Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-08-07

lilenQiy port ike tnaC OF SaVanilln lUr tls
escape of our produce or the introduction
of our supplies; and that if State indie
pendence would indeed circumscribc
. slavery and the slave trade for a single
State-tIlat Southern Confedcracy
would do no less for those united under
its government and its institutions.
Would you tell them Of your weakness
of the limited extent of your territorial
limits, of your trade to be blighted, youl
produced depressed, and your citizens
ovcrburdcned with taxation to support a
separate State governments They would
answer you, that South Carolina occu.
= pied wider space upon this continent
than the conjoined territories of three oI
the most fanatcal of her eastern oppres.
sors-that these were the arguments ex.
clusively Of foar and not of reason, of ex.
pedicncy and not Of principlc-that they
would be as conclusive against resistance,
if abolition were knocking at our doors,
or arming our households for our destruc.
tion--that they were reasons, not against
secession, but. for submission; and would
be just as true and as potent when the
slave trade was abolished between the
States, as now, when it has been abolish.
cd in the District OF Columbia.
No, fcllow-ctizens, from the virtuous
and uncalculating enthusiasm of that age,
from the far higher-toned patriotism OF
the men of that generation, you would
hear to suggestions of fear, Of danger, of
difficulties, of expense, or of submission.
They would point you to Lexington, and
bid you 60 and fight its battle, if needs
be; nor ask you have any trembling or
fedcral.bought allies by your side. They
would point you to Fort Moultrie, and
tell you that, against odds innumcrable,
fleet invincible, with an exhausted mag
azine, a few crippled guns and a handful
of brave Carolinians, they were enabled
to repulsc Eugland's choicest veterans.
They will bid you las they didD to do
your duty, and trust your cause to Him
who rules the destinies Of nations, as we'll
rs the hearts of men. And if this should
fail, they will tell you to learn, then, wis.
dom and experience from your adversa-
ries. That while you are tamely and
!. tremblingIy talking of Submission, the
ssNorthum fanatic has orned the com;
promise, abroga!ed the fugitive slave law,
and hurled back defiance and denuncia-
ton on the government, and spurned the
batteries and sycophancy of those who
have invoked them to sacrifice great and
sacred principles to expcdicncy.
But should all these shar,c-recurring
considerations not avail, the invoking
shades Of our ancestors have one resource
at least, that has never failed to respond
to the appeals of oppressed and persccu.
ted humanity. They will commit Caro-.
lina's destiny into the hands and to the
courage of her daughters. What man
fears to do, women shall achieve. Even
her meek and gentle spirit cannot and
will not bear our accumulated wrongs.
1t shall wall them in the cottage, it shall
bemoan them in the palace, it shall echo
them in the saloons, until all that there is
in Carolina manhood shall be reused to
shame, Indignation and resistance. Nay,
so easy the triumph, and so bloodless the
victory, that we fear not that even bod
kin in her soul determined grasp might
achieve it against world in arms, in a
cause so panoplicd in truth and justice
Mr.. CALuoUH.-As several misstatc.
meuts have appeared, as relates to the
alleged donation Of money to Mr.. Cal,
houn, we copy the following from the
Southern Press, as containing, we pre-,
sumo, true version Of that transaction -
"The facts are, that Il number Of the
friends of Mr.. Calhoun did propose to
raise the sum of s;xty or eighty thousand
dollars for Il present to him, for the pur.
) pose of enabling him to visit Europe
and particularly the countries of the Medi
, teranian, for his health. And Mr. Cal
houn refused to accept the gift. After
his death, it appeared that some thirty
thousand dollars of the money had al
ready been subscribed and paid-and i
was offered successfully to the four son!
of Mr.. Calhoun for the benefit Of his es
: tate, and was by each of them refused. /
! is a mistake that Mr.. Calhoun or his es
t tate was embarrassed. His property, OF
; his death, was worth about one hundred
} and fifty thousand dollars, and his deb
J due to some bank in South Carolina wa:
only about twenty five thousand. So thu
there was no embarrassment. But AS tho
money, to the amount of some thirty
thousand dollars had been paid up by hi:
friends, they, on the refusal Of his sons tr
S accept it, forwarded back check for thu
amount to his Misunderstanding that i
!, could not, without great Inconvenience
c be restored to the contributors, some o
: whom, perhaps, were unknown. So sh'
y accepted it. But her sons had before ia
t ken care that she should be entirely indie
5 pendent; for they released to her, in fee
simple, the mansion property, the For
D Hill estate, which was amply sufficient t'
Q support her in the luxuries of life.
e INFANT EpUcAT1oS.-A mother once
y asked a clergyman when she should be
: Gin the education of her child, and sht
o told him that it was then four years old
: "Madam," was his reply, "you have los
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