Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-01-07
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blest of animals and is it right to treat him other
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FALsEHooDs AND ABsURDlT1Es.

can eyes, than the occasional comments OF EURO
pcan reviewers upon American morals and Amerl-
can politics They evnce ignorance cis-at!antic
matters, so profound as to blunt our Indignation
by its sheer cSnicality. No monstroslty is 100
monstrous for these sapien scrbtlers to recognise
as credible in connection with our country and our
institutions. Any hoax can be crammed down
their throats by commonly sasa;ious wag, anu
Horace Greelcy's most faeitious wandcrinss arc
accepted as holy writ for all purposes OF arsu-
mentation
We have before us the December number OF tile
Dublin Uuirersity Magazine" which contains
an article of this chimerical cast, entitled SLA-
VERY" 1t purports to be review OF Mrs.
SrowE's last anti-sarcry novel, and is made tile
medium of wild and hish-Aown attack upon
American dcpravity in general and Southern tur-
pitutlc in especial The United States Govern
ment is spoken Of as an Anti-C Christ awaiting but
the fiat of Heaven to be swept into the vortex OF
revolution and destruction 1t is compared to that
of Rome in the days that Immediately preceded
the fall of the Empire. Then, says the reviewer,
it was conflict between slavery and Christianity
| that wrought tine grand finale of Roman power.
Now, it is war betwc IL slavery and>the Church
that is to scatter the feathers of tile American
eagle to the four corners of the globe Slave
holders in America are set down as limited num-
Der of overbearing aristocratS, very nabobs, VINO
by the force Of their wealth aud pride control the
government and shape its operations to their own
nefarious ends They are supposed to be at Wal
with truth, virtue honor, mercy and love, and are
| placed in particularly hostile attitude TOW aros
the Christian church. But the day Of their doom
is said to he near, and evident chuckle is DIS
ceriible in the style of this monarchist reviewer
while he predicts and depicts the subvcrsion OF
every thing American. No doubt, great Joy would
sparkle along the crown jewels of Europe at such
an event. and their plant tools find profit as well
as pleasure in pandering to their anti-Amerlcan
hopes after the manner Of the stupid article before
u.s. Let them delude themselves as they list Let
king or subject emperor or parasite, hope and
prophesy us p!easeth the fancy or folly of each.
Our fate is not in the keeping of fools; nor cana
the powers of earth and hell shake the foundations
of our government, if wisdom and patriotism shall
now prevail in our councils. 1t is just such rabid
comments upon American affairs; as this Dublin
reviewer delightcdly puts forth, that should con-
strain the great American people to eschew their
follies and come shoulder to shoulder in the grand
common cause of American Liberty. The help Of
Providence has been sgnally with us from the in
cipiency of our government to its present fulness
: of wealth and power; ana it will remain with us
and cherish us into ten-fols greatness if we are
but true to ourselves, to our Constitution and to
the memory of our revolutionary sires.
Wee cannot deny ourself the pleasure of laying
before our readers an extract or two from the art
Gle in question. In regard to the present condi'
tion Of things amongst u.s. mark the following:
At present indeed we see no break in the clouds
The pro. slavery party seem everywhere triumphant
AS We write, the Presidential election has beer
carried in their favour. In defiance of all compact
sameiuly violated vi-ahcc Commttees SIT II
every district to watch and protect slavery
the ballot box, the crown jewel of a sovereign peo
Sple as all American senator has finely described it
has been pluudered. Preachers who dared to be
true to God have been ridden on rail- tarred, tied
to log, and thrown into the Missouri. A reign
of terror has set in, unequalled since the French
Revolution. A senator who had the courage to
raise his voice against these things in the Senate
Of the United States is brutaly struck down, and
left stunned and bleeding on the floor of one oi
the greatest deliberatiYe assemblies in the world
nor was the act the act of single bully. As the
Spartan mother thanked her God that Sparta had
many more such sons. so Carolina subScribes to
show there are many more Brookes'. A silver
cane, bearing the inscription Hit him again." is
the elegant trophy of slave state to its pugilistc
hero. The Upton Slasher, or Tic Brummagenl
Pet would rise, no doubt, to the honours of Con-
grcss, and sit belted among the Conscript Fathers
Of America, could they be induced to cmigratc
Was there ever more egregous little chapter
of unmitgatcd b!undcrs and falschoods2 1t is
only exceeded by the stupidity of the writer's at
tempts at arguments brief (but fairj sample Of
which we can barely find space for. lie is discus
sing the chances of killing out slavery by finding
for Manchester other cotton markets in India and
Africa, which arc to undcrscll niger labor and
play the deuce Immediately with slavery. And
this is his profound deduction,
But this monopoly of slave cotton in tho Nam
chester market depends upon slight difference in
price. The price of tull-gr slave at work in
the cotton fields averages 500 dollars, aud his main
tenancc for year averages at least fifty dollars
The profit he yields his owner is calculated at not
more than one cent on the pound of cotton as it is
landed in England. To eheapen cotton o1c cent
per pound in Manchester would abolish slavery
an evil which neither religion nor reason, Uncle
Tom nor "thc underground railway" American
abolitionists nor English phanthropists have been
| able in the least to check
The long cared ass lie has no conception that
cotton has huctuated from to Is cents pound
throughout its whole history and yet slavery still
hourishes in healthful vigor. He seem not to dream
that the profits of slave labor in the articles of
cotton is regulated largely by the amount made
per hand o that this amonnt can vary from ccr-
tain fixed and unincreaseable quantity. lie takes
it for granted too that the produce of American
slave-labor can be easily Knocked out of the mar
kets of the worldly the competition of Indians
and Africans; and this too with the fact staring
him in the face, that the munifcence of an ambi-
tious Emperor has thus far failed to foster into be-
ing even the initiation of such competition
article is too absurd to dwell upon longer And
yet such is the wisdom, such the vcracity, of wri-
ters who give direction to the anti American feel
ing Of Europe.
DECISIVE BATTLES.
An English paper thus enumerates the decisive
battles Of earth
The most decisive battles recorded IN history