Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-05-30
SOUTHERN UNANIMITY.

In days not Yet forgotten by CaroIlnlans or
Sou,herncrs, in common with many OF our CO.
Temperatures, we pleaded for Southern harmony
and Southern unity Of action. The pleadlngs
were in v,in-all the Southern States refusing
TO unite on any thing but acquiescence in futile
and delusive piece of Congressional patchwork
called Compromise" Nevertheless, we are
not yet dishearlened or discouraged in what is
our plain duty as journasts-to still call on the
people of the South to discard all political
issues except that of their own savalion.-
From the signs OF the times, we believe that
call, now being sounded by many of the South
ern press, will be more cheertully responded 10
than in bv-gone days, for the evidences OF the
progress of abolition are so papabie, that the
Southern man who would wiliuly close his
ewes to them must have given up all hope OF
his section and is ready 10 submit to the aggres-
sions which threaten II.
Our columns have not been wanting OF abun-
dant proof that anli.savcry fanaliclsm is to-day
stronger in the free States than ever before, and
that il promises for the future to be still! more
onnipotent and all-pervading throughout the
entire North. 1t is with this conviction That we
again broach the political questions involved III
the present developments OF Northern pIollc
sentiment, and 10 raise our feeble voice among
cotcmporarleS III nome 10 iSh Io9 'oOoII'e'' u
URiOn.
Nor must our readers imagine that we would
have South Carolina take any part in the intla-
tory steps which may become necessary Tor
Southern defensive organization. She can afford
to wait Her place in the ranks can well be
designated, and she will occupy it at the proper
time; but We are constrained 10 warn her peo-
pie against domestic division in political feeling
or sentiment. Our whole strength will be need
cd when the struggle comes, for all experience
has taughi Us that our weakncss--the weakness
of our section-has been the fruit of division
among ourselves on comparatively minor ques-
tions.
We have little faith in what has heretofore
been recognized as the national Democratic
party, as to its power to avert the coming storm.
We believe in its principles, and we believe that
it numbers within its fold more true patriots, in
all sections, than are found in any other pollti-
cal organization known in the Republic but it
is powerless at the North to stem the gathering
flood of aboliionsm, and must remain passive
or be overwhelmed. CIinging to the creed and
principles of the Democratic party, we lament
the dstecions in its ranks and its utterly PROSTATE
condition in the Northern and Eastern States.
1t has true men among its members even there,
but the political guioine has beheaded them,
leaving the South almost without q man who is
;n q posilion to make even feeble show OF
resistance to fanatcism.
Our only hope for safety, for Southern inde-
pendence, for Southern institutions, is reliance
unon ourseves-upon the union Of Southern
mon of ali parties in defence of their section
and their institutions. What signifies to the
people of the South any and all the other issues
.o,,,,-od with that which will be surely