Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-04-02

ticultualiss, md heavy rains have flle our wafer
courses and rendered our roads almost mpassible but
hopes brighten with the prospect of Summer days
Oh the entrance Of April.
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LENGTHY CORRESPONDENCE.
IT is matter Of considerable regret, to us, that we
compelled through necessity, TO call upon ,hose
who write communications fr onr paper, to ahridge
their articles, and that considerably, it is pur
Pose not shut up paper from The insertion OF
other matter, by filling whole 81 eet with such con.
,ributions And, above all, We most earnestly re-
Quest that they will he written in more lsgble
hand, as they occupy so much time in deopherng
th.m We nre also compelled to say to those OF our
contributors who waging war OF quils. through
our columns, that their communications are be-
ginning to assume shape contrary TO that for which
our paper established, H. e. to disseminate useful
knowledge, without woundlng the feelings OF our
frients) We will bs constrained, when they descend
to personalities, to refuse their publication. We say
this not through any harsh feelings 10 either party,
but for the mutual benefit Of all concerned.
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| In our ast %e presented our readers with this
admirable prodiicton at length. To US it reads well
not from any personal bias We have towards our
distinguished Senator, bat because the speech con-
fnrm., in degree, 10 our standard of what such an
effort delivered for the hearing of the greatest nation
on earth, should be. It comes adorned with none of
the tinse rhetoric that destroys the effect of most all
Americ eoquence. The Senator speaks like an
honest man, declaring The firm convictions Of n mind
devoted 10 the good of his country lie announces his
views like first minister Of Stale, because lie is in
earnest.-noi lik. schooboy spouling flowers and
folly in The attitude Of a dancing master.
We have observed this in the later efforts Of Judge
BUTLER. He directs his arguments entirely Of the
innumerable adeclives and epttelS that so much mar
the style and force of all orr oraory. The man who
is alway exagSeratng is never credited There no
terror in the curses Of the man who s an habitua
blasphemer but the strong made to trembe Mt the
awaked wrath and imprecalions Of the good tempered
unobtrusve citizen The Judge always means to say
good DEAL and not by epilhets, the common tools Of
all vulgar orators, but by substantive sentences, ard
expressions often more suggestive than would first
appear from the plain impurt Of the words. Some.
iimes it is true, or in some sentences. We should
rather say his meaning seems little obscure fr0m
his exceeding anxiety to avoid adjcctivcs, but when
his shots do take effect and they seldom miss their
aim, they hit TO destroy.
We are truly gra,Ged, to see in This speech, that
whilst our Senator repels with manliness and Roman
dignity the attacks of Mr.. HALE upon the Southern
character he wholly abstains from every thing like
retaila,ory abuse. The victory J Z gains is won by
none of tile petty srategems Of the bush fighter but by
the skill and combinations, of commander capable
,ti LAM and rlnrnus G.ld
Gov-r or REEDER, even, is not able to exurt from
the speaker a remark unbecoming the highest repre-
sentative station in tile Union. /, is not true, that
great character may not crush the reptiles that would
sting him, without becoming contaminated by the
venom with which they infect the aIr, and this is
eyirced by the late discussion to which We have had
reference.
We never before saw 20 clearly the bjcct Of the
late Proclamation Of The President, until We were
made acquainted with it by lhe disclosure of Judge
BuTLEn's speech. 1t IS true, that whilst tile Aboli-
tions,s were crying treason against the Border Ruff
ans, to dire:t attention from Sharps Rifles it was
they, themselves that were aiming the deadly stab,
and preparing to give the fatal blow
But the Judge has given u noble vindicaiOn Of
the character Of his friend, Mr.. ArcHIsoN-one that
will descend to posterty-une that will be read by
the children of that MANA name worthy to he clas-
.ed with the heroes and law.gives of Antiquity We
confess. that we are in love with the character drawn
Of Mr.. ATcHIsoN aid whilst he can claim on the
floor of the Senate advocate and defender, able
and 50 disinteresed as Judge BUTLER, he has nothing
to fear from the assaults, detracton, and vtuperaton
of all the Abolitonists Freesoes, and Black Repub
lcans in the United States. His fame is placed upon
proud pedestal, that only tile wing of the eagle
sweep.
Tho South owes Mr. ATcHrsoN a debt Of eternal
gratitude-the country owes it TO hln-aH good
owe it to him. whether his efforts in Kansas succeed
or fail.
~ TIE Columbia Carolininn Of The 25th s1t.
says, The prisoner, James McCombs, under sentence
of death for the murder of w. +. Cross, made an
Intellectual attempt to escape from Jail on Saturday
night He got from his cell into the corridor, but
failel in further efforts.
~ THE Washington Star mentions report that
tho Senate, confirmed the nomination Of Ex-Governor
Bgler of California, to be United States Minister, resi-
dent at Stockholm,
@ GOVERNOR ADAMS will commence his " gen.
eral reviews, at WRlterboro', on the 10th Of April.
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~ Ex-Governor Reeder and Gen. Whitfield, il is
snid will accoHpany the Congressional Copmiliee to