Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-02-27
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THE TIDE SWELLISCi-ACT QUICKLY.
THE feeling for Kansas is evidently on The increase
throughout the South. In our own Srate efforts to
raise nid for emigrans making in large majority
of the districts II the tide had begun swelling sooner
Kansas would almost certainly have become Slave
-Statejn the end. We may not he loo late as it a;
but what We intend doing should be done Immediately
The ,ubjoned paragraph, lrnm the Carolina Spurfan,
appears TO u.s. indicate the right mode Of aciion.
'Haye=we norin EIgeGeld trusly men win, like Maj
MACARTHUR, ready TO lake tile direction of small
bands Of emigrans to this Interesting Terrilory If
these bands do not exceed the number Of twenty or
even te N men, their equipment will be something done
fIl the gnod cause. We are TO have a meeting ON
Sale.day, either at or al night, to organize
Kansas AID Society; and we would suggest 10 That
meeting in advance tile imprrious necessity for dis
patch 10 what they. shall undertake. Let the main
aim be TO raise fnnd at once. Let the next Object
he to enlist Immediately many emigrants twiih
negro each If pnclirablel can be ont-litied with
that fund.- And, thirdly, let the society that the
leadership Of this party and The iruseeship of the
fund be committed to reliable and eficien, hands. Let
something Of the promp,ite manifested in the quick
movement of Maj. McARTHuR's Spartan band, be
aimed at in whatever is done. Otherwise We had
better do nothing at all.-Herc is the extract from
the Spartan to which we allude:
Ho for Kansas-who'll follow! 1t will afford no
small pleasure to the friends Of Kansas in Ibis State
TO knnw that Spar.anburg, without talk, show, or
contribution, is about to furnish her aid in establishing
the Southern cause IN Kansas.
Moi. q. p. Macarthur; OF Thickety Fork, in this
District bona fde emigrant, will start from tho
Court House on Monday next on his way to Kansas.
He unes in his party twenty-five, six or seven able.
boded men, and also two slaves, and goes with de.
termination out the fortunes Of The good cause.
lie designs locating lands for agriculture and becom
ing permanent resident. Success attend him and
his companions.
GEN. NIcQUEEN AND LEWIS TAPPAN.
ELSEWHERE we publish letter from our General
MCQUEEN to Mr.. LEWIS TAPPAN of New York,
called forth by the latlers sending outrageous abo-
llon document for the Generals especial inspection.
Since the time when Maj. NATHANIEL p. EAyEs
left certain emphatic message for another member
of the TArrAN family ichris,ened ARTHUR we do
not remember better thing Of The kind than this
hearty and honest rehuke of Lewis by highloned
representative Let the reader especially remark the
extract from report Of the Reverend Mr.. IT, NJ PEAsE,
in reference to the shocking misery Of Five Points,
that notorious hell Of New York city; and let him
thence learn TO despise the ophilanhropy which
rides amidst such wrechedness with avered gaze and
hastens TO shed crocodile sleek, wefed.
lighlly.tasked and contented negroes. Within two
hundred and fifty yards of Broadway, the most brilliant
thoroughare of the Great Northern Metropolis, is the
hideous locality called Five Points" Once in 1885,
we passed through this sink. In dilapdated porch,
stood three i,spated young women with laughter up
on their lips bu. frenzy in their eyes; and, as we
passed, they shouted maniac salute in our ears, the
very remembrance Of which makes US shudder.
little further on, drunken female lay nsensible on
the door.sil Of filthy tenement, with one limb out
stretched upon the pavement and uncovered 10 the
knee There too the miserable children OF these
miserable parents, squald and uncared-or; some OF
them (poor things essayng the mockery of childish
sport in the fsd sewers by The pavemenls sde others
screaming from hunger and disease. And well do we
remember how in the very heart Of that horrible pail
demonium, q tall dirty, ragged negro passed suddenly
before us, gang nsanely with his red eye-balls upon
eyery one he CHANGED 10 meet and seeming ready for
any foul deed his surroundings might suggest. Yes
all this and much more is TO be found in the very
centre of That great city where the Tappans and Others
like them have halcncd and thriven and rolled in
eded coaches, and groaned the imaginary evils
Of African servi,ude, forgetting or ignoring the iac
that there is more dcsuon and misery and crime lr
Five Points aune than amnug all the slaves OF the
Whale South