Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-06-26

Your course, from the time you took your
seat upon the floor of Congress, until recent
date, has, in the main commanded our approba-
tion We have adhered to and defended You
through evil, as well as good report, and were
among the last to suspect your faithfuness as a
Southern sentinel. Butyouy yourselfhave afford
cd proofs, which unexplained tend to confirm our
our worst apprchensons.
For years past it has been known that you have
'penclant' for the speakership Of the United
States House of Representatives. You have not
forgotten, that you would not have been candi-
date for reelection several years ago, but that
some of your friends in Congress desired to run
you for the speakership. Nor have you forgotten
that you would not have desired reelection at
subsequent period, but for the same good rca-
son. The intmations of the Press of your
Congressional District, that You still cherish a
lurking desire for that high place, have passed
uEcontradicted as we understand it, and your
immediate family, it is said, esteem your prospect
Of success before the next Congress as highly
altering. 1t is true you asserted in your Green
wood lct,cr (which on its faco shows that Won
were half inclined NOT To answer that imyeriineat
call for your vicwsson e a question which can
not como within the scope of your dutics'O"T
have never seen the day when wcul1 have held
an Office under the Federal Government.
could not do 50 at this. time, without feeling of
personal dcnradation.n.s But il We are not greatly
mistaken. you will hold that there is distinction
between federal Office strictly speaking and the
speakcrship, the correctness Of which we will
admit. however such distinction may appear 10
others in the light of an evasion
Your Hamburg letter seems 7confrmatory of
Our apprehensions. You,utter never word ofin-
dignaton, as to the wounds Of the Constitution,
and the rricvous wfoDas of the down-trodden
South, as might, have ben expected from one
uhor b-. In tl.as
nexion, of "blood and gun-powdcr tca," as a
beverage; but you exhaust your native tongue
in the application Of harsh epthots to the secession
policy, which you yourself denominatc, the Gun
alterable determination Of the State" s.Suici-
dal measures, y Madness" dire calamity"
"thc most extraordinary deluson that ever ruin
cd country or people" " disaster utter and
rrcparable," are few Of the gentle phrases
which fairly dance through your letter, in ap-
plieation to that unalterabic determination :"
whilst to those who favor that policy, You courtc-
ously attribute hcadlong indiscretion" ard "thc
most reckless and desperate efforts to effect it.
You do not perceive how any rational man
oor douhtu that scnoro,c State secession "must
;n,.o,ro ,1o s,oto IN !, hostile collision with tbc
Federal Goycrnmcpt.n You could not have been
nnoront when Won pcnncl YOUR letter, that our
DISTINGUISHED Senator. the Hon. A. T. CUTLER.
had takcn the Ground in his Charleston speech,
that such wopId NOT bc tbc result Whatever
may be your opinion Of his intellect. the people
Of this Stotc-cspceiallr those of your own Con-
,,rcssionol District althourh thcy differ with him
in some of his political views-lools upon that
Senator not onlv as rational man." but also
os ono of unoucstionably high abilities. Per.
hans this side blow at that Senator, may be
mart or tho services due TO your allies. in corsit,-
oro.;on of vour guturc reward. Nothing could
ho moro grateful to ,be trio-CoDp, STEVENS and
ro,.,, o.,oo;o1,,, ,;,oo .ho+ Senator'S annlic,.
t;on 70 Mr. Sneaker Conn Of the extract at the
boo1 of .1,;s co,,n,rr;o,,;on
Yo, tolc IN tbo cros,;on Of the "yalor and
bcro;smm Of tho other Southern States, rs .honrh
South Carolina really denies them "tllosc quali-
tics and rs though Won were citizen of one of
them claimipr "thosc ouolitics also,n for your
se,rond vour f;.,low- -c;+:yors
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