Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-08-12
AN old SI1BJECT,

1t is not to be denied that our political con.
temporaries have vastly the advantage of neu.
trail sheets in the neyer-ceasing supply of sub.
iects for articles. Here, in these piping times
1 of peace, when not one man in hundred cares
farthing for politicians, single topic, like
Kansas for example, will supply the raw mate.
rial for about ten thousand columns, and like
the widows curse, never give out. Kansas is
like Miss Emma Stanley-only not so agreeable
1t comes on in vast variety Of dresses, in the
shortest imaginable time it is now an old man.
now an old woman, now b'hoy, now g'hal
now border ruffian, now psalm singing puri,
tan and then, again, q combination of puritan
and blackleg-but is always Kansas, up TOR an
exhibition and q speculation Sometimes it is
bleeding Kansas, and the hearts of half the old
women in New England are broken in anguish
for its woes; then, again, it is lighting Kansas,
| which is the farce after the tragedy. Kansas
never appears so comical rs when it is just going
to have civil war and break up the Union.
We have not pretended to count the number of
| times the Governor of Kansas, for the time be-
ing, has moved down upon Lawrence with four
companies of dragons, and the citizens of Law
renee aforesaid have sworn that they would not
be dragoohed; and the New York Tribune de-
clared that civil war was imminent, and therest
Of the nation stood still to see the first sprinkle
of the fratricdal shower, that should quench the
last hopes of human liberty; and freedom,
shrieked, &C.; whereupon Jim Lane, finding that
the troopers had balls in their pistols, backed
down handsomely, the dragons marched home,
and the Union was saved. Never, since the son
of Jesse was boy, has there been such fight
ing fowl as Lane, and such a terrible battle
al, IN n
something, and never doing it.
The kings and princess Of Europe, who have
been hanging on Kansas with open mouths,
thinking that the big threats of ciyal war meant
something, have all come to the conclusion that
Kansas is a swindle and humbug. The old
despot of Naples is greatly cnraged at the CASE
GUS turn affairs arc always taking in this coun-
try, when the absolutists have Alright to expect
that in the course of q few months, they would
hear of something on this. side of the Atlantic
very much to their advantage. The last phase
of the Kansas imbroglio relates to the inhabi-
tants thereof and the simple question is,,wheth-
er the aborigncs, wolves, panthers, free negroes,
independent squatters, and other uncircumclscd
Philistines, have right to vote and if SO, how
many votes each man is entitled to8posit at
time? 1t is supposed that each side Of each
branch of this entertaining subject will be set
forth in about seventeen hundred Brief enter
tanning, and jocular four column articles one to
be taken every morning at breakfast time, while
the coffee is cooling; after which the following
grace after meat, slightly modified from the
thanksgiving of the man who had been too long
fed on rabbits, will be offered up by each indi-
vidual who survives the operation:
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