Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-03-19
COM M UNI!CATION N S.
For theAdvcrllser.
TO THE EDITORIAL CORPS OF THE M

,GEGTLEAEN = IN lne very efy-commtnceHenL vi LUG
little entertainment which have been Offering you,
10 all huluy was fearful Of suhjecting myself tb
hsilenlieal charge Yolbare brought againstane. j.
is cain, in me, humby confess, to attempt 10 impress
a Wholesome lesson on persorages So di tinguished
as you are for all that adorns in public station and
far removed in biiIes, from the narruwpphsre omy
own alanmsns. and the impo,ent grasp Of my feeble
comprehension. When you saw how iel. the dilemma
in which was placed, it would have been kind in
yo not 10 have exposed my raniy, as ii was cruel in
you emblazun it tu the public The sagacity Of The
people would surely have detected my unhappy mfr
miy sUun enough, and then you shuuld have enjoyed
the honor Of being generous as you are now great
You have misconceivrd my purposes every Where,
and in every way. 1t is not possible that disrust-
ful poor old like myself could opprrss you as an
Incubus, if he disposed 10 such hazard and
wicksdnsss. No! No! Gentlemen, sleep quietly
sleep soundly shall have Use for you hereafter.
have meant 10 do nothing towards you, but good OIL
ces The horrible weight you have mistaken for The
nightmare, was only little ballast, have been Try
ing to put into your ast.sailing craft. Does il feel
strange and cumbersome. Perhaps, there was no
place for its ,dgenent. Make for it, my ieuds
it will do you good un other day, when The shall
be rough, and the iempests shall beat against your
bark. 1t will enable her to stem The waves, when The
winds shall howl through her risg ng, aud with masts
erect, when the ocean shall be aslrd into fury, 40
walk the waters like thing Of life."
I am one uf the people, gcntemen-Edors Of The
Inforncr, and whether Baptist or an Infdet, have
right to speak because, from your own of repeated
limitations, you have the destines ui us all on buard
your ship Shall then, not cry to The helmsman to
steer clear Of tie breakers, and tell the watch when
the storm is gathering above u.s. II the pillows are
raging and the pilot is deal reason, and the captain
is incapable of managing The vessel, they must be
displaced from command, or shall all be engulfed
in The briny deep.
You have constituted yourselves, by your reiterated
arowals the guardians Of the rights and interests Of
the pe,ipe. Your cupabilty for the performance Of
the duties thus devoving upon you is seriously qnes-
toned and doubted by many good citizens In their
numcs then, and in my owa, uor am a party in in
lerssl however unnpor,ant in other respecIs,) call
upon you to give bond for the faithful discharge Of
your trust Snrees are required, and they must be
given, your functions shall cease, far they a
feet my interests. 1t is because, am party likely
10 suffer from your mismanagemen' that l have the
audacity TO call you to account; and not because
have the immodes desire of entering into such hate
full contest, or Of even brhoding my name arrayedin
the very respectable columns Of the EdgeGed Ltorer.
assure you gentlemen, that am not actuuted, in
what now do, by the ambition Of exhibiting little
prowess in The discontinue Of adversary IfIwere
L,-. I .hy E,r ,hor
game. UnambiIous as am, in my rretensions, if
either your ubslnacy or your transsressons should,
at any time, provoke me 10 n conflict with You of
reason and argument, the palm Of victory, and the
shouts of triumph would scarcely bs awarded to you,
even by your "SaIuLa Legion" or your most ardent
admirers in Barnwe district.
You aedge in substance and several times repeat
in your paper, that the people have turned their backs
upon me-, and that am, at this moment, the wrthng
victim of their indignation for past political often
crs. You say in fact, that l am visited, with The
abiding wrath Of an outraged people. II so, am in
deed, sorry TO learn it, and your gener"us nature
should have made that the last secret, in all your
spy,ng, 10 be disclosed 10 the community. II always
e1cltes the compassion Of clvalrous cOmbatant to
zee his struggling antagonist laid prosrae Ill tile dust
But gentlemen, hay. tile proud consciousness 10
know that if the people have turned their backs upon
me, have not turned mine upon Mcm nor upon The
gallant Phaaux that stood shoulder to shoulder with
me. in The war Of 1852. shalt never desert the
lines Of my friends, when assailed by greater numbers
Of the enemy, or abandon my faithful flag, when VIC
tory has declared for the standard ufmy fe Can, at
least, one of you say much Who now attempts 10
publickly ridicue Secession and Nulcation crimi-
nal abnriions, but the Jupiter cum futn'ine Of the
Edgelield Ltormer! Who attempts to disturb, in
their ne made grave, the ashes Of John c. Calhuun,
the pride and glory Of South Carolina, and Of all
Amcrica-and to delract from the clustering laurels
of The man, who living and struggling to The
last for his counry-dieG with his wsr.larness still
reekng on his back! One of The repnted editors Of
the Informcr. Who had the re,uubtaic manhood TO
stab the dead Percy of Shrewsbury but Sir John
Fals,a And who now has lhe holiness to kick The
dead lion OF South Carolina, but an editor Of the
EedgeieId Informcr! Who has the hardilood to stand
up befure an audience Of Elgeield, and deounce Mr..
jefferson, the father Of American Liberty as bad and
unprincpIsd man One Of the editors Of the Edgcfeld
Informcr Who had the unb:ushing face to rise in
his place in the Legislature, and amid the suppressed
filters Of that whole Assembly (hpply uHrercered by
him in his oblivious and dreamy daancc of love) 10
sulemnize his marriage with Benjamin +. Perry-Ihe
undisgused Champion Of Whiggery and Federalism
in South Carolina, and the only Of hers that never
was her friend in any dreadful exgency! One OF the
editors of the Edgefeld Iaformer. pray God to blast
that unhallowed union with s,eriliiy. Deliver my
country from the offspring Of their ascvious
embraces. Monstrum hurrendum, informe, ingens
But gentlemen lay not the sweet consolation 10 your
SOULS that am dead, even sleeping, ur that have
become all object of dsdan or of Indifference 10 my
fllow.citizrns of the District and Stale Isha never
die before my time shal! plant myself upon rock,
and wholly unmoved by The turbulent ou-cres of the
dsmagogue, shall defy the Of faction, and the
whole kennel OF snbservien Jewellers and agrarans
that may be let Loose to worry me. When all the
main positions you now advocate shall have been ut
tery demolished-and when you and your party shall
have suffered total and dsgrace(nl rout-nay, when
all memory Of your lranscendent eilnrts, and Of the
eflorts Of your worthy co.a,uors shall be blotled
from the minds Of men, the principles have espoused
will stand firm, because they written the heart
Of man, and fixed in The inmnlabe laws of God.
can already the entire wreck and ruin Of your
cause, which early day is 10 bring forth. l see
your disastrous confusion, and hear your agoniznS
complaints. Tile deep.tuned voice Of your goodman
Of the mountains reaounds even among The hills and
pine.barrens Of Edgefed, calling for help upon his
spouse Nancy! Nancy"-whilst she, good soul, can
only family and despa'ringy respond" Haste, my
love, and cume TO me-" Your union was unnatural,
within the prohibited degrees, like that of the Devil
and Sn and it shall be blessed and consecrated by
M, linz no fruit but deal m nbhoEred and nglY