Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-02-20

the bill should pass, then every State that js
pledged,to the doctrine. Of State Rights and
State sovereignty md 70 tie right Of .seeea-
sion, will be forced to sustainus in our n5 posi.
tion or to abandon their own. IN that event.
we will have millions of friends.
If though, as will be the case, NE are lea |;
unmolested, how shall we then actg WSll
have government already established and IN
operation, which, with little notification
can be made the best on earth We can n. !
cooperate with our own, the sound parts Of !
the Federal constitution, rejecting the rotten
and those parts that will be inapplieable.
We will have foreign trade, Of from twentx
to thirty millions, which with very moderate.
duties, say twenty per cent, will!bring us 4. 1
revenue Of five or six millions Of, dollars Der
annum, besides our general taxes, sum larps.s
enough to establish and maintain our fioseiipns
relations, to equip and kept a large and )
we'll appointed army, and to meet all the *.
traordinary expenses of our new situation,
without the imposition Of one dollar more of
burthcn upon the people. The taxes extotted
from US by the Government Of tbsD Dnitcd
States, for the purposes, ofsreyenus, and pro-
lection to the lordly manufacturers of thu
North, would fill our treasury to oYerfowiing,.
and render US the richest and most indepe1,-.
dent little Commonwealth in existence
the United States Government peryades, ,#ittss
its officers and ministers, and Judicial system
every State in the confederacy, and We arel
compelled to sustain it by our purse; and the
only reason why We are blind the enormityse
Of our taxation is, that it is exacted inythe
shape of duties on imports. The same du-s
ties that you now pay to maintain the General
Government, in case of q separation, might
be applied to the support of your own. When
we become Independent, we will only have :
one system to maintain. We now havetwo &
leaning on US, and exhausting our resources
the Federal and the State government. Ifs
an ingenius person would make it appear. that
a simple government, as we will have, celld
be more expensive than the complicated affair
we now submit to and pay for, then, / would
agree that separation might raise ourtaxes
and cost us money; otherwise, | shall main.
tain the contrary. The United States eo.S
vernment covers so vast an area, that it liss s
necessarily expensive, from the number Of its
agents and agencies. From the monstrons
size, of its territory if from nothing else it
has become clumsy, weak, and burthenseme.
Our dominions, on the other. hand, win be
compact, our ministers will be few, and our
taxes low. Our whole administration will be-
vigorous; for every pu)sation at 1.-The :heas
will be instantaneously feltat tthe. eStsemitis Il
and every part ofaonr body polite Iss
ceiye its just sharsHofs natrimsit sfrom
great seatsof life.
eithsT the smallness 81 our. ersitory &
maj man
Mind! id Wss0esdfpgys' an area larger than fousas
or fyesof theN NeW En- land Statea
Client eoHtlIh TWO or three millions of in
habitants, and We. have double the number.of
square miles embraced in some, and q terrific.
ry'quite equal to many, Of the most power.
fulkingdoms in Europe Portugal, Holland,
Belgium, Switzerland that has stood like an
impregnable tower amid the revolutions of
that continent, and many ethers, ofshieh re-.
nown, might be cited, if it we,a requiredfo
strengthen the confidence, or to sthsulatetb
patriotic ardor of South Cnrolinians.
But have said enough. In my zeakto
make the condition of our affairs apparent TO-
the weakest comprehension, l have extended =
this second communication to length that
astonishes even myself. close with this re-
mark: and I trust it will be Needed
Men of Edgefeld, unless the convention
now elected, are enabled to concert union
of the Southern States, for their mutual pro-
lection and defence, hold it to be their 81.
cred duty, without delay to dissolve the con-
nection of South Carolina with the Federal
government; and your own bosoms will beat
responsive to the sentiments | utter, unless
you have forgotten the principles of '76 and
'9S, and lost the heroic temper, and
THE SPIRIT OF 's2