Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-07-15
EDGEFIELD S. c., JULY Is, 1857
From the Charleston Mercury.
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SIT is furthermore urged by our cotemporaries o.
The alarmist school, that an apathy the most deplo.
rable, has spread itself like pail over the spirit Of
the South and that wiihouta change for the better
we are soon to be bound hand and foot 10 the car o
Northern. power. While, in point of fact, the real
sentinel men of our section were never so well fore.
armed as now; while the States Of the South were
never so completely united; and while their mani:
fest ability to protect themselves never before called
forth from the rabid exponents of Northern Aboli.
tionsm such unmistakable evidences Of modification
and disappointment" ~
"The alarmist SCHOOL," This, we suppose,
consists of those who, not satisfied with the
Union in it's present and past condition of hostile
agitation and danger to the South, cannot see
that-because the North does not yet possess
the Federal Executive, the Federal Judiciary
and the Senate of the United States, 10 WELD
against her on the general subject of slavery
the South is "more powerful than it has been
for many years." and that the anti-slavery
tendencies in the frontier States are growing
weaker every day." 1t is those, who cannot
comprehend how the South is growing more
powerful in the Confederacy, when the last
House of Representatives in Congress was pre-
sided over by an Abolitionst; and when, in the
late Presidential election-slavery being the test
questionable South, although exerting her en-
tire and united strength, was beaten by numer-
cal majority of the people of the " NATIONAL
Union. 1t is those, who are so very stupid as
not to see the most brilliant prospects Of securi-
ty and power rising up, like some splendid au.
rora-borealis over the beautiful hills Of Kansas.
1t is those gloomy malcontents, whose cold
hearts warm not at the late breaking asunder
of Churches and Christian Associations, and
Tract Societies, on the slavery issue; men, whose
reluctant confidence does not mourn up with
these gratifying indications of the growing
soundness of the Northern people and their
returning sense of justice. These morbid indi-
viduals calnot see, as the Advertiser does, from
the rabid exponents of Northern Abolitionism,
such unmistakable evidences of modification and
disappointment" 1t is true they see continu-
alton of the furious agitation. They perceive.
too, Immediately after the Presidential election,
the election of the Abolition Senator from Penn
sylvania, the only State in the Atlantic North
which went with the South-pitlful vote as it
was for their fayorite. They also perceive since
then, that the Freesoilers have carried every
questionable Senator in the North. Such are
some of the views of the alarmist school.
Now, if we eunderstand the Advertiser Alright,
these views are erroneous, or the facts on which
they are based very insignificant; and he places
his statements, that the South is in bssful
state of satisfaction, on two groundS-lst. The
" sentinel men of our section were never so well
forearmed as now )" and, Cd. "The States of the
South were never so completely united"
Possibly we may. not understand whom the
Advertiser means by I" "thc sentinel men of our
section" Once we would have classed him
with them, foremost and staunchest in vindica-
ting the rights, and protecting the safety and
honor of the Southern States. There was then
no congratulation about paltry temporary sue
cess in checking the march Of our ruthless as
salants; no utopian and low-toned reliance on
a Northern party,-utopian, inasmuch as the
National Democracy has aided in putting upon
the South every burden and insult and DANCE
rous blow to our institutions, under which we
have chafed- and low-toned, inasmuch as we are
told to lean upon others for safety or hope in
our wrongs and pcrils, when we Southern pco-
pie can ourselves work out our redemption and
security without intrinsic Northern assistance
sought in tame acquiescence; no apologize ST.
lence or selfcomplacent patience with proceed
ings in our Territories which must in their con-
sequences, if successful, reach with disastrous in
huence every home in the South Once these
things were not. Such was the sentinel man in
South Carolina not long since. Is this the SEN
tinel man now ? and if so, where is our cotem-
porary? :,
The Advertisers sentinel man is forearmed."
This is the single feature given us by which he
IL ho, =. ,aH) 1yHh
mkat7 Is it only with National Conventions
and their platforms, and National Democracy
affinity? Are these the weapons with which
10 accomplish the deliverance of the South? Is
it with hopes Of Northern help, or Northern
forbearance, or Northern associations Is this
the defensive armor with which he is clothed =?
If so, no wonder every man who even dreams
of Southern rights, is, in the apprehension OF
the so-called sentinel man, an alarmist. A SEN
tinel-but he mistakes his commander. lie is
a sentinel-not of the South-but of the North
ern National Union Democracy, whose success
now lies in the ruin of Southern rights in
Kansas.
But "thc Southern States were never so
completely united 2" And "united"--in what !?
In abandoning or supporting the rights Of the
South? If the former, then have not "the
alarmstn cause for desponding and pointing out
dangers with voice Of warning? Does not, in
that case, " an apathy the most deplorable spread
itself like. pail over the spirit Of the South ?'
But if the South is united for the defence and
protection of the rights of the South, show us
the proof. We long to see it, and will join the
Advertiser, with all our feeble power, to effect
the end. The present union Of the South is
theorctic in her support-it is in practice an
abandonment of her rights. Let our cotempo-
rary call for San union Of the South for the sake
of the South" as Governor of Virginia has
eloquently said. Every brave spirit in the South
who understands and appreciates her position,
will obey the summons. But if the union of
which it speaks is g a disunion of the South for
the sake of the North" ,"-an union only with
some time-serving, treacherous, national party,
and for other objects than the preservation Of
the South, it fully justifes all the fore-bodngs
of "the alarmists." These anxieties-these
warnings-these entreaties, are but the words
of truth and soberness-the beatings of the
rightfully and wisely indignant heart of the
South.
From the Charlie ston Mercury.
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