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

dom and so feebly expressed in few quar-
ters of the State, that its .uttcrance causes
not ripple on the calm surface of q settled
determination to dissolve the Union. All the
coadjutors of the Southern Patriot in the
country can bring no proof to the contrary.
And there, then, divisions among us? We
assert now that there are none of such mag
nitude as to endanger the cause in which VIC
arc engaged But let us beware of the future.
We appeal to Carolinians who love their
State, who desire that she should not falter
in the discharge of the trust committed to
her, and to crush, when they have the power,
the demon of dscord among them. And we
must be understood on this point. tits not
any acts of prescription, nor attempts to os-
tracise those who differ from us-for the use
Of offensive epithets, nor the inhiction of in
juries to any mans business or reputation or
account of the opinions he holds on the issue
of separate secession, that we enjoin. En- our
opinion this is the very way to create the di-
visions we dread and deprecate. But we do
appeal to all who think we are wronged, who
desire to see a dissolution of Union that
promises nothing but a continuance of these
wrongs to the end, not to let pride of opinion
50 operate OH their feelings as to drive them
into position they honestly abhor.
In Greenville we have press opposed to
secession, either by this State or all the
Southern States: yet its adroit managers sue
ceed in bringing to- it's support many who
profess a southern Confederacy to BE- the
dearest political object they seek or desire.
But the Patriot is Union paper, champion
of federalism, and those disunion co-opefa-
tionists will have 10 be chary of its insidious
teachings to keep their garments unspotted.
In Charleston the Southern Standard is an
nounced as seeking to obtain the Union of
Southern States, for the avowed purpose of
establishing Southern Confedcracy But
che Standard however laudable the original
purpose of its establishment, may impercep-
tiby glide into the same current of unionism
and consolidationisrn on which the Patriot
swims now solitary and alone. The Evening
News is IN the same position. Now, the
danger in these movements is that parties,
party strife and chickering's, will be introduced
among us, and fearful contest between
those who originally sought the same end
will produce an estrangement and alienation
of feeling fatal to present action, and not less
fatal to future action, even when co-opera-
ton is no longer doubtful.
The nucleus Of a Union party once formed
within our borders will be fraught with the
utmost danger to the cause of the South.
Around that nucleus will gather those who
are not only opposed to State secession, but
to- any Southern action whatever It's MEN,
bers will be baitcd and tempted with Federal
gold and Federal honors, and at last it may
gather strength enough to control even our
State policy. There is nothing either pre-
sumptuous or timid in the entertaining such
suspicious. The history of public affairs in
other States tcstifes to the correctness of
the position, that the vision of public men
can be obscured, and that gold and promises
can revive love of the Union where it had
become nearly extinct. Let South Caroli-
mans beware lest they mid the enemies of our
institutions to divide people, who, with such
division, must triumph at last.
The men who advocate State action de.
sire to avoid the difficulties alluded to. Their
aim is to secure the Union of our people, and
for this purpose they have spared no efforts
TO cnlirhten them. The arguments for and