Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-03-25
THE STANDARD,

THIS grand foe of secession (the great Ashtaro,ll
of newspaper columns) again bursts forth in Ian
guage, teen,ing with malicious leer. Becoming
the dupe of his own peevishness, he inhicts
upon the objects of his vengeance secession and
our unolfending selves) the noxious poison of his
reptile sting 1t really seems that his liver, like
that of Dante's Farfarcllo, is 90 huge lazaret
of fostering bile, from whence il, unlike his great
prototype, he bclches not forth snrhurcous flames
and stygian STENCIL there at least issue all sorts Of
bitter inveciivc and offensive abuse.
For instance, we refer to a piece in late mum.
Der of the Standard, entitled =" the departed
spirit Of chivalry,' 4 few extracts from which We
think will fully sustain the above assertion
Speaking of "thc brave few. who feel, or seem to
feel, that upon them rest the honor and glory Of
our Statc," we have the following lrightful pic
lure. "Their solitary waings fall upon the ear,
mournfu and distressing Us the last wild cry Of
the murdered" Heartily reioiced arc we that our
ears have not been startled by this horriG shriek-
that this .fuacreal groan aas never narrowed up
our souls" Propilous gales have either waited
this dismal sound Of agony in different direction,
or, more probably, it was shadowed forth by the
authors imagination. Again, still alluding TO the
"brave few" he says-"'They basely SANDER
her who say this, our noble State, has ever fall
tered i'll her high course" Here then honest and
patriotic citizens are published to the world as
base SiandcrerS. Farther on: In their phrensy
they goaded her hat is their Stale) into suicide"
Here the 90 brave few" aEe changed by an edito-
rial "hocus pocus" into raring MANAGES, chattcring
and grinniag from the straw Of Bcdlam, not only
branded with the name Of murdererS but Z" sui
cdes,'' the destroyers not only Of the mortal body
but Of the immortal soul. If, in youth, the au-
thor's springs Of life had been poisoned and the
noxious venom had grown with his strength and
increased with his years, he could not have utter
ed more CALLING language. Indeed through the
whole Of the above mentioned piece, lie assumes
"a false assumption by the way) that Secession is
dead, and with mock piety chaunts its funeral
dirge. Since he had helped to bury this so-called
4" departed SPIRIT" both courtesy and humanity
would bid him sing its requicscat and write upon
its resting place, "brave Secession slumbers
here" After having pursued it savagely TO its
death, he should have allowed it to sleep well,
and not, hyena-lke, have dragged it from it's
grave to saliate, still further, his impacablc re-
sentiment.
In our last number, we paraphrascd "the de-
parted spirit of chivalry," as we thought, inno-
Gently and good humoredly; but instead of having
its desired effect, it appeared to the distorted
vision Of the Standard more frightful than the
" viper lock of Alecto," curding his very blood
and arousng his bilteres, choler For the simple
fact of having turned piece Of prose into some
thing like verse, we assailed with torrent Of
personal abuse, stigmatized with the sobriquet Of
the "gay troubadour" "a name which, unknown
to the Standard, does us much honor, and which
we would be proud to have inherited) But when
he goes on to state that we could, as occasion
required, Z" fiddle any NJ. L. (AIenfber Of the LIE.
gislature) into voting tor s. against the field" we
catch him in dilemma from which he will find |
i, difficult to escape. If his assertion be true, |