Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-08-26
From the Charleston Mercury.
THp s0uTH United.

We do not believe that, since the Union began,
there hes been any question which has brought
the South into more complete Union than the
proceedings of Governor Walker in Kansas.
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ar.
kansas Florida, and Texas, appear to be OF but
one party on this question. in the States IN
which elections have been or are being held
Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama-no party has
ventured to support him. Candidates tor Con-
gress, or for the State Legislatures or tor Cover
norships, all denounce him. In the other South
ern States, the action of the people have not
been broug ght to bear Immediately on the ques-
ton, and therefore the Press is the only criterion
by which we can Judge of the feelings OF the
people. The Press is far more uncertain index
Of the popular opinion than elections, because
those who govern the Press often have interests
and aims connected with the Federal Govern
ment, which the people do not possess. Judged
by this criterion South Carolina is more divided,
and lower in her Southern feelings, than any
other of the Cotton States. There are more
Presses in South Carolina, in proportion to the
number in the State, which have supported Walk
er, than in anv other Cotton State. In Misslsslp-
pi but one single Press ventures feeble apology
for Walker; whilst in South Carolina, the Green
vile Patriot, Edgefeld Advertiser, Columbia
South Carolinian, and Fairfield Register, have
all, we believe, defended or supported him. The
Charleston Standard has not yet been able fairly
to apprehend the subject and is still silent, pom
dering on its dark abstrusities in profound du.
biety. Yet we do not think that the course of
these Presses prove that the people of South
Carolina are either indifferent to the fate of Kan.
sas, or approve of Walkers fagitious proceed
ings to make her Free State. If the elections
for members of Congress or our State Legisla-
t,ue were about to take place, South Carolina
would evince the same unanimity which charac-
tsrizes the people of Georgia and Mississippi.
We do not believe that single man, who sought
the suffpagcs of our people, would dare to defend
OK support Walkers villainy in Kansas. TO lay
lofore our people the arguments of Black Re-
publcans, to guide their counsels and an atiiiia-
ton with Black Republicans as worthy of their
policy, would be sort Of enterprise that very
lev would undertake. We therefore do not con-
shler South Carolina as an exception to the gen.
cxal union in the South on Kansas affairs. And
even in Virginia, we notice with sincere pleasure
the proposition made by the Richmond Wing,
contained in our columns yesterday, to unite with
the Enquirer, the Examiner and the South, and
free from all party preudices above all section.
al antipathies, and true to the Constitution and
practical State Rights, make a constitutional op.
position to the Devil and the Black Republicans"
He can hardly expect the cooperation Of the
Enquirer, for its nearest associates and allies at
present, in supporting Walker in Kansas, to
make Kansas Free State, are the leading Or
gans of the Black Republicans at the North.
Their cause is one-the prescription Of slavery
in Kansas.