Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-04-08

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Pies; and should they venture to stipulatc
amy conditions favorable to themselves, ali
parties, Wing and Democrat, will coElbine
against thcln-fof they will occupy posi-
| tionin which all are moro or less their oppo-
ncnts. At most, they vii! get nothing but
the! " fnality of the Compromise and is that
an object worth eontending for! Does any
man, not naturally Or wifllly blind, believe
that the fugitive slave law can be enforced
in Vermont, where it has been nullitied by
m act 81 the legislature? or in Massachu.
sets, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michi-
gan and other Western States, half peoplcd
BY Yankee Abolitionists, and German Social
lists! Dp, they, believe that either the au-
thorities of these States, or of the United
States, Would, if they could, enforce this law,
ut the, risk, nav, with the absolute certainty,
of running their political prospects by their
doing their dutys Almost everywhere, ex-
pcricnce has proved that the public officers
cannot not il they would, and would not if
they could, enforce this law, and that if they
did, the courts and juries would acquit its
violators, even when resistance was carried
to the extent Of murder. What, then, do
Northern politicians. and Southern acquics-
cents, mean by the I" finality of the Com
promisew They mean only that it shall be
finalas. respects every thing injurious, insul.
ting, offensive to the South, and null and
void MS to the only measure in which all its
representatives heartily concurred.
The sole agency of Southern delegates to
Northern convention, will be limited to a
choice of evils; for it is scarcely within the
reach of possibility that candidate for the
Presidency in the least favorable to South
ern rights will be selected for reasons |
have Just specified. Their choice, if they
make any, must be Hopson's choice, or that
of the French people-that or none. They
will exercise the right of acceeding to the
selection, not of the. candidate who is most
agreeable, bat of him who is least disagreea-
bic. AS in the case of the compromise
+" they must take the best they can get," and
be thankful for the smallest favors. They
must uecedc tothe support of a candidate
whose .pledges" are least hostile to their
rights, their interest, and their safety. 1t
seems TO me that this would be placing the
South in false and degraded position.
Surelyit is not reduced SO lew in spirit, or
in strength as to stoop to such an alternatiyes
But it has lately been accustomed to choice
of evils, and use reconcies US to almost eve
ry thing but hunger, gout and the tooth
ache. e
IF this view of the subject is correct, it
may be again asked, why should any party
in. the South send delegates to any conven-
ton in the North?s 2 What good can they do
there ); and what miracles arc they expected
to achieve Oh the contrary-what mis-
chief may they not do! May it not be ap.
pretended that some, perhaps many of them,
may, in these times SO fruitful in bargains
and coalitions, be operated upon by aeon.
bination ofthose irresistible influences which
are known to produce such miraculous
conversions, to become the plant tools OF
ono or other of the great Northern parties!
This is an age in which political chemistry
has wrought wonders;in ANAL gamating the
most incongruous substances ia ole liarfno-
nious mass. There is nothing too hetero-
gcncous in party politics, nothing SO oppo-