Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1879-10-02
For the Advertiser.
DISM MISREPRESENTATION EDGE
FIELD.

EDITORS ADvERTISER:- would call
your attention To the new movement OF
our ambitious neighbor, Newberry,
whereby the Dutch evidently contem-
plate conquering Il portion of the terrific
ry of our old County-our Alsace and
L)rraine-the Saluda Section. 1 all sor-
ry to see by a late number of the New
berry NewS, that q son of old Edgefield
IS also engaged in this effort TO dismem-
member our old mother, and if her sons
keep OH demanding a partition of the
State, the old lady will o be left with
out her dover, or have a snficiency of
her wide domain left, to furnish a join
ture.
Our neighbors of the Meas discuss
this annexation of that portion Of Edge
field, lying adjacent to Newberry, along
the Saluda," as if the County and people
of Edgeiield had nothing whatever to
do with the matter. In fact they say
that if we (of Saluda) see On this part of
us of Newberry a disposition and deter.
mination to carry out the design, it will
be- speadily accomplished;" AMI no
doubt they mean by an absolute surre!i-
der on our part, of whatever portion of
our territory the conqueror sees fit to
take. The appeal of the Nems to the
Dutch shop keepers is soul-stirring and
pathetic, as follows:" If Newberry de-
sires this territory, let it divert itself,
long enough from its devotion to the
business of The Town, and forget per
sonal and private selfish reasons, to do
something for tho good of the county.
Which properly interpreted means:
"Poys, shut up de shop and sdop dra-
aNas, Via a." y. ~u, 80 oeor 10 s,a,u-
d. and not Edgefield."
But seriously, Messrs. Editors, 1 do
not see what Newberry wants with the
Edgefield roughs," when I remember
how but a few years ago, some of Il
boys on Saluda were ~insulted and de-
Tended themselves from certain negro
police in Newberry, where they We're
"transacting their business" and these
wonderfully Conservative people got up
a public meeting and denounced them,
and afterwards it was found necessary
to change the Venue, and have them tri-
ed in Spartanburg. where they were sus
tuned and acquitted.
Now, Messrs. Editors, 1 want To ex-
hort the people of our grand old Coun-
W TO he patient, and if the railroad sys
tenn of this part of the State is not chang
ed in a reasonable time, so as to enable
them to do their business at home; and
if it becomes necessary in the future to
divide the County, let us then make two
good counties out of it, and one of them
can be called Saluda, Butler or Gary
instead Of selling our territory for a
mess of p~ottage' or for a few bolts of
Dutch linen. Saluda wonld make a fine
County of itself, with the county-seat at
or near Blease's Cross Roads.
In conclusion allow me to say that l
am satisfied that the people of Edgetield,
are too proud of the past history Of
their glorious native soil to consent to
any further disrnemberment of our fair
proportions, in order to enrich our covet-
Gus neighbors; and as only a few of the
Saluda people have been seduced into
this project, a counter petition will BIO
gotten up, and IL delegates from this
County instructed to resist the nave to
the last.
AS u farewell to our grasping neigh
bors, whom, testing aside, I really like.
i quote for their benefit, and hope they
will remember the tenth Commandment.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife,
nor bis man servant, O his maid SER
want, nor his OK, nor his ass, me-
anything that is thy %neighbors.
SALUDA.