Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-10-21
Green be the turf above thee
Friend Of my better days"
RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.

It is common impression that the spirit OF
religious intolerance does not exist in this coun-
trySyet we have received evidence enough TO
convince us that this is great mistake. In
our own State, intolerance and bigotry have ex-
| hih;ted themselves in marked manner. we
do not hesitate to say that the proceedings to
which we refer call for the greatest rebuke
from those who would oppose, as exceedingly
pernicous, such narrow and contracted views OF
things .,, ..-,.
We allude to therecent action Of the associate
Reformed Church, as reported in the Telescope
and epitomized in the Yorkyille. Enquirer. That
paper says: e.-,,
nDr. Boycc, from the committee to furnish
suitable testimony against dancing, submitted
the following objections: !. 1t has disslpat-
inc effect upon the mind and disqualites it tor
sober thought or religious duties. 2. We tes-
tify against promiscuous dancing because it leads
| toxoo..
3. We testify against it because it brings its
yotaries into contaminating associations Ihesc
sentiments were adopted by the Presbytery'
Again:
" 4 member of the Tirza congregation was
suspended from the church for marrying the
sister of his deceased wife, and required to ap-
| Il
for his delinquency" ,..,
inss of the Church referred to, upon which we
are animadverting. They involve matters WIN
which we think that body have nothing TO DO
To characterize thus, without Scriptural war
rant, the acts of dancing, and marrying de-
ceased wife's sister-this, we contend, is an un-
warrantable interference with the freedom OF
| W. hall oftan,nt
that there can be no sin in dancing, nor that
there is no sin in marrying the sister OF de-
ceased wife-these matters we are content 10
leave to the judgment Of impartial christians.
When we read of the threatened censures OF the
associate Reformed Church with regard to things
that concern not it, we turn to Papal Bulls OF
by-gone days, and ask are extremes gong TO
meet-SoMh Carolinian
THE EApPnENTICE SYsTEM1N CUBA'-Late letters
from Havana state on the island the landings OF
slaves were frequent and carried on IN the most
undisguiscd manner. The flags OF France, Hol'
land and the United States were displayed oy
the traders. Five hundred and ninety-nine free
colonists from China had been sent ashore from
two vessels, one of which lost sixty coolies 6y
death on the passage. They come byway OF st.
Helena. On some of the estates these untortu'
mates were cruelty lashed, and suicides were so
frequent amongst them that government lnves'
tiqation of the causes which led to 1t took place,
when arevoltng state eofmanagementwase exposed
Fourteen thousand eight hundred and ninety one
Asiatics had been set ashore during the year up
tn the Dad ult., and two thousand three hundred
and four others had died on the passage.
carao of Africans was landed at the Punra Cas-
tie on the 18TH which filled forty volantcs, in
which these were driven off to the plantations.
Tbe CAPTAIN and crew escaped. The American
bark Mazeppa had been.captured by Spanish
cruiser as o SLAYER. She had severel hundred
negroes and the small pox aboard.