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

ting themselves, as public speakers and dispu,
tants, and as contestants in arenas, fit only to
evoke the vulgar prowess of the gladiator, in
usurping the place of the lords of creation, and,
in recklessly going counter to the laws of nature
and of God, which were ordained for the gov
crnance of men on the first day that Adam and
Eve walked erect in the bowers of Eden. What
is it, that has enkindled and famed the fires OF
Aboltionims, into baneful fame which threat.
ems to devour the Constitution, to rend the Union
into dishonored fragments, and to plunge us all
into the yawning gulph of ruin? 1t is the Ii,
cence and foul disorder engendered at the North,
from the exercise of power and the sacred privi-
lege of voting, by men disqualified for the trust,
by all that characterizes, ignorance, infamy, cor
ruption, licentiousness and treason-by men,
without interest in the commonwealth, without
any worthy calling, without property, without
honor, and without home; and by men ready
10 enlist under any black banner, that promises
to its lawess and wicked followers, in considera-
ton of their fidelity to its cause, equality with
the good, position without merit, riches without
labor and the spoils of unprotected virtue, to
appease their greedy maws.
The slave holding States have been delivered
from this dreadful curse. Our negroes occupy
the place here, which is filled at the North, by a
vulgar bowling Democracy, by q set of knaVish
agrariaus and by a hungry swarm of menials,
infinitely more abased than the vilest Africans
that breathe the pcstilent air of our swamps and
lagoons. And our slaves are instruments in the
hands of God to defend the purity of the elec,
tive franchise; or to stand between the ballot
box and those rufian traitors and blackguards,
who, in all New England, and the whole popu'
lous North, pollute the fountains of law by their
odious presence, sell their sufrages, the birth.
right of freemen, for "a mess of pottage," and
bctray their country for pieces of silver. The
negro population at the South, lay no claim to
citizenship. exercise no act whatever of law.ma-
king, and as before said, happily fill the places,
which alone, are occupied in other parts of the
Republic, by the most worthless and vicious OF
the whole race of mankind and who, only be-
cause they are misunderstanding to the poll.
cy of our government, must be permitted to vote,
and to contribute an equal share with devoted
patriots, in making laws for noble common
wealth, and for the government of the bravest
and most generous nation on earth. They may
be felons escaped from the Jai!s, brigands and
pirates poured out Of t6e bosom of ftthe ocean,
assassns and banditti expelled from all the
kingdoms of Europe, and the refuse population
of every dark corner of the globe, nevertheless,
they have hardly exchanged their prison clothes,
or cicatrized the wounds of deserved fettters, or
efaced the marks Of the brands from their cheeks,
and the scars of the pllory, before they ore hon.
eyed and caressed by most condescending can
ddatcs for office, and suffered, nay, bought to
vote for the Legislators of the land, and thus, in
part, to ordain laws, to tyranize over you, my
frow.citizcns, and your children, to perhaps, the
third and fourth generation. j. 5. r.
Concluded nert wesk.