Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-08-31
The Democratic Party-.Its Southern
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Democrat;
4 few days ago, we had conversation
viii, !: very intelligent gentleman who had
Just returned from trip North, and although
acting with the Democratic party now-trom
conviction that it is the only national party,
having the power and willingness to afford
equal protection to the rights OF all sections
he has, for years past, been consistent old
line Wing. He remarked that it seemed
strange to him how any Southerner could go
North, hear the Abo1itionists talk and come
back home and not be a thorough, uncompro-
missing Democrat. Said he, in New Haven
and other cities North, the Democrats are
abused worse than dogs, simply for the fea-
son that they cooperate with that party
which recognizes the rights of the South, and
favor protection to her institutions"
Yet it is o common, every day occurrence
in South Carolina to find men and journals
who are never so violent as when hurling, in
unmeasured terms, philippics against the
Democratic party. They charge it with IN
consistency, they charge it with treachery.
Some of them were quoted by the opposition
in all the States where elections were recent.
" held, and did more towards effecting its
disasters in Tennessee, Kentucky and North
Carolina than all the opposition papers com
bined. Their press and their politlcions would
say, see what Democratic papers in South
Carolina say about the party. They pro-
nounce it false and treacherouS in every issue
in which the South is interested. With Dem
ocratic professions upon their lips, they only
placed the stietto more effectually in the
ribs of the party. If the charges made were
historically true, we could admire the devo-
ton to truth which shrinks not from even ex-
posing the transgressons of professed friends.
It is not historically true. Take the great
measures of Government for which the South
contended. What has become of the great
system of internal Improvements which was
cherished by the Whig party2 Has it not
been aban,loned2 Who forced its abandon
meut? Certainly not the Wings, nor the
Black Republicans, for they favor it. Look
to the abandonment of the Federal banking
system, to the reduction in tariff duties, to
the repeal of the Missouri restriction, to the
annexation of the immense slavery territory
OF Texas. Were any Of these accomplished
BY the Wings? If not, then to what party
is the States Rights cause ofthe South indebt-
ed for them, but to the Democratic? While
some ofits leaders, while some of its acts, may
invoke an expression of disapprobation, yet
we do assert that the wholesale denunciation
it receives in South Carolina, by small but
clanorous party, is unjust to the history ofthe
party. We assert that such injustice from
Southern source is chaergable with the crime
of ingratitude. Do men really value their
principles so little, that it costs them no COM
Functions Of conscience to denouce those who
have aided them in identifying those princi-
Piles with the policy of the Government :?
Does not the knowledge that Black Republi-
canism eXults over every such act of denun-
citation, because it derives strength from it,
restrain them? Does not the echo of sym
patty, which returns from the hills of New
England, as contained in the above extract,
warn them that that which is cause Of re-
Ioicng to the enemies OF the South cannot
rebound to its advancement and welfare2