Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-02-13
ed accordingly. And if YOU rcccde from your

ed accordingly. And if you reccde from youl
position, YOU will not only bring shame upor
yourselves, but you will degrade your high
minded Representatives, who were willing c
offer up their property, and to hazard theil
lives in obedience to your behcsts.
But it is vain for me TO write in this strain
am speaking to men of couragc-mcn dc.
seconded from fathers Of war proof" You
have no choice left you, but to Gisavow the
acts of your accredited agents, and retire
dsgraccfully from contest Of your own
waging, or to meet The issue squarely, as
men WHO Glove honor more than they fear
DEATH" Those by whom you were begotten
would never have hesitatcd, which course to
take But they were men Of valiant hearts
men jealous of their rights and liberties
and they were willing TO die rather than sub
NIT to shade of injustice. They made war
against most powerful government, which
was better and frccr than yours, for the SIM
pie preamble of an act, which was false in
principle. You, too, unless you be degenc-
rate bastards, inheriting the lordy names,
without the blood of your manly ancestors,
will prepare for a trial of your metal-for
struggle that may be long, and perhaps sig
nalizcd by hazardous and bloody enterprises.
The Convention Bill, under which you
lave just elected members to a State Con-
vcntion, and the whole action of the last
Session of the Legislature were intended to
be the beginning of 4 conflict, never to DC
sbandoncd until We obtain indemnify for
the past and security for the future" If ii
was not designed to commit you to separate
State action, why were three hundred tllous-
and dollars appropriated to purchase NUM-
tions of war? Why were one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars applied 10 the
building Of War-Stcamers, if tie Lcgsla-
ts,re purposed only to make little buster.
and then submit like lamb to the shcarer
Set speeches and inflated resolutions are the
usual conductors Of an excess Of vapor and
steam. But if the State had determined to
renopllcc all further action on its failure to
obtain Southern Congress, assure yon,
that a Convention Of her people would never
have been called. It was urged, with force,
by those whose aims were directed solely to
obtaining Southern Congress, that the
Legislature had full power, to appoint, or TO
provide for the election of deputies TO that
body. And the objection to that mode was
not, in fact. on the grounds Of its unconstitu-
tionality; but it was based on the supposi-
ton, that its friends proposed that the action
Of the State should determine with that mca-
sure. What scruples could any man have to
the appointment of Deputies to 4 Southern
Congress- who could support the Convention
Bill of the last Session! That bill really an
swers the double purpose of calling Con-
vcntion of the State, and of electing deputies
TO the Congress. If it was 4 violation of 4
members oath to provide for a Southern
Congrcss,it was certainly a greater violation
Of it, to provide both for that assembly, and
a State Convention at the same time. But a
State. Convention is stronger. measure of
: resistance .Ssasthsgn Congress, to meet
perhaps in the year 2050; and therefore the
constitutional objections set forth by the I'D
rocatcs of the former mode TO the latter,
were only specious, and used for the sake of
argument and for carrying point But
could there, in TRUTH be any conscientious
scrupes to the adoption of either policy?
Are they not both remedies strictly within
the purricw of the Constitution We have
the right to assemble together, and consult
together on our political condition, when
and where We please. And We have the other
inestimabc right Of petitioning fora redress
of grievances, which is specially granted US
in the Constitution. and interviewer with our
whole progress in civil liberty, from the time
our British Ancestors obtained from William
and Mary, the Bill of Rights, TO the present
dark day at which write. The right of
State also, to assemble in its sovereign ca
pacity, and 10 take counsel for its own safety,
and even to secede, if necessary to its free
dom and to the security and happiness of its
citizens, is equally as indisputable under the
Constitution, the written compact of the
States, rs the right Of petition itself. This
is the doctrine of the very trainers of that
instrument, and it has been promulgcd and
enforced by JEFFERSON and MADISON, and by
all the abler expounders of the same from the
day Of its adoption to this sad conuncturc.
THE SPIRIT OF :32.
sN a GLASS palace is to be exhibited at
the Worlds fair This must be an approxi-
nation to 4 castle in the air" at least i'll :
trailty. transparency and inuility.
sW' A NEW post office has been establish
cd at Ridgway, Fairfield District, and J. n