Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-07-18

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FoR TIE ADVERTISER.
A GREAT ENTERPRISE AHEAD-AND A GL0RI.
GUS MIGHTY COUNTRY IN PROSPECT.
In the waters Of tie Gulf Of Mexico and the Ca.
rbbean Sea lie scattered between the latitude Of -
and % North, a large number Of tile most fertile
and salubrious Islands in the world. Nature has
Iavshed her richest stores upon them; and ProYi.
denee has blessed them with eternal sunshine and
never ending Spring. The sugar cane, the melon,
the orange the lime, lemon, pine apple, cocoa nut,
and all the choice fruits and productions Of the earth
are yielded by them in the utmost profuson. If
their products tended only to delight the palate or
to satisfy the cravings Of the asdious epcure, even
then they might furnish rare fruits for commerce
almost sufficient to supply one half Of this Cont-
nent, and to bring themselves unaccountabe wealth,
opulence and splcndor. These delicate tropical
fruits are so much sought after, urge that without
any other exports, these Islands could become in
short time, by industry and attention, the richest
portion Of the habitabe Globe, as well as the most
beautiful and happy.
But this fnirest region OF Gods domain, abounds
not only in the delicious, the ornamental and the
pleasing, but it raises every thing needul for the
support Of man; and might subsist prosperous, in
dependent and contented, il it had no intercourse
whatever with the rest of the world. The immune
rabe little Islets Of which it is composed afford and
raise to ordinary strength and size nearly all the
useful animals Of which the Continent Of Europe
can boas-such as the horse the hog, the COW, the
sheep, the deer, and in word, every animnl upon
whose flesh man gratifes his appetite in response
to the calls Of nature, or by whose power and endu
rance he lghtens the burdens of his labors in the
field Add to this, that nearly all the breadstuffs in
abundance besides nuts, nutrcious roots, and sugar
and coffee, upon which alone man might live and be
merry, grow in these Islands to greater perfection
than in any other place under the sun, and you
have hardly yet had the slightest conception of the
inestimable advantages they enjoy over any other
quarter Ct our terrestrial sphere.
Saying nothing more Of their fertility and pro-
ductiveness, which all will admit-they are so ad-
mirably situated, that they can suffer no excess
either Of heat or cold, because, they do happen to be
in Southern latitude, their temperature is forever
modified by the influence and the breezes OF the
ocean. What hinders them then from becoming
the very Paradise Of the earth What hnders them
from becoming the resort for the sick and afflicted
Of all parts Of this creaton9 What hinders them
from raising and sustaining the best race Of men
that ever figured upon Gods footsool? What hin
ders them from forming Government (for their
eatent of territory and resources beyond question
are amply sufficiently freer than Great Britain or
the United States, and more powerful than Ancient
Rome, or modern Russia, or gallant, dashng, war
ring France The response is, they want men
they want occupants worthy Of the soil-thcy want
instruments 10 develope the exhaustlcss stores of
their riches.
"What though the spicy breezes,
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle,
Though every prospect plcases,
And only man is vile;
In vain, with lavish kindness,
The gifts of God are strcwn;
- The heather in his blindness,
Bows down to wood and stonc."
For non, can deny the nfcriorty Of the aboriglnes
of this section, or that the Spanish race has either
wofully degencrated or vastly failed to keep pace
with the improvements of modern ages. 1t has
slowly but continually declined ever since the dis
covery of th, Continents and every colony that the
Spanish have planted here, and every Government
they have erected during the period Of near four
hundred years, has been almost entire failure, or
perfect abortion. 1t may be that defective gov
ernment makes weak and deficient people. But
appears to me that every race OF men have their
eliminating point, and ae Spanish and Portuguese
have long ago reached that, and passed it. in their
declinaton. do not ascribe this melancholy change
altogether to any such adventtious circumstances
as the accumulation Of wealth, and hardly to their
government or religion though own that the char
acter Of nation is more affected by their religion
and government than by all other causes conioineo'
except by such as enter into the designs of fro'i
dence and constitute the irresistible laws oil nature
but it really seems apparent that certain people, ana
certain kinds of people have been created at every
era to fulfil the high behests Of Jehovah, and when
they have accomplished their mission, their task has
been completed, and their course has been run
They have sunk into insigni6cance. become ANAL
pamatcd with the rest of mankind and their identity
has been totally destroyed Where are the ancient
Car,hagenans, the Egyptians, and may even ask,
the ancient Greoians, for the modern brgand, called
Greek, is very poor specimen Of the countrymen
of Denlosthenes, Of Plato, Of Arstides, Of socra'
tes, Of PEocion aud Of Soon and Of all the lustrlou'
men who made Athens, which was but a little strip
Of this earth, the Mistress not only in arms, but in
the arts and sciences, Of the whole world : They
have disappeared from among men. And except
their towering pyramids, and mausoleums, their
moulding tombs and crumbing temples, there re-
mains no vestige of the mighty Pharoahs, whose
prncey forms have become common earth; and all
of their kindred, with the invincble legions they
commanded, have shared the same common destiny.
Why this mutation among mankind is by ne means
peculiar to his Species for it is equally observable
in the lower order Of animals. Naturalsts and