Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-05-23

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-~.v,e Tue New fork Anti, Slavery Society
on Tuesday evening. In order to put him.
self right, and remove any doubts as to his
personal soundness, to which his late alliance
with the Know Nothing party may have
given rise, the speaker declared that in his
opinion American slavery, our connection
with it, and the obligations imposed by that
connection, are the great political issues in
this country. His confession of faith we
give in his own words:
"If there be one here this night who be-
lieves that | am capable, for personal or
party purposes, of modifying or qualifying
sentiments entertained by me for nearly
twenty years, commission him here and now
to proclaim ito send it abroad on the
wings of the wind that am committed, full.
ly committed, in favor of the immediate and
unconditional abltion Of slavery wherever it
it exists under the constitution of the United
States; that am pledged now and evermore
in favor of blotting out at once and forever
from the legislation Of the republic every
act that recognises slavery, or gives its sane
ton to slavery"
How MUCH TopAccn IS UsED.-The pre-.
sent annual production of tobacco, accor-
ding to writer in one Of our papers, is esti.
mated to be 4,OOO,OoO,OOO pounds! This
is all smoked, chewed or snuffed. Suppose
it all made into cigars, one hundred to the
pound, it would produce 4o0,0OO,OOO. Four
hundred billions Of cigars!
Allowing this tobacco, unmanufactured,
to cost on the average ten cents a pound,
and we have s4OO,oOO,OoO expended every
year in producing noxious, deleterious
weed. At least one and a half times as
much more is required to manufacture it into
marketable form, and dispose Of tito the
consumer. At the very lowest estimate,
then, the human family expend, euery year,
one thousand millions Of dollars in the graft
fcaton of an acquired habit, or one dollar
for every man, woman, and child, upon the
earth
This sum would build two railroads around
the earth, at cost of twenty thousand dol.
lars per mile, or sixteen railroads from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, 1t would build one
hundred thousand churches, costing $4,000
each; or half million of school. houses,
costing $4,000 each; or one million of
dwellings, costing $1,000 each. 1t would
employ one million of preachers, and one
million Of teachers, giving each salary of
$500. 1t would support three and one-third
millions of young men at college, giving each
o200 nor onnnm for aYnpnses
Within a few days we have read SINH
lar estimate of the cost of the supeIfuous
buttons worn on our coats. Thus, there
are two, at least, behind, and sometimes
four. 1t is said that the cost of these but
tons is as much as the cost of our free schools.
Goop.-Mrs E. Oakes Smith, who was
appointed by Barnum one of the jud ges OF
his debasing "baby show" has written a
womanly letter, declining to have anything
to do with the disgusting affair. She says,
with proper spirit, that the 8" woman to whom
has been delegated the fostering culture OF
beautiful miniature Of the Creator will
hold herself as one made holy thereby, and
she will profane neither herself nor child by
any unseemIy or ostentatious display OF
either. If her culture be of high order she
will shrink from it as from deadly sin. If
she have shred of womanly pride in the
fabric of her being, she will resent the impli.
ed insult offered her when invited to figure
personally in human olive cattlo show"