Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-10-07

MT. hlCuaTQSOQ lot Tile May OFilIy-Wllu WuOlu,
as it seems, the Mercury and clique of person
al adherents, have chosen to ally themselves.
The other is comprised, chiefly, of the party
known, in 1856, as the Souther2 Rights party
the party which elected Mr.. Miles.
If the Mercury chooses to style the party
with which it has formed it's recent alliance
leavened by the new infusion, " The Stale
Rights Democratic party" and to dub the other
as " the National Democratic" it undertakes,
as have charged, to make and unmake States
Rights Democrats at its pleasure" 2"
If this be not the true solution, there are no
two parties in Charleston, and every individual
votes upon his own predictions, or under in
fuences apart from party altogether.
The Mercury says that the Know Nothing
party is dead in Charleston" Yet the Mercury
admits that Mr.. Barker obtained majority of
those who formed "Mc Southern Rights party"
of 1855. Whence came the large vote of Mr..
Whaley? Can it be otherwise than that he OBJ
tanned the Kaow NOthing vote with a minority
fragment of those who constituted the other
party?
If tue Know Nothings, or those who once
were so, tote thus together, how can it be said
that they are dead as party in Charleston 2"
The inference is rather that they live, and that
the Southern Rights party is dead IN Charles
| ton."
Strange that tho Mercury should so readily
"whistle down the wind" lis former friends and
coadjutors, and take to its "heart of hearts"
the condemned KnoU Nothings of 1855!
There must be something in that senatorial
election" so often alluded to, more than meets
the view.
But let us inquire who are these so called
National Democrats" whose touch is contami-
nation to the Southern Rights Pharisees? They
stand, in Charleston at least, on the same plat
torm with Quitman and Daris, of Mississippi,
Yancey and Clay, of Alabama, Mcdonald, and
his supporters, Of Georgia, Hunter and Mason,
and their friends in Virginia. Nay, they come
up to, if they do not rise higher than The high
est standard Of Southern Rights, erected by
"uzraisis" and extremists" in any other State
than South Carolina.
Why should such men be denounced as I'M
worthy of public confidence? Differ with them
if you plcase-argue with them-but do not
ienounce and use your utmost efforts to drive
them still further from you! 1t cannot come
to good. "Concert," says Mr.. Calhoun in his
dying speech, Ills legacy to his beloved South,
"concert is the one thing needful." Is this the
course to secure it.
DuI WHY arc HCSe WeH uSllOuiSSu, aiiuLhhOW
Noihings applauded as being "as staunch South
ern Rights and States Rights men as any in
our midst?" If the Know Nothings have re-
pcntcd and repudiated the atrocious doctrines
denounced by none more strongly than the
Mercury in lS55-reccivc them again into the
fold. This is right, provided you believe them
sincere. But have they done SO? One of their
leaders publicly renounced the princi pies of the
| n1, tlo al nf last Eoll ba
abandoned by those who but lately acknowl
re- cantation, of repcntcncc and Reputation on
the part of those whom the Mercury thus open
| ly prefers to National Demscrats? Docs the
| Mercury not know that, i'll the main, as they
voted in 1855, they have voted in body, in
every election since? And does the Mercury
believe that there is any man who desires their
support in body. as it has been hitherto given.
rh0 dares openly rcnouncc the principles and
doctrines which united that party in 1855? If
the quontlam Know Nothing still holds the
principles Of the order, we have the Mercury's
authority for it, that lie "is opposed theoreti-
caly and practically to the principles which
have hitherto characterized South Carolina as a
Stute, and the Southern Rights party crery
,rhere," if he docs not hold those principles, and
remains silent, lie ayallS himself, by studied
deception Of al organization originally formed
upon those principles. Well might Mr.. Barker
object to any such ''poltical connections"
have said my say, and herewith renounce
my pen. WIDE AWAKE.
CAPT HEEyDoH.-rhe press teens with trib-
utes to the gallant Virginian who commanded
the "Ccntral America" and who so nobly per-
formed his duty Says the Virginia Sentinel:
Deep will bc the regrets that will follow. him
to tue ocean cave where he sleops many, many
the tears OF sympathy with the stricken family.
But if he had to f;lll-and all have to fall,-
what time more propitious to his fame lie had,
thro' terrible days and nights, maintained his
courage and composed the spirits of multitudcs
of men, women and children, whose sole earthly
reliance he was, and who scanned Lis counte-
nance to read their DOOM lie had saved all
the women and children, fifty-nine in number,
and prepared the men calmly to struggle with
their fate His work done, he arrayed himself
in the uniform which lie had ever honored, sent
his wife the most eloquent farewell evcruttcrcd,
and went his way "Tell her -" said he
and the poet shall strive with his tendercSt fan
cics, but strive in vain, to fill tue blank with
aught so expressive as itself. So far as the af-
fections outweigh the imaginings, so far the un.
told emotion exccls the dream though inspired
by the muses., which shall attempt to give it ut
terance Only in the unlathomed depths of
welded love can it find its Interpretation; there
only the meaning too big fer words, fully UNDER
stood.
REPLY TO PRESIDENT DUcHANAN's LETTER.
President Woolsey, the Sillimans, and other
gentlemen Of New Haven, Connecticut, are out
in an elaborate reply to Mr. Buchanan's letter
on Kansas matters: The letter covors three and
a half columns of the New Haven Courier: and
is written in moderate and tolcrably respect
full tone.
ROBBERY or THE UNITED STATES MKT AT
SAN FRAScTsco-The San Francisco Herald, Of