Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-09-08
EDGEFIELD, s. c., SEPTEMBER s. 1858.

cheapest article with which to clothe the poor
Of the earth, and their nakedness is beyond our
capacity to hide for centuries to come. Why
does England hate slavery? She daily manu-
factures and wears slare groom cotton. She
consumes Stare groom sugar and rice; she
chews and smokes Stare g,opn tobacco. 1t is
because she breads the commercial domination,
which the monopoly Of these tropicalstaples must
inevitably bring to u.s. Her Statesmen of the
present day, as they survey the deplorable con.
dition of her West India Islands, must in their
hearts look upon Wilberforce, Clarkson and
Brougham as the veriest Mounte banks that
ever successfully played off sentimentalty against
common "ense. If the sudden withdrawal from
market of three millions of bales of cotton land
I believe it) would cause "Engand to topple
down." in what security will we not repose
when We shall grow ten million bales, and the
world shall still want more. It is @ magnificent
destiny to which the future invites US. Let us
oil and trim our lamps for the feast. 1t is true,
as has been recently announced, that the South
has for thirty years been laboring to undo pre-
rious blunders of Southern Statesmen. Wash
ington emancipated his slaves, and Jefferson
was the originator of the ordinance which dedi-
Gated the North West Territory to Free Soilism.
The South to-day repudiates BY legal enactment
the example of the former, and dep!ores the
blunder of the latter. was taught in the nurse
ry, that Slavery was wrong, and to look upon the
negro trader with horror and disgust. | have
lived to see men in high placcs-men selected
to make our laws-trade for them by the hun.
dred and hurry them of, as fast as steam could
carry them. to the far West, where fertile lands
reward the husbandmen with abundant harvests.
Virginia and Mary land, without shock to our
moral sensiblities, enjoy the humane privilege
of breeding and rearing Christianized slaves for
the Southern Market, just as the kentuckians do
mules and hogs. Now as trading in human
flesh" is inseparable from the existence Of slave
ry, some little forbearance should be extended
to those who are SO "impracticabe, visionary
and foolish" as to think that the trade should be
conducted on something like Free Trade princi
pies. Some charity should be manifested to-
ward those who think there is no more wrong in
going to Africa to buy a slave than to Virginia
or Maryland. Even Seward, Giddings, Hale
and Wilson admit that it slavery is right, then
the slave trade is right. Seward declared OH the
floor of the Senate, that he preferred the foreign
to the domestic slave Trade. The South on eve.
ry sale day, witnesses with composure, and
guards with all the sanctions Of law, trading i'll
Slaves, and still without even the tormaliiy Of
protest She annually pays her quota of 500.
0OO-money absolutely wasted in al abortive
effort to enforce the ridiculous enactment, that
slavery ispiracy. The emperor of France boldly
sends his ships to the coast of Africa for his
needed supply of cheap tropical labor, and when
called to account in the English Parliament,
silences their impudent interference, by compla.
Gently denominating it free contract and hired
labor. England rues her deed Of folly, and in
her restless anxiety to repair, without the candor
to acknowledge it, quicts her conscience withthe
euphonious Coolie system. Those in the South,
who have ventured to look these truths fairy'in
the face, and fearlessy to utter hcm are straight
way set down rs extremists-"as pestilent fel-
lows and rs movers of sedition.'
When Southern Statesmen voted to close the
Slave Trade in 1908, they committed "6lun.
DER" and am not afraid to say So When they
voted the Slave Trade piracy, they not only COM
mitted "blunder,' but they fixed upon us a
stain that ought to be wiped out. When they
voted for the Ashburton Treaty, they committed
n "blunder" and the offensive articles Of that
Treaty ought to be repealed. Every compro.
mise on Slavery has proved 10 be n " blunder"
and we should blot out the very word.
The Pass Word, hereafter, II seems, is 10 ne
National Democracy-to which we are indebted
for the PnocLAaArIoN-FoucEB EB1LI.-VIoLATIoN
OF TARIFF CoMpRoMIsE-PREsEST TARlrf-Ar.
pL1cArIoy OF WILNoT PRnvIso TO OREGON
ABOLITION OF SLAVE TRADE IN DISTRICT OF Co.
OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Of TExAs-ASSuAL EXPENDITURE OF SEVENTY
M1LLIoSs-SuBMlssIoS OF CONSTITUTION TO PEo
PILE OF KASsAs-(the black catalogue, in hot
haste to be enlarged and emhellished by the)
ADMISSION OF KANSAS WITH LESS THAN NINETY
THREE THOUSAND INHABITANTS.
Whenever get my consent to apologize for
The authors of such wounds upon Southern in.
terests and Southern honor, May my tongue
cleave to the roof of my mouth, and my right
hand forget her cunning"
have the honor to be with high regard,
Your obedient servant,
J. II. ADAMS,
10 Messrs. S. S. Tompkins, Emmet Seibels, ].
B. Griffin, Loudon Butler, ]. ". Hill, COM
mittee.
COLUMBIA, Aug. 25th, 1858.
r.u.,,.,. T hoyo hod tho honor nf rene;yinp