The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-08-14

GOD has thus given TO the Southern plan
ter an absolute monopoly. A monopoly
so great, that he, the Southern planter, sits
now upon his throne of cotton, and wieltls
the commercial sceptre OF the world. Yes,
| it is the Southern planter who says to-day,
to ha"glty England, 90 to war, if you dare
Dismiss Dallas, if you darel Yes, he who
| sis on the throne of the cotton bag has
triumplcd ut last over him who sits on the
; throne of the wool sack. England is pros.
tratc mt his feet, as well us the abolilionists.
Z. God has put it into the hearts of
aboItlonists to prevent half Il million of
free negroes from going to Liberia and
thereby the aboitionistss have made them
consumers of slave products to the extern
sion OF the slave power. And by thus
keeping them in America, the abolitionists
have so increased their degradation, as to
prove all the more the utter folly Of clnan-
ciPation in the United States.
s. God has permitted the an!i-slavery
men in the North, in England, in France,
and everywhere. SO to blind themselves in
hypocrisy, rs to give the Southern slave
holder his last perfect triumph, over them.
For God tells the planter TO say TO the
North, to England, to France, to all who
buy cotton: "Yc men of Boston, New
York, London, Paris -ye hvpocrites-
yo brand me rs Il pirate, Il kidnappcr,
murderer, demon, fit only for hell
and yet, yc bny my blood stained cotton.-
O! ye hypocri,es. Ie Boston hvpocritcs
why don't We throw the cotton in the sea,
as your fathers did the tea! Ye Boston
hypocritcs-ye say i 're hod bccn IN tie
f/I/VN D} JyIJppS ,uo,L} Ian
bccm 1'"rfohcry mith Mcm IN the hlood of Tie
stare t'otle ? Wherefore, yc he witnesses
unto yourselves that yc are the children of
them who, in fact, kidnapped, and bought
i'll blood, and sold the slave in America j
For now, ye l'ypocritcs-yc buy the blood
stained cotton in quantity SO immense, that
YE have run up the price of slaves to be
more than thousand dollars, the average,
of old and young! O! yc hypocrtes-
dcnonncc slavery, then ye bid it live, and
not die, in that yc buy sugar, rice, tobacco,
and above all, cotton! Yc hvpocritcs
abuse tho devil, and then fall down and
worship him! lc hypocrites-ye New
England hyrocritcs-yc Old England hypo-
crites-ye French hypocrics-ye UncIe
Toms Cabin hvrocritcs-ve Dccchcr hypo-
crites-ye Rhode Island Consolation hvpo-
critics. o! your holy twad,lIe stinks in ilc
nostrils of God, and lie commands me to
lash you witt, my scorn, and Ills scorn, so
long as yc gable about the sin of slavery,
and then bow down to me, and buy, and
spin cotton-and thus work for me rs
truly as my slaves. O! ye fools and blind
fill ye up the measure Of your folly and
blindness, and shame. And this yc are do
ing. le have, like the French iulidels,
made reason your goddess, and arc cxating
her above the Bible. And in your unitar
.ianism and neology and all modes of inf
deity, ,ye arc rejecting and crucifying tile
Son of God"
Now, my brother, this controlling slave
power, is Il world wide fact It's statistics
of bales, counts by millions. It's tonnage
counts by hundreds of thousands. lis
manufacture is rcckoncG by the workshops
of America and Europe. It's supporters
arc numbered by all who must thus Lc
clothed in the world. This tremendous
power has been developed in great meas
urc by the Abolition agitation controlled
by God. l believe. then, as have already
said-that God intends one of two things.
lie either intends to destroy the United
States by this slave powcr-or lie intends
to bless my country and the world by the
:n!oIdngs Of his wisdom in this matter
| believe he will bless the world in the
working out Of this slavery. I rejoice,
then, in the agitation Which has So resulted,
and will so terminate, to reveal tho Bible,
and bless mankind. Your atlcctionatc
friend, f. \. ROSS.
Rev. A. DLAcKDuRS.