Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-11-10

prime laborer would have brought four hun
dred dollars in 1923, would now, with thirt,
more years upon him, sell for eight hundred
dollars. What does all this mean? Why, tha
for ourselves we have settled this question o
emancipation against all the world, in theory qnt
practice, and the world must accept our solution
The only inquiry is, how long this new.foune
superstition will survive and how far it may carry
its votaries elsewhere? What changes in pro
duction, in commerce, in society or government
it may effect? For production, commerce, socie
ty and government, must yield and change when
ever they come in contact with the great funda
mental principle of the subordination of the in
ferior to the superior man-as made by God
and especially of the colored to the white races
1t is, say, only through the evils that this su
prostitution may bring upon other people, and
especially on those of the North and of Europe
with whom we are so closely connected that the
South can be materially damaged by it, standing
as she now does, firm, assured, united. How
then, is it with others?
Permit me to say that, in my opinion, the tide
of abolition fanaticiSm has begun to ebb every
where, and will never rise again. When the
English freed the negroes in the rcolonies, it was
not wholly sentimental movement, dictated by
political radicals and the saints of Exeter Hall
Her statesmen, in their ignorance, thought that
what is called free labor-that is, "wages slave.
ry"-would succeed in tropical culture, as we'll
or better than slave labor In their arrogance
they believed also that all the world must follow
their example in this silly scheme Of abolition
and that from her great wealth and workbench.
cling colonies the monopoly of cotton apd sugar
culture would fall into the hands Of England.
Nature, and the indonitabe spirit and intellect
of the South, have disappointed all their calcu:
lations. The South still fourishes, and cotton
and sugar, and coffee and rice and tobacco, arc
still the heritage Of the shareholders.
Called by their utter dependence upon US for
cotton, without the free use Of which they
would both tumble Into ruin in day, England
and France, who, in her frequent frenzies At
length destroyed all her colonies by emancipa-
tion, have ransacked the universe to find clmes
and soils adapted to the cheap growth Of this
great staple. They have failed everywhere. 1t
is not that the soils and climates do not exist:
but that this and the other great agricultural
staples, sugar. rice, tobacco coffee, can never be
produced as articles Of wide extended commerce.
except by slave labor. This they at length
found out. But such labor they had repudiated
everywhere. No, not everywhere: Not in
France nor in Great Britain, where they still
hold sacred splendid thFones and palmy aristo-
craces and Starving laborers; only for outside
baFharisHs they ordained freedom and equality !;
but falling in all their schcnes, and finding that,
with all their costly expenditures and high
sounding manifestas, they Lad simply ruined
their own colonies, and made themselves the
vassals of the shareholders, what have they,
q as ss aas sss
lament Houses still thunder execrations against
that; while the colonists, under governmental
protection, and with English money, wrung by
taxation from her "wages slaves" are import
ing by hundreds of thousands Chinese and Hin
doc coolies, under conditions compared with
which Algerine slavery of the last century was
merciful. They do not hold them as we do our
slaves, for better for worse, in sickness and
health, in childhood and old age. No; in their
prime of life they seduce them from their
homes, transport them to distant and unwhole-
some climes for the merest pittance of wages,
consume their best years in the severest labors
and then turn them out to die-the direst slave
ry that brutal man has ever instituted. France,
less sensitire-haying no Exeter Hall-cmbra-
cling the same scheme, resorts to Africa, and
openly makes purchases, for so they may be
called, from slave catchers; nay, she buys from
the President of l. IBERIA, the iarfalned settle
ment of our own Colonization Society; buys
the coonists, our own emancipated slaves, who,
sick of freedom, prefer any form of slavery, and
in their desperation do not hesitate to make
their pous patrons in this country the laughing
stock IF the whole world.
Thus these two onalions-France and England,
whose adoption Of this abolition CT, tchet alone
made it respectable and influential-have tho
roughly renounced it, practically, and almost in
theory. The press of England, perhaps the
greatest power of the world, sustains these
movements; while in France the newspaper.
are openly discussing the question Of importing
negro slaves, BY name, into Algeria. think II
may be fairly said that in Europe abolition has
run its course. Brougham, Palmcston, Russell,
and, all the old political agitators, are hanging
their harps upon the willows. Even the son oi
Wilberforce, the fanatics approves of coolie
slavery, which we abhor. But recently the
british government openly surrendered its claim
to the right of search-a claim set up mainly
to put down the African slave trade, and with
out which ali attempts to do it will probably be
idle. And there is nothing to surprise Us in all
this, if we are correct IN oNr views OF African
slavery. II tis' sustained by the religion ol
the Bible; if neither humanity nor sound phi
losophy oppose it ;.if, as we arc convinced, it
is social, political and economical benefit to
the world, then it vas inevitable that sooner or
later, the abolition crusade must die out-and
why not now2
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If the abolition fever has nearly or quite ex-
hausted itself In Europe-if time and facts have
proved there that it Is an absurdity-it seems
to me we should not doubt that its career is
about to close here. Such |. my opinion. how
ever differently those may think who judge
only by appearances, or take their cues from
sgitating politicians. ask any one to tell me
upon what measures or upon what man the alb
olitonists Of this country can ever again muster
their legions as they did in 1862 Kansas is
squeezed dry. 1t stinks in the nostrils Of all
people They can do no more there. Will
they try "cry" against the Supreme Court
for the Dred Scott decission2 What il there
in that to infame popular sentiment 1t is al
ways uphill business to agitate against judi
ciary, but especially against the Supreme Court
of the United States, which the northern peo-
pie have been taught to revere as the bulwark
OF their liberties, Will they demand the aboli-
ton of slavery in tho District of Columbia 2
They have never been able to do much with
that, though they have often tried. That issue is
a little too practical and too dangerous. Not
many are bold enough to embark in it. They
might as well make the question Of disunion
nakedly. Will they take up the abstract, and,
never again to be other than abstract,
of " no mores slave States"? They have
done it. They havealready splituponit. Thenorth
westwill not take it, and at bot i'm,
all want Cuba. They love molasses, and banker