Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-01-29
1)olitieal.
From the Columbia South Carolinlan.
Words of Warming.

We do not believe that history records
an infatuation so unaccountable as that
which seems to have seized upon the
minds of the Southern people at this juno.
ture. The past has taught US its lessons
in vain, and experience appears to have
lost its influence and power to lead us to
reflection. If ever any people on the face
of the globe had cause to arouse them
selves to meet imminent danger, aud to
avert the dire calamity of the utter de-
struction of their prosperity, then have
the people of the planting States of the
South. Year after year have the inroads
upon their rights and interests been noted,
creating, it is true, some temporary ex-
element, but still acqniesced in in the
end; and now, under the specious guise
of devotion to the Union, professed by
Northern hypocrites and sustained by
some deluded men of our own section,
the anti.slavery and anti-Southern hosts
arc again marshalling for perhaps the final
blow against the South. And this is not
all; while there are many honest men of
the South bcguicd by this "Constitution-
al Union" organization, the evidences of
the past year or two bring painfully but
truthfully before us the fact that ambition
has blinded the eyes, and hope of reward
the consciences, Of too many of the pub
lie men of the South. We need not cite
examples.
We write not as secessionists, for VIC
hope and believe that there are many
among those opposed to us on that point,
who see and feel the necessity for dis
union; but we do, as public journalists,
from whom the people expect information
of passing events, feel the pressing neces-
sity of laying before them every indica-
ton of events that must affect their in
terests and their well.bcing. We might
60 on smoothly, and not affect to see or
to feel the danger that impends. We
might, with more comfort and with more
ease, content ourselves to glide quietly
OH the current Of popular sentiment, rather
than to disturb it by ripple; but the ex.
pcriences of the past, and of more recent
occurrences, have made wary and watch.
full in the exercise, Of our vocation, and
we would be false to the people, and re.
creant to the trust we have assumed, were
we to cry peace, peace, when our judy.
ment and deepest convictions impress us
with sense of a great and impending
danger to all the interests and associations
with which we are connected as citizcus
of the South.
We now call the attention of our read
ers to the following extract of an article
on the Presidential canvass from the New
York Herald. We are convinced of its
truth, as relates to the unsoundness Of all
parties at the North on the question OF
slavery:
efforts have been made, within the
last few months, both by wings and DEM
ocrats, in this State and throughout the
North, to lay still and lie low in reference
to anti-savery and the fugitive slave law.
The Van Buren, interest have pursued this
policy for some time among the demo.
Gratis, and the Seward interest have played
the same game among the wings. Both
these anti.slavery factions, attached to
the two old parties in the North, are play.
ing a game for the next Presidency,
through their conventions, by which they
want to catch the South asleep; and after
they get into the White House and pos.
sess the power Of the Government, then
the Southern States and Southern institu.
tions may look out for squalls on the anti.
slavery business again. We are perfect.
" satisfied, from the various movements
now being made by the various anti.slave.
ry interests of the North among the two
old parties, that vast combination or
conspiracy is preparing for a terrible onset
on the South and OH Southern institutions,
as soon as the South shall have voted for
either one candidate or the other, at the
next Presidential election. Even in the
very midst of this interesting contest for
the Presidency, it is with extreme diff,
Guilty that these anti.slavery factions,
which were set a going in one party by
Van Buren, and on the other by Seward,
can keep still and quiet, and not show the
cloven foot. As far as the interests Of
the South and of Southern institutions
are concerned, it hardly makes a pins
difference which Of the two parties sue
ceeds, or which of the two candidates,
whig or democrat, is elected. The anti
slavery feeling of the North is not slum.
boring. His groping and crtending, 81
7emly andquetly, IN every direction, among
foreigners naturalized in this land-er,
cept the honest and patriotic Irish. Un-
der the influence of Seward and his
friends, wo SEQ journal started in this
city to circulate among the Germans,
which comes forward with an uncquivocal
endorsement of the editors from kossuth
himself, who is receiving attention from
all parties here and elsewhere. Other
movements we shall notice in due time.
ave desire tho friends of the Union,
North and South, and all who wish to put