Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-11-13
poliheal,
Southern Rights Meeting i'm N.
Carolina.

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held at Wilmington, N. c., and addressed by
Duncan r. McRae, noble champion of
Southern liberties. The following account
is taken from the correspondence of the
Marion Star:
This meeting was Southern Rights af.
fair, entirely gotten up by the people of the
county, who had invited Mr.. McRae to ad-
dress them during county court week, on the
subject of Southern Rights, which he did in
a speech of two hours and forty-three mi
nutes precisely. He commenced by allud,
ing to the fiscal operations of the general
government-contrasted the population of
the two sections, with the amount of reye-
nue. paid by each :; and asserted, and chal-
lenged denial. that the South had contribut-
ed at least four-tifths of the treasury to car
ry on the government since its organization
alluded to the compromise measures ofathe
last Congress; proved that instead Of their
being compromise measures, they were no.
thing more nor less than concessions on the
part of the South. ~
In alluding to the marine department Of
the country, he;said that the harbor of New
York alone had more lighthouses than there
were lamps on the whole Southern coast. N
He maintained the right Of State to Sc
cede from the Union, and proved by quoting
from number of sages and patriots that it
was q constitutional, inherent right OF each
State, when she may feel herself aggrieved,
to sccede from the compact; that the con-
federation was formed by an act of seces-
sion. This may seem strange to some, that
the Union was formed by acts of secession
but if those who may doubt it could hsve
heard the speaker, their doubts would have
vanished like the darkness of the night be-
fore the rising of the sun. He alluded to
the contemplate sneers of certain editors ut
South Carolina-related an incident of the
late Mexican war, which runs, as far as can
recollect it, in this wise: At the battle Of
Churubusco, when the enemy was pouringa
deadly fire <ol the American line, Gen.
Shields, in whose brigade was: placed the
New York, Pennsylvania, and South Caro-
lima regiments, stepped up to: Fthe command
| ing officer of the New York regiment and
asked, awho of your regiment can de-
pend on to follow-me in an attack.on yon
sdeadlyfort g. wien not ore single yoiceS
Heard to say next wont to the
Pennsylvania regiment and asked the same
question, but no voice was heard in the affr
native. At last he turned to the comman-
der of the South Carolina regiment, Colonel
Butler, and says-"C olonel, who of your
regiment will follow me in assaulting yon
battery and arrcsting its deadly fire." The
Colonel stepped out and answcred-"Gen-
eral, South Carolina is ready; we came
from home for this very purpose; we will do
our duty though we perish in its execution"
God is not this bravery? And the noble
souled Carolinians did do their duty to the
very death-for when the battle was ended,
South Carolina could not count more than Il
third of the number that she had sent into
that terrible conflict Yet, for all this dis
play of bravery, there are editors in North
Carolina-here in IViimington-who raise
the pitiful finger of scorn at the position
which your State now holds in the Union.
Mr. McRae, in speaking on this subject, said
in substance: "Thcrc are editors of news
papers who cannot see an inch beyond their
nose," who endeavor to lead the minds of
the people, "when they have not sense
enoug to lead the minds of one-them-
selres." He said to the enemies of South
Carolina" deride her-scorn her-scoff at
her-sneer at her to your hearts content, if
YOU will; but her. fame will be preserved
when the reptiles that crawl over her soil
shall cease to waste their slime"
WEBSTER ON Co-oPERATIoN.-The Sec
retary of State has just made speech at
Boston, and from the following it would ap-
pear that he knows something about co-ope-
ration at the South. The Northern fanatics
will find the construction of a conveyance
easy enough, when they can get such build
ers as Clay, Foote and Cobb. There will
be further aggression, and these practised
hands will soon patch up another omnibus
in the shape of a new compromise Caro-
linian.
"We live in such time, when it seems as
if there was an earnest desire to dissolve
the constitutional and legal restraints under
which we dwell as people. But think
the crisis has passed over. l think the coun-
try is recovering itself North and South.
There is less feeling at the South in favor of
breaking up the Union.
"7hey hare found an admirably COME
niem omnibus in cooperation, in which to
ride out of their difficulty. How those at
the North, who are arrayed against the
peace and harmony of the country, where
they find themselves in minority-as they
certainly will-how they will cxtricate them
selves from their position, and in what kind
of a conveyance they will escape, remains to
be seen."
The LAD1Es.-The Unionvile Journal has
a communication from lady. publishing
an extract from it, the Journal says:
The very women of our country will blush
for the degradation of their State; they feel
that their country has been disgraced and
humiliatcd, and had they the power, would
readily burst asunder the chains which have
been fastened upon our State by her own
sons. We wish that those who call them
selves men possessed half the spirit of our
unknown friend. Listen to what woman
can say and hang your heads for shame:
sit is my glory that | am secessionist.
And who am 1? A yankee, foreigner, or a
tory? My father was nullifier, my grand
father a renowned revolutionary whig, and
my grand-uncle was hung by the tories and
British at Blackstocks"
Thus speaks lady of the present day,
who understands the real nature of the pre-
sent political agitation better than the great
majority of those who call themselves the
| lords of creation.