Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-07-22
THE CHARLESTON EVENING NEWS.

Our copy of tho Netcs, containing its lust l. &C Oh
the Adccrtiscr has been misplnccd we cannot there-
fore undertake to rcspsnd catcgoricaly The burden
of its refrain, however was continued holding-p OF
the fac that tho State of South Carolina was actually
represented in the Cincinnati Convention. We nave
before stated the ground upon which that representa-
ton was mainly effected, viz: the suggested wisdom
of embracing the occasion to advance the triumph ol
correct principles and Of Southern Rights as directly
involved therein It sts not bc amss to recur to the
mode in which the CoAventon movement was carried
on, at least in this quarter of the State. The Hon.
Mr.. ORR and tho Hon. Mr. kEIrT came homo from
Congress- the first decidedly i'll favor Of our going to
Cincinnati, the other pointedy opposed to it, They
wcrc strong men in their respective portions of the
State, and there was thus presented the near prohh
bility of n serious division in our home counsc!s
Thcreupon the policy advocatcd of the States he
ing represented at Cincinnati unit upon the gron
question of Southern Rights it was urged that the
delegation We might send to represent the Snte should
faithfully carry out the wishes Of people by vo-
ting for Mr.. PIERCE ns long there was chance Of
his reelection md it was advised to couple this
movement with the fullest declaration Of the prnel
pies of South Carolina thereby showing to the coun-
try the high motives Of patriotism which prompted ns
to the stop VIC were taking. This proposition pre-
vailed The anticipated schism in our ranks did not
occur. Tho State Convention met at Columbia and
acted in conformity with the policy indicated. Its
members wero especially courteous but without fnwn-
ing) towards those who Ind opposed the movement
The most stringent Southern resolutions were placed
upon tho record Our delegates went 10 tho General
Convention and discharged the duties of their mission
sernly and without display. They came home with
the nomination of Mr.. BUCHANAN, after having striv-
en- in vain to effect that might have proved more
acceptable to the South and that nomination was re-
ceived with applause by the whole people Of South
Carolina. But they came home too with more than
this: they came with the links that bind US to our
Southern co-states FURNISHED into new brightness.
They had grasped the hands of their noble compari-
ots, and both sides feeling of confidence and
hope had sprung from the cordial pressure. This IS,
briefly, the history and substance of the Convention
movement in South Carolina.
We do not seek to avoid the issue that the political
power of the State has thus been thrown upon the
side of the American Democracy as opposed to any
other national party. But this has been done with
the express limitation that thi, support reaches only
so far as that party shall prove to be the defence of
the Constitution and the bulwark of equal Rights.
Such is the position of the Southern Rights Demo-
cracy of South Carolina and it is position which the
people of the State approve the only practicable
attitude of strength it s possible for us to assume in
the present condition of the politics of the South and
of the Union.
And yet the spirited editor of the Neps finds it
in his heart to rail against his truly Southern
brethren because in the Stratne duty they par
| ticipated in Convention of the Democracy. With
what degree of grace this from one, who sat at
Philadelphia in Conrsntion with Wilson, Keneth Ray
ner, omne id genus, we leave others to decide 1t
may be all right for him to hold counsel with party
banded together by secret oaths against the equal
rights of free citizens in this Republics but is mon
strous in to 60 into Convention open in all its
features and holding, its members, the first men Of
the Union associated avowedy for the purpose of sus
tanning the Constitution We cannot avoid saying to
our respected confrere Why beholdest thou thcmote
that is in thy brothers eye, but co"sdsress not the Jsa"
| that is in thine own eye"