Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-04-17
From the Charleston Daily Sun.
Ohio and South Carolina.

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One the fairest statements of the rela..
tive positions of our State, though limited
to offensive conduct of only one of the
members of confederate aggression, is to,
be found in the Wilmington Commercial
of the Sd inst, by which it seems the ultra
principle that sovereign authority may do,
no wrong, hitherto maintained by the
world at large, and established as u pre-
cedent for every evil which forms an OBJ
stacle to the security and progress Of liber.
ty, is properly and justly estimated. If
we are too ultra in our views for the pas
sive spirit of the age, and apprehension,
has preached to any doctrine which ex-.
perience has ever controverted, we would
only satisfy them of the policy of our
doctrines, by instituting a comparison be.
tween the past and the present state Of
our country, and an appeal to the lessons
of every age and nation which has shown
the danger of delay.
There are among US those who do not
believe us altogether more SHINING than
sinned against, who have some respect for
our feelings, albeit the majority oppose
us, who feel that there might be some
lingering spark of sincerity in our hearts;
some just grounds of complaint; tbatour
protestations are not altogether void Of
meaning; that the statesmen Of Carolina
may be as honest as those of other Iandss;;.
and, that justice, truth, honesty, patriot
ism, courage and every other principle in
the long catalogue of virtue, is not con-.
fined to our oppressors, who would. lead
them to believe this by professions which
belle their deeds, while it is centered in s..
Carolina every antipode principle to these,
which may mark the darkest fendship
that ever sowed the sentiment of anarchy
and discord in the human breast.
flor Ohio we generalize little more
and include all who have ever excited, by
acts of partiality and injustice, the spirit
of opposition now alive in our State, it
will be more correct illustration of the.
case.
Ohio and South Carolina.-The two.
States named above are pursuing course
tending to the same result, but with re-
markable difference in motive. Ohio goes;
for disunion in the perpetration ofa wrong;
South Carolina goes for it in the vindica-
ton of a right. Ohio desires to insult and
degrade her neighbors; South Carolina
wishes restitution for the past, and secu-
rity from insult and degradation for the
future.
TRuE--EvERY WoRD.-The Mobile
Tribune speaking Of the election of Hanf-
ton Fish United States Senator from New
York, says:
"It is quite marvellous that, under
such manifestation, any unbiased per-
son should he found in this country to
declare that Northern opinion is growing
more favorable to the South. The fact
is, opinion there is only becoming more set
tied against the South, and the quietness IN
which it is exhibited is only proof that
its first eager and rather noisy demonstra-
ton has settled down into a conscious
ness of power, which needs no rattle Of
barty drums to rally it to the duty it has
laid out to perform-namely, the repeal
of the fugitive slave law.
"The last Congress, now dead and
gone, (heaven rest itD was not the field
for display of the tactics which are to
lead to this result. There was some
doubt there ofpower. The new Congress
will come up with additional strength for.
the purpose, ard if skilful presidential
partisans do not again defer it, the whole
field of the enemy will therein be display
ed. Everything at the North betrays
this purpose. There is not solitary in.
cident there to lessen apprehension or to
allay the most hopeful doubts on the sub.
ject."
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