Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-08-03
Disuniou,

It seems to bo seriously contemplated by some,
to attempt q dissolution of the Union of these
States in tho evOnt of the election of Black Re-
publican President next year. Could it be rea-
sonably supposed that tho Southern people ut largo
had made up their minds in any sense to the adop-
ton Of immediate measures of disunion on tho
happening of that contingency, we'll might our
every heart swell within u.s. as ut the approach of
u tremendous catastrophe. Well might we counsel
together with tho deepest gravity. Well might
we begin to SGT our houses in order, to live and
not to die. Well might the note of preparation be
forthwith sounded, und men, women, and chill
drcn, be drilled to meet tho shock, whatever it
might bo, with IL heroism worthy Of the great oc-
casion.
But are the signs of tho times to DO thus inter-
preted? /;
1t is o. received notion, that coming events cast
their shadows before them. In what part Of the
South con you ut this moment point to any such
condition of solemn resolve will justify the as
sertion thut 80 important measure as disuuion is
IN the hearts Of the people' There is q calm upon
the surface of the political waters-call you it the
calm that precedes the storm No, it Is the calm
Of an unbounded attuence,-the calm of faith in
our manifest destiny,-the calm of confidence in
the might of Southern civilizatioD,-tllo calm of
self-reliauce which forbids the supposition that
the South Gun be abased or impoverished by any
power in or out of this Union.
Where we ask is tho work to commence, and
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TINT neither Virginia, nor kentucky, nor Missouri,
nor Tennessee, nor Arkansas, nor North Carolina,
nor Maryland, will have any thing to do with such
demonstration. Viii it be Georgia? Not un-
less the teachings of STEPHENS and TOoMBs are
repudiuted. Will it be Louisiana2 The desire
for the openiugof the Slave Trade mightinduco her
to take the step. Will it be Texas? There is not
nm indication of any such intention in thnt quar-
ter. Will it be Florida? No. viii it be Ala
bams, Mississippi, or South Carolina2 Possibly.
And yet it is difficult to believe the proposition,
that any one Southern State, or that any three
Southern States united, will go out Of this Union
on barren issue and against the wishes Of seven
or eight of their co-States of tho South. So far
Us OOutn OuEolluh 10 couCeiuouj NJ oosSAfe Nv Se-
rious indications of any such policy. Ono or two
of our public men aud several journals have said
that. they arc ready for disanion in that event.
But urc tho people ready3. Have the people been
consulted in the matter? viii the people in their
primary assemblies, either this year or the next,
warrant their representatives in making ready for
disunion upon tie issue Of q constitutional cleo
tion7 Will the people of Georgia do this? Have
they not their platform of 1852, adopted as their
ultimatum iu tho Union? Will that platform be
touched by the constitutional election Of Black
Republican President7 Does not that platform
present the true issues of di,union? Have not
South Carolina and nearly all the other Southern
States sanctioned and adopted it7 Will the peo-
Pile Of Georgia now anticipate the violation Of
that platforlu2 If not they, will the people Of
any other Southern State do SO? Will they not
rather nail it to their masts as the colors under
which they intend to meet Republican Admiqis
tration? Will not every Southern State re-declare
this ultimutum and say to Black Republicanism,
"thus far shalt thou 60 and no further" We
venture to enter our humble prediction that such,
and no more, would be the action Of tho South in
the event supposed. But it is not SO to be. The
Democracy i. not yet vanquisbed, aud, with wis
dom in thcir ranks, they Gun never be- To the
rescue of the Old Guard, people Of the South, and
III will ho well