all vince
who have anything to tax. That in proper
ton as annoyances shall multiply the military
arm of our political structure will grow
apace, until an nroad, to be seen and felt,
shall be made upon the scmblance and the
substance of Republican Government. That
as our people are driven to Il State Of despa-
ration we may find some of them not SO
much disgusted with abolition as they are
now, and hope will ever be. That our very
location, being continental and not insular
with nm ideal line of boundary between us
and States foreign to us, will multiply the
means, the motives and the mutual provoca,
tons 10 harrass U.S. just as has cvcrmorc beer
and now is the case among other nations in
dependent and similarly situated. That in
demnity forthe past we scarcely need expect
under any circumstances. and is utterly hore
less by isolation. That security for the fu
ture is the proper object of our concern ant
our efforts, and should remain the only object
Thus wilfully and rudcly to rupture all thu
powerful ties-springing from blood, habit
commerce, history, identity in the Interests
of the present and future, in hope and pur