Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-04-10
From the Columbia Telegraph.
Re.Action.

% t From the Columbia Telegraph.
z-a Re.Action.
: It is evident that various attempts are be-
ing made to chill the action of this State.
These come not only from our enemies a.
broad, but the most strenuous efforts are
put forth in our very midst to secure the
humble acquiescence of our people. Some
point to the reaction in the feeling of the
State, some urge Southern confederacy,
others take pains to announce their opinions
that the time has not come, and doubt wheth-
er it ever will come for single State action.
These are false coins, and must be nailed to
the counter and reported as such.
A Southern confedercy created without
the action of single State, rising and moving
rs some giant creature. with perfect organ
ization, is an impossibility, and the history of
all confederacies, and of our own revolution
should teach us that single and bold blow
will rivet the bonds of Southern union more
closely and surely than any schemes and alb
stractions, however. beautiful and extensive.
1t is the character of our people to put faith
in individual action-it is this which gives
strength to cause, disproportionably great
to the means used, and he who relies upon
the action of others to dictate his own, is
branded with want Of mental vision, or Of
moral courage. To make resistance depend
upon Southern union, is to say, that the
States, single-handed must and will submit; !;
there is no other just inference from the ex-
preston now SO common in the mouths Of
men, unite us and tale Of submission shall
never be told"-we speak plainly, we hope
with all due Difference.
Again, it is rung in the public ear, that the
time has not come; the time never will again
come for the government to infict an equal
indignity upon the honor, or IN equal injury
upon the interests Of the South. The time
never will again come when the edge of
submission has been taken off, and the lofty
moral tone of the South has been sunk by
crying, in the very midst oppression,
s.twait !Ewaitp' Time will roll.pn, arms will
be prepared, but the spirit is gone that knew
howsto, use them. OF all things, it is the
most dangerous totrife with the moral tone
ofa people-betterhad ..we throw all our arms
and all our resources into the sea, than un-
hinge that tone, worth to us. more than king
Sdoms ofpoYer 10
=. II has; been recently charged -that.a re-ac-
ton has taken place in the Stateof South
Carolina, and the result of the late election in
This city has been brought forward, as the
chief proof ofthe point. fit was necessary
to disprove the Charge seoming from quar-
ter where the "glorious Union" is hymned
from the tops of @ Greenvile's icy mountains, y
it could have been .conclusiyely falsifed by
pointing to the result of the election in the
State at large. That result has given Il
large majority whose minds are fixed upon
action, and to whom even the suspicion of
reaction is abhorrent. Thus to make IN as
sertion, not only without particle of proof
to sustain it, but positively disproved by tes-
timony in the assertor's possession, requires
us to suppose, either the recklessness of
despair, the blindness Of fanaticism, or the
purpose of Misrepresentation. As this reac-
tion is q mere vision without any existence,
we leave it to those who have fancy for
splitting hairs between South and Southwest
side" to truce the distinctions in the opinions
of anen-it is enough for us to know the
general and fixed determination of the mass
of the people.
.,,5But,we will assert that any who suppose
that the city of Charleston with its com.
bined Northern and commercial spirit, is the
index of State feeling have widely missed
the mark in their reckoning, rs narrow cal
eulation must always do. Her position is
distinct from that of the State, she has taken
her stand below that of the State, and has
fallen into passive acqniescence, mark! not
into indifference for she has wealth, talents,
and the will 10 infuse her spirit, and spread
her opinions and feelings over the body Of
the State. This power, like all others, in or
out of her border, will be met by the un-
yielding irmness Of the State. As no threats
by Northern enemies, so no cries of ruin ut
home, will draw the State from the moment
GUS issue of her own salvation and honor
She has planted her stlndar on the topmost
ridge Of free-trade and slavery rights, and it
is with mistaken confidence that we trust to
her determination to sustain that standard a.
gainst any pressure from within or without
We have the most unlimited reliance upon
the efficiency of strong measures to remove
our wrongs, and to this we have come, that
errtl its bitterness destroyed, if necessary, by
the shedding Of blood, that freedom life though
order die aud riches perish. CROMWELL.
Charleston, April 1851.
STock.-Prepare a mixture Of equal
parts Of finely sifted ashes, slaked lime,
andasalt, and give an ounce or two to
each oftyour cattle, horses and mules, ,twice
or thrice a week. See that your sheep
haye access'to salt and tar, or salt alone
at all times, hept under cover; that all
your stock are regularly supplied, thrice
a day, with good wholesome water, and