Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-01-07
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FaLsEHooDs AND ABsuRD1TIEs.

can eye, GulIl llC OCCtSIOudl SoLiLiSuoS W
pcan reviewers upon American morals and Amerl-
can politics They evnce nignorance ofcis-atantlc
matters, so profound as to blunt our indignation
by its sheer csnicality. No monstroslty IS 100
monstrous for these sapien scribtlcrs TO recognise
as credible in connection with our country and our
institutions. Any hoax can be crammed do"n
their throats by commonly sasa;ious wag, ana
Horace Greelcy's most hasitious wandcrinss are
accepted as holy writ fyr all purposes Of argu-
mentation.
We have before us the December number OF the
= Dublin University Magazine" which contains
an article of this chimerical cast, entitled "sLA-
VERY" 1t purports TO be rer7cw OF MIS-
SrowE's last anti-savcry novel, and is made the
medium Of wild and high-hown attack upon
American dcpravity in general and Southern tur-
pitule in especial The United States Govern
ment is spoken Of as an Anti 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 betwe IL slavery and>the Church
that is to scatter the feathers Of the American
eagle to the four corners of the globe Slave
holders in America are SCI down as limited num-
Der of overbearing aristocrats, very nabobs, who
by the force of their wealth and pride control the
government and shape its operations to their own
nefarious ends. They are supposed to be at war
with truth, virtue honor, mercy and love, ana are
placed i'll a particularly hostile attitude 70" afoS
the Christian church. But the day Of their doom
is said to be near, and an evident chuckle IS DIS
cernible in the style of this monarchist reviewer
white he predicts and depicts the subvcrslon 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-American
hopes after the manner OF the stupid article before
US. 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 canal
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 te
the memory of our revolutionary sires.
We,cannot deny ourself the pleasure Of laying
before our readers an extract two from the arti
Gle in question. In regard to the present condi
tion of things amongst us, 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
shamefulIy violated. vi-i1ance Comm7ttees 7 SIT ii
every district to watch over and protect slavery
the ballot box, the crown,jewel Of 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, tiet
to log, and thrown into the Missouri. A reigr
of terror has set in, uncqualled since the Frencl
Revolution. A senator who had the courage tt
raise his voice against these things in the Senate
of the United States is brutally struck down, and
left stunned and bleeding on the floor of one o.
the greatest deliberative 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 tc
show there are many more Brookes'. A silver
cane, bearing the inscription Hit him again." is
the elegant trophy of slave state to its pugilstic
hero. The Upton Slasher, or Tic Brummagenl
Pet would rise, no doubt, to the honours of Con-
gress, and sit belted among the Conscript Fathers
Of America, could they be induced to emigratc.
Was there ever more egregious little chapter
of unmitigatcd b!unders and falsehoods? 1t is
only exceeded by the stupidity of the writer's at
tempts at argument, brief (but fairj sample OF
which We can barely find space for. els discus
sing the chances of killing out slavery by finding
for Manchester other cotton markets in India and
Africa, which are to underscll niggcr labor and
play the deuce Immediately with slavery. And
this is his profound deduction
But this monopoly of slave cotton in the Man.
chester market depends upon slight difference in
price. The price of full-grown slave at work in
the cotton fields averages 500 dollars aud his mai-
tenancc Tor one year averages at least hfty 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 eheapcn cotton one cent
psr pound in Manchester would abolish slavery
an evil which neither religion nor reason, Uncle
| Tom nor "thc underground railway" American
abolitionists nor English philanthropsts have been
able i'll the least to check.
The ng-eared ass! lie has no conception that
cotton has fuctuated from to Is cents pound
throughout its whole history, and yet slavery still
fourishes 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 that this amonnt can vary from a Ger
tain fixed and unincreaseable quantity. lie takes
it for granted too that the produce of American
slaye-abor can be easily knocked out of the mar
kcts of the worldly the competition of Indians
and Africans; and this too with the fact staring
him in the face, that the munfcencc of an ambi-
tious Emperor has thus far failed to foster into be-
ing even the initiation of such compctition-Thc
article is too absurd to dwell upon longer. Aud
yet such is the WISDOM such the veracity, 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: