Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-10-29

Of sprouts" and conclude. In The first place
what great issues is before the public now
"To be or not to be-" Union or dissolution.
What is the Union worth Z. Everything. How
is it to be saved? Only by the election of na.
tional President: How many national men are
before the: people for that Office? But one.
Who is he? Millard Fillmore. Fremont'swife
says he is sectional fanatic, and Buchanan him.
self says he is nobody any more. 1t would seem
the Democracy have persisted with such inaexi-
Bile pertinacity so long in nominating men who
were before their nomination nobody, that their
aspirants have been educated, by the force of
Aabitual reflection, to feel that if they uere anu.
body before they were nominated, by virtue of
their nomination they en- instante must become
nobody. With them success seems to depend
upon it. Is this not crisis in which we ought
to have somebody for President? I always
knew the Democracy were easily led, and still
more easily misled, b.. never dreamed thew
would openly consent, before heaven and earth,
to follow the lend>of man who vanishes into o
noneltity under the touches of his own pencil.
Democracy was once conglomeration of hete.
rogenous principles But those principles have
died out with the dry rot, and Democracy has
become spirit, and an evil one at that. It is
now the god of party, and its worshippers
might~well cut the motto of Mahomet in two,
" There is but one god" to.wit. Democracy,
and inscribe it on their banners; but truth
would require them to add, aOur candidate is
his prophet" Unlike the Mecca Pilgrims, they
have no respect for the illustrious dead. Jeffer
on, Madison, Jackson, and Polk are all nobody
now. They were hailed as prophets of the
god living candidate to wear the livery of a
political prophet, and lead multitude, famish.
ing for treasury pap. The almost unanimous
concentration of the Northern vote in the Gin.
cinnati convention, euery time, on Buchanan, and
the dogged obstinacy Of the South in openly
voting against him for sixteen consecutive bal.
lots, until you can almost hear their teeth grit
in fancy as they say no the sixteenth time, is
either without meaning or full of meaning; and,
if it is full Of meaning, it redeems that body
from the imputation of Stiffness, by branding
them with sectional purposes. In the dssolu-
ton of this Union such purposes must ineviia-
bly, terminate. Now what paper in. the Union
is worth more than oil others TO stay this catas-
trophy? The Louisville Journal. How? By
its fearless, eloquent, and powerful defense of
the Constitution and the Union and it's intrepid
efficient and enthusiastic advocacy of the pre-.
eminent claims of Mllard Fillmore to the unani.
nous suffrages of the conservative men of this
distressed land. What are the elements neces.
sary to make an editor efficient, able, and use.
full? Courage, wit, learning, research, industry,
common sense, and independence. Is he to fol-
low in the trail of public opinion, like dog,
tied to ricketty, creaking wagon, trotting in
the. rear? No, heu uust play the pioneer, blaze
the way for public opinion, and blaze away at,
mn h1io onininn ,uhan II uyondo f.oy,I tbo
be doss blaze, ,..s,.s,l....; : ~,
sense q sSas;4
vulsion and disgust, that the Louisville Journal,
in a crisis like the present, when it carries upon
its bright wings the last hope of q sinking
country, is to be rejected by the very men, toL-
ling in the same vineyard, for the same deVout
and hallowed purposes, only because upon an
issue that journal has the indepen.
dence to express opinions incompatible with
their pre.existing prejudices. Mems passions
NE the same in all ages climates, and races, but
the felicity of Providen,ia wisdom is nowhere
better asserted thnn in the countless hues and
shades of difference that divide mems opinions.
When we feel we may agree, but when We rea-
SON we are liable to differ, and if cannot en-.
dure and respect your rieavs, what is to become
of mine, that want you to hear and consider.
But the discussion of such a proposition is be-
meath the dignity of argument and without the
pale of that temper which self respect and good
breeding impose upon the lash of criticism, when
it is to fall upon the preposterous vagaries Of
friend. The Brooks and Sumner rencounter
was n personal matter until it got into court;
there it should have stopped forever. An Incl.
dental allusion to it is all that propriety can
sanction any press in making. Its discussion
must be fraught with agitation's interminable
trains of evils and for that reason, at this time,
is POLITICALLY, RADICALLY, AND ESSENTIALLY
WRONG. A. H. H. D.
AN ATRccloUs MuRDER.-We regret to learn