Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-03-13
For the Advertiser.
MoULrRlr HORSE, Sullivan's Island,
February 26tb, 1861.

Dear Colonei.-The Fourth Of March draws
nigh apacc. On That day, "fatul to liberty
Abraham Lincoln, the sectional exponent Of a
sectional party will, beyond doubt, be inaugu-
rated as the President of the immaculate (h
Northern Conicderacy. By the pre.eonccrtGd CO
operation Of Radctzky-Scott and his worsc than
lIessian hirOlings, demonstration will, almost to
certainty, be made by trueuant and foul
hearted mobocrnt, who exults in the name uf CO.
ercion, to rvet gyves On the limbs of milton Of
Southern freemcn. Every effort has boen exert.
ed, every argument hus been exhausted in order
to induce an infatuated and purblind dotard to
listcn to reason and to concede to tho people of
the South their inalicnnble and blood purchased
rights without the desperate alternative of an ap-
peal to the arbitrament Of tho bayonet. Tho
President has shown the cloyen foot That he
has adhered to traitorous and jauus-faced policy
with regard TO the South all along, and has evi-
denccd himself to bo the mere obsoquious slave
and harlequin Of a wirC-puling military despot,
I need waste no words to establish. The day of
compromise IS now past and gono. Hollow pro-
essiuns and punic faith are tho order of tao hour
The South has been hoodwinked too often already
and beguiled into a fatal feeling of security by
pharisaical overtures Of concession and concia-
ton. Jdcia eat alen !
1t is tho eleventh hour now for " Patriarch"
Lincoln and beeto.browed Scott to think of en-.
ploying tho rod Of coercion in chastiIing tho
Southern States into submission, or wilhstheir
"merconary swsa who fight for pay" to prevent
tho ensign of tho Palmetto and the crescent from
aosting proudly over the Capitol Of Southern
Confvderacy. President buchanan has peremp-
to!ily refused to comply With tho demand Of Col.
Hayne to surrender Fort Sumter. The refusal of
the rendition of that stronghold, per sc, should
be adjudged sufficient foundation for a formal
declaration of hos.ilitcs between the South and
the North. Notwithstanding this, sundry wiso-
acres and "counts Of Solomon" ignore the idca Of
u war between the North and the South. The
war, they over-conadcn,ly sllcge, is restricted to
the "poet's corner Of the Charleston Mercury"
sn not 81 sure Of this by half. It il true some
what different direction has been given to matters
in consequence Of the election of Jefferson Davis
| to tho Presidency Of the Provisional Government.
But thore is no occasion to conclude thut our pro-
visunal President will adopt regime Of policy
m4terinly foreign to tho one meditated by Cover
nor Pickcns, and to entertain the conviction that
Fort Sumter will not be assaulted before tho ides
Of March demands the increduily Of St. Thom
az. The lesh-tots and ponny-a.lincrs Of tho
Federal Capitol are blatant usqne dd nauScum in
-. s
Maj. Anderson. But it IL IN iusult to common
intelligence to maintain that the forciblo occupa
tion of Fort Sumter by Uuited States troops is
not most tasrant :nfracton Of international
law II il curious to reflect what IN exaggerated
npiuior obtains in certain quarters touching An
,lerson and his preparations for defense. Of one
| thing we may rest assured: whether his prepsra-
ons are Of such magnitude rs they have been
represented or not, every cXertion will be made,
by inir or foul msuns, to reinforce tie bastun
which he occupies. Linculus indianapolis apecch
is plenary earliest Of this asseveration. In fur
herauco Of this view li.tcn to the Springfield
| Tiuois) Journal, Lincoln's home organ. That
nncompromsing sheet suys: -" We should not
talk about compromise while the flag Of tho trail
or floats over an American fort, and the Gag Of
our country trails in the dust. Until thnt fag is
unfurled over Mcultrc, md every other stolen
| fort, arsenal, custom house, and nsvy-yard-untl
,he lave Of this Government ure obcyed, and its
authority recognized, let us never tulk about
compromise. Lot tho stolen forts, ursenali, and
uavy-yards bo restored to tho righ,ful owners
tear down your rattlcsuakc aud pelican flag, and
run up the over-glorous stars and stripes-dis-
s:s: a. asssra
return to his duty" South Csrot'na; by her
bian policy with regard to Fort Sumter has missed
the golden opportunity Of making exclusively her
o,cn all tho glory acc7uns from fIrcing Anderson
to strike bis colors. Sho must now re.t content
to share this glory with her co-confoderate States
Gov. Pickens by failing to anticipate and arrest
Auderson's recherche marement in the evacuation
Of Fort II, utr;e and the occupation Of Fort
Sumter placed Charleston in the same awkward
attitude that Gov. Brown saved Savannah from
by his opportune seizure Of Fort Pulaski. What
Ia Costa de los Contrastes-thc Coast Of VeIaton
was to the Discovrrer Of the New World, that,
and more, has been Fort Sumter, since the Presi-
Dental contest to the Sta.e Of South Carolina.
| To sum all up in worl it must capitulate what
ever be the efue;on of blood. 1t must be ours if
it cost ten thousand lives to take it.
The Ed ;r;irld Ri8em-n a:e n,w encan. cd at
Thompson's rout, east ca | of tn. Islanl.
Truly! W. II. :.