Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-06-05

anu peTleS WOC you give me z long Wnll
bak. Take back the Jewels but Civ m
wot want, your true harts affecshuns.
Yours tell deth, f'
CELEsT1NE R1eADooN."
"The artful minxw said Mr.. flasher
as he read the letter over his friends shoul
der. "She has dismissed the Frencl
barber, and now she thinks she has 20,
sure. 1t was sharp idea, sending bacl
the jewels, but l hope you're not greer
enough to marry her."
"Not Ip' replied Smithers--"I hav'
got my eye teeth cut now, assure you
| can read her and you too, Mr.. Flasher
Flasher laughed feebly as he ercoun
tered smithers' eye-but he changed
color.
"I've got back part of my fortune
squandered," continued Smithers-a ant
mean to keep it. But before we par
company, Flasher, l want to tell you 6
secret-I HAVEN'T BEEN TO CALIFORNIA p
SPEECH OF Ex-eov. sEABRooK
BEFORE THE CONVENTION OF SOUTHERN
RIGHTS ASSOCIATIONS, AT CHARLESTON.
Mr.. PREs1DENT:-Th remarks I am about
to offer, are, am satisfied, in accordance with
the opinion entertained by the people of ST.
Johns Colleton, and believe, of the citi-
zens of the Indian Land, (York DistrictO by
whose Association have been honored with
seat on this floor. had not designed to
address this Convention, for the reasons as
signed by me yesterday, but circumstances
have occurred which render change in my
resolution entirely proper, if not necessary.
While inviting your attention to only few
points, ] cannot withhold the expression of
my regret that from the ascertained wish of
the members to vote on the Report of the
Committee at an early hour to-day, am pre-
vented from discussing at length all the
topics which have been introduced into the
debate. Without further preface, | plunge
at once in medias res.
All the Southern States, except Mississippi
and South Carolina, have directly or Indirect
ly, bent the knee to the central authority.
The two yet unsubdued communities are
now in the situation in which Attica and
Lacedamon were when, threatened with in
vasion by Darius. Many of the States of
Greece, it will be remembered, had promptly
granted the usual symbols of subjection-
earth and water-but when the two heralds
who had been deputed to visit Athens on
their boastful mission, arrived, one of them
was thrown into we'll, and the other into q
ditch. In the memorable struggle that en-
sued. Athsns, si5sIssguoT[
I;c repeiyed frnrn rrront hist rim ntIn1a-
cient days, the acknowledgment that to her
all Greece was indebted for her freedom and
existence as nation. At a subsequent pc
Rod, although weakened morally and physi-
cally by the division that prevailed between
the partizans of. Themistocles and Aristides,
when, too, instead of a magnanimous union
of its strength, the States of Greece, struck
with panic, seemed resolved to leave their
gallant sister 10 her fate, many of them even
ingloriously siding with the invaders, Athens
not only maintained the liberties Of the coun..
try, but gave to the Grecian character and
elevation and influence that it never before
enjoyed. South Carolina may yet fully merit
the cogr omen of the Attica of our Republic.
Were She now to proffer to the heralds from
Washington the tokens Of submission, she
would be instrumental in recording with her
pen dipped in the ink Of infamy, not only the
downfall of the Southern wing of our Con-
federacy, but prostration of the cause Of Con-
stitutional liberty.
The first proposition desire TO advance
ON the matter before us, is, that if the South
ern States will not resist a series Of aggres-
sive acts, involving principle, passed during
one of Congress, they will not resist one un-
waffantable measure, no matter when it may
become law. To what hare they submit
ted? Let the following very brief statement
answer First, the admission of California
into the Union, 1t is conceded, destroyed the
equality between the States. The founda-
ton pillar on which rested the superstructure
of our political edifce, was; at that time, by
the operation of sinister and exteral influ-
ences, traeeable to the Federal Executive
and abolition energy and Vigilance, RACED
to its foundation secondly, by emancigat-
ing the slave, if the master violate the law
suppressng the slave trade in the District OF
Columbia, Congress has assumed the power
levefling the distinction between the South
ern owner and his property; thirdly, in dis.
nnemberirg Southern State by means ol
the Federal Treasury, to which the South
contributes two thirds, in order, under the
flimsy guise of settling disputed question
to convert the separated Territory into free
State, the General Government has resorted
to new and alarming expedient to elevate
one section of the Union by the debasement
of the other. The principle of equality be-
tween the members of the Confederacy haY
ing been yielded by the South, Congress
with her consent, is now fully empowered tc
increase the numerical strength of the North
The high and firm ground on which we rested
no longer exists. 1t is gone forever. If A
has o right to the purse of B, the latter ha:
no right to resist him when he demands it.
/ will now take up the Georgia platform
and attempt to satisfy the meeting that thu
recent act of submission by that State wa
intended to be permanent, in despite of th'
formal manifesto of her Convention. Tha
body, it is now known, was opposed to an,
pledges for the future. Mr.. lToombs, th
author Of the fouth resolution, openly ex
pressed his conviction that the members
Congress from the North, friendly to tn
South, required Of his State strong word
and angry declarations, to enable them t
satisfy their constituents by appealing to til
solemn decision of Georgia. The resolution
, therefore, is mere brutun tulmen-a harm
less paper bulletin. 80 -
:, In not one of the advertised contihgencie
, will Georgia interpose her sovereignty: Hay
inc acuuiesced in the principle which invest