Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-11-05
From lheiG Charleston Standard.
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ito do that la is, 10 resist the ani.slayery az
gressor fixed majority of nohslavehoding States
",coGcert Of action must be ineeeasary-hot to say
the Union, for it would be Then too laiebut 70 say
ourselves Thus, is my view, concert is the one Thin
1hsedfdE"-J C. Calhoun. 'E'''; ''''''' no.
I ,1pfdssnt the reader fen brief extracts. '"The
will repay the perusal. =, sr ,.,:, , .r,. r,.
|"'' There Is one point on which there can be n
University of:.opinion in the South among'tho
Ewho are true'to her, or'who have made up thei
i minds not to beslaves that is, if we should b
Il forced to choose between resistance and sub
mission, we should take resistance at all haz
rards."-CALHoUN. 81: lo ;am a, i ai.is:.isi
~ do that, concert of action .must me
cessary, not 10, save the Union, forait would b
too late, but to spys ourselyeE Thus, in: ny
view, concert is the ons7 thing needfal."7-CAt
asubmit The -rery sound ourdles The .bloot
In my. 3eins But let us be united, and q tale b
submission shall never be eld,"-CHEyEs. 3
s." What is the remedy2 i answer secession
united secession Of the slaveholding States, .ors
large number of them. Nothing else will be
wise e-;nothing else win be practicable, ,'-CHEvEs
ii "The contest is not between South Carolina
I and Tho General Government, but between the
sIaveholding States and the balance of the civ.
ilized world. And for one State to separate
from the rest, is to weaken ourselves and ena.
Bile the enemy to, cut us off in .detail."-DR'
! Crook. ,,:,.-i...,... ,;r, 4, -.,,.,..r ....r
Then ieet.southi Carolina, as the van guard
halt, stand fast, and maintain her position, skir
mish with the enemy, and take advantage of the
chapter Of accidents, until the main body Of the
army-the balance Of The slaveholding States
comes up within supporting dstance."'-IBlD.
"Stand upon your arms until you can give a
blow thai will despatch your enemy"- Orr.
"No~nation can rely ON the forbearance' of
others, and I would not allow the Palmetto flag
10 float by sufferance ly."LBuTLER. ~
"Wc must concsde to the other States what
we claim for ourselves, intelligence to under
stand their rights, and courage. to defend them.
And il is bad policy and bad taste to assume
that South Carolina alone has the spirit ind the
intelligence to defend and preserve the common
rights of all the Southern States."-BURT. -;
9. South Carolina has been isolaaed within the
Union, by the arts Of our enemies, and we pro-
pose to complete and perpeluate that isolation,
by drawing between her and the other slave
holding States the deeply marked lines of a sep
arate national existence: This seems to me to
be.a fatal error"--BARNwELL. :,..- -
is not oil this applicable at the present time !!
What true patriot Of the South asks more Of
his ronfederates, at this time, than an unswery.
ing adherence TO the principles here set forth.
The extracts, in the form in which they ap-
pear above, are taken from tie g Southern Stand
ard" a paper established as the organ of the
Cooperation party in Charleston, and through
out the controversy, these extracts were stand
those avowed h ts t5d fef The Bdai}osa sspmn
adopted by the Legislature in l84S and 1919,
and with those advocated in the pamphlets and
memorial of 1850, with the Party Platform Of
1851, and which never were abandoned by that
party during its brief existence.
The view | have here presented might be
sustained by abundant evidence, but forbe ear.
The mistake of our Secession friends was, in a
period of excitement, perfectly natural, and IS
easily explained. The contest began rs \
Southern movement-the resistance contempla-
ted was u resistance by the SOUTH. In urging
",resistance," words were not measured, but IN
The Jegi,lnin! it was by all tac:tly understood
as applying 10 the SOUTH and Secession, at that
time, meant, in the language Of Judge Cheves,
FW Il united secession of the s!avenolding States,
or large number OF them" While the people
were vet burning under the exciting appeal, in
tended TO effect His resaN, some Of our own clti-
zens despairing of the cooperation" to which
our Legislature resolres hal pointed, proposed a
,s,O remedy. not hitherto discussed or considered
Upon the neu issue .tllerp was difference of opn.
ion rs soon as propoundad and theset who bat
now, in good earnest, urged resistance, under.
stood as "united secession" were strenuous
in opposing Yes1stence by "separate secession"
Both parties were. :honest--neither were incon.
sistent. 1t was, in fact, "A NEWl AND DISTINCT
ISSUE. Which party was right it were worse
than useless now to discuss. .,.t....: .a.l ):
Itis certain that Kansas cauDot be-: defended
by South Carolina alone ,..:.5 4, i.,....s;: -
And there Is, at present, quite too fair pros
pect for unied secession" in the event that the
| Government should fall into the hands Of q Sec
tional abolition party of the Norihlato permit US
TO entertain at this time the consideration of
the question Of sepergte SEBASTIAN" !,y:sI, :;,s
II have felt then. ii the attempt sto reconcile
parties, once in opposition, TO act cordially TO-
pethgr, it was not less necessary to show that
there Ind been NO glarihs Change Of position, IN
the face 6f danger as that the positions Of the
two parties did not, in themselves, leid to differ;
ence of action nthe present juhctdre. 80 -, :.
In porob6ration If The yiew, chat the charge
of Inconsistency originated lii misapprehenslon
Twill state q fact which I;haye derived from au-
thdaty yunquestlonahle. In the summer of 1850,
before the compromise measures, had been emo
ted, the,Attotney General, Mr. Hayne passing
through Washington, was Casually met, in. the
Capitol, by the Hon. R., w, BarnYeIh then in
the Sepate. Mr.. BaEDweli invited him 10 Com.
mittee room; land said to him; &thesec measures,
fthe apompreiufsep) wifi pass and Georgia \
fear will succuflb, and IT, 50 no other Stale viii
seced. unless it be South CAROLINA. Can, she
fight the battle single handed g. Thereby of Of
Mr. Hayns Was sno, it would 'be:. madness =
Mr. 'Barnwell fejoned,,"I am gladyou:thinkso;
that is my. opinion, and thHve my apprehension
thhalt ihe, fssne Bllli soon assume that shape
Ne. Haynel said,thatlhe SWas' net without hope;
/ and that MS long as there was any, shoY Of opa
position ELSEWHERE, South Catolilh mGst; be
I kapt TO The; ;matE.n" They paEted. With this
understandipg:, Yet, these1 gentl tlemsn. .ahared
under the excitement of the times IN the gene!
raj accusation of abandonment Of position ~ =,
1T was SIS, some months afterthis conversation,
that Nj. Hayne made an addressto meeting oi
the Southern Rights Association Mt tile Hiber.
nian Hall, which was more than once. referred to
during, The party warfare iof 1851, as.affordng
evidence, that he; occupied then .different land
higher ground, than he afterwards sustained
His remarks on Tint night. October 5th, 1850
concluded as follows. Let their consistency be
iio,o3 iic3 pronounced upon, by the "sober .seroni
&c bio Ssnaas;on frianda -,,'l 90 .,.l:'