Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-10-09

result IN any thing but disaster and cruel
disappointment, will be separate nationality
The Republic Of South Carolina, an end
which may hold to be the greatest possible
evil. Is it not remarkable that a policy which
meets not the appreciation Of u single promi-
nent Southern from the Potomac to the Rio
Grandc, which finds not an advocate of repu-
tation throughout all the vast borders Of our
sister States, should commend itself with
such power and such force to many in South
Carolina whose patriotism and intelligence
We would not question. Yet even in our
midst we lind the names of those "who have
sounded all the depths and shoals of honor" T"
and whose voices have never before fell un-
needed upon the ears of Carolnians, become
to some extent impotent to save. When vas
it that the counscls of Butler led 10 Inc
path of dshonor.
But am writing to the people Of Edge
field, and on this question ] need rot dwell.
| repeat the question, how is the nationality
of South Carolina to give protection 10
slavery! Am answered, that it will remove
the burden of taxation under which slavery
rests, and thereby give il the best protection
in new life and increased activity Gentle
men it is a recent, very recent discovery,
that the tariff of '46 is oppressive to slavery
When did John C. Calhoun express his dis
appreciation of it! When did single states.
man in South Carolina propose resistance to
it? When did the Legislature of South
Carolina utter a discordant note in regard to
it? Never. Irepeat it never But to meet
the difficulties by which separate nationality
is hedged in on every side. we are told that
the rebound from our down troddcn CONNER
cial condition would be marvellous to behold.
Is it not remarkable that it was reserved for
the present age to discover that weakness is
strength, isolation is expansion, and the pro-
per way to remedy an evil is 10 confirm and
perpetuate it. / ask you in truth and sober
ness if these are not Legitimate deductions
from the line of argument adopted by our
separate secession friends. Why should
South Carolina sccede? Because she is no
longer safe in the Union. Granted it may
be, will she have greater resources to defend
herself in her lonely isolation than she now
has united with her Southern sisters-can
she better defend herself when forming q
portion of common army-or when consti-
tutins by herself alone that army?
South Carolina should secede because the
dread of slavery has been circumscribcd-
will she expand it by that act-will she get
one square inch of territory of which she
is now dcprived-will she have restored to
her even the probability of one lost right in
regard to slavery! have never seen it in
timated that she would.
But it is affirmed that in secession we pre-
serve our sovereignty intact. We present to
the world 4 fact thai we fear has been lost
sight of, to-wit: that we are sovereign and
independent State. Iprcsume that exhibition
would not seriously disturb the repose of
mankind, and the mere exhibition would do
us little good; the world might inquire with
something of business-like air, what good
we proposed to effect by it, and might per-
haps be incredulous when told that our object
was to take our place among the nations of
the earth to vindicate our honor and protect
our institutions. What! A State who there
by becomes the peculiar exponent Of an in
siitution, against which every civilized Go
vernment on Garth is making war, take upon
herself the defence of this institution, and
that without ship, or Il sailor, or the re-
sources to vindicate her honor, unless when