Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-02-03
yipNLEal'S AHrEySE or TIE SLiyE TRiDi;

Under the caption Of "Ealo!eunS defense u:
Tie Few slave trade ot France there appeared
in the Pa.i, CosAir!ioac', ot December 2:''i,
>oue vcr;; sensible a::d Conservative views:
which clearly indicate ti.e progress 4" opinion II!
relation to tie Importance Of supplying t" tic
agricultural districts Of tic world: jwEere there
exist, Il scalcity) an abundant supply Of agri-
c:Iturli l.lb0r from ilIici. Many Of tie points.
i'll The remark, of the Constitutional: aTc Il per,
timcal application 10 this section Of c'ntr;': is
wcii Il, F;,.isc and her colonial possessions, and
We publish the;n 10 SHOW the progress Of opin-
i0a, ;,:l the icit vilrlica;ion OF southern policy
even by The organ Of the Emperor Napoleon, q.
France:
The planters have not hccn free TO procure
laDurrs 10 continue and extend tic cultivation
OF the soil. This is one o; the principal errors
tic AbulilioGistS have committed. in E":"::'c
tic supply of laborcrs has always exceeded tie
demand. In the colonies, nn the contrary, the
,;clrlall has exceeded the supply. The popnia-
ton l., insufficient, and it ncrer can he aIl.-
mvnie, by European emigration. In l!la
tropics no European c;;n venture 10 Cultivate
the soil 10 linn ii yic!,I, bat deadly en.n..-
tions, while its richest products prodigally be-
slowed repay tie labor OF the African Or ASatic
The white man may, without danger, carry hi:
capital and his industry to the colonies, but his
constitution is untitled to endure great physical
fatigue there.
Tue colonist5 could have procured laborers
from Africa and Asia that could not he surpassed
if the Aboliliouists had consented: but this
they would not do, and with their usual mode
of reasoning clai'ncd to act for the interest ot
the slave, while refusing to this reform the in
dispcnsablc elements Of success. So c!lcct:ialIy
have thcv opposed Indian arl African cmisra-
ton, that in tho English West f:,lia Islands the
cultivation Of the soil has been left to the CT
price of Creole aboicrS wlio enjoying al undis-
turbed monopoly, naturally abuse it, by charg-
ing high tor a little labo".
1t is the business of Great Britain to bring
these lanatical Abolitionisls to reason. But the
consequences Of their false doctrines have eltcc,
ted lis. Our colonies have suffered from lack o
hands, as we'll as the English colonies, and II
cannot be any longer endured. II our neigh
bors choose to submit ~ the consequences o
their abolition theories, the rest of the world Is
not obliged to adopt them rs its law OF conduct
Their code of philanthropy is not law Tor us
Thus, our government, having recognised cml
grafton as at once useful and moral, has autho
rised traders to engage laborers in Asia ant
Africa Tor the French colonies.
Up to the present time Asia has FURNISHED
very small nunbcrof lahorcr>. Will the s,1piI,
/ he more abundant III future? We kGow not
India Is not Il French colony.
In that vast Territory we possess only sel
! establishments, of a vcrvli'nitGI eXteHi. Lfnl
grafton ilas not hccn yicwcI witiOat c.i.,lS
by the Anglo Indians. The intolerance oi til
| Abolitionsts has been made use of there to in