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

EDITORS ADvERTISER:- would call
your attention to the new movement OF
our ambitious neighbor, Newberry,
whereby the Dutch evidently conLenl-
plate %conquering a portion OF the terrific
ry OF our old County-our Alsace and
L,rraine-the Saluda Section. | ain sor-
ny to see by a late number of the New
berry NeVS, thai a son OF old Edgefeld
Is also engaged in this effort to dismem-
member our old mother, and if her sons
keep on demanding a partition of the
State, the old lady will o be left with
out her dover, or have a suficiency of
her wide domain left, to furnish a join
ture.
Our neighbors of the NewS discuss
this annexation Of that portion OF Edge
field, lying adjacent to Newberry, along
the Saluda," as if the County and people
of Edgefield had nothing whatever to
do with the matter. In fact they say
thai if we (of SLluda) see on the part Of
us of Newberry a disposition aud deter
mination to carry out the design, it will
BIZ speadily Accomplishment AMI no
doubt they mean by an absolute surren-
der on our part, Of whatever portion of
our territory the conqueror sees fit to
take. The appeal of the News 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 the good Of the county.
Which properly interpreted means:
"Poys, shut up de shop and sdop dra-
aknsi VIA aesn we vii, go oner 70 Sniu-
d. and no Edgefield."
But seriously, Messrs. Editors, L do
not see what Newberry wants with the
"Edgefield rouShs," when I remember
boys on Saluda were ~insulted and de-
Tended themselves from certain negro
police in N~ewberry, where they were
"transecting 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
lined and acquitted.
Now, Messrs. Editors, 1 wan to ex-
hort the people of u grand old Coun-
fy tn hQ r,ufianf ut1 if ff,a rn;l rna,l AVG
tenn of this part ofthe 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 pottage' or for a few bolts of
Dutch linen. Saluda wonld make a line
County of itself, with the c%ounty-seat ut
or near Blease's Cross Roads.
In conclusion allow me to say that l
am satisfied that the people of Edgelield,
are too proud Of the past history of
their glorious native soil TO consent to
any further ACKNOWLEDGMENT of our fair
proportions, in order to enrich our ovet-
Gus neighbors; and as only q few of the
Saluda people have been seduced into
this project, a counter petition will DO
gotten up, and our delegates from this
County instructed to resist the move to
the last.
AS a 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 o covet thy neighbours wife,
nor his MAJ servant, nor his maid SER
want, nor his OK. nor his ass, nor
anyth ing that is thy neighbors.
SALUDA.