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


pcan reviewers upon American morals ard Ameri-
can politics. They evince Ignorance ofcisatantlc
matters, so profound as to blunt our indignation
Ly its sheer cdmicality. No monstroslty IS 100
monstrous for these sapen' scrbtlers to recognise
as credible in connection with our country anu our
institutions Any hoax can be crammcd ao"p
their threats by commonly sasa:ious was, ana
Horace Greelcy's most haeitious wandcrings arc
accepted as holy writ for all purposes OF arsu-
mentation.
We have before us the December number OF tie
Dublin University Magazine" which Contains
an article of this chimerical cast, cntitlcl SLA-
VERY" 1t purports TO be review OF MIS-
SrowE's last anti-slavcry novel, and is made tile
medium of wild and hisi-fnwn attack upon
American dcpravity in general and Southern tur-
pitutlc in especial. The United States Govern
| ment is spoken of rs an Anti-Christ, awaiting but
the fiat of Heaven to he 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 a conflict between slavery and Christianity
that wrought tine grand finale of Roman power.
Now, it is war betwc slavery and the Church
| that is to scatter the feathers of tic American
eagle to the four corners of the globe. Slave
holders in America arc set down as limited num-
Der OF ovcrbearing aristocrats very nabobS, VINO
by the force Of their wealth and pride control t!ie
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 in particularly hostile attitude TOWARDS
the Christian church. But the day Of their doom
is said to he near and an evident chuckle IS d!s-
cernible in the still of this monarchist reviewer
While he predicts and depicts the subycrsion 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 peaseth the fancy or folly OF each.
Our fate is not in the keeping Of fools; nor can all
the powers of earth and he'll 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 delghtedl! 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 signally with us from the in.
cipiency of our government to its present funess
: of wealth and power; ana it will remain with us
and cherish us into ten-fol8 greatness if We are
but true to ourselves, to our Constitution and tc
the memory of our revolutionary sires.
: We cannot deny ourself the pleasure Of laying
before our readers an extract or two from the art
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
siancfulIy violated. vi-i1ancc Commttees sit il
every district to watch over and protect slavery
the ballot box, the crown;jewc Of a sovereign peo
pie, as an American senator has finely described it
has bcen pluudered Preachers who dared to be
true to God have been ridden on rail- tarred, tied
to log, and thrown into the Missouri. A rcigl
of terror has set in, uncquallcd since the French
Revolution A senator who had the courage to
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 oi
the greatest deiberatire 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 to
show there are many more Brookes'. A silver
cane, bearing the inscription Hit him again." is
the elegant trophy Of slave state to its pugilisc
hero The Upton Slasher, or tic Brummagenl
Pct would rise, no doubt to tile hOnours of Con-
grcss and sit bctcd among the Conscript Fathers
Of America, could they be induced to cmigratc.
Was there ever more cgregious little chapter
of unmitigatcd b!unders and faschoods? 1t is
only exceeded by the stupidity Of the writer's at
Lenpts at argument a brief QIut iairj sample Of
which we can barely find space for IIcis discus
sing the chances of killing out slavery by finding
ior Manchester other cotton markets in India and
Africa, which arc to undcrscll niggcr labor and
play tho deuce Immediately with slavery. And
this is his profound deduction:
But this monopoly of slave cotton in tho Man.
chester market depends upon Slight difference in
price The price of iull-grown slave ut work in
the cotton fields averages $40 dollars aud his ma
tenancc for one year averages ut least fifty dollars
The profit he yields his owner is calculated at not
more than one cent Oh the pound Of cotton as it is
landed in England. To ehcapcn cotton one cent
per pound in Manchester would abolish slavery
an evil which neither religion nor reason Uncle
rom nor the underground railway" American
abotionists nor English philanthropists have been
able in the least to check.
The long cared ass lie has 10 conception that
cotton has fuctuated from to Is cents a pound
throughout its whole history, and yet slavery still
ourishes in healthfu 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, o that this amonnt can vary from a ccr-
tain fixed and unincrcaseabe quantity. lie takes
it for granted too that the produce of American
slave-labor can be easily knocked out of the mar
kets Of the world by the competition of Indians
and Africans; and this too with the fact staring
him in the face, that tie munifcencc of an ambi-
tous Emperor has thus far failed to foster into be-
ing even the initiation Of such ccmpcition-Thc
article is too absurd to dwell upon longer. Aud
yet such is the wisdom, such The vcracity, of wr-
tcrs who give direction to the i-Amcrcan feel
ing of Europe.
DECISIVE BATTLES.
An English paper thus enumerates the decisive
battles Of earth:
H'rhe most darisivn l.ttlo, rooorj.,l ;, b;,,,,,