Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-05-11

$1,000 and $1,000 to grow cotton at the South, so
Indiana by small majority excluded slavery.
In Illinois the popular sentiment, in behalf Of
slavery was still stronger than il bud previously
been in Indiana, but negroes were still too high
in lSlS--toD many of them had been and were
yet being carried to the cnttvu fields ard Illinois
excluded slavery in the Assembly Of her Repre-
sentatives by y mGjority cf only one cote.
In the Of Missouri (as Ill that Of California
and Kuusas) the South protested and protested,
against her i'll treatment at the hands Of the North
but is it not worth repeating that no amount Of
Speeches, Or Resolutions. Political Letters, or
windy Editorials, or Metaphysical Exialations,
about the abstract rights of slave holders in the
Territories could propagate negroes in lS20 any
more than in 1850, when California wSs admitted
into the Union and negroes selling at Sl4O0 and
$500 cuuh, Or in lS55-6-T-S-9 when Kansas has
been Knocking ut the door of Congress for admis
sion while nrsrues are rating at SlSUa aud 2.u00
in the valley uf the Mississippi. Nor will rord"
furnish negroes to plant slavery in either New
Mexico, Or Arsxuns, or nuy where else. Texas IL
actually afraid tn divide her huge Tcrritury, lsst
abolition may appropriate it and there Is hardly
doubt, but that it would do 80, If such division
were made. Who will risk purse full ut gold
eagles where it may be stolen? Yet Southern Meta-
physicians contend for the abstract right ot placing
negro worth l5U eagles where IN enyious sooii-
zionist may steal him as il slave holder could Ge
such fuul Or IN ubulfiuuist such saint Us to do
the one or not do the "tler.
Capital is tiind and w it will not venture where
there is danger Uf amust certnin luts. Self-nter-
est is strnus-hu pridr vi ctss aud of race Ii still
stronger aud 10 the puur white man of tue troe
States striving to move S"uthwNrd to moro fruit
ful soil and more genial climate, will not brook
the presence Of negro slave whose labor is worth
more than his--is employed i'll preference to his,
thereby cutting him out Of wages or forcing him
to labor side by side with the negro. Envy and
jealousy are likewise controlling passions. which
regulate the actions of men in thousands Of in
stances and an agrariun or leyeling principle in.
teusided by the monopoly price Of negroes on ac-
count Of the slave trade being closed and cotton
being high has done most OF the work townrd ex-
aluling the South from Indiana, Illinois, Cnlifor
iin. Kansas and other States, or Territories
Tue only pr"cticat way to break up the Gordon
'f free States which surrounds the Suuth aud to
hrutlc abolition is to revive the slave trndo-uaks
it to the interest Of the nbnlitionist to become
ro:sisvery man. Only tender a free -soer the
neans Of getting subsis,arce and luxuries with
the labor OF II cheap negro and he can understand
you MS susceptihly Ms many other oncs tree-negro-
loving Yankees who have married Il slave holding
wife Ut the South. The higher negroes ris1 III
value, the louder abolition .hricks for freedom.
The chief argument presented by. Nort EN- mem
bers of Congress to sustain the sectional Protective
Tariff, which lead to Modification in South Caro-
lima was couched in terms to this ef.ct
"You of the South ought to give US High Ia
riff to protect our industry, becSuse We have to
labor for ourselves. You have slaves to work for
yon." SCIPIO