The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1858-02-04
FACTS ARE STRONGER THAN FANCY.

If an,i.slnvcry poli,irs ils tins country have
any sure end. ili"y tend towards the accomplish.
m"nt "f til" abolition of African slavery through
out the land. Yet not one man in !, hundrcI
VIII" advocates them has even AN indi,inrt COM
prrh"n>ion "i the effects which would surely fol
low their triumph here. These effects are so
app"stclY stated in the f"ll"wing brief extract
from late editorial in t',c New York Herald,
as that W" r"rml>h ii in The hope that We I..ay
thus he tie of bringing it's common sense.
statements to the notice of some who will he.
benefited by reflected s"icrIy upon them, who
otherwise mi sh, ncrvcr see them :-Wush;nyton
STIR.
'Thc question Of negro emancipation, in the
abstract admits of no Argument HOW, for il has
already been reduced To Il question "f r"*,llis--
by what has occurred in the British and French
est Indies i'll 81. D"minw" and Spanish Amer.
lra W" can measure the results that Master
Seward and his clique w"uld achieve for the
| ni'"d States. They have not only passed from
! the list "i wealth producing communities bu,
with their material welfare, their political weight
has passed away. In the family "i nations there
are nuw hat two American powers tlt! have
amy social vitality Or industrial value. 'Ihrs,
are our own | mon au,l Brazil and they owe
Their Inror;hnc" III II very great mci>urr, if not
entirely t" the fact that They havr preserved ,
institution oi negro slavery. Nuluu, it, We
should produce cotton, and B,nzil no coi,,.
on S'i:nr: for the Production "f these ,ricr, i
not II question "f >"il and climate only. but of
the organization Of the labor Of the only race
HAT can withstand the burning sun uI the tropics
combined with and directed 10y the superior in
tclligcncr OF the white. Neither race can r,o.
due" either of these staples of the tropics, in
sui, lir-" quantities aS the world now cinr,,Is
without The as i>:nnc" al the either
" u, therefore, we 'ilanripatr :nI ri:;i.tra.c
the four millions of slaves tlia, produce cot
ton, sugar ar'l tobacco in this country, we strike
Il d"a'iiv blow aL our nati"lIal prsl,cri.v and
IN, that al
Take away ihc$" three staples from ,,ir industrial
production and foreign commerce., and what do
We become? N"thim" b,i; IL wheat and iron pro-
ducin" community, witt, the sam" character and
resources rs the nati"l> OF Northern Eurnlr and
Hated only Ia enter ini" competition will, them
Tor The trad" Of those countries which might pro-
tncr HE very articles tha! bear i!,. palm
ILL., The textile industry "i New England must
sc abandoned or U" nirn. competing with
other nnI"nS l''r lis ima,"ra; the vast >lirl,;r..
interest w, i'":>'.>S must SEX ,ts r.lui"i,.
ton III other ports than our OWL; The grain and
i'c;', producing west, deprived "r the markets
n"w afforded by The South mus, depend MON It
failure "f the crops and famine in Europe t. lis
pose of lis Suprribur.lamrr every branch of
l,"n" Industry w"mli participate largely Is;
!hc ruin aml decay al the SOUTH. AMI We should
b" reduced {" the condition of :, third or fourth
rat" nnii"n in ih" h,linc, of the world
.'l,.,c arr. II" lille va,iciua,i"ns History has
dc,n"n>trat", their truth III the ba,ha,;s,n tina,
has a'r"a'!v "n@u!ph"'i mauy al the West India
Islands, and I" which every Spanish American
r"rml'ii.: where >lad"rv EXISTED j. fast re-
laI'>In-. I!,r material government ii,:,: now
rnl''S Finnc- has r"c".nz,..l ihr,I and is ,r,!,lv-
"inr 1" r"S"r" her di!arai"l Am",icrn cole"
mes l.v return Ia iir Involuntary ,ln
nn>'m :"rv;mir hy ua:ivr .li:icauS. Eu.. and
= contemplating similar "v:nizaIi,,i of irup
raj labor nni E';i"l"'an skill IN bringing vast
numbers u" lln''S la the wasted aud nian.l-
"ncd fields of .Iam,icn. But whatever results
may rr,"lmc". We have still greater rn".r to
encounter '.;;l':'n'i and fianc", III "I''n-niug
fhr lnh"r.cr"wdrd communities nf lnl, and
CHINA 4" ili'. inEr"sS aud direction of European
science and mechanical skill, preparing. Tor
| us great industrial conflict in The not distant
future. For this We may need all our energies
, ani all ruw"r."