Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-10-03
THE PATRIOT AND MAI. PERRY.


The PATRIOT complains that IN our last issue. we
"mangled and gurbled and suppressed the meaning
of SENTENCE Of his and asks tits fair" just"
or " in character with that honorable courtesy which
belongs 10 gentlemen. The reader shall decide after
being informed as to the extent Of our offending.
In his issue Of Sept 18Th, the editor Of the Patriot"
writes:
It" uhe Constitulion) is our great protection and
safety in the Union, and should neuer abandon It,
or the Union, permit others to abandon either the
one or the other" (The Italcizing is our own.)
We gathered from this sentence and placed at tho
head of short paragraph, sentiment, written thus:
"We shonH neuer abandon the Union permit Others
to do t"-SouTHERN PATRIOT.
In presenting this the language Of the Patriot"
we were wrong in not giving The whole sentence
from which the words were pucked and We hereby
cheerully record peccaui" for that sin of omis
sion. But the most casual glance, at the language in
full of the " Patriot" and the language in part rs
used by US, will show the int gent reader tina,
we have neither manglsd," nor "garbled," nor
" suppressed" syllable benring upon that one.
of the tuo distinct deas expressed by the Patriot"
which attracted our attention. These distinc. ideas
are lst That should never abandon the ConstiIu-
ton nor ermt others to do and End, That we should
never abandon the Union nor permit others to do it.
The distinctive conjunction "or," before the Union
and "he other" would certainly lead any one, ac-
quainted with the common rules Of English Construc-
lion, to believe that the writer intended the Union"
to stand upon its own merits without any necessary
connection with I" the Constitution" So understan.
ding the sentence, we divided into two parts as just
MI, tha e
or,hoepy in this Let any read the sentence
aloud to ten men of good, hard sense they need not
know their A, b, c., and we venture the opinion that
nine out of the ten will receive precisely the same im'
preston of its meaning that we did,
Major PERRY, however, says that BY publishing
his language in part suppressed his meaning This,
We suppose is much Us to declare that he did not
mean to assert and does not sanction the naked propo
sition that eve should never abandon the Union or
permit others to do it." Until corrected We embrace
tand very gladly too) this Interpretation OF sentence
which certainly did at first sight strike Us as being
"eIecrabie" In using that term, any other OF like
import, We hops it Will be understood that We were
making political and not personal reflections. The
intercourse public and private" to which allusion
is made BY the editor Of the PATRIOT is appreciated
fully as much on our side ~ on his
NEW NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR.
writer in the " Carolinian'' nomnaies General
JAMES W. HARRISON, of Anderson, for next governor
of South Carolina We not At all surprised at the
circumstance; for, although the nominee - quite n
young man, yet there Is not gentleman in the State
of purer aims OF more sterling worth. General HAR.
RrsaN was college nlaxsmate Of Ex-Governor MAN.
MING. Since his graduation, he has repeatedly re.
presented his District in the State Legislature and al
ways with high acceptance. In the upper country oil
South Carolina there is no man more nnobjec,onaole,
or who would command mere cordial support fer the
Office in question; Aud we have reasss to believe