Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-05-16
From the Richmond, Va, ENQUIRER.

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From the Richmond, Va, Enquirer.
THE SOUTH MUST PREPARE FOB TIE WORST.
The Atlantic" has brought US the speech of
Louis Napoleon, in reply to the address of the
municipality of London This speech, if there
had been a reasonable doubt before the subject,
fully reveals the uterior purposes Of the entente
cordial, in the following sentences:
Indeed, England and France are naturally
united on all The great questions of politics and
human progress that agitate The world. From
H.. shores of the Atlantic to those of the Medi-
terranean-from the Baltic to the Black Sea
from The desire to ABOLISH SLAVERY, TO
our hopes for the ameliurution Of all the coun-
tries of Europe, ! see in the moral as well as IN
The political world for our nations, but ono
course and one end" (Applause.)
Such were the words deliberately pronounced
by the Emperor of the French ut Guildhal, III
London, on the 18th ullimo. They are OF the
very gravest import to the South OF any that
ever proceeded from human lips. They confirm
every thing that We have 50 repeatedly SAID oi
the Object of British and French Intervention in
the affairs of this Continent That object is now
boldly, distinctly emphalcally avowed and ap-
plauded by the most illuslrous personages OF
The British realm. SLAVERY is TO BE
ABOLISHED under the operations OF the An
elo.French alliance! We have not only al in-
sidious, internal enemy arrayed against US, but
the most powerful aud apparanily determined
external one that could possibly be formed.
The lime for the united and resolute action
of the Southern States has at length arrived.
Their inhabitants cannot longer fold their arms
and shut their eyes to the danger which mena.
ces their political existence. 1t has become
papable reality. They are threatened from
without and within the Union. and if they do
not prepare TO resist the execution OF the threat,
they will assuredly lose all that renders life any
thing but curse 10 them, since they will be
shorn of all its blessings. In immediate nction
and that in the closest bonds of cemented BROTH
erhood, their security alone depends.
In the abolition of slavery France, like Eng.
fand, has ruined her Conlonies. She has, there
fore, pecun.rr interest in lis abolition In this
hemisphere. In the Island of Martinique, pre-
vious to the emancipation Of the $4,000 slaves
there, an average crop of sugar amounted to
2S 900 900 lbs The year after the event the pro-
duction was diminished 10 100000. In Quad
uInupe, previous 10 the emancipation of the lOO,-
OUO slaves there the yield amounted in the ag-
gregate 10 S3OOO,OOO lbs. The year after The
evrntil fell to l2,0OO0O0 lbs. In the Isle Of
Bourbon, previous to the emancipation of the
65, 700 slaves, there The yield amounted to 26r
OOO,OOU lbs. The year after the event it fell off
one-half. The hope of Louis Napoleon for le-
suscitating the estates in those Colonies, is in
abolishng the slave labor with which they have
to compete, in Cuba and elsewhere.
But there are few weightier considerations
r. IA, ,.1 1, OF l
intention "to abolish slavery" Ii he had not
perceived satisfactorily before he crossed the
channel that Great Britain stood in hnmilta-
Ting position before him, it was rendered clear
enough by the adulatory manifestations which
accompanied him from the time his foot touched
British soil until he re-embarkcd In Gni!dhall
he beheld "lmperi:l England" III his feet. The
only power on earth which be regarded is Il
rival, growing from day to day more grand, WAS
America To subjugate her, he knew, was an
idea too absurd 10 be entertained even by -
falaist divide and conquer" upon the Exeter
Hall principle was impossible. Moreover, the
notion WAS peculiarly tlatlering TO British pride
and complimentary 10 British philanthropy
In the name of the South, we thank The Elm.
peror of the French for this declaration of his
Intentions TO abolish slavery We have no Ion
ger concealed enemy to prepare for. We now
understand him. and if We fail 10 bring all the
force that We can command TO thwarl him in his
purpose it will be because we are Ill to be CT usll.
ed and for nothing else. We have had fore
warnings enough, the last an unnstakable one.
For time, the allies are likely to have Il suf-
f.iency of employment for their navies in the
Black Sea and the Baltic. The war iseof more
uccertain duration than ever. month may
| :, hon 10 fin
ished, the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea
may be covered with French and English crni-
sers, und the Africal,izalion of Cuba completed
even without the consent of Spain, were that
consent withheld or in amy manner conditional
This would be spectacle which we can scarce
ly suppose any but the most soul.hardencd
Know Nothings could contemplate without be.
inu terror-s,rirken. The success of the Serre,
Order would invite it. Such an occurEance in
Virginia would be construed abroad into II tacit
acquesccnce Of the sentiments expressed ut
Guildhall. We fear no such results, however.
We know that there is an abundance of patriot.
ism in The South to shield it from encroachments
whenever it is rallied, and it will rally when il
learns that such designs aS those expressed by
Louis Napoleon are deliberately entertained by
him.
Mr. Mason, in his mastery speech at the last
session of Congress, upon French and English
interference on this continent, stated thai he had
no doubt that measures, if not now in progress
will be speedy taken to bring this matter Of
European interference, in questions purely o
American and domestic interest, TO IN issue
that we may know the meaning of it, how far il
uues, and To what it tends. When that issue j:
presented to The American people, if am capa
bIe Uf understanding The hearts of my country.
m.l, there will bc but one voice"
Without further enquiry on the subject by
our Government, we think this meaning of The
interference has been very explicitly explained
in Gudhall Let the voice of the Soulh
whether the North responds or not, be manites.
ted upon it in our elections.
AN ESGLEHMANs OPINION OF AFFAIRS IN HIS
OWN COUNTRY AND ELsEwHERE.-An English
man in New York sends to the Courier anc
Enquirer the suboiued article stating that it is
from one of the coolest heads in Eng gland-a
member of the arstocrlcy, aud of i family
which for antiquity and public service has no
superior in that country. The extract reads
thus:
You of course know that we have no army
and no kno'on General; that we have IL raw mil
itia at present useless, great want Of sailors
and very disconlentcd public, their brutal voice
crying out for more victims now, when the
Russian power in the Black Sea is paralyzec
for many years TO come. 1t must be strange 10
the intelligent regard of foreign countries, that
we should, confessedly playing second iddI.
with perfect cOmplacency, allow our marrow tC