Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-06-26

become of the many millions of British people,
who depend on cotton for employment and the
means of subsistence2 They would, at once be
driven to the point Of starvation, and would raise
such tumult as to cause the English govern
mcnt to shake to its very centre. A total failure
of the cotton crop in the United States would
cause in England an amount Of misery and des-
titution, and degree Of popular outbreak, that
would be terrific to contemplate. The English
government, exercising any agency in the mat
ter. could not survive six months. That govern
nnent, how great soever might be the clamor Of
small class of fanatics, could never be SO infatu-
atcd rs to attempt an object so utterly suicida
Besides, the ghastly picture ofruin, presented by
her West India possessions. stares her boldly in
the eyes. representing to her, more powerfully
than language or argument, the disastrous effects
of her former policy, The English nation, Of
ten bad ut theorizing, but quick to learn from ex
pericnce, has too much practical wisdom to again
attempts like ruinous course.
Under no circumstances can slavcry in South
Carolina be endangered by British influence; {;
and if not by this, surely by the influence of no
other European power. No! the unholy cru
SADIE against this institution, if it come at all must
come from the North. It can come from no
other quarter. On that side is the certain dam
ger. This is as clear as any moral proposition,
resting on future probabilities, can be. In that
direction, then, we should erect our bulwarks Of
defence.
Now, whether will slavery in South Carolina
be safer against the Vaccinations Of the North,
while the State is in or out Of the Union2 There
can be no doubt-phile out of the Union' For
first, by having control Of the mails, we may eas-
" exclude all ncendiary documents &c; and by
proper system Of police, fully justifablc in the
eye of international law, we can shut out from
our borders all suspicious and cvil--disposed per-
sons. Free from federal legislation, also, We
need have no fears from legislative enactment,
which is now so threatening. The Northern
fanatic may then rave. print, publish, denouncc,
and pursue the dictates Of his "hghcr law" to
his hearts content: he will little disturb our
quiet. How would it, indeed, be possible for
Northern fanatics to endanger our institutions
unless by actual nroads upon our soil for as to
fugitive slaves we could be in no worse condition
than we are at present. Are they likely to wage
war of arms against US How is the army to
be raised and supported and where is it to be
sent2 Could our neighboring States assist in
raising such an army or, if raised, could they
suffer it to march through their borders to abol-
ish slavery in South Carolna7 The overthrow
of slavery with us, would be its overthrow with
them. The army that could be mad enough to
attempt the abolition of slavery here, would not
have forbcarance enough, in triumphantly re-
turning, to spare the "damnable" institution in
the other States. These States would have to
surrender it likewise. Nothing less would salts
fy the demented folly ofthis hclliyh spirit. Would
the other States, until they are prepared to give
up slavery altogether, allow such IN army to
pass through their bordcrs2 To suppose they
spirit.
But their is little danger Of hostile invasion by
the fanatcal North. The rabid spirit Of arariee
by which that people are governed, would re-
strain them from placing hostile feet upon our
soil. 1t is well known, that, in all this crusade
agrinst our institutions, they have been moved
by no feelings of genuine philanthropy or religion,
but close, sordid sclfshncss, which has as vet
never lost sight of the pocket. This is the Del
y, at whose shrine they worship, in all their de-
nunciations Of our people, and in all their en-
croachments upon the South. It has been with
them purely question of power, desire to con-
troll the operations Of the government: to mo-
nopo'ze its honors and Offices; to regulate the
taxing power and the disbursements Of the pub
lie revenue in word, to screen themselves
from the burthcns Of the union, and to gather and
appropriate the largest possible amount of money
from the Southern people.
Left to exercise itself blindly, under tile slow
but gradual developments of dcspotic power, this
spirit will doubtless perpetratc the inlqutous vii
lany freeing the slaves in the States, though to
the pccuniary loss of the North for "it is the
characteristic Of dcspotism to cut do,rn the tree
TO get at the .frut,"S but when the delusions of
power are once dispelled by the call to arms
when the ways and means are to be devised, the
men and money to be raised to carry ont the fatal
scheme at the point of the bayonet, the old spirit
Of auaricc, true to lis instincts, will shrink back
in cowardly timidity from the threatening storm
of war, brought to dead pause on the banks of
the Rubicon. Under a government, in which
the minority rules, the Northern horde rarely
move in arms except to plundcr and to rob.
Subsistence or money--the prospect Of some
glorious e! Dorado has prompted all their grand
military expeditions.
What is there at the South to tempt their GU
pidity7 We have no magnificent Cities for them
to sack-no public wealth to charm their covctous
eye. Would they take OUT slaves? For what Z
To feed them7 Tuis, they would certainly have
to do, or make them feed themselves, and hence
they would be slaves still. To transport them
would require immense means, and they will not
allow them to enter the free States Can any
one, for q moment, think that the Northern pco-
pic without any prospcct of remuneration with