Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-06-23
VOL. XXHI..-NO "a.
From the New York Evening Day Book.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

From the New York Evening Day Book.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
WIZARDS Hotel,
Washington, June 9Th, 1858.
The war feeling is rapidly subsiding here, but
events are thickening, and it is quite possible
that before sixty days pass round there may be
such a complication OF affairs that nothing but
the sword can solve the difficulties Ever since
Napoleon sold US Louisiana and gave us &C.
cess to the Gulf of Mexico, European statesmen
have foreseen that the natural tendencies of the
new power that had sprung up on this continent
was to displace the debris of the old European
civilization and make the Gulf and indeed the
Caribbean Sea American waters. The Gulf Coast
proper-the vast region which stretches from
the extreme point Of the peninsula Of Florida to
the extreme point of the peninsula of Yucatan,
and is perpetually laved by the blue waves Of
the Gulf sea, is the grandest portion of the
earth's surface, and in all reasonable probability
is some day destined to be the centre of com.
merse and civilization unequalled in ancient, or
modern times. This region varies somewhat in
its topography, but its natural products are the
same, that is, cotton, sugar, rice, coffee tobac.
co. &C., with, of course, all the fruits common to
the tropics. In some places, as the mouth of
the Mississippi, itgradualy stretches back con.
tinuously fertile three or four thousand piles-
in others, as at Vera Cruz it is abruptly walled
in by mountain barriers, that, once penetrated
by the art and industry of man, as at the pass
OF Cerro Gordo, opens up another world, where
wheat and other northern staples may be grown
as we'll as in Wisconsin, and demanding an en-.
lirely different industrial system. This coast
region, thus briefly referred to rather than de.
scribed has more than natural fertility and is ca
pable Of sustaining denser population and can
be made to produce greater amount of produc-
ton essential to human welfare and necessary
to the Development of q high cultivation than
any other space Of its Dimensions on the whole
earth.
Nor is this all. Behind all this lie those vast
regions which make up the main portion of the
northern continent and which naturally pcur
their treasures of wealth, their mighty produc.
tons into the Gulf seas, seeking markets with
the islands, the South American continent, the
very land of Cathay' and further Ind which
Columbus dreamt ot-this, oil these vast produc.
tons, repeat, naturally converge on the Gulf
Coast, and from thence to be carried where the
law of commerce and human wants shall at.
tract them. The Mississippi river, with it's
mighty tributaries stretching away, to the base
of the Rocky Mountains, and to the icy lakes Of
the North-the Sabine, the Neuces, the RioBra.
vo, the Panuco, Tobssco, San Juan, &c., all
these are destined, together with thousands and
thousands of miles of railroads, to carry off the
products of the great Northern and temperate
attitudes, and receive in return the products of
the tropics and repeat the cities Of the Gulf
Coast, New Orleans, Mobile, Galveston, in shors .
at the months Of. .allthe navigable rivers open.
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dreamt Of and. .ins Comparison with which Tyre
and Sidon and ancient Byzentium will sink in.
To miserable hanlets. But this is one side-the
natural result of a natural condition-and the
future, however distant of Democratic institu.
in short, the fruit of socalled American slavery.
The brain of the whiteman and the muscle of
the negro are the elements and the only elements
Of tropical civilization, and either of these ab.
sent, or their normal relations perverted, it is as
impossible that civilization exist as it is for q
man to live without atmospheric air. An "anti-
great fertile and central Gulf Coast region-this
heart Of the continent into wild, desolate and
barren waste, and the fortunes Of mankind
forced into other channels, would be modified
accordingly, and the result, though negative,
that is, the perverson of such transcendent good,
would be an evil so stupendous in comparison
that language cannot express it or the intellect
itself grasp it.
If"slavery" were destroyed, if the abnormal
condition attempted in Jamaica should be ex.
tended to Cuba-to the whole Gulf Coast region,
and the nesro's industrial capacity lost to the
world-I repeat that which God designed as the
garden OF America and the grand centre of com.
ty desert waste, and the most illimtable beni.
lice of the .All.Wise and Almighty Creator by
human folly, sin and impicty distorted into name
Hess and measureless evils. But We need anti
cipate no such unnatural result. Slavery" will
aot be overthrown. The benifircncc and wisdom
of the Almighty cannot be perverted or pushed
aside by the folly and impiety of man. But this
is what European statesmen have laborcd for
what the British especially under the mask Of
philanthropy, have 80 long sought to compass
what the Jhul and bcsotted Giddings, and Sum.
mers of the North are ignorantly and stupidity
assisting them to bring about.-Tbeir diplomacy
however has become so complicated that it de.
fea:s itself, and England may thank her stars if
in the end, she escapes war with us-a war
that would revolutionize the kingdom and bury
her aristocracy in the ruins. England, Spain
and France are doubtless united in secret trea-
ty to preserve Cuba to Spain, but in case Of
last resort design to turn it over to the negroes.
The English government, so long urged on by
the West India interest to breuk up the "slave'
trade, has at last seriously undertaken it, and
here she comes directly in conflict not only with
US but with Spain herself. The coast of Cuba
strictly blockaaed, its commerce is destroyed,
the slave trade entirely broken up, its industry
is mainly ruined. Here are the complications.
Where will it end What will be the solution
The administration is doubtless closely watch
ing events Congress will probably make an
appropriation for ten or twenty additional war
vessels, and pass the Douglas ebill, giving the
President the necessary means to act promptly
and decisirely during the recess.
DR.. Dennis When, in the
course of human events" it becomes necessary
to take medicine, the most important considera.
ton is to know what will do the most good, and
the least harm, and our experience has been,
that the former remedy is very scarce, and the
latter ditto.
But nevertheless, there is still left for the ills
of suffering humanity, some valuable remedies
some medicines that will cure and not kill,
and among the really good, our experience en-.
| ables us to class the Georgia Sarsaparilla, man.
ufactured by DR.. J. Dennis, of this city. We
have used il, and we believe it to be valuable
medicine. A disordered stomach and liver has
been our companion for years, and we have ia.
ken innumerable remedies, to induce the unwel.
come disease to leave u.s. and the medicine which
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