Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-04-29
GENERolIS -coMpuBIEpT;

BELOW will be found IN extract from late
editorial of the Augusta Constitutionalist, TO
which we call the attention of our readers gener-
ally 1t is handsome and grateful tribute to
Carolina worth and Carolina usefulness, conceiy.
ed by an honest heart and inditcd by vigorous
pen. We have always appreciated the admira'
BILE tome which has perraded every thing emanat:'
ing from this quarter in allusion to our beloved
Statc If there has been one departure from this
manly and liberal line of conduct, on the part of
our esteemed co.emporary Of the Consitut1onattstj
we nre not aware of it. Would that such noble
fairness presided over many other Southern
Journals! Would that we all had more Of it !!
1t would be the happiest harbinger of approach.
ing unanmily and cordiality in our Southern
ranks. We may render ourselves, in the opinion
of some, obnoxious TO the charge Of vanity by
appearing to catch thus eagerly at passing com.
pliment. Let it be so. Our choice is to make
much and think more of such occurrences, be.
cause they are as rare as we feel them to be just
May South Carolina never cease to be worthy
of such encomiums! Nor will she, if her sons
shall fall to work, with hearty good will, to bury
their internal differences and to work together, as
heretofore, against federal tyranny.
sThe traducers-even the Southern traducers
of South Carolina have carried their partizan
hostility so far and have got into so inveteraie
habit of ridicnling and deprcciating the high
spirit that would make n sensitive people ever
rendy-pcrhaps too ready-to yindicate their
rights that they finally seem to look upon this
high spirit an absurd trait, and State soreregn-
aI..t.1 Il.
speak of sneeringly rs South Carolina Chivalry-
the latter, as South Carolina characterization.
Yet, South Carolina Chivalry, in its connection
with Southern rights, has acquired more respect
for tile South abroad, and done more TO give ele-
walton of tone and commendable sectional pride
10 the Southern people ut home. than conld all
the floods Of fulsome eulogies Of the glories and
blessings of the Federal Union, which Southern
demagogues have sponted and pariizan presses
have poured forth TO the tired ear of the country.
South Carolina characterization is likely.t TO do
more TO break the force Of that huge flood of con-
solidation and federal corruption which, unresist.
ed would have swept, long since, over our coun-
try than from any other single influence now
operating upon the popular mind of this country.
While parties and politicians in other States have
been struggling for Presidential aspirants and the
spoils and patronage Of the National Government
the Sonih Carolinians have struggled for the pre-:
servatiun of Stale Rights, and for strict adhe-
renee to the terms of the compact of Union.
The South Cnrolinians have shown, in every
war Of the country and almost every battle.
field, that her chivalry was respectable. They
have shown in the councils of the nation, no lack
Of civic knowledge md sagaciy. Their intellect
has bcen as forc6ly impressed upon the legisla
tive history OF our country as that of any othel
State Tile action Of the approaching Sou,l
Carolina Convention will, we are confident, no
do injustice, by comparison, to her past honora
bic history"