Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-06-24
ULTRAIss1..Is 1T WISE !

influential journals Of the Southern country. They
faithful and bold defenders Of Southern interests
and Of Southern rights. But there are very many
amongst their admirers who have been unable to
synpathiEe with the zeal, appreciate the wisdom,
of thor recent appeals to the resistance feeling of
tho South Far be it from US to quarrel with our own
gallant brothers On the of this difference They
are doubtless actuated by noble love of their homes
and of the hslowed associations that render those
homes moro to ,them than oil else on earth. The
strength of this motive can but be recognized by
every true son Of the South. Yet there is surely
something sishtly morbid in the desponding tone,
tho deep-seated alarm which mark distinguished
cotsmporaries at this time. In their comments upon
the dangers that surround us, they are most unhope
full to say the least Their premises seem to DO re.
garded through smoked glass, and their conclusions
are by consequence full of dolor and darkness. 1t
does appear to us-and We say it with great respect
for those whose views We criticizehat the reason
ing which leads to such gloomy conclusions Is iaia
cious and that the advice thence deduced, and PRESS
ed upon the people of our section, is llconsidered
and impolitc.
It is urged that the South is beset with such dim
culties have never before encompassed her, thae
her enemies arc thickening every hand, and that
as things CO. her doom of destruction is f1ed' Ana
yet it is notorious that her position in the Conieaera
cy is at this very moment more powerful than II mus
been for many years. it is well known that the Fed
eral Executive, the Federal Supreme Court and the
United States Senate are on the side of her constu-
tional rights and it is altogether probable that sucn
will be the controlling tone Of the next Federal House
Of is also argued, that our inat
tuition of domestic sorvude is beginning to toer to
its fall, and some of the Border States am pointed
to as presenting the most melancholy proof OF tne
reasonableness of these prophetic fears. ANA yes !"
is patent that the institution was never before 30
blessed of Heaven with success and prosperity as II
is this very day it is shown by the newspaper OK
ponents of Virginia and Missouri-(whch should cer
tainly be received as good authority IN their own
cases. that antslavery tendencies were never Wea-
ker within the borders of those two states it is indis
putable that irmer conviction never before possess
ed the entire Southern mind Of the morality as wen
as the e1pediency of the institution Of Slavery ana
it is observable that the intelligence Of chrstendom
is becoming moro liberal because more enlightened
is furthermore urged hy, our eotemporaries OF tne
alarmist school, that apathy tho most deporaoie
has spread itself like pail the spirit OF the
South and that, without change for the BETTER we
are soon to be bound hand and foot to the car Of
Northern power While, In point OF fact tho real
sentinemen of our section were never 80 well FORE
armed rs now; while the States of the South were
never so completely united; and while their manifest
ability to protect Themselves never before called forth
from the rabid exponents of Northern Abolitionlsm
such unnistakeable evidences of modification and
disappointment-st it is perseveringly intimatsd
that we are upon the verge Of vortex in which We
may soon be swallowed up with all that wo hold dear
and the place amon nations, which knew US once is
to know us NO more forever. What and whero Is tnS
vortex Is it to be found in Black Republeanism
The South knows t2t enemy well, and, with tna'
knowledge, fosls secure Of her ability to vanquish Its
endeavors for evil is it to be found in the powers
that be?" They ore all for us. Is it in isouthern
dissensions7 We were never more united. Is 1t IN
Southern concessions? The South stands firm upon
the Georgia platform Of 1882 Isit in Congressional
oppression We hare gained tho repeal OF the Mis-
souri, Compromise aihore explicit recognition OF our
rights as to fugitive Slaves some iessening OF the
burden of Tariff exactions,-and We may without in
stuation expect yet greater justice in tho future Or
is it in the crushing pressure of an outside elvi1a
ton? Let it suffice to say that our labor clothes the
world. Where then, VIC ask again, and what il this
yortex7 We should like to know Of our friends
whether it is to draw down by tho road OF Hmanci-
patton, of Abolition Of General Impoyerishment of
Anarchy, or of Despotism. Tho thing is as yet un-
defined, evon by those who shrink back from 1t in
horror-In thus expressing ourself we would not be
understood as believing that an Eysium Of peace and
case lies necessarily before u.s. Such is not often the
lot of freemen. With us of the South especially, it
cannot we'll bo tho case. For We arc peculiar peo-
pie and may expect to have many rough waves to
| buffet in our onward career But at the same time,
we have many high elements of success in our social
organization as vol rs In civil polity and with
| prudence, frmncss and unnnimity, We must TRIUMPH
over all enemies TO predict tho reverse OF this now
when VIC hold in our grasp the laures of a present
success, is moping without cause and desponding
without show of reason.
But again, tho Mercury and the Delta are impolitc
in urging their rather extreme views at this time
there were an occasion for action, if there were any
| present act Of wrong by the General Government
upon which to rally tho South, there would be mean
ing there would bo force in these urgent calls upon
tho people of tho South to vindicate their tarnishcd
honor even to tho severance of the Union II need be-
But when no such occasion exists, when no such act
is perpotratsd and when it is clear that the great
Southern mind is quiet If not contentod how futile
it is to uplt the voice of extreme advice as though
the destroyer we're at our doors. Tho people think
otherwise, believe otherwise; and they will come to
look upon the cry of warning with distrust Wien 1t
shall appear chat it reaches them in sunshine as well
as in storm. The harm is, that the public mind may
become incredulous Of this cry, and that able ana
patriotic journals may not possess their proper ndu-
ence when the hour of actual peril shall appToach-
More than this however, We take tho ground that any
extreme course in the present posture Of political
affairs at the South is likely to produce division in
our ranks, and division now might prove tantamount
with deeper submission in the future than any yet
recorded against US. At present. there is ground for
faith in the determination of the Southern people to
abide no further actual wrong at the hands OF the
General Government Until that wrong shall arise,
we can see no wisdom or propricty in camoring for
an extreme line of policy.
THE COLLEGE AGAIN.
Last week we gave our renders very brief summa-
~ of the recent difficulties in the College between the
President, Professors and Students, also Of the ac
ton of the Board of Trustees in the promises. Our