Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-03-02
Augusta chroniele-1ts Antiquity &c.

We are indebted to Mr.. LAWRENCE JOHNSON oi
this District for copy of the Augusta Chronce OF
Sept is, lSl0 sent TO lis specimen oil the news
papers of that day. 1t is sheet n minimum size, OF
coarse paper, but well enough printed One u. DRIs'
COL seems TO have been its publisher at that time, and
his office stood "near the MARKET, ms is expressly
stated in the general heading. The first page of this
venerable document contains an Advertisement oi
"Conisrated Property the amount Of ten thousand
acres, be sold at Medgeville on the thira MONDAY
in November nexl," and several " Acts oi Congress
published "By Authority" (The Chronicle seems TO
hare been in favor with JAMES MADISON as we'll ns
MILLARD FILLMoRE.) The second page Is lille"
will, European intelligence from three to four mon'hs
old. Steam Engines were of course not dreampt oi nj
that time. Page third is begun with nm account oil
how " WILLIAM SMITH, a free black man, had been
hung on the South Common in Savannah on the 9th
inst, for encing away and carrying to the North
negro wench and her chilR belonging TO Mr. CHARLES
TORS estate" Said Ss4Tn seems to have been the
first person executed in the State oil Georgia Tor this
offence. The writer, while kindly lamen'Ins the con-
vcts melancholy end asserts that the fault in shch
cases ia not with @ but at the Norhward among t'at
class who induce our negroes TO violate the laws OF
onr State 1t would appear from this that AoolIton
had fully lifted its head to the light even at thateary
day. The article upon this subject contains moreover
the following obse rvations, which indicate much
stronger smilirute between the then and now of Anti
Slavery c1eriions than most persons are aware ol
"Should ntgro go off Philadelphia, New York
supported md Withheld: his owner in going tlrr,
and endeavoring 10 secure1, runs the FISK OF hclng
imprisoned, bring compelled to give security i"r
good behavior, though barely recalmng species ol
property secured TO him by the Constitution anu Laws
Of the United Sta,es.'
NcI, comes the Editorial Department Of the Chron-
iclc which is little over one half of short column
After this, we find Communication signed " y Dem
ocra,ic Republican in defence Of Col. TRoUr, and
of this efTnson we appendix portion, that our readers
may form some idea of hS spirit, point and breviIy
with which newspaper SD aimishers were managed by
our predecessors. We think it, upon the whole, no
very had model But judge for yourselref-hcre it is:
"A writer in the Herald, under the signature OF
CARO-. has lahnriouly attempted, to prove Col. lrohp
an Aristocrat and Disorgdn1ser. any cl'lzeh oi
common sense, must really smile nj tle idea oi the
Colonel's Arisiocracy This Federal CATO himself
believes rs little in the Aristocncy fronp, as IN any
other impossibility this side of heaven Nc-It is not
Troup'n arisncncy that ederalis like CATO, would
grumblc a-inteed it would be an 4Egis of protection
against all assaults from quarter The true cause
Of CATO enmiiy, and alloilers OF mllarsenlimrns
-is bottomcd upon The stYbborn, uniform, and Bru-
tus.likc principles OF Col Troup At the age of IL,
he courageousy opyused the monarchical admnistrn-
lion of Adams, and his minSters-and IN every pmhic
station since, tn which the confidence OF hrs fellow.
citizens has called lin, hsp has firmly adhered to and
supported the energetic principles of democratic re-
publicansm This cannot be tlened--it is known 10
cpery one. Upon what grounds therefore, does CATO
presume TO call the republican Tronp an arlSocrat
Why, because he did not sit down to dinner at pn6-
ic dinner-And be cause ,e pnt on his gloves. when
dining nt n Jriratc table : Eureka the great
discore nv is made-ristocracy is not funded upon
devotion TO this or that sect Of politicians; TO this, or
that system Of principles or measures hut upon the
facts whether the citizen has, or has not snt down 10
public dnner-or vhehe6 he has, Or has not. drawn
pair Of silk gloves, nj private table. These, II
would SEEM are TO be the criieria, by which We
are 10 ascertain the aristOccy rcrnblicanism of n
representative of the pcrple!-To what miserable
shifts are the enemies of ntr patriots driven. when
sHrh colemp,i: rpnianns rs hc'e are seriously nj
lodged against Them SO much for CATo's charge OF
nristOcracy.
Next to this communication comes the announce
ment of JOHN FoRsYTH, ESQ.,, as a Candidate to
represent this State n the House of Representatives
of the United States" And then we have bitter
article from the pen Of" WILLIAM ScorT," addressed
to DR.. THos. WRAY, in which the writer indnlses in
much of sarcasm ard irony, The cause of offence
appears TO have beer some alleged mallrcalmrnt or
neglect Of Winslow Hobby. In excnsing the violence
Of his structures, Mr.. ScoTr uses the following Ian
gange, Even the worm, nit is tinppled on, will
turn in anger on the it to thatoppresscsi" Wemerely
quote this passage 10 poin. out its marked similarity
to an expression used years afterwards by GEORGE
McDuFrIE in one cf his most brilliant speeches.
Every intelligent, reacr viii readily recall that pas,
sage.
The balance of our old relic is filled with various
advertisements not dssmilur, in point of selfpuing,
to many of the present dny. Among these, we find
ono from the proprietor Of tile Chronicle himself which
VIC give below just it given to the public forty
three years go. Besides bring decidedly unique in
sye, il will inform tile reader as 10 the prominent
Southern Journals Of 1910. The wurl "Mose, p"
in the second line is unqnesonaby these in the origi-
nal Perhaps the writer hadn't quite ruhhed of all
the Dn.ct Of his education. The advertiser cmsnt is as
follows:
CHRONICLE.
The Editor Of the Augusta Cllrnnicle, Georgia.
having been those eg hteen years past both in the
n Lii al, bad E