Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-10-16
MARX THE CHANGEI

In February last, when it was thought that
South Carolina would present an undivided front
for secession on the score Of past grievances, the
Augusta Republic used the following language in
alluding to our action:
SouTH CARoLINA.-Some OF the submission
presses are striving to excite oil manner OF preu-
dice against South Carolina. They admit that
wrong has been done the South, South Carolina
included. Was that State the agsressor! They
will tell YOU no. Did she endeavor to deprive
the North of the common territory! No. Did she
ever organize societies within her limits to break
down any institution at the North! No. Did she
ever try TO steal from the North her property oi
any kind No. Did she, with blind and reck-
less fanaticism, ever threaten 10 destroy the
peace, the happiness, or safety Of citizens OF the
North, No. Did she threaten secession for
wrongs on this slavery question, till the North re.
fused her foot of the new territory; and proved
that she was determined to degrade her as an in.
ferior! No. Can true hearted Southerner
revile or forsake South Carolina, because she has
lost confidence in the affection Of her Northern
sisters!
Have not the States of the North united with
England and France, to persecute her and destroy
her institution of slavery, upon which her wealth.
prosperity and greatness so eminently depend
Has not South Carolina done everything in her
power to get justice and preserve the Union Did
she not modestly ask only for the Missouri Com
promise line, which would have given the North
two-thirds of the territory! Were not her efforts
to get Justice made in vain! Has not the North
crasped all the land and, and is she not still de-
flaming, contemning, and hating South Carolina
and the South !!
Georgians, Southern men everywhere, can you
rise I'D and take sides with the North against
your own wronged and injured Southern sister !!
If YOU should think that she would err in going
out of the Union alone, will you not say in
your hearts. 20 in peace and God Almighty pros
Der you Would you stand idly by and see the
sword of the North reeking with her free, nohi",
and chivarous blood--see her the subject of gross
oppression in the first place, and the bleeding
victim of cruelty and tyranny in the second! il
Southern men would do this. there are not enough
righteous in this Southern land, to save it from
political destruction.
Let every one observe we'll the tone and spirit Of
this extract And then let us see what the Au-
gusta Consttutionatst and Republic of the present
day says. 1t is nop advising submission as the
best policy of South Carolina, if the Cooperation
candidates are successful in the present canvass
for Southern Congress. Now many of our Co.
operation friends have still as their motto "Resis-
tance for past aggressions." Yet those, with
whom they are to cooperate IN this matter, deem
the idea absurd. Had secession carried the day in
this State, would such language have come from
our Georgia friends. We cannot think otherwise
than that their language Of February last would
still be the joyful tones that greeted our ears. Has
this change been the effect of the secession or the
cooperation movement in South Carolina! We
honestly think of the latter. We again say, let
our cooperation friends now look, first Of all, to
cooperation at home.