Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-08-17

law and order will sink in despair ut the event.
LET IT rAL1,-aud the Ship of State is at once
isrven upon tho breakers of dissenson and STRIFE,
if not into the gulf of revolution itself. We recall
I, our friend of the Guardian words he can so
we'll appreciate:
80 Naris referent in mare te nort
Fluctus 0 quid agis? tortiter oceupa
| Portum."
And that port with us, We honestly believe, Is
the Democratic Party Of the United States.
The Guardian aaserts. again, that it will be as
we'll to elect Black Republican as DOUGLAS.
This is one of those molstrous propositions Which
/ 10 no seem to need controvcrsion. We bes
,core tbouch, to call the Guardians attention to
some considerations bearing upon this point IN
,eyeral of our late numbers. We would only add
here, that our contemporaries declaration amounts
90 precisely the same thing if ho had said, it is
| rs we'll to place the Black Republicans IN power
as the Democrats--as we'll to give the government
into tho charge of party where tho voice of our
enemies will be potent, as of one in which the
| South will occupy position Of authority.
Next,-upon the point of the Democratic Creed
L
&C., we ask our contemporary not to 60 to lndiSia-
uals and local presses for construction OF that
reed, but to take the Democratic Resolutions
themselves, those of Baltimore and those OF Gin
:innatti, as his guide in forming an opinion in
:c.ard thereto Or, if he must have m exposition,
20 to some authentic action Of the party such as
that OF the Democrats Of Pennsylvania month or
two since. He will thus find that what we have
.,id of the creed is correct, and that the party,
u,lged by those standards, is sound to the core,
,rd no mistake. We labor under no delusion, as
he Guardian compassionately hints, but speak
;he words of truth and soberness.
Says tho Guardian:
.' We ask the Adreriscr, Is it wiadom to rat
or another oct o oppression 'n re''fi"" {" me '"-
iitutioa Of slarc'y."
DeciJededly so o;-because otherwise, how is 1t
:, be expected that the people Of the South will
be- brought to revolution ? If they would not
consent tu it in view Of tho palpnblc CALIFORNIA
<windle, will they now venture it for au abslrac-
don, when the Drcd Scott Decision and the
precedent of the English Provso have since arisen
to view for their better security?
The GuardiHH goes on to say:
"N[ary and many an act of this kind has been
| overlooked borne with and submitted to, yet now,
,hcn the Gordon Of frcc-soilism and abolition is
threatened to bc firmly and finally drawn around
he Institution, we are to wait for the cOnsumina-
| ion Of the act! What future act of oppression
you'd the Adcertser counsel us to wait for, if not
or this; it is all the bitcrcst enemies Of the in
| ,tutiun Gun do, short Of the abolition of slavery
III tho States. 1t is all the darkest shade of Black
RcpublicaniSm demands ut tls time, rs they we'll
inow it would be the sure precursor of the com
,,rte accomplishment Of their nefariuus purpose.
Truly, gloomy picture! Our contemporary
,tutcs the case as hunsh he saw it through smoked
| glass. There too is that old scarc-crow, ga cor
lon of frec-soiiisln"-a ending rs usual in the
| he Complete accomplishment Of their ncfariouS
| purposes" The sum-total Of the Gu0rolidnS
| meaning seems to be this That if the Democratic
party shall think it lest at Charleston not to
| interfere with the admirable platform established
| It Cincinnati, then cometh the beginning of the
md: that soon thereafter will bo accomplished
hat celebrated Gordon already mentioned; and
hat the result must inevitably be tho total subvcr
ion Of our institutions and the destruction Of the
South. We prefer to answer all this, by requesting
every reader (who is ut all curious about the mat
cr) to take his map Of the United States and
Territories, and follow our finger for moment.
lou begin up there about the parallel of J9o on
The Atlantic Coast. Follow now the northern
boundary Of Maryland and Virginia to the Ohio
River then take tho River down to the kentucky
line keep OH down the Ohio until you reach Tic
Mississippi: run upthc Mississippi; 60 all around
ihc big State Of Missouri until you come 10 the
big State Of Arkansas: follow down the Arkansas
boundary until you reach the mammoth State of
Texas: mark its extent rs you lun around its
heightened lines: 60 Oh till you reach the great
gulf of Mexico: keep along the coast Of that gulf;
pass Louisiana. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,
Gcorge; at last we come to little South Carolina,
little, but big hearted as the bodies; Of them:
| continue up the coast; pass North Carolina, and
como again to the Old Dominiun. There y"uhav
it all-thc slavc-holding portion Of tho American
Comtcderacy,-a larger scope Uf Territory this day
than that embraced by the free States after all tho
noise and trouble about the matter; and not only
largcrLut by great odds more fertile. Now rs to
the Territories lately received and yet to be received
into the family Of States. There none of them
adapted to slave labor unless it he the Indian
Territory and New Mexico. These will become
slave States if they are suited to the institution,
and if the South will occupy them. Ifnot, they
will be free States.
How then dues the business stand? Slavery oc-
curics an immense ard fertile area. 1t has in
point of fact occupied thus far all our country that
il adapted by climate and soil to its pecuiuritiss,
except perhaps Calafurnia. 1t is likely to do 80
too hereafter Where then is the sense or wisdom
of rrOclaiming that we are y doomed people.
doomed to die out for want Of room. In the name
of all the gods at once, do We want more room
than we now have? Look Mt it. See those ff-
tocn magnificent States. Consider separately their
wealth and resources. Pa. them AZ; together, and
what an empire is there! Talk Of your Gordon to
bind such n country and such people 1t is alb
solute folly. Toll us that we arc to be crushed Of
of the map and cxtingushcd among the nations
hy people from the land of wooden nutmegs!
Repeat not the ahsurdity. We are invinciblc in
position, in Institutions in territory in productions,
and in the powerful tic of united interest Our
people know it and feel it. Draw your Gordon
line ever continuously, and what docs ii amount
to- No more than if you would shut out the Buff
.alo and the Elk from tue craggy and inIospitablc
'Tids of the Rocky Mountains, and still leave them
their eEpapse of prairie and plain through which
to roam and feast ig freedom. But suppose in
course of time We should chance to want moro ter
%iory are to look for it i'll the present liqits of
tho Union? If tho North should become gencr-