Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-05-13

of the robber band hut when hear South
ern man cry Glorious, Glorious Union, lsnusf
Treason in the tainted gale"
This was the sentiment, but the world perhaps
never will know precisely in what conncxi"n,
with what epithtts, and in what collucation nc
used his language, TO express the figures, one
Of which he improved from BURKE. doubt
whether the Orator himself could say, were he
alive. so abandoned was he to his subject and the
host Of passions which hurried him on like an
impetuous cataract. But this much can be
said, that phlegmatic tenperamcnts, who heard
him on that occasion, have oftentimes declared,
tbey did not know whether they were sitting
or standing, or where they were, or what they
were doing for several minutes. Was DEAos-
THEMES greater Orator than this ! doubt
very much whether the De Corona Speech
coualled il in effect. Certainly nothing in mod
crn times approaches it, except perhaps SiERi-
DAMS great effort against HASTINGS, when Pirr
moved the House Of Lords to adjourn, before
deciding. 10 get from under the wand Of the en-
chanter.
But as said before, tfe beautiful Grove in
which this burst Of cloquencc occurred and
around which cluster SO many fond reeollec'
tons Of the past, is now lonely and deserted
Heretofore such Of the Collcgians Of Edge6ed,
rs did not prepare III Abbeville, have generally
rot ready for their Al,na-Mcter at this place,
but now they are compelled to go TO distance.
How lumiliatng must it be to the prohd people
of Edgcfcld, to be told, that Abbcyillc can have
her Colleges and Academies, upon permanent
and efficient basis, at Due West, Cokesbury,
Greenwood, Lowndsville, Clear Spring and clsc-
where, educating besides her own children
more than half those of Laurcns, Ncwberry,
ElrcficlJ and other Districts, while the county
seat of our large and wealthy District, the most
populuus Of any in the State, boaslihs tic 'esl=
dencc of a Chancellor, u United States Senator,
with various other pretcnsons, cannot have
even decent Academy, much less the College
which aught to grace her Grove. Indeed am
, ashamed of my District, when confess that
there is but .ngIc Academy within her bor-
dcrs, of any stability or prominence, where
young men can prepare for College. mean
Bethany Academy, near Liberty llill, under the
charge of Mr. GEORGE GALrnrs, who is also a
South Carolinian, Scholar aud Gentleman,
and no Yankee.
, Now Edgcfcld can do, if she will, what ABB
bcvillc has done, in the cause Of Education, but
the District at large must so TO work for her
self. SHE need not rely on the Court House
for efficient, permanent and cheap education
1t is little singular that the best Schools ever
in Abbcvir, are in the Country Villages, whicl
: have been built up by the Schouls. | regret t'
/. learn that the reason why our Male Academy il
q not filed is that the Trustees cannot get
: Southern and that they will not employ North
IS crn Teacher. congratulate them upon thi
>. resolution which all good citizens Of the Distrc
r. must approve, as consistent Disunionlsts an
Southern Confelcratiouists.
,, We arc free to admit, that there may be
few NOrthsrD as, E!6 ,6s Teas tru
!. why we suspect them. We love OUT corn,r,
e they love theirs. They cannot help it. bccaus
q it is part of every mans existence to love hi
j 'Ithcriand. There have been but few AnNo1p
in the history Of the whole worl and patriotism
! is the last virtuors sympathy which leaves til,
i most abandoned wretch The man that has 4
= not, as ScoTT says, should die
8 "Unwept, unhonored and unsunr.n
k Therefore, when Northern man tells me ,l,u,
c he would fight for the South against the North
he tells ME that lie is traitor, and can rcspcc,
4 traitor, even when know him to be such =?
, But do not know it, do not believe it, | will
not believe it, for the honor human nature.
II he does not love his country, he ought to
love it, he CAM 0: help but love it, and should die
/ as soon as he ceases to love it. Therefore he is
either traitor whom can never resi- Get or he
!, thinks, feels and acts with the country hich
gave him birth and reared linn 10 her ns,itu-
tions-but interest, his instinct for tie almighty
dollar, makes him hide the truth, and become
4 Southcrner. Hence turn it which way YOU
will, he is either guilty of treason or falschood
would respect and tolerate him much more,
to tell me such tale as this,-s love my coun-
try and will return to her in the hour Of danger.
rather than join the South, Which hate and have
always been taught to hate. l did not wish to
leave my birth place; it tore my heart to do SO.
but the redundant population of the North.
makes labor so cheap and It's competition so
fierce, | could not support existence there in any
happiness, and hence have come among you
to make living or fortune il can, and then
will return home to enjoy ito
Abolition agents, and emissaries too, come
among US in 50 many various dsguiscs VIC DO
not know in what cloak to find them, whether as
School Teachers, or Book Pcdlars, or clad in
:" the sacred livery Of Heaven" No class in
tn. community exercises SO great all influence
over the rising generation, as School Masters,
for as the twig is bent the tree is inclined, and
our Trustees do right to have no Abolit:onist
scattering the seeds Of his doctrine broad cast
over the minds of Southern youth.
But it is to be dcplorcd, that the Academy