Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-09-02

ly and unrestrained as he might do in South
Carolina. Let it be established firmly by pre-
cedents and long usage, that the few first set
tiers, and the floating population, las in the case
of California; shall hereafter forever be allowed
to fix the constitution of territory against prop
crty in slaves, and slavery cannot extend an inch
further to the North, West or South. The in
stitution, is crippled, circumscribed, inevitably
doomed.
Southern men should have raised their voices
against the Kansas Nebraska bill, unless it had
contained higher qualification for the voters,
who, in the first instance were to ixthe constitu-
tions Of those countries. The first settlers of
all new regions, are generally wandering men,
without fixed abodcs, and without property, and
a great portion of them, especially in this coun-
try, are foreigners, totally unacquaintcd with
our laws. The most of such settlers and emf.
grants have never bcheld the face of n negro
slave. Nevertheless, those birds of passage and
renegades, and ignorant foreigners, are permit
ted to vote for the laws and constitution of Kan.
sas, simply on their declaring, on oath, their in
tention to become citizens of the United States.
IF this is not violation of the rights and inter.
csts of the South, calculated TO rouse the spirit
of resistance in the bosom Of every STAKEHOLDER,
we are sunk into the profoundest indifference to
the obligations we owe to ourselves and to pros
perity and We have forgotten all the hallowed
memories of the past which animated our Sum-
ters, and Marions, and Hammonds, to consccrate
as single battle ground, our once gallant State,
from the shores Of the sea to the pinnacle OF the
mountains.
have seen with alarm and despair the dispo.
sition of many of our leaders to commit us IT.
revocably to the cutanglements of party. Let
us once, place ourselves thoroughly in Demo
cratic harness, or Wing harness, and our libcr'
ties arc not worth fig. Why can we not stand
aloor, as We have always done, proud and inde'
pendent, engaged and pledged by no ties, but
love of country, and love of liberty, and devo'
ton to principal, and then in the great Pres'den'
,ial struggles, and strife for offices and honors'
support and sustain only the men, and the cause.
who have at heart. the liberty, the constitutions
and the safety of the Republic.
Ever since the death of Mr.. Calhoun, have
seen an itching i'll many Of our great men, TO
lcttcr the State by means of party organizations,
party affiliations, and party conventions. When
ever that is perfectly accomplished, and our
State shall learn to draw well in the harness. our
high position, and our indignant hatred of op'
PRESTON i; gone. Our citizens will learn to bid
Us high for Office as any tmcservers.
Both the Wing and Democratic Conventions
are designed to supersede the Constitution anu
are therefore against the Constitution. They
say that one of two men must be elected Presi-
dent and one of two men, of their appointing MT
must be elected Vice President, and their voice is
as potential as the decree Of Omnipotence. The
people pretend to vote for President and Vice
President A few trading politicians, who at
tend the Baltimore and Cincinnati Conventions,
elect these officers and what is more, determine
what shall be their course Of conduct for the
four years of their administration, and only call
in the poor people, by shouts and hurras, and coon
skins and cider barrels, and oceans of mean
liquor, to ratfy their DEGREES.
There should be one coavention-a convention
for the Union of the South convention to
draw closer our ties of blood and fellow feeling
a convention to wake up the shareholders of
the country to a gallant, a persevering and all
untlying effort to yindicatc their rights, and to
maintain their position in the Union which was
achieved by the blood Of their fathers
Here my notes end, but l have only given
slight impression of the zeal and eloquent pow
er Of the speaker. D. >. ~