Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-07-27

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who remembers that the South is portion
OF the American Republic, and that the blood
Of our forefathers flowed as freely at Eutaw
Springs lis at Saratoga, say that our South.
ern brethren act without causes? They are
only working for their own protection and
in self defence. They have been Sian.
dered, vilifed, and abused by Northern fan.
aics. Their very house have been invaded,
and their private property rendered insecure
by the foul doctrines preached by the anti
slavery party Of the North and the signs of
the times are not indicative that these dam
gerous doctrines can be crushed, except by
their own strong arms raised in their own
behalf Our Southern brethren ask us if
free soilism is dead? In reply we point to
w. H. Steward, John P. Hale, and Il host
Of others in high positions, whose whole en-
ergies are devoted to a war upon Southern
interests. They ask US if our general voice
is to put down and condemn every thing
that tends to ruin the social institutions? In
answer, they are told that we immotalizo
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom.
They ask us if we will enforce the compro.
mise measures; and if they may consider
these measures as the final of slavery agita-
tion9 In reply we say we delegate the du-
ty of carrying out those measures to men
who are known to be wholly hostile to their
enforcement. They ask US if they may visit,
US rs citizens Of the same great common
wealth. free from annoyance as to their So
cial relation to their servants! We tell them
if they dare 10 tread on Northern soil they
do so at the risk Of personal insult and loss
of property.
1t is these indications on the part of the
North then, which have aroused, justly arous-
ed, the Southern States to the development
Of their own powers, that they may render
themselves social y independent. 1t requires
no prophetic powers to foresee the ultimate
results oil their deliberations. Our Southern
friends are too wise and too powerful to be
thwarted in their designs. If they fail to &C.
complsh their end by one method they will
try another. Their aim is to crush the hy
dra- headed monster, known as freesoiSm,
and send it to oblivion. They desire union,
but the iron bands linking indissoubly to-
gether the republic they say must be forged
over the graves oil the Northern vandals.
The first mode adopted by the South to
effect this object, is to develope the powers
of her people and her soil by her railroads
to extend the facilities of intercommunica-
ton, and let observation give the lie and the
death-blow to these Northern propagandists.
She knows that aboitionists aud ireesoiers
must sink into the grave OF political inlamy
when facts confront their fiction.
The South will stretch every nerve to
build the great Pacific Railroad, she will
arouse her sons to industry and the pursuit
of wealth, and then she will appeal directly
to the North to assists her in crushing her
enemy fed upon its soil. 1t is well under.
stood that afer not more than one or two
years the Southern Convention will ad-
journ to assemble in the heart of the North.
ern States, for the very purpose of testing
public opinion; to see whether q moral
alliance can be effected between the North
and South which shal! for ever crush this op.
position TO Southern Slavery. Aud if such an
end cannot be consumma.ted, then dark are
the predictions for the future.
We cannot look upon this Southern Con.
vention but as proof that the Union and
Northern hostility to Southern institutions