Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-01-23

Mississippi, Missouri, and our other South.
ern sisters, we can hold no communion with
you in political action or counseR-.we are
posed to conventions on principle, and
not even now, when the common peril to US
all is imminent, can we depart from our
time. .honored policy, or lift our voice or
stretch forth hand to cheer or encourage,
to strengthen or aid you.
The people of some of our neighboring
States, Georgia and Alabama, have in their
preliminary meetings or conventions, rela-
tive to representation at Cincinnati, de.
clated its Importance, and have, with marked
emphasis and with great solicitude, invited
the people Of every Southern State, as well
as Northern, to send delegates. We ask
our readers ii there is not something due in
common courtesy to our neighbors; they
believe the approaching assemblage will be
one of the most important 10 political results
that has ever been held; they feel that the
time has come to declare, without equivoca.
ton, to the men of the North, of the same
political faith, that aggression must cease +;
that if political connection is to continue,
the conservative people Of the non.slavehold.
ing States must beqtir themselves, and put
down the miserable factions which war upon
the South and the Constitution; they feel
that it is high time to declare the ultimatum
Of Southern forbearance, and they have
chosen to be present at this Convention, as
afording the best opportunity of making
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OF the same household of political faith.
They have invited you, people Of South
Carolina, to meet them there, and it is for
you to say whether you will stand aloof
and maintain proud but proitless isolation,
or accept the invitation from those whose
faith or patriotic motives you must entirely
conide in.
Georgia, we believe, has instructed her
delegates; Florida will probably instruct
hers, and indeed all the Southern States will
doubtless give their delegates such precise
and well defined instructions, that the action
of the entire Southern delegation will be
unanimous. On such an occasion, with
such an object to be attained, there must be
weighty considerations indeed to prevent
South Carolina from being present, not as
leader or partizan, but as one Of commu-
nifty of States, whose dearest interests are
at stake, and who, faithful to the instincts
them, and in the same effort, if possible, to
save the Union, and rescue the Constitution
from the grasp Of the reckless fanatics who
seek to destroy it
This is the only consideration We look to
in discussing the question; we are no partl.
zan, we look upon all parties at the North
as uttery y unsound on the great question OF
the day-we have no desire that the State
should enter into mere Presidential scram-
BILE; but we do think that at this time she
should meet her sister States in one more
united, strong, and perhaps final effort, to
save the country; or, failing in that. indi.
cate the course the people they represent
should adopt to save themselves from utter
ruin.
Believing then that this same " National
Democratic Convention" will have it in its
power, by manly declaration of political
principles in the choice of the man for the
Executive Office, and by patriotic avowal
of its determination to abide by the Consti.
tuition in defending and maintaining the
rights of the South, to do more in putting
down the fanaticism of the North than any
previous similar assemblage, we think that
strong obligations Of duty, patriotism and
self preservation demand that South Caro-.
lima should not reject the invitation to be
present, or turn deaf ear to the solicita.
lions of those she must finally act with.
WoMAN's RIGHT TO SHAwLs.-A Wes-
tern lady thus vigorously asserts the exclu.
sive right of her sex to wear shawls. We
advise those for whom her distribe is intended,
not to read it, as its psrusal is not likely to
minister to their vanity. Others, however,
may enjoy it, so here goes:
want to tell you what woman thinks
of the shawl-wearing rage just now possess
sing so many Of our men.
Talk of woman wearing the breeches.
The truth is, We will soon have nothing else
to wear from present appearances. The
next innovation will be to don our petticoats
and shifts. Now young gentlemen-imita.
tors of the Beechers and other great fops-
don't you feel ashamed in your horse blank.
cts, or in the decenter old shawls of your
mothers9 The fools are not all dead yet !;
and believe if you were brayed in NOR.
tar the dust will be fools powder still.
For my part hate these gawky hybrids; ;
neither man nor woman. cannot see what
God designed them for, unless to make the
goslins and country gougers stare at the
unmistakable evidence OF a saphead or a
snob.
Throw away your shawls, young gentle
men. Have little thought in your brains
and independence in your lives, and don't
60 about looking so silly, trying to be what
Nature never made you for. Your mothers
need their shawls this wintry weather. You
can show your folly in some other way than
by setting whole congregation to stare on
the holy Sabbath day at worship, and there.
by destroying the devotional feelings of the
fdgetty old women or BY turning the eyes
of all you chance to meet during the week
upon yourselves, as if you were some great
shanghai escape& from Barnum's animal
show. MARY =.
A CIVILIZED TR1BE-The Seneca 1ndi.
ans have law to the effect that no treaty is