Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-04-30
THE EVENING NEWS.

Further glances next week.
THE EVENING NEWS.
This paper has thrown itself into attitude Of Of.
Tended independence on account of an article OF ours
styled Judge Butler and his accnsers," which ap.
peared in the Advertiser of the 10th ,:stant. The
Ne,Ds remarks Of this article: " Ii asserts, in sup
port of its appellation, that we have arralgned him
Judge b. by studied attacks upon his inconsistency
of conduct and mpurily of motives and it is calcu-
lated Justly to excite surprise by so gratutous
fling and 10 arouse US by iheSspe of its rebuke"
We have but little to say repyto the structures
of le News; and, to say that little conrisely, we beg
pardon for adopting the order and style of arrange
ment which that paper sets befurs us.
"Accusers ~ The use of the term was designed TO
mply what it always implies in common parance !:
"Those who bring charges against another" Moth
ng more. Had we intended to lay The sin of" ma.
uolence" at the Ne,ps door, certainly should not
have ndiled, in the same article, such language as
the following: i" We MAKE no charge Of nnworthy
intentions upon those who haze thought right thus to
assault our Senator. They are gentlemen aboue ALL
trickery and dishonesty" The conditional aunt Of
"graceless" is therefore rather ungraeeuuy made
and the re,Ort" is a spent ball" which has not
reached us.
"!Studied attacks" 4he NetOs is deluded in
thinking that we used t;is expression lin the pu-
raj number) with reference 10 itself alone. Our
language was studied attacks Of The Euenlng NEWS
and Charleston MERcuRY.' There was but one at
tack by each of these papers that happened 10 fall
under our observation. If The News therefore ina
gnes that We to imply series Of attacks from
lis battery, it isrery wide OF the mark We never
read but one And that one we did regard as "stndi.
ed"-that is, elaborate or carefully prepared. But
te Neus denies that any studied attacks have been
made upon Judge BUTLER and, in SO lar as its own
piece is concerned, we have no objection whatever 10
accepting the infOrmatios The DEVELOPMENT simply
goes to show that i, costs q eDs pains or
elaboration, 10 get upa lsy; constructed editorial
those who "woud now hang upon the skirts" Of
Judpe BUTLER, will be noticed in another place.
{" Impurily of motives !" The philosophizng of
the Ne,rs as 10 alarmed conscirnrps" and " The
characteristics of political demagogueism, Is myst'
fed abstraction whose scope and bearing we
nr.ciate nor entirely comprehend. If it be meant to
classify ours with "aIarmed ccnscences," or ourset
with political demagognes, We too relort The charge
Thus nade it is certainly as "inappIIcabe anu grace
less" as any thing we have said uf the News-The
following remark appears in this connection: "We
deny that 10 arraign Senntor BUTLER for political er
rors or political selshness is to mpue 10 him that i'm
nur;ty of motives which implies personal treachery."
Perhaps not. Neither had we in our thoughts "per-
sonal treachery," when ieprecaling the charge of
in
against Senator BUTLER The matter WAS con-
,.mpated in political not a personal light; and
thus viewed, we hold ay political selfshness, that
could lead public seyant out Of the line Of q
faithful discharge Of hi trust, 10 be impure and,
at least politically, dsgrcefu. Do we understand
The Ne,us as making this charge and yel e1cupating
our Senator from "impuiy Of motives :" II cannot
he. The charge, removet as far from "personal"
as NAV be, is heavy anc damning one. 1t is not
we nresume lightly made neither will it be readily
concurred in as aganstthe hgh.toned Statesman
here assailed For one, re believe it can not be sub
stnn,iuted from the recon 1t was this belief that
prompted us to deprecatshe assaults OF our Charles
ton contemporaries and oihrs. For where is the necss-
siIy, or what the merritt embiitering The hours OF
nm old pubic servans, b. the prosecution of attacks
,ba, must end in fu,ility OF Judge Buffers pat
| rio,ism. of his devotion his constituency, Of his
fidelity TO the interests his section, the people of
! Soph Carolina entertained a doubt. Many oil us
there are who differed wh him in 1852, wbe ditier
with him now f; and yet can but be pained at de-
monsrratons which indite growing disposition in
~ mr. two ouarlers TO cstrue his laborious services
into m abortive career, is honest impulses into po
fha NpJps ms
scoff tie ilea he has od,pied, and still occupies
the first place in South Golina whether as 10 posi-.
tiun or influence. The lhory of our State since the
J.a,b Of Mr.. Calhoun vslld also 60 10 show that
he is first in the atIeciu Of his people, and it was
IN ,bis.yiew that we usethe sime Of The towering
earle" at which the rening Ne,cs is pleased TO
sneer Such at all events the snlidity of his repu
,a,ion before the State, tit very much more will be
required 10 shake than mere assertionsand opln-
ions of newspapers and pdic speakers.
In regard to the eslins fixed by the Evening
News upon Judge BuTLRs abilities and guallllca'
lions, political and sociave have nothing TO respond.
Thousands of South Canians know that distin-
puish.d gentleman rs we,s does either the Ne'cs or
lhe Aduertiser snd weonceive that any estimate
of IL tI,al either OF us mig advance would scarcely
be- looked upon as ofgreaI reliability than such as
hundreds OF others could forward.
We regret that there shd have been any thing in
our former editorial Unattended by lis tone. Our
aim was 10 coucilliate, TO arouse We did pen
the reflection, that if ihIf1orts to arraign Senator
BUTLER had any effect ateuer, they would (likely'
recoil upon those who oinaed them. The remark
was neither au,holtatiy nor f. faclious." 1t was
an accidental Observable based upon tile general
fact that all attacks, VIII fail, rebound with more
or less power upon th",riginators That hiG is
now seized upon as thrand held up as The lncile'
menl to renewed hostL tends but TO exhibit IN
exs,a pre.disposilion continue those hoslilllles'
What was set forth as remonspance has been
snatched up as gauntle And so far as our opinion
may 60 in the matter (wseak not by autho'i1yo we
sbouI saw. let the attanow go on fiercely as
Senator Buffers as,ails may choose to press it,
We d,nrecote Il no lang He neper has done so,
and may perhaps regard meduling as an oflcious-
ness that might we'll haI been spared We INCLINE
to think 80 now ourseiDur intentions, however,
were Ioir nd kind TO npncerned, whatever may
hnve been The nefficacyour article. ana we lee
clear in the premises, Ne'ef may DC t"e collse'