Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-12-21

freedom 10 an .-..,..
nign system of fcderative seIf.government of
which it is our glorious, and trust, immortal
charter Let us, then, with redoubIed vigilance,
be on our guard against yielding to the tempta-
tion of the exercise of doubtful powers, even un-
der the pressure of the motives of conceded
temporary advantage and apparent temporary
exprd;ency.
Mutual forbcarance. respect, and non-interfer-
cnce in our personal action as citizens, and nn
enlarged exercise of the most liberal principles
of comfy in the public dealings Of State with
State, whether in legislation or in the execution
of laws are The means to perpeiuate that conf
dsnce and fraternity, the decay of Which mere
political union on so vast i scale could not long
survive.
| In still another point of view is an important
practical duty suggested by this consideration Of
| the magnitude of dimensions, to which our pol,i-
cal system, with its corresponding machinery of
government. is so rapidly expanding With in
creased vigilance does it require us to cultivate
the cardinal virtues of public frugality and off.
cial integrity and purity. Public affairs ought
to be 50 conducted that settled conviction shall
pcrvade the entire Union that nothing short of
the highest tone and standard of public morality
marks every part Of the administration and leg
isalion of the General Government. Thus will
the federal system, whatever expansion time and
progress may give it, con.innc more and moro
deeply rooted in the love and confidence Of the
people.
That wise economy, which Is as far removed
from parsimony as from corruping extravaganza;
that single regard for the public good, which will
frown upon all attempts to approach the Treas
ury with insidious projects of private interest
cloakcd under public prctex's; that sound fiscal
administration, which, in the Legislative depart
mcnts, guards against the dangerous temptations
incident to ovcriowing revenue, and, in the en-
ecutive, maintains an unsleeping watchfulness
against the tendency of all national expenditure
to extravagance-whe they are admitted ele-
mentary political duties, may, trust, Je deemed
as properly adverted to and urged, in view of the
more impressive sense of that necessity which is
directly suggested by the considerations now
presented.
Since the adjournment of Congress, the Vice
President of the United States has passed from
the scenes of earth, without having entered up
on the duties of the station to which he had been
called by the voice of his countrymen. Having
occupied, almost continuously, for more than
thirty years, seat in one or the other of the
two Houses of Congress- and having by his sim
eular purity and wisdom secured unbounded
confidence and universal respect, his failing
health was watched by the nation with painful
solcitude. His loss to the country, under all
the circumstances, has been justly regarded as
! irreparab.e,
In compliance with the act Of Congress of
/ March Q, 1853, the oath of Office was admins
, tered to him on the oath Of that month, at Ar-
! adne estate, near Matanzas in the Island OF Gu
ba; but his strength gradually declined, and was
I hardly sufficient to enable him to return to his
! home in Alabama, where on the eighteenth day
. Of April, in the most calm and peaceful way, his
long and eminently useful career was termina-
r ted
Entertaining unlimited confidence in Your in
tegent and patriotic devotion to the public in
terest and being conscious of no motives on my
!. part which are not inseparable from the honor
v and advancement of my country, hope it may
!. be my privilege to deserve and secure, not only
Il your cordial cooperation in great public meas
{ ures, but also those relations of mutual conf.
/ dence and regard which it is always so desirable
!. to cultivate between members Of coordinate
j. branches Of the Government.
$ FRANKLIN PIERCE.
e WASHINGTON, DECEMBER s, 1853
e A barber pole pantalooned youth recently
went on visit to his grandmother in the coun
n try. and astonishcd her very much by wearin!
1t such "pstchcd trowsers away from home"