Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-03-08

mend me TO Sucn ruin. me country may
we'll say to free trade, in the words Of the
maiden's love song,
"Ruin is sweet, if thou undo me-"
Those protectionists who oppose further
reduction Of duties now, will, trust, be
somewhat guarded in their prophecies of
woe. Great as would be the material ad-
vantage resulting from an adjustment of
your tariff strictly to the revenue standard,
the moral advantages would be greater. AS
MIR. Burke phiosophicaly remarks, the spir.
it of liberty in modern society inheres in the
taxing power. And there are no people
more sensitive upon this subject than the
people of this cunfetleracy.
1t cannot be denied that the taxing pow.
ers of this Government have been exercised
unjustly to the section to which belong.
We are not ignorant of our wrongs, what
ever may be the patience with which we
endure them. You now have fortunate
and happy opportunity of remodeling your
financial policy on great principles of truth
and justice. Will you avail yourselves of
it. trust you will. Before US is a future
more glorious than was ever given to any
patriot in any age to look upon. TO realize
it, tits only necessary for those III Whose
hands is tue direction of public affairs, to
elevate themselves to the dignity of their
mission, and, rising above class and section
al ideas, advance boldly in the path of truth,
Justice, and the Constitution Place the
foundations of your Government on those
great principles, and faction and anarchy
and fanaticism will in vain seek to impede
our triumphal progress TO prosperity, to
greatness, and to glory. Under the influence
Of: these ideas, the star of our destiny, as it
wheeled its majestic course full circle,
flaming through the mighty armament, sub.
lined with the grandeur of its hopes, would
move the universal human heart, for in its
wondrous. ascension men would see the i'm. !
pulsion Of god.
have thus endeavored to put forward
these great principles upon this subject which
have been so long aud so ardently cherished
by the State of South Carolina. The mas.
ter intr'l.cts with she was able in the past
so gloriously to illustrate these principles,
have fallen into eternal night. The light Of
their genius still flashes along the pages Of
your history, but they are no longer OF tire
earth. TO those of US who have succeeded
them upon this arena, remains only the hum.
be task of maniiesting our fidelity to the
great truths which they incucated.
TIE RUSSIAN DEBr.-Tbe present Rus.
sian debt, the interest Of which is payable
at Barings, in London, and the principal Of
which was chiefly negotiated through this
house. is computed at sl36,s4C,O0O The
debt bears per cent. interest, negotiated
from 1920 to 1888, with the exception of
S37,5OO0CO four and a half per cents. issued
in 1850. Tliis'is the Foreign Debt Of the
Empire alone. There is Il domestic Debt,
created originally in 1877, ard now compu.
ted to sum more than equal to the Foreign
say in our currency Sl40,000,0oO. An
English writer says the debt was authorized
to secdre the government paper money and
other floating claims at a fixed rate, aud
thereby to make the paper rubles conver-
,ible currency In 1921, these paper rubles
amounted to G40 millions. In 1889, by a
ukase of the Emperor, they were made a
convertible currSncy, at the rate OF So 81
paper for one silver ruhle. And SO at an Ex-
change on London of Is. Id, to the ruble,
the whole would represent sterling amount
of f2S, 100, 900: the hard cash to represent
which is supposed to be about l2O,000,O0o
of rubles, or about S9O.O00,000 in the Impe
rial Bank. This fund has been raised by
the issue of Domestic Bonds, bearing 8 per
cent. interest; the amount of which is some-
where about Sl25,0000O0,
TIE EVENING PRAYER.-We can scarce
" imagine scene more full of beauty and
meaning than that presented BY the little child |
who kneels at his mothers knee to ask Gods
blessing upon the sleep into which he is
about to enter. There is great deal OF
significance in the mighty prayer. ltrecalls
the past to-day, aud it reminds us of the
future tomorrow; leads US to feel how much
to.days words and deeds will affect to.mo-
rows and, above all, toteach US that the
greatest physical or moral power which we
may possess is not our own, but lent to US
by kind Creator. Sir II. Brown says that
3" Sleep is Deaths younger brother; and so
like him that dare not trust him without
nv prayers Who will deny that the,
nights rest is sweeter for having received
Fathers blessing Received, we say; for
does not every one that asks receive!
You look upon the babe asleep in his
cradle, and say it is a picture of perfect re.
pose. You are right. The infant feels the
fullest faith in its mothers or its nurses care,
and thus its ropose is perfect. The child
will grow to manhood, and his face will no
longer wear that happy look of peace and
faith, unless he has learned to turn from
mothers to Fathers care and love. II, at
his mothers knee, he has daily asked for
that love, he will still have the trustfnl child's
spirit which hung so beautifully over his IN
fancy, and grow every day more and nfsre n,
like those who, having become like little
children" are ready to enter the kingdom oil
heaYen.
Parsop BRowNLow, in exposing a default.
ing subscriber, who has f" fled to parts un-
unknowp," owing him six dollars, uses the
the following tall language:
Let him be published in every journal in
existence, until his defa|catjap is known and
upon the waves of the Euxine let his mean
ness be borne along with the shrieks of the
drowning Austrians, and the groans of the
dying Turks! And may the deep-dyed
waters of the Danube hide his body from the
eye of man, when the sabre Of the Cossack
and of the Turk shall have drank deeply OF
his blood! And may the close of 1854 never