Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-06-17
TIE SENATORIAL VACANCY.


Our State has had just to bc proud Of her repre-
sentaton in tho Senate of the United Sntes for many
years. She has had there such faithful and capable
guardians of her honor and interests HAYNE, CAL
Hous McDUrFIE, PRESTON, BARXwELL and BUTLER;
each ono of whom has impressed that greatest OF do
Lucrative bodies with high sense of his statesman
ship and with clear appreciation of the value OF
South Carolina to the Union consistent conserva-
tor of those great principles upon which rests tho
safety of our libcrties In application to these Illus
trious Senators the well-known eulogium of Antony
upon Cesar may be most appropriately pronounced; !;
for all the elements Of moral and intellectual worth
were truly so mixed inther characters that of each
of them,
-" Nature might stand up
And say to all tho world, This 'eas man y
The chapters which thoir genius and patriotism have
wrought out in the political history of America form
rich legacy for all time their State and their Country
They giants indeed and recognized by tho great
cotemporary minds that met them in high dobate 30
true it South has been thusfar represen-
ted in the Senate of the American Union as became
sovereign member of this smighty confederacy shead
it not then be source Of deep solictude with her
people, that these lofty anecedents of her renoWn
be kept up the future, to the same high pitch OIL
excellence and honor.
In considering the qualifications which should
adorn that South Carolinian who is to 60 up, in the
footsteps of our dead BUTLER, to do battle for the
Constitution and the Republic, an elevated and ma
tured craftsmanship is the most prominent if not the
most indispensable. In the other branch of our Ma
tiona Legislature it is fit and proper that the strength
of the untried be tested hath talents of the mex
perienced be fostered into more vigorous GROWTH
and the skill of our young politicians be put to the
proof But in that dignifed and farseeing conclave
which occupies the other end of the Capitol maturity
Of intellect rpcness Of experience and comprehen-
siveness of judgment the great requisites OF sue
cess and usefulness. Without these, Senator may
occasionally delight accidental audience with spe-
cimens of ornate oratory; he may chance to COM
mand the applause of the galleries by some happy
hit at mpertinence, some manly rebuke OF error,
some warm.heartcd defence Of the Right; but his
real influence in the councils of the country will be
such as neither his State will be proud to regard nor
his opponents likely to look upon except as food for
derision. South Carolina wants no such Senator IN
Congress. She wants one, whose tried abilities, whose
complete mastery of the principles of our Govern
ment, whose enlarged knowledge Of the history OF
that Government, whose familiarity with tho men
and measures of the last thirty years, will enable
him to stand Senator among Senator's, prepared at
all points and on all questions to represent truly and
powerfully the interests he shall have in change.
In addition to this grade of ability it is to be hoped
that our next Senator shall possess that readiness in
debate which will be able to meet any attack, how
ever suddenly sprung, with the parry and thrust Of
veteran political swordsman. It is not enough, that
he be qualified to torte profound dsqusitions upon
givcn Constitutional questions. He should have oil
the elements of such dsqustions Mt his tongues end
and ready for effective at any moment. He
should be ever supplied with the materials for attack
and defence; capable Of upsetting the sophistry
of On antagonist Of giving "a reason for the faith
that is within him" He should be so imbusd with
the science of Government, and especially MS it ap-
pears in our Free SYSTEM know error its earliest
phases and he should possess that power Of manly
and direct utterance by which such error may be
held up before the country, promptly and forcibly in
its trne colors It is not merely essayst polii-
cal philosopher, that South Carolina needs In tho
Senate Chamber of this Union but ono who is like
wise dobater in tho most enlarged sense of the
word Such We have heretofore had in HAYSE, CAL
uouS, McDuFrIE and BUTLER; and an equal Of these
men in this point of strength must occupy the seat
from which they have forever departed the halo Of
glory which they raised above that spot will begin to
lose its distinctive lustre.
1t is certainly desirable, moreover, that he who
shall next represent the State at Washington should
be- as fur as possible free from such political entan
clements as may impair his usefulness for the cause OF
Southern Rights. He should be ono whom Southern
Senators will eagerly take by the hnnd as trusty
co.operator in tho defence Of political equality
under the Constitution He should not be IN extre-
mist who might prove offensive to those whose inter-
ests all fow in tho channel and are affected by
the same Causes with own, but conservative first
of the rights of his peculiar section, and with that
(if possible in conformity with just maintenance Of
those rights conservative also Of the Union and Of
the common veal of the American people. Such
man land no othcr) will prove to the South at this
juncture, tho true co-laborer Of such statesmen
as HUNTER, RusK and DAVIS, in the field of Senate
rial excrtion And to some such son should South
Carolina now look for the proper furhcrance Of her
best interests inseparaby interviewer with the in
terests of her Southern confedorates.
1t may bo added that an earnest devotion to South
Carolina an unaffected indifference to Federal honors,
prominent place in the regards of American stntes-
men, and the respect which everywhere attaches to
m advanced manhood and untainted integrity, would
all tend to increase the efficiency and influence of him
who is to be selected by the State for tho important
post in question.
True, we have here made out q very high and COM
manding character 1t may be that we have no such
man Ito the ful) now left Be this it may, we urge
that the people of the State should to it that this
estimate be fulfilled nearly possible in their
next Senator; And we trust they will decide between
oil candidates who may be placed before them accord
ing to the high standard above indicated, and with
out reference such political tacticans may per-
chance desire to dictate to them choice
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COL. ORR AND THE MERCURY.
Our friends of the Mercury shrewdly (?) suspect
that Col. ORR has gone to Kansas with some such sin
lister design as that of helping Gov WALKER to mould
the territory into Free State 1t is taken for granted
that the Hon. COLONEL has given himself body and
soul to the National Democrats, and then tho conclu