Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-05-27
Another Poland.

South -Carollna Is PolandlZed-aye,
worse than that, Atricamized?
That gallant, heroic little State, which,
in the Revolution, in the persons of her
Ma1ions, her Sumiers, her Pickenses, her
Moultries, her Rutledges, her Haynes,
her Pinckneys, gave to the public service
amore brilliant array of eminent and
patriotic men, than any other of the
"Old Thirteen, ,nsave only grand peerless
Virginia; which, in the generation sue
cceeding the Revolution, sent among her
Representatives at the Federal capital,
three of the greatest men whom any part
of our country has ever produced, Chcves,
Lowndes, and Calhoun, all compeers;
the latter participating in public affairs
during two generations, and running into
that now upon the stage, embracing in
the last half of his career, that period in
the history of South Carolina perhaps the
most interesting of all, when she seemed
to swarm with gifted and splendid char
acters, Hayne, McDufie, Hamilton, Pres
ton. Davis, Turnbull, Rhett, Pickens,
Hammond, Richardson, Poinsett, Lcgare
and Petigru Sout Carolina, which has
given such men to the service of their
country, and their names to history q
State which has ever been great, in the
greatness of her citizens; which, in
every war with foreign enemy, has been
conspicuous for ardor and bravery in the
field, and for wisdom and patriotism in
the council; this State, with her great
history and her honorable record; this
State, peopled with the descendants and
kindred of the grand, historic characters
whom we have named this State, with
its proud memories, its glorious traditions,
its enviable fame; this State, with its
State pride, pride of race, and pride of
lineage; this State, combining in its his.
tory so much to excite admiration, hav-
ing so many claims to public respect, and
every consideration of equal rights, COM
mon safety and selt:preservation, appeal
ing so powerfully to her sister States Of
every section, for for5earance from The
invasion of her sovereignty, for recogni,-
ton of her right of internal selfgovcrn.
meut, and f3r the encouragement of that
intelligence, high mental culture, and
public spirit, which have heretofore pre-
eminentlv distinguished her as member
of the Union; this State, the South Caro-
lima of the Revolution, the South Caro-
lima of the second war with England, the
South Carolina of the Mexican war, the
South Carolina of the great men, great
services and great distinction, IS no more!
The South Carolina which the mite
race that settled and has inhabited her.
made as we have above sketched her.
giving her an existence and history en-
tending over more. then two centuries, as
coony and State, has passed from the
control Of that race, and been made an
Africanized province of the New Nation,
which The Puritans of New England have
been Iaboring for more than half cen
tury, TO establish. in place of the beautiful
and beneiicient structure Of Constitutional
government, founded by a common an
ccstry, and adapted, above all other sys.
teas ever devised by men, 10 make a
people great, free, prosperous and happy.
But all this has passed away, and the
political power in South Carolina has
been placed in the hands Of the negroes,
who outnumber, by many thousands, the
white population, and have just been per-
mitted aud aided, by military power and
arbitrary measures, to set up govern
ment of their own,. and officer it with
such of their own number, or of worth.
less adventures. from other States, as
they chose to elect, and at the mercy of
such government and subject to such
legislation as may emanate from it, are
placed the property, the persons and the
lives of the white men, women and chill.
dren Of South Carolina, the descendants
from common ancestry with our own,
their fathers and ours, in all the past his
tory of the country, in colonizing and
settling it, IN, wicping it's independence
and establishing itsfreedom, in defending
its honor, IN batting tor its rights, in re-
sisting and overcoming its enemies, in
preser ling its liberty, and promoting its
growth and prosperity, having acted to-
ecther, and moved forward, hand in hand,
and shoulder to shoulder, to common
ends and mutual support and advance
ment.
And not only South Carolina, whose
fate is sealed for the present, but all her
sister States of the South, are doomed
to similar Authorization, if it be in the
power of the Jacobin friends at Washing
ton to force their fell and baeful policy
upon them.
But, thank God, wherever, and to what
ever extent, they may succeed, in doing
their devils work, it will not stand, IL
cannot last. The people are rising against
them, and the signs and evidences are
unmis stakable, that this is to be q white.
mans Government and white mans
The friends of liberty are marshaling
for the struggle, and earth, air and sky
are rife with the sounds and omeps of
We say to the suffering, down. trodden,
maligned and NAL treated raen and women :.
Of the South, be patient, be hopeful be
DrsTet -
The hour of redemption is at hand for
both yon and US, and only for little
line Shall this execrable. Jacobin rule,
his abhorrent reign Of negro barbarism,
i've to curse our common country! +.
.ftrhe time is past when sgords subdued--
Man may .die--the SOULS reneW'd;
Fyen II, ,tbis.loW world of caro-,
Froodom ns'er shall want an heir;
Millions breathe but to inherit /,