Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-07-01

We make this statement in mere justification
of our remarks. 1t is not our. intention to In
dulge in any harshness or severity toward those
gentlemen, as we have no doubt they meant
well. But in meanin- well for the State, is it
unfair to infer that probably they also meant
we'll for themselves? At any rate, and in view
of the merit and confidence they assumed for
themselves in the Convention movement, can
they Justly complain, however, dismayed they
may be by the disastrous and insulting action of
their party in the confederacy, if the people
doubt the high pretensions of their policy, or if
in ordinary political reaction they incur the GEN.
sure and feel the detraction incident to the er-
rors and wrongs of those, into whose arms they
had precipitated their fellow citizens? If under
the national Democracy Kansas would have
come in as slave State, would: they not in their
jubilant pride, and in sequence of the inkllngs
Of every. party which can secure doninancy,
have ieered those who had differed from them
in anticipation. The essential spirit of party
power is prescription, and the rod was hanging
over those who doubted the faith of national
partyism. Tslleyrand said, in reference to poll.
tics, that a.mistake was worse than crime. Let
the advertiser at least remember, that under
party tenets-tenets that nationals in this coun.
try have oil adopted mistakes, whether OF the
head or heart, must be visited upon, and their
consequences borne by, those whose party or men
make them. Who Of us that has not bee,, made
to feel this! The Convention nationals must
take their turn !; and we soy this, not in the
spirit or with the purpose of prescription, but in
respectful admonition that levents have ilustra.
ted the propriety of their being "taken down a
button hole" in their assumptions and aspira-
tions. Every party in the State, which has ever,
deliberately or by mischance, become entangled
with Northern alliances, has been made to rue
it in fact, measures and principles and to rue it
also in conviction as in defeat and the sooner
the conviction is acknowledged the better. In
all cordiality, we say to our contemporary, take
the lesson gracefully, cheerfully and quietly. 1t
at last will only amount to teaching the State to
avoid party entanglements, and to stand by its
own good brotherhood and right Independence
In doing so,it can ever promptly support those
whose cause is hers, and efficiently resist and
check those who would betay or assail her. .
There may be those who forget the State in
remembering party; if there be any, we cal
upon the State Rights Democracy to find and
weed them out. But we have full faith in those,
who, while they may encourage the Democratic
party to success and to right action, are ever
most mindful of the dignity, rights and safety
of their State. And among these we class. our
contemporary, aud those of its friends, in whose
special admiration, we know, it most heartily
INDUCES. It is not the Democratic party, but
its sefEsuffcient nationalism and its consequent
ces which we deprecate. We would have more
confidence, if it would save the country in the
name of the CONSTITUTION, and. not those of
itself and the NATIoN-synonyms OF UNION
despotism. ,