Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-12-25
From the South Csrolinian.
Relief for Charleston.

Message in relation to the calamitous fire
at Charleston, which we published in our
last issue. in the Legislative proceedings,
we take pleasure i'll giving the following
in relation to the very handsome and pa
triotic action of the Legislature of Geor-
gia. This Message WAS yesterday sent
TO the General Assembly:
STATE OF SoUTH CAROLINA,
HEADQUARTERS Dec. lG, 1861.
Gentleman of the Senate aud House OF
Representatives:
SftncloSe herewith communication
fH6m his Excclency Governor Brown, OF
Georgia. 1t shows that the legislature
of our sister State has appropriated one
hundred thousand dollars FIR the relief OF
the sufferers in Charleston by the recent
fire. The gratitude and thanks of the
State are due for this nuble act of gener-
nls munficence on the part OF our sister
State. Oar people will feel it deeply, and
it will add another link to the bright
chain that binds the two States together
in one common destiny. Such acts be-
long only to q manly and brave people.
here take occasion to say that on the
tenth day of last February, the day after
the Star of the West was fired into from
oar batteries, there was not q place i'll all
Georgia that WAS near TO the telegraph
but what sent to me its offers by hundreds
tor an immediate march to Charleston.
1t touched my heart deeply, for felt that
the naughty spirit of a free and heroic
people had filled, as with electric fluid,
her whole air, from the snowy crest of
her rugged mountains even to the orange
groves that bloom over her sunny plains.
stretching to the far Southern border. |
felt thai we were sale. anI that We laust
he free, tor in every Georg!ans heart |
felt brothers beat, and in every Geor-
gia:,'s hand there was the grasp of the
cleaning blade for brothers wrongs.
In the early history OF our colonies,
when Georgia was weak, We sent our
troops to act with the illustrious Ogle-
thorpe i'll defending his country from the
Spaniar,ls OH one side. and to drive lack
the SavagrS ON the other Some of our
mcsl accompanied him even i'll his expe-
diton against Saint Augustine. And in
our first war for independence we sent a
regiment to the siege of Savannah, which
was nearly annhilated in the attack.
And, after Augusta had been in posses
sion Of our enemies for near three years,
We sent al efficient force to the seige Which
aided in reducing that city to our posses
1 T. ~. hp,
commanders over Savannah River, above
Petersburg, and the joint forces fought
together the celebrated battle of Kettle
Greek, which rescued that portion OF
Georgia from the tories. So, to', her
commanders aud forces were with ours
in the upper country, more or less,
throughout the Revolution. Georgia was
the first State, after the adoption of the
Federal Constitution, that demanded al
amendment to that instrument, limiting
the power of the Central Government by
preventing State from being sued. In
eighteen hundred and twcnty-tour, she
gave us the first real practical lesson in
State rights, and under her able and pa
trio,ic statesmen of that day deGed the as
suming power of the Federal Govern,
,nent. She, on that occasion, through her
intrepid Troupe, announced the memora-
bic words, . the argument is exhausted
and we will stand to our arms" And in
the late bloody battles of Virginia, no
troops have shown more daring courage
in every position than have the Geor-
cians. Whether in the remote mountain
gorges of Western Virginia, or on the
banks of the Potomac, her sons have
fought everywhere with a recklessness
and brave soIdiership that has never been
surpassed by any people. She suffered
more terrible losses on the plains of
Manassas than any other State. Nearly
two Other gallant regiments were literally
cus to pieces, and although her immortal
Barlow fell at their head, yet it was with
the flag of his country as his winding
sheet, and the shout of defiance and VIC
tory as the last note that touched the
warriors ear as he sank into the tomb of
his glory.
Under all these circumstances, it is pc.
culiarly grateful to us to receive this new
evidence of her cordial sympathy with US.
We are one and the same people in climate,
in soil and in productions; in all the great
interests and duties of life we are one and
the same, and, under the blessings of
Providence, ! trust that no events will
occur to separate us through all time to
come. T. w. PlCkENS.
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