Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1838-02-22
Miscellaneous.

LlTERARr CuRlosIrY,-We have in our
possession the numbcr. Of the Boston Gaz
more than a century old. One is date d the
9Th July 1874 another Gath September
!1S3; and the third the 9th September
lI2'; the latter being 113 years Of agc.-
The two first are about the size of q 10 Inv
IL pane Of glass, and the latter one abont
IL by IA. which shows the Gazette to have
boen OH the decline from 1925 to I734.-
There arc many curious things in these ve-
terans OF n century, and not among the
least is the style in which they arc printed
aud their odd pllraseology. We find in them
also several advertisments Of negroes for
sale, negroes runaway, &c. which We pub.
lish for the qualification of our readers.
LII Runaway from Timothy Keller Of
RidgctieId in the County of Fairfield in
Connecticut. about the last of Junc, a Negro
Man named Mingo a likely well grown fel-
low, thick set. speaks good English, can
read and write, one Of his little Foes il
wanting he is about 81 Years Of Age
lie had OH n good durov Coat Of n Iitish
color, striped Calimino Vest and Brooches
good Shoes ard Stockings, a plain cloth
Homemade great Coat with brass But
tons, he had as I am inform'd. a false Pass.
a Pocket Compass, and several Books
Whoever shall take up said Fellow, and
convey him 10 Capt. Samuel Kcclcr, Mt
Norwalk in Connecticut, shall rave Seven
Pounds. and all necessary charges paid
By me Timothy Kcclcr.
SST NEGROES Males and Females to
he sold by Jacob ROYAL, for cash, good
Bonds. or six or nine months credit.
@t' To be sold a Negro Girl about six
teen Years old, fit for Town or Country
service, she has had the SMALLPOX, en-
quire at Mrs. Marks, two Doors Sou,hcrly
of the White Horse at the South end Of
Boston.
tit TO he sold by Pvam Blowers and
Company at their Warehouse just below
the Swinging Bridge. Barbadoes Rum and
Sugar also several Young likely Negro
Girls.
On Monday The 9th inst. between 9 and
3 O'Clock i'll the Afternoon, a Race will be
run, for n considerable " lager OIL the Plains
Of Portsmouth New Hampshire. betwcena
Hog and Il Horse.-Augusta Chro. 6; Sen.
We have passed through two wars, will, slave
population rs great in proportion To- the whites,
IA ii is now, without the slightest from,
It; and II ever the experiment shall be made
again. it will be found that our slaves will be to
us Il source of strength, rather than weakness.
Richmond Hhig
The first of these Wars was the Rcvolutiona-
~ War-and will the Wing be so good as to re-
c"llcct.tl,a, i'll that war. Georgia, South Carolina
aud the greater part of North Carolina, were
conquered and Suhducd by the British, arms.
and were only recovered by a General, soldiers.
aud supplies furnished by the Nortern S,a,cs!
virginia herself was completely ovcrrun, her
capital burnt, and, had she been Dependant, OH
her own resources None, she would have yield
aI nIpt,ppf .,tl,., 49,,
Cornwallis. BE it known to the Wing, that
tho single State of Massachusetts furnished
moro soldiers to the revolutionary armies, than
a'ithe Southern States put together. This APP
pears from authentic ~cnmcn
The second war aIIyded to Ly he Whig,wns
The late War With Great BTlain. Docs inc
Wing remember that. during the l, war. n
little handful of British, troops landed in tho
chesapeake, marched through the country and
plniidercd and burnt The city of WASHINGTON
and the towns adjacemt. almost without the show
ct "pp"siuon' And does the Wing suppose
that such thing as that could have happened III
any of The free S~;a;es.-BOston illus.
The above, from the Boston .iAas. is a srcci
men OF a tone, towards the South, very common
"nih' Northern presses. In opposing. as VIC
shall do, the .;ilSchood and nlsurdity of its as
serious, we by no means wish to he understood
as DENYING that the citizens of the Northern
states are brave people. and have done their
dnty IN the wars in which the country has been
engaged. They are perfectly welcome to mag
niy their achievements, rs much as they please,
and 10 out-hnast ifthey think proper all Hnmer's
heroes. We will never interrupt them, rs long
as they keep within their own limits. We only
object to their building mp their fabulous exploits
N the expense Of the South.
The South. they say, has been ovcrrnn and
conquered. while the Nortl, has not. Very true;
but 1t seems to us to require no vastly profound
philosophy to discover, for this fact. Il cause ever
stronger than the vulonr of the inhabitants of
New f.nSland, Their country is not worth III
vading.
(By the bye. we should like to he informed by
The Atlas whether it IL for the purpose ofiucrca:-
ing or attaching Ia the Union. that we are thus
reminded. that in wars with foreign powers Inc
South Is attacked and plundered while the North
Is unmolestrd! Especially as our wars are en-
tered into for the benefit OF Northern \
Virginia and the Carolinas were rescued by
Northern troops and IL Northern general"
The South generous and kind hearted. has al
ways been SD warmly disposed to love the ser
vices Of General Green, that it has never gain
Saycd any cxaggeration of them. however cuor
NOUS. Under the same feeling, il has often con-
srNtcd tn be accounted Il debtor TO the North for
kindncsscs, either never conferred, or repaired
ten times over or cancelled. long ago, bv their
national frauds and hostility against us. But, let
it be, that the North gave us Greene. Whoraye
them Washington! Under what commanders
were the best and most successful battles fought.
that the Revolution witnessed! Under Gates
Morgan Campbell. What town ofihcirs was ever
so desperately defended us Charleston! From,
what Fortress OF theirs was the enemy ever more
galIantly driven back. Than from Fort Norl,ri,,
hat better or more efficient commanders were
seen i'll the whole war than Marion, and Tee. and
Sumter!