Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-04-11
All Owing to Old weems.

Most Of our fellows citizens who have been ar
rested BY Federal Authority within ;ho past three
weeks, arc now in Charleston jail or,,cere, four
days since. We presume they are still there.
. All of them, with the exception of:Major VII.
SON COLEMAN and young HEaLoSo, were carried
from Columbia to Charleston len days ago. As
far as we con learn, the twoast nalr a gentlemen
are stilfin Columbia.
We are reoiced to be able to state lint Gen
NJ. W. GARY has been released on parole-indef-
mite parole. He arrived among us on Monday,
the 9th" clothed and in hisright mind" Upon
his arrival in Charleston, he was committed to
jail, and spent u day and two nights in COLL.
Gen. M. C. BUTLER, who has boon in Columbia
and Charleston for tho last two weeks using every
effort in his power to obtain she release or parole
of our unfortunate follow-c!izens, at length sue
ceeded in procuring from Gen. SIcxLEs IN order
allowing Gen. GARY the liberty of the city and
soon after, another, releasing him upon indefinite
parole. Gen. SIckLEs issued these orders after
examining the afilavits from citizens Of Edsicld
-eye-witnesses Of tho ARRAY here on sale day in
March-attcsiing that Gen GAnY had no part or
parcel, directly Indirectly, in the killing of the
Federal soldier. 1a
The South Carolinian spoke: thus while Gen.
GARY wasundcr arrest in Charleston:
General Gary has been arrested, VIC arc told,
because he lives in maldria precinct Of country,
about which old Parson Weems made some ahock-
ing stories 4 hundred years ngo, which arc too
we'll remembered by on oGluerors.
So all these arrests and all this fearful hurly-
bnrly are TO- be attributed 10 old WEeMs; and his
tales about Beck Cotton pnd other evil doors, who
a9urished in ElgefeId century back. Letus
all thank the Caroliniaa for the hint and lay our
present gricfs at the door Of old WEEMs. Or upon
his coffin rather; and certainly his bones ought
to shake and tremble with remorse. This idoa
that old WEEus's history is doing it, will make
us think better of ourselvos; for really we. have
heard SO much latoly of o,ir bloody wildness,an
savage atrocity, thatM Nero beginning to feel q
painfully guilty consciouanesstof not having pro-
yres.ed one step forward in virtue and civilization
since the ruthloss days when Beck Cotton mur'
acrcd her husband, and was in turn murdered BY
hor brother.
$50 far as We know, Gen, ,GAEris the only one
of our friends from the "naiayia precinct" VII; who
hos been set atlibe,ty. Ir. Jesse Gomillion. Mr.
b. Griffin, Mr.Juliu LAY, Mr. James Mitchell
NJ. NJ. Lowry, Mr.. James Lanham, Mr.. Hartwcl
Blease and Mr.. Emslcy L ott are still inCharles
ton Jail Or, Is VIC said boiorc, were there foa,
days ago.
Gen. Butler rsturnod to EdgeGeld with Gen
GARY, but will 60 back to Charleston or Friday
taking with him affidavit, attosting the higf
character of our fellcw-cizsns aill under arrest
and their undoubtcd innocence of the chargol
preferred against them.
By our next issue, we hope to announce theil
liberation. Gen. BUTLER ought not to, and vii
not, we feel assured, stop in this matter, short O.
suong out writ of Rabeas Corpus, and demand
ing their release therouron. If this should f99il
then the Presidents Proclamation is but "a sound
ing brass and tinkling cymbal."