Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-07-29
From The Patriot e. Mountaineer.
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From The Patriot e. Mountaineer.
KANSAS.
We stated, some time since, that however
much to blame Gov. Walker was for expressing
the opinion, in advance, that Kansas could not
be Slave State, we did not think him so censu.
rable as many Southern papers and conventions
of politicians have declared, i'll recommending
that the State Constitution OF Kansas, when
framed BY the Convention, should be submitted
to the people for ratification. The same thing was
done in one.half of the States OF this Unlon, aha
it is a wholesome, democratic principle when
requires it to be done in all instances. 1t Is
true, that the members Of the Convention are
elected by the people, and are presumed to know
and obey their wishes and Judgment IN the lof
nation of u constitution. But how often are
the constituents displeased with the action and
legislation of their representatives In SO I'M
portant matter as the framing ot q conStlla-
tion, the people may well be consulted alter the
work is done.
We see from the papers. that i'll this particular
Gov. Walker is sustained UNANIMOUSLY Dy INC
pro-slaycry party in Kansas. and BY all the lead
ing Southern men III that Territory lie Is also
sustained by the President and his Cabinet, a
majority OF whom arc Southern men. lie Is
opposed by the extreme ultra sectionansts OF
the South, and the abolitionists OF the North
When party gets into bad company, they ousht
to nause and think whether or not they may be
mistaken in the course they are pursuing. De
sure YOU are right and always THINK OF heePll,S
YOUR opponent in the wrong, IS a Soou poil''cil
maxim. which our Southern friends seem not
we'll to have considered. The abolltlonsts OF
Kansas are refusing to vote tor members OF 'ne ne
Convention: and in all human probability VIII
refuse 10 vote against the ratlhcauon OF the
State Constitution. This gives us Kansas by
default; but if majority OF the people OF Nan
sas are opposed to slavery, anu Determined not
to have slaves, We cannot force 1t upon them'
They must be left to the exercise OF their own
Judgment as every other State has been.
The Virginia papers seem to take more cor
rect view Of this matter than some IN Soutn Gar
urr,.urrUuss statn thptt nff'n e'e
Know Nothings. They deprecate, IN bitter
terms, the threat thrown out that portion OF
the delegations in Congress from South Caroii'
ma. Georgia. Alabama and Mississippi Will not
unite with the Democratic party III sustaining
the Administration during the next congress,
Next to cutting your own throat Is the 1oily oi
placing your enemy in position to 10 IT, or re-
fusing to assist an ally in defending yourself
ULrRArsM.-We call attention to an article
headed "Extremes Meeting" to he found III an
other column. There will be found IN 1t far
more truth than poetry. While the pro-slarery
nortv of Kansas and Missouri are satisfied with
The Administration and Walkers policy, party
in South Carolina are raising violent opposition
to It. The potent cause OF the whole Kansas
excitement at the South was 10 sustain AtchSon
and the Missourans now since they are salts.
fed and to sustain them will be to allay aglta'
tior. some of the papers Of our State are advo-
catiur the formation of Southern party to put
them all down: to array ourselves against Mary
land. Virginia North Carolina Tennessee. Ken
tucky and Missouri, all of which States are al
most unanimous in their approval of the Ad-
ministrations policy; TO split up the Southern
States and destroy the harmony which recently
exhibited itself so gratilyingy in the Presiden.
tial election: and thus under the standard of
~Southern devotion" which they set up to suit
their own ultraism, enter the South with her
columns divided and scattered into conflict
with Black Republcanism. We publish the
extract from the Enquirer, the leading paper OF
Virginia, to show what injury ultraisn docs the
South even in q Southern State.
None know better than these very papers that
they are making Walkers policy more mon
strous one than it really is; the approval OF the
Missourians must satisfy them Of this Their
object is to organize Southern party and to
serve this purpose they aggravate his offence for
the purpose of creating distrust in the admins
tration and the party which elected it. When
the South is prepared for Southern party it
will be ready for dissolution Of the Union.
And Southern party before the South is pre-
pared for that issue will only produce dissension
at the South. We are united now: why then
attempt measure that gould produce Southern
division? Is that Southern devotion ?-Winns.
boro' Register.
LOUISIANA SuGAR-Ihc Franklin (St. Nary
Register, of the 18th inst, says The cane looks
splended everywhere throughout the parish, and
is nearly if not quite all laid by"
The West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter, OF the
4th, gives cheering accounts of the prospects oi
the planters in that parish. The Sugar Planter
says:-We have had occasion lately to travel
over nearly our entire parish, and must say from
what we have seen. and from conversation with
our sugar growers, that our prospects ior this
season are unusually promising True our cane,
both stubbe, what little there IS OF 1t, and plant,
though so newat dwariish iur the season, lndl-
Gates o good return for the labor. We must
give credi! TO our planters III the upPe! Gnu aii'
middle Of the parish, for the best looking crops,
and if we mistake not they will make more su,
gar than they have anticipated. Taxing 1t all
together, we are fully convinced that West Baton
Rouge will contribute her full quota to the large
crop Of 1851 and 1858.
THE Ceors OF Oulo.-Ohio appears to have
done we'll this season. In addition TO fine crops
of wheat and good promise of corn, the minor
crops also give large yield. The barley is
harvested, the oats promise very well and the
potatoes arc quite large. The Cincinnati Ga
zette estimates the yield as follows Oats, 20
100000 bushels Rye, 100000 do; Barley,
100000 do; Potatoes, 100000 do; aggregate,
!S,0OO,OOO.
The late Hon. W. L. Marcy leaves widow,
wo sons and one daughter to mourn his loss.
Mrs. Marcy was on visit to her sister in Ro-
chester, her daughter was with some friends in
Troy, and the two sons were away one in the U.
). Navy, and the other in California, at the time
,f Mr.. Marcy's death. Mr.. Ms only surviving
,.,,4b, ~ =, ,ow rnsidinp at tho old family man.