Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1847-07-07

the day time, when the earth is free
fromfrosls, and when1he clouds are not
dispdrdening themselves upon the earth.
A manufacturing population can avail
themselves to any extent of the aid of
machinery. The fall Of warer in the
town of Lowell is made to do lhe work
l6f amilion of human beings. Every
thing the farmer raises must be brought
out ofihe earth by main force, by hard
work. The farmers productions are
bulky, and are often almost consu ned
in getting them to market. The manu-
factured article is usually comparatively
light in proportion 10 its value. The
farmer, moreover, is obliged to take the
chances of unpropitions seasons, and
occasionally short crop. But no va
riatons of the seasons has ever been
known to produce short crop Of boots
and shoes and drought has never deen
so great as TO blight the labors of the
loom.
With these advantages, a manufac-
turing people will always continue 10
keep an agricultural people in debt.
Towns and cities will spring up among
them, and the very fact of a condensed
population gives them greaa advantages.
An exclusively agricultural people, in
the present age of1he world, will al
ways be poor. They want cities and
towns, they want diversity OF employ
mep..- They want the enterprise and
activity, (which is engendered merely by
bringing masses Of the people to act on
each other bv mutual stimulation and
excitement. Why is the balanc Of trade
continually in favor 70 the North! Be-
cause our labor is not sufficiently diver
sifed, because the raw material goes
from thissvery city 10 the North 10 be
manufactured, and comes back to be
worn by our citizens, while we have
among US thousands & thousands who
might work it up, but who are lying here
idle, many of item supported by public
charity!
One OF the postulates of national
wealth is education universally didused.
1t is this alone that can give skill to the
hand, and wisdom in the general con-
duct of affairs. Without that, the stren>
9Th Of lhe'physical power of a nation is
like the sightless Cyclops, working in
the dark. Physical strength is generally
availablein proportion to the intelligence
by which it is guided. Most of our
readers have heard of the Lowell or
fering, periodical written exclusively
by the girls who are engaged every day
in carding, spinning and weaving.
Mr.. Dickens tells US that he carried
home to England number of that
work, as one Of the most wonderful
phenomena of the Western World. !
Mas told myself, at that place, by one Of
the superintendents, that the principal
writer's in that publication we're the most
profitable operators in The several eslab-
lishments, obtained the highest wages,
and made the best use Of their money.
So, after all the sneers cast upon literary
ladies, to them blue stockings is no
disqualification for the most common
empIoyments Of life. Sol is, all the
world over. The schoolmasler's wages
is an investment, which yields, in an
economical point of view, the highest per
centum.
Itis 10 enlightened education that we
must look for the extinction of that false
sentiment, so adverse to the true pros
perity ofa nation, the degradation which
sometimes attaches 10 personal toll. No
community can ever grow rich, where
it is thought 10 be more respectable 10 be
a eenteel loa!er, than to get an honest
living by The labor of the hands.
No nation can be prosperous and rich
without good government. And what
is good government IT? 1t is one which
protects, instead of making war upou
property. 1t is one which hallows the
marriage between capital and labor
two things, Which Gods providence has
joined together, and nothing but human
folly will ever put asunder-a union
from which proceeds the fair family Of
industry, wealth, harmony, and peace.
Once divide them, and the whole
structure of society is broken up.
Remo.se of Conscisnce.-The house ofa
widow lady was broken ialo by night, and
she and her servant girl stabbed in several
places. The girl died, but the mistress
recovered. The house was robbed Of all
the money it contained. An investigation
was made, but withou, success, or any
suspicion Of The real criminal, who unex-
pectedy appeared aud delivered himself
up to justice. declaring that the thought
of the murdered girl absolutely haunted
him 10 such degree, that life had become
burden 10 him. He stated that he had
thrown away the money he had taken
from the house, or given it to the poor. in
The vain hope of banishiug from his mind