Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-08-14
COM M q MICA ITO MS.
For TIE ADyEnTlsEn.
OUR CAUSE OF QUARREL.

bosom, and to rouse all Southern men, who are
proud of their Inheritance Of freedom, to the
most rcsolutc action.
The North and West having obtained an over
whelming majority in Congress and in the coun-
ellis of the Government, and being directly ad-
verse to the South inpolitical sentiment, will
never consent, accordingto their o'on aro'cat, to
the admission of new States into the Union,
without some restriction in the terms, or some
guaranty to render them forever subscrvient to
their views, and to their own advancement in
wealth and power. ] am unwilling to assent to
the increase of the power of my oppressor, and,
thereby, to contribute to- the promotion Of meas
ures calculated to enslaye me, and to make me
mark for the shafts of rdicule, and for contemp-
tuous jests. -
The course steadily pursued by the North, for
the last half century, is enough, of itself, to
convince us that the policy of that people is set
tied to consummate the ruin Of all the slave
holding States. =.
In Republican Govcrnpents, there are three
or four checks to the power of majorties, which
are often happily applied to conserve the liberties
of the people. They are written constitutions,
party-tics and the patriotism of the country
When these are efficient in their influence, Re
publics are frec and glofous; but when they fail
TO restrain. such governments are the most un-
scrupulous dcspotisms on Earth. A single des-
pot has no one to share with him, the RESPONSE
bility of his acts -he has the wants, and desires,
and ambition of only one individual to crafty.
and he has the soul, and feelings. and prnci-
pies of man.n But the responsibility of
dominant majority is so divided as to amount to
no responsibility at all :-theirwants are as count
less as the stars of the Frmament-their appe-
titcs and desires arc as voracious and unappcasa-
BILE as the dcvouring whirlpool; and being ac-
countablc to no tribunal but Gods, they are as
unfecng as the spirtso ayarice itself, and as
soulless as bank corporation? Their views are
ever popular, for it is they, themselves that make
popularity, and the:rspower and wealth are as
growing as the desire for themis natural to the
human breast.
Let us see what effect, the checks referred to,
have had and are likely still further to have, on
our Northern brethren: and first, we will con-
slider the patriotism Of the country-and particu-
larly, that of the Free States.
Whcn the first cebsns Of the United States was
taken in 100. according to the recent statement
of Mr. CALHOUN. our population was 3.9e9 OIL.
That Of the North amounted to ,977 S99. and
that of the South, to 1,952.O72, leaving differ
encc of but O., 1927 in favor OF the former. The
number of States was equally divided between
the two sections. so that the North then had only
a small majority in Congress. In 1910, when
the last published census was taIsu, our popula-
ton had risen to IL, ,063,357, of which the North
had 9,72S, ,92O; and z 33334, ,437 making
a difference Of 9, 2,,3Sss4S5 on the side of the
North. The North now has majority of be-
tween fifty and sixty in the Electoral College
BY the late census, amounting as it docs, to
g. 900 900, the South will be altogether divcstcd
of her equality in the Confcdcracy--of her
equality in numbers, and, as a necessary consc-
quencc, of her equality in position and influence.
Why the foreign immigration into the North
crn States is sufficient alone to secure to those
States, the most absolute and certain Preponder-
ancc in the Government, whilst the Union shall
endure. So great has been the drain from Ire
land, for few years, that the number of her in
habtants has actually been diminished to an
enormous extent. There has been, for consid-
cradle period, constant annual influx into this
country, through the cities of the North, which
would, perhaps, nearly. equal the whole white
population of South Carolina, and according to
the present ratio of representation, would, on an
average, give 10 our antagonist section, contin-
ual yearly increase of several members to
Congress-.
Even, if our facilities for transportation were
equal to those of the Free States, we could hope
to reap nothing but disaster from foreign emgra-
tion That population, which now tends 10 our
shores, are the INDECENT uneducated, and, am
sorry to say, often the most lawless Of the people
of Europe They have been accustomed, through
life, to perform the menial Offices discharged by
our slaves, and, therefore, they cannot procure
employment in the South, where tho institution
of slavery is authorizcd'by law. 1t is the nature