Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-10-30
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It Will Know no Resurrection.

Thus speaks the New Orleans Crescent of
Disunion. in announcing the result of the
elections here. Twelve months ago our CO.
opcrationists would have been insultcd had
they been accused of having a spark Of
Unionism in their composition, and now the
Southern Patriot and all the Union presses
outside of the State claim them as brothers
and co-aborers in the great. work of prescrv
ing the Union. 1t is idle IL 77e,sthey have no
foundation for such claim. -. ssss.p7ship =
@ol tor asshessseg4 snsse mnanywt&SS Sect iaucea
against secession are dsunion men, yet they
have coaesced and fraternizcd with submis-
sionists, and have given cause to the outsi.
dcrs to embrace them as Union brethren, and
to the Southern Patriot 10 announce its
claim as the leader who pointed them to
victory.
The "sobcr second thought" is yet, we
trust, TO he manifested by our people for it
is impossible that they should thus lay quiet
ly down by the side of those who have al
ready submitted to past aggressions. We
say so, because the leaders Of the present
Cooperation party have. again and again.
said so they have denounced the Union in
the most fiery language that cloqucncc
could put forth, and although at present they
appear to have had strength enough to curb
the people they have excited by their impas-
stoned oratory-yct the spirit is unqncnched,
and they, too. if honest, must take their
places in the front ranks of resistance. If
we thongt it was otherwise, if we could be-
lcvc they were determined to do nothing
then, indeed would we feel the whole force
and truth Of the Crcsccnt's prcdiction-that
not only dsunion would know no resurrcc-
ton, but that the last nail had been put in
the coffin Of State rights and State sover-
eighty.
Do not our readers observe one thing in
all the comments of the papers we have laid
before them, and that is the vcriGcatiOn Of
what we have often asserted, viz that the
secession Of South Carolina would have
produced dissolution of the Union-a
separation Of the two sections-and, conse-
quently, the establishment Of Il Southern
confederacy. Not sentence, not line,
that comes to us on the subject, but proves
this. The rejoicings of the Northern press
cs, and the dcsponding responses Of South
crn rights journals, are alike evidences ofthc
truth of the assumption The only problem
to be solved now is, wcthcr the cooperation
party will faithfully redeem their disunion
plcdges-whether they will proclaim to the
country that secession is the rightiul remedy
OF an aggrieved sovereign State, and that it
is the remedy they will use after having dill
gently sought to obtain others On the So
luton of this question depends the entire
fate OF State sovereignty. On The failure to
exercise the right of secession, when other
means of protection have been honestly
searched after and not found, the last hope
of any security for Southern institutions
will have persisted for ever. No true Caro-
linian will shrink from the responsibility,
when it is so plain to every unprecedented
mind that State rights are in extreme peril
South Carolinian.