Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-06-18
MASS4CHVSET'lsAND SOUTH CAROLINA.
There is no por,iou Of the recent speech
of Charles Summer. to which the recent cas-.

gained by lhe esanpse m Feappas III ITS va
liant struggle against oppression and in the
deYelopmentafa d new science OF emigration"
Ridiculous us such sentiment might seem
on the lips of any man. it comes with esPe-
cialIy lad grace from the Representative Of
a State that has fallen SO far below its an
cicnt Revolutionary fame, and sunk SO deep.
ly beneath the level Of contempt as the
MASSACHUSETTS, of 1855. We need not 60
back to tho early days Of the Republic and
and institute comparison between the two
commonweallhs then, to show that South
Carolina did even more than Massachusetts
in the crisis Of national existence for the
cause of American liberty \ careful read
ing of the record will convince any one that
the balance of merit and distinction WAS III
favor Of The Southern State, for though The
Revolution opened in Massachusetts, and
WAS kept mp there for a considerable time,
the forces which were gathered TO oppose
the troops Of the Crown were largely swell:
led by rrinrorccnicnls from tho South, and
among these there ware many gallant South
Caroliuiaus, And when the seat. of war
was transferred from New England to the
soil of Carolina itself, which, during The last
three years of the struggle, WAS the Flan-
ders, the crmsoued battle field of the com.
batanls, not a dozen Massachusetts men
were thereto participate in the peril ami the
glory of the campaign. Generals .l.ineo!n
and Green constituted rle entire New Eng,
land force that ever crossed the Carolina
boundary, and the battles Of Gui ford Court
House and Kings Mountain, Of Eutaw an
Camden and the Cowpens were fought ny
Southern troops alone. But without going
into the history Of the past, in what aspects
have Massachusetts aud South Carolina
presented themselves to US in our own day
Who has forgotten the recreancy of the for
mer in the late war with Mexico, when the
gallant Lincoln, man worthy OF the high.
est memories of Bunker Hill, drumned
through the whole State, from Cape Cod to
Berkshire, without obtaining corporars
guard of Yankee volunteers to fight the bat.
Ties of his country. Lowell, the Abolition
ist poet, even had the shameless effronlery
to bnas, in doggerel rhyme that the boys o'
Massachusetts were not quite so green ms TO
be caught by the call Of patriotism. Ad'
dressing himself to Lincoln's fEer, he said :;
"Toot away, you 6fsr fellow,
Let 'em see how spry you be,
Guess you'll tonl till you are yellow
Fore yap get holder me-"
Mr.. Lowell's patriotic feeling was as low
As his verses in different sense, and so it
was with the whole population Of his State.
Daniel Webster sent son to the field and
Lincoln went too, and both Of them fell on
the slippery slopes of Buena Vista, brave
fellows and there split all the blood tha.
Massachusetts could spare in such an emer-
cency. How different was it with South
Carolina. Thirteen hundred of her youth
marched at the first call, under the lead oI
the heroic Butler, honored name, Of whom
not more than one. fourth ever returned. The
Colonel fell at the head Of his rcgimopt
pierced with many wounds, aud bis follow,
ers were shot down around him ON every
hand. And this devotion to country was
shown in a war which South Carolina disap