The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-09-18
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absolutely indispensable to the trade
of the world, and to the industry of
New England and Old England in.
particular. And how much greater
a subject is it, for comniseration, that
this pretty little plant, acill not grow
except in certain latitudes, and has
never been made to grow in any
quantities. except by the appropria-
ton of slave labor. Now, if Mr..
Grcely' had had the ordering and
cutting out of the six days work, de-
scribcd in the first chapter in Gene
sis, no doubt he could have arranged
all these matters upon different and
better principles. His deep philoso.
phy must long since have detected,
that the Almighty committed ter
rible original blunder when it made
distinction in the color of men; and
had he been the cotemporary of Ad-
am and counsellor in the grand ere.
alton which sprang from Chaos at the
divine command, he would certainly
have provided that the cotton plant
should spring spontaneous from
New England's ock.bound shore;'
or at least that its slrong and siIlsY
and ductile fibre should have had no
advantage over the tough, obstinate,
woody and intractible hemp and fax.
But unhappily for Mr.. Greeley and
the Cazenovians, and most happily
for the South, the Almighty author
ofall goodness to man, has given the
South this little plant as an arm Of
protection against the fury of fanat-
icism, and the benevolence Of Mr..
Greely's philanthropy. In these
cotton bales he has vouchsafed us,
the muniments of impregnable
strength, and enabled us, # we are :
wise and true, to arrest and turn
back the tide of revolution which q
maddened bigotry is preparing to
roll over both the white and black ra- ]
ces of the South to their mutual de-
struction. Cotton is oar Aaronss
rod the talisman Of powe
sceptresof dominion sl,e d;
ed world The Little
MIR. GreeieyTan be Kept iii ni Il
and switched from his mad.cas fooler
les, into q state Of sound reason and
decent propriety. FLAX and Hemp
wont do the business, friend Horace!
The cotton gin pas invented-that
IS fixed fact, which, while it invites
your lamentations, cannot be unfixed.
Go on, then. Rely on fax and hemp
to feed and clothe the millions of
Europe who draw life from our cot
ton-to run the spindles and looms of
New England, fed by our slaue-
worked cotton fields. Push on your
Northern brethren to increased and
removed agsressions-drive us, step
by step, to resistance and desperate
disunion--pile on the wrongs until
even the meanest submissionist the
South contains will be forced to agon.
ize the groan hold! enoughr-force
us out Of the Union-compel us to
resort to our own resources of indc-
pendence and power, and cut off
from the South-turn out New Eng
land to get rich on her own unaided
resources of granite aud ice; and then
halt a moment to look at the work Of
your hands. You will not be able to
pronounce it good You will have
discovered that Providence was wiser
than Horace Greeley, and that tai
ents are the most dangerous weapons
that can be con6ded to the hands Of
q crack-brained fanatic. The curses
you have SO often objurgated on the,
people of the South, will, as the
Arab proverb has it, have come home
to roost; and if your own people
don't hang you for witch, and exc.
crate your memory as the architecs
of their ruin, you will be the luckicst
fool.philosopher that ever went to sea
in tub.
Coon. What is the difference,
my lora,' said a pert subaltern, the
other DAY, to certain dignIfed ma
ker Of jokes, 'What is the difference
between an ass and an archbishop?
"A pause cnsued.
'Do you give it -up?'
Il give it up quoth the dignitary.
well, them quoth the fippant,
1T is that the ass's cross is upon his
back, while the archbishop's lies up
on his breast M
Good indeed; but let me ask in
return continued his grace, swhat
is the difference between an ass and
an ofEicer-say, in the army?'
A longer pause ensued. The sub.
altern gave it up. i protest. quoth
he, 4 cannot make it out. The diff.
ference? No, cannot see IT,.