Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-01-09
Union Party.

The Richmond Times comes out in favor
of the formation of q new party, to be called
the aUnion party" without regard to old
party lines, and appeals to patriotic men,
North and South, Whig and Democrat, to
rally around that platform. The Times is
altogether behind the times There has been
such party all along, in the free-soilers Of
the North and submissionists of the South.
While the Times has been going for tho
Union, at all hazards and to the last extremity,
the National Era, the organ of the abolition
party of the country, has been going for the
same thing Can the Times point to promi-
nent Abo!itionist or frec-soiler who advocates
dissolution of the Union? Such an one
would be greater curiosity than was ever in
Barnums Museum. Benton is for the Union
-Giddings, Root, Winthrop, Mann, Wilmot,
and the whole host of Abolitionists are for
the Union. Why, to destroy the Union would
be to destroy "Olhellos occupation" 1t is
by existence of the Union that they are ena-
blcd to practice their stupcndous system Of
robbery upon the South. But for the aUnion,"
they could never have robbed US of our terri
tories-abolished the slave trade in the Dis
trict of Columbia-or perpetrated any other
of the long catalogue of wrongs upon us
which they had done, and were the Union
now dissolved they could neverhope to abol.
ish slavery. Dissolve the Union indeed -
Why the Abolitionists laugh at the idea. Just
listen to the abolition organ published at
Washington, the Era.
"There may be more in these disunion
movements than we have imagined, but it
seems to lis that they are the work of q few
disafected malignants, who have certain ultc-
rior objects to accomplish, which they do not
now avow. We do not believe that they will
be sustained in any real disunion project by
the masses of the people"
The Times, therefore, has able Union" al-
lies in the National Era-in Benton, Van Bu-
rem, Winthrop, Giddings, Root, Wilmot, ct i'd
omne genus! With such forces, the Times
can rally powerful Union" platform. The
entire North will go with it, for we venture
to say that there are not as many disunionist
north of Mason's and Dixon's line as there
are in the little State of South Carolina
We beg leave to suggest, as an appropriate
motto for this "Union party" the following:
"The Union of the States for the sake of
general system of Congressional plunder." -
Will the Times accept il? Nothing could DO
more expressive.
If the Times is really anxious, as we doubt
not it is, 10 see the Union preserved, We would
respectfully advise it to come out in support
of Southern States Rights party, for we
can assure that paper it is only by an obser-
vance Of the rights of the Southern States
that this Union can be held together. 1t may
sing psalms to the" Union" from now until
doomsday, without the desired effect, if the
rights of the States be not respected. Ehas
been the conduct of the Southern Wing par
ty, and fragment of the Southern Demo-
cratic party, Of adhcring to the Union at all
hazards, without regard to the rights OF tho
Statcs that has brought us to the brink of the
awful precipce which now yawns before US
and threatens to swallow up the Union. The
rights of the South first-the Union afte--
wards-should be the motto of every one
who really loves the Union, and desires or
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