Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-12-11
SOUTHERN ADVOCATE DOWN UPON US.

SOUTHERN ADVOCATE DOWN UPON U.s.
A paragraph, from this new and neat cotempo-
rary has lust been shown to us, in which the edi-
tor takes occasion 10 rake us slightly on account
of that very humble and innocuous call we made
for Hogs" The Advocate seems TO pity our in
discretion, and volunteers very kindly to enghten
us with some of his notions OF cutcneSs," Tor
Which we hereby return our thanks. Now we
thought, as honesty is ever the best policy"
that as good plan as any was, simply to let the
truth be known-which was, that our people need
ed hogs and that we trusted the droveEs would
not slight us. Had we drcampt, for a moment,
that it would have dscomposed the financial and
speculative department of our cotemporary's peri
Uranium, we should have smothered our cry, and
perhaps have managed the thing little more
adroity.
But we are disposed to think some one else is
the green 'un' after ALL Does not the Adrocate
know that the usual trick of spectators is TO in
duce glut, when the object is 10 procure an
abundance of any particular article at moderate
pricess Why, how far does the Adrocafe-man
live from market! And when was he there last
Go about, young friend, and count few more
wrinkles before you venture to discourse WALL
street" logic again.
One word in reference to the enlarged political
deductions which the Advocate draws from our
"hog article.'' We are told to think (whilc the
necessity pinches) of what would have been our
situation had secession prevailed. We would
have been denied, intimatcs the Advocate, all tie
glorious privileges of hog and hominy Heavens
how horrible! But docs the Advocate really be-
licve that secession would have closed up the old
Saluda gap! "Tell such as that to the marines
the sailors won't believe it." And II 1t had
does the Advocate think so poorly of his fellow
citizens as to suppose that they would have Sc
down in despair and "trustcd to possums g Doe!
he not rather believe thai, spurred on by necessll!
| and pride, they would have determined to live
| within themselves! And would not this deierml
nation have resulted directly in drawing forth
norton Of the vast resources which now lie dor
mant in our State! He cannot deny it; nor cal
any one nationally deny that South Carolina
would have become rich and happy land.
suurrrn1ng1n DponucsHa u tHe display
which we read of as composing part of Mons
Adrien's evening entertainments. We speak o
what may be called the Dissolving Views o
So. Ca, Chivalry."
This political exhibition was introduced las
fall by grand display Of water-works, which, Il
a great degree, extinguishcd the true fire of Sc
ccssion and left the State in comparative gloom
Sometime thereafter. it was intimated that sigh
would soon he unfolded to the admiring gaze o
the whole Palmetto family, which would cause
their hearts to leap at the prospect Of certain de.
liverance from Federal thaldom. This was to he
the substitute for Secession and one too that
would cause every candid man TO pronounce the
brilliancy of the latter, backness, when compared
with the resplendent glory of that which was to
come. Thus it was given out, and many believed
in the unfolding of this glory for time. But the
darkness still remains. aud Hope and Freedom
are in the very act of doing what Campbell! says
they did when 'tkosciusko fell" This sad re-
suit has not come about without an effort to pre-
vent it. Several spirited Junior managers of the
wires have resolutely grasped the bell at different
times and rung for the uplifting of the curtain.
More than once, they have given many of us
brief but charming views Of what they intended
TO exhibit to the sovereign people OF So. Ca. as
The true plan of resistance, which would lead to
our certain triumph. And thousands of Scces-
sionists stood ready to applaud and uphold them
in the illustration of their scheme of action, milk
ahd-water-sh though it appeared to many. But
alas they stood ready for an cvanescent circum-
stance-a fleeing shadow most rapidly dis
solving view. Once, twice and again, did the
vision dance abroad in the light Of day-each
time disappearing, to return in more dim and
doubtful coors, until ut last it vanished never to
see the light again. And now it is evident that
the darkness which has come over our State is
never to be Illuminated by the light of co.opera-
lion. Is it desperate to suggest rapid re,kind-
ling Of the sacred fires of Secession and States
Rights! Are our people prepared for the degra-
dation of unqualified submission We cannot
believe it.