Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-08-26
EDGEFIELD, IS. C., AUGUST 26, 1857.

| and in longitude, from ocean 10 ocean, present.
ING a surface and soil, for grandeur, beauty fer
tility, and adapedness for the habitation OF man,
unequaled by any other portion of the green
earth Hence the United States, in century or
or two, may possess population of two hundred
millions of men, all having an equal share in gov
ernment, equal privileges, and an equal right to
make laws for the whole. Where there must
arise so many conflicting interests and pursuits,
how can such q mass of human beings-human
legislators, carry on even tolerable government,
unless learning and knowledge shall flow through
the land like the innumerable and majestic riv.
ers placed here by God, to invigorate the plants,
to fructify the earth ard to give productiveness
to soil, that would otherwise be parched and
big ghted by the sun of Heaven. The examples
furnished us in Greece and Rome are not appro.
pirate, and are only calculated to mislcad. In
those so called Republics, all the legislation was
conducted by the inhabitants of the cities Of
Rome proper, and of Athens and Sparta, and by
only few otheprincely men of fortune in the
surrounding country. These people daily listened
to the harrangues of the orators, philosophers,
lawyers, cousuls, and other great men in the TO-
runs, the senate halls and the market places,
and they were enlightened by all the learning OF
their day and generation. Besides, these voters
only numbered few thousand, and these few
thousand monopolized the business, and the re-
suousibility, if not the benefits of Government
in their respective Republics, for many long and
prosperous ages These Republics too, ruled
many millions of souls, and drew their revenues
and their riches, from hundreds Of down.trodden
Kingdoms and nations. Why, in Great Britain
ITSELF which is sometimes referred to, the exam
pie is Just as incomplete, and inappropos, as
those have been crticsing. There u Cabinet
of Queens counsellors, House Of Lords or
hereditary nobility, chosen and patented origi-
nally by the monarch and her prime ministers
and other constitutional advisers of the crown
and a House of Commons selected only by a
few thousand voters, govern and control, with
absolute sway, not only the British Isles termed
Great Britain, but provinces, colonies, and con-
quered empires amounting in the aggregate, to-
more than two hundred millions Of souls. The
dependences of Great Britain, have nothing to
do in the Government of the Kingdom, except
to contribute largely to its treasury, and to swell
the wealth of the gentry and aristoctacy. And
even the much boasted right of suffrage
mated, is only granted to very few of the in
habitants of England, Scotland and Ireland.
The qualifications of voters for members OF Far
lament are so high and stringent, that we may
conclude that the great mass of Englishmen have
nothing at oil to do in making the laws that
bind them, and that regulate the property they
co N, with unremitting toll, and with all enter
prise and perseverance unexampled III Europe
1t is well to state moreover, that III Greece
and Rome referred to, during the proudest days
of their triumphs and grandeur, and whilst the
law commanded the prolouudest respect of the
populacc, slavery was an institution more exten'
sye than it is now in the Southern United States,
and no slave was allowed a single privilege OF
citizenship. Hence it was, that the laws were
enacted by the more reputable and weilin-
formed of the population, and hence their eff-
cacy and popularity, and the certainty with
which they were universally enforced.
In this connection do not hesitate to declare,
in the presence of this concoursc Of intelligent
citizens, and in The presence Of my Maker ard
Judge, that the much dccrcd Institution of SEa-
very is the safe guard and very bulwark Of Re-
publicanism. am, almost ready to say now,
what time will inevitably bring to pass, that
without slavery or general acquisition of
knowledge never yet attained, Democratic
Republic cannot exist among men. In all long
settled countries, there will be rs surely as man
lives, various classes of society. To particular
ize no further, there will be the provident, and
the improvident-thc rich and the poor, and the
ignorant and the wise, the high and the low.
Turn and twist the matter as you will, you can
not bring all mankind on the same level The
powerful and the wealthy every where, will eth
er buy or co.crce servants and mcnials to per-
form labors, that in some respects, are considered
degrading to the mind the manners and the
heart-labors and Offices that unfit man 10 be
law maker for his fellows. Who can deny
this $? Who can dispute, that the man, who
sweeps your chamber, who habitually grooms
your horses, and drives your carriage, and cleans
the nursery Of your children, and in all respects,
discharges the ahjcct offices Of your body SER
want, is unfit to be your ruler, or to have tic
fecblcst voice in the Government of great Em'
pirc? That class Of men, to an unusual extent,
will be low, will be vcnal, will be degraded, will
be lying, will be thievish, and will be treache'
rous all over the world. II is the Decree of Om-
Impotence that they should be so. Their destiny
has been sealed, and they cannot alter it. 1t Is
impossible too, except, in rare instances, to raise
and improve these people, and where you elevate
! one from his vile condition, there are ever to be
found, others to take his place, and to assume
his state. In countries, where men of this char.
actcr, are allowed to vote at elections, nothing
but ruin and disaster can result from it. Tell
me not, of the natural equality of our race, they
are naturally unequal, and unlike, in every point
of view. WHAT is it, that gives rise to the mobs
and violence at the polls, in the Northern States?
What is it, that constitutes that fierce element Of
change and disorder, which pervades the whole
Union North of Mason's and Dixon's line
What is it. that has given birth to Mormonism,
tn Sp;ritual Rapping, and to Free.lovc societies,