Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-09-12

THE POLITICS OF OUR STATE.
Notwithstanding the Know Nothingism Of Col.
CuNNINGuAM and others on one side of our State, and
the Nationasm of Col. ORE ct al on the Other, ap.
pears that the politics of South Carolina is 10 remain
in statu quo ante beUum.
Perhaps We quote the old Latin phrase inap,y; for,
to be strictly correct there has been beum in the
business. There were, its irue considerable alarums
sounding of trumpets, snorting Of political chargers
&c. on the first appearance of Sans troops at Char
lesion But before any regular Battlefield could be
gotten ready, an epidemic (under tho narne Of Mod-
caton broke ont in ihe ranks and the strength Of the
Order has been 90 5teadly and efec,ually whitfield
part has evaporated. A. II
With Col. ORR and his merry-men of the noun.
tains, the case promises to be very similar The An.
derson dinner came and went in Whit of glory; and
the Spar,anburg affair is also numbered among the
occurrences Of the past. All the letters from the Ma.
tlonal Democrats have been published and read.
The reverberations of the paudits of enthusiastic
auditories have sounded from the mountains TO the
seaboard and SO on around the State, until they have
at length settled down in emphatic stiffness somewhere
in the localities whence they first issued And, after
ALL not one Caronan in ten Is at all disposed to assist
in carrying his State into the fighting ranks of Ma
tiona Party, or to lash on her reputation to the bag
gage.sack Of a Baltimore Convention. II
We arc then just about where the Secession and
Cooperation controversy left Not exactly SO Ell
ther. For there were seeds Of bitterness engen-
dered by that strife, which it apprehended would
yield baneful crop Of saiouses and feuds. Thanks
10 the noble fore.parenss who bequcathed such
generous and orgiving dispositions, these apprehen
sions have nearly all been cleared away and Caron.
ans, as q body, are once moro brothers indeed.
Thus let US remain We arc small State and
need there is that every right arm amongst US should
strike together in all matters Of Federal politics. It
has heen the Of strength in days that
gone II may be means of power to US in the future
States Rights and Southern Rights are wutchwords
sufficient unto the day. United beneath banner
that hath these upon its folds, South Carolina can
still enact all the duties be expected from sovereign
member of the Confederacy. She can still send her
Senators and Representatives to Congress. She can
still cast her vote for President of the United States
And If need be- she can still furnish her quota Of men
tas she is wont to do) to tho armies of the Union
These things she we'll do and yet not leave her
duty to herself undone. This is her most sacred
duy and she believes that she can best di'charge it
by the course of dignfed conservatism she has hher
to adopted and persevered thro every danger. In
the name of honor and prudence let her persevere in
it to the lasl And when, after years, the historian
shall record the fate Of these United States, he will
say of us This State did more than all the rest for
the preservation of the Government in its original
puriy!"