Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-01-09

serted itself, ana Whlch was not to be
slighted on account of the color of the par.
ties. What is it you want?'
owe wanted you, if you were custom
ed to oihciate for colored persons, who are
willing to pay, to come next Monday eve.
ming to the red house next de toll gate"
ooh, yes, it's not my practice to refuse
any one on such occasions. At what hour
do 700 wish me to come 2"
"Early candle light, Massa, if you please
we've not had any thing of that kind i'll
a good while"
every well, III be there" replied the
Dominic, as he turned on his heel, think
ing tic remark that they had had nothing
of that kind in a good while, meant that
no wedding had transpircd among them in
a long time.
True to his appointment, Dominic N.
was at the house designated, in good sea-
son.-The door opened into tie principal
room Of the house, around Which sat some
twenty or thirty of Aflica's sable children,
dressed in their very best According to
the instructions they had received from
one of their number, TREY all rose on his
entrance. He took a proiiered seat, which
was behind little desk at one end of the
room, for moment, and then remarked, if
the parties were ready they had better i'm
mcdiatcly take their places.
In u moment all was hustle and confu.
sion. While some removed the chairs from
the room, eight couples formed as if for a
guadrille. The Dominic stared around in
utter amazcment, when he who had been
spokesman in engaging him at the village,
a few days before, coming up to him, his
mouth grinning from ear to ear, Massa
Fuse, habbcnt you brought your fiddle with
sou. we habbent got one here"
"Fuse fiddle! what do you mean 2"
exclaimed the Domine-the whole affair
beginning to dawn on his always quick
mind -" is this not to be wedding 2"
"Oh, no, Massa Fuse, we should hab
the Dominic here first, if we had we'd
ding !"
The Dominic saw IT.. glance that he
wagfHrary s617, and with SIM Giving the
fellow his n. and occupation, VIII
had about the same effect among the dar.
ltiies as ifa bombshe.l had dropped among
Them, he rushed from the house. -----
But the joke was too good a one to re-
main a secret, and the Dominic had to tell
it to some ofhis fun loving congregation
who will laugh to this day about their min
ister's going to fiddle at a darky ball.
Exchange paper.
JAMA1cA.-This spot once perfect
garden, with a climate surpassed by no
country in the world, for equality of tem-
pcrature, famed by the ever shifting
brcczes of the trophies, and warmed by Il
sun whose truc;itying Eeat gives pcrpe-
tual summer, and its soil so prolific that
the labor of ten weeks will secure ample
provisions for the year,-this spot Of earth
which should have been the granary of
America, has now, under the blighting
curse Of emancipation, fallen into utter
decay.
In 1881, when slavery ceased to exist,
there were 653 sugar plantations in sue
ccssful operation. Of these $50 have,
since emancipation, been abandoned and
two hundred thousand acres of land have
been thrown out of cultivation. The best
land on the island can now be obtained
at almost any price. No compensation
for labor is ofered-and tie free blacks,
no longer under the guidance and control
of the white race. have becolae, as they
always viii, beggars, rogucs asd outcasts.
The sleek, well-ied and happy slaves are
changedto half-starvcd, discontented free
men and the whites are either leaving
the Island to It's rapidly approaching de-
ISOLATION, or those who are compelled to
remain arc losing the pride of caste and
approximating to the ignorance, the lazi.
ness and the moral degradation Of the
negro.
Such is the fate that our Northern fel.
low-citizcns would wish to entail upon us,
some by force or fraud, as the ultra abo-
litionist, but all by their wish for general
emancipation and the total extinction of
slavery. God preserve us and our now
contented negroes from the curse of Nor
thern wishes.-Charleston Sun.
CALIFORNIA DocroRs.-It is not q
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