Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-04-23
MMUNICATI N.
For the Advertlse1


MR. EDITOR: If ever man on Gods foot
stool was iapelIed BY pure motive to the per-
formance of a labor, and was animated oy de-
sire to do good-a desire wholly unmixed with
ill.wi or opposition to any one, that man
WAS myself, while penning the two commun'ca'
,ons which havsrecently appeared in your pa
per over nv signature. was 30 studlous 10
avoid even the appearance of wrong, Or OF an
intention to give my pieces All application to some
individual, that expressly and so!emny dis
claimed all offensive alluson to any member OF
the Bar. My aim was higher and nobler. 1t
WAS TO vindicate the claims of 4 great profession
to the confidence and esteem of my Fellow cit
izens-It WAS to do my part towards rcscu'ng
the law and lawyers, from the load of foul OBJ
Ioquy, which it had almost become the habit OF
seuseless and malignant men to heap upon them
and because such a habit existed, it was only The
more necessary for me strike the heavi blows
to breake it down.-And my aim was to correct
public opinion so that it might be able to do
Justice to the " law !" which the great EDMUND
BURKE declared to BE- C. one of the first and no.
blest Of human sciences; science which has
done more to quicken and invigorate the under
standing, than all the other kinds Of learning
put together"
dealt entirely in argument upon general
principles, enforced and sustained by undenlable
facts, and by tho highest and most unquestloned
examples drawn from history. In support OF
nv cause, names were arrayed, that have done
honor to our country, honor to history. and hon.
or to humanity itself. The mcanest scribe
would have had better taste, than to injure a
cause of such dignity by resorting 10 personal
reflections, and by appealing to the sordid sentl,
ments and vulgar passions of the lowest ol
mankind. 1t was against these, that | warred
to preven. them from taking growth in minds
endowed to be blessing to the community.
Their is one thing, may freely asserI.-Tha'
in writing the two earnest articles, to which ref
ference, has been had, felt no unkindness, al
any rate, to the Farmers, among whom casseo
myself, or to any other class Of the people, ane
erpressed no unkindness towards them.
neither desired to say-nor did | say, single
word, to which any living man had right justly
to make exception, or for which he could be JUS
tilted 10 attempting to hold me up to public cen
sure and condemnation. The redoubted knigh
of La MANcHA himself, who could fight wind
mills for lack of argument could have found
in my humble efforts, no cause for the exercise
of his easily swaked wrath.
But communication, signed MANY FARMER:
was published in The Advertiser of the 9th inst.
in which there Is an evident attempt to assail mt
personalIy.i if indeed. the thing has any meaning
Eat all. Argument. there is none. Neither car
Il discover in the curious production, either con
nnec,ion, point, or applicability, farther than
vague and offensive allusion to myself, ane
patronizing alluson to some member Of th'
Bar whom it seems, that the Juniors would a,
beneath the cIod for his good luck, and maj
81 sterling qualities Now, when, there is no ques
ton raised, I cannot meet one il, debate, and tn
peculiar genius of MANY farmers has placed
entirely beyond my power, to answer him witt
argument. 1t is true, he has caught up, Englis
enough, with sna,ches from ShaEespear, and th
Ten thousand gear, to call names-a1d any 0
those necessary appendages of circus, who's
oss i il i is to fill up The intervals rival, Of the Perfo,