Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-06-08
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Fer the Advertiser.
REVIVAL OF TIE SLAVE TRADE-N0.X XVII.

Fer tho Advertiser.
REVIVAL OF TIE SLAVE TRADE-N0. XVII.
"THe tvar must be carried into Africa"
It is no assumption of fact to say that q large
section of clear-sighted men in the North West,
and on the Pacific slope especially desirous Of
remsdying the anomaly Of hireling society in
new country, having thin populatiou-fertie
soil and genial climate. They know that slavery has
been the normal relation of common laborers to
capitalists in all such counties ours throughout
the broad vista of historical time. They appreciate
the logic of natures laws, and more particularly
the ono, which declares that man loves power and
that therefore he will impose slavery upon all the
labor he can control, because it pleases him-be-
cause it is better for the aborer-because slavery
givos repose and stability to society. They feel
the full force of what Alexis De Tocqueville, the
subtilist political philosopher perhaps of the pres
ent age, says on the tendency of modern society,
TO wit:
cali the men of our day are driven, sometimes
slowly, sometimes violently, BY an unknown force,
which may possibly be regulated, or moderated,
but cannot be overcome, toward the destruction q
aristocracies"
Yet that "Among all human societies, those in
which there exists and con exist no aristocracy
precisely those in which it will be most difficult,
to resist for any length of time the establishment
of despotism."
Because "When mon are no longer bound to-
gether by caste, class corporate, family. ties,
they only too prone to give hcir whole thoughts
to their private interest," and to wrap themselves up
in o narrow individuality, in which public virtue
Is stiAed, .. In societies of this stamp in
which there are no fired landmarks, every man is
constantly spurred on by desire to rise and
fear Of falling And rs money, which is the chief
mark by which men are classified and divided one
from the other, fuctuates incessantly-passes from
hand to hand, alters the rank of individuals, raises
families here, lowers them there, every one is
forced to make constant and desperate efforts to
acquire, or retain il"
These extracts apparently involve a contradic-
Son of terms, by stating first that all men are en-
second that freedom cannot long exist in any gov
ernmens without an aristocracy. Yetevery obser
YER Of the world in this day, must acknowledge
the truth Of both propositions. Aristocrocy as
among white men is crumbling into fragments every
where. The revolt of the United Colonies against
Englandand of other European Colonies in America
against their mother country struck death
dealing blow to aristocracy,. and it has been fol-
lowed up by other strokes of equal import. At
this time sweeping Reform Bill, proposing to
extend the right Of suffrage to mutitudes who are
now unfranchised is being fercely debated in Eng
land, and Lord Derbys Ministry has been over
thrown because it was not Democratic enough.
The next move of Messrs Bright and Golden, or
of their successors, will perhaps be to change the
hereditary tenure of the House of Lords to only
q life tenure. Indeed it was proposed q few years
ago, in the British Parliament, by even Peer of
the Realm, to inaugurate life peerages. Being
Premier, he was doubtless eager to coneiate popu-
lar favor, because he snufed the breeze of the
present storm in England, demanding in tones Of
thunder, the white mans equal right to political
power.
The Gear of Russia comprehends so fully the
growing sentiment of his white scrfs in favor OF
the white mans equality with other white men,
that he has liberated his own white slaves, and re-
questsd his nobility to do likewise. They object
now, but second French Revolution will some
time roll over the Muscovite Empire, crushing
white sristocracy as it did in France. The sole
object of the French Revolution was to destroy
white aristocracy, and it did destroy it in France
forever. There is now no French nobility, not
ever any French Royalty. Both the King or
Emperor and the merely titled aristocracy hold
their tenures only at the pleasure of the ,ehite
equals. The Duke De Malakof has only name
earned by merit like the Dukes of the elder Napo-
Icons Battle Fields earned their empty titles.
The only aristocracy which exists in one half
of Europe now is but an arristocracy OF merit-an
aristocracy of title, without power and privilege or
anaristocracy of the bayonet. The old Napoleon
was the child of destiny to accomplish the behests
of the liberated slaves. Before his time large
standing armies were unknown in Europe; but
since he appeared on the stage, over 2,OOO,OOO
men have been organized into grand police OF
soldiers to sustain the aristocratic interest. Even
those mighty armies failed to preserve the arsto-
cracies in 1S4s, and now the papers say that Louis
Nspoleau is preparing only in self defence TO guide
the storm Of another coming Revolution against
the hereditary ar:stocracies. One half of Europe
cannot much longer be kept ia arms to hold the
other half in slavery. The arstocracies must fall
either by the army fraternizing with the people,
or by the burden of Taxation becoming SO heavy
as to drive the people to rise in despair and crush
the army, the aristocracy and themselves in one
common vortex Of ruin. The public debt Of some
of the States of Continental Europe has quadru-
pied even since 1s4s. Noblemen formerly made
war upon Kings which caused Shakespeare to say
"Uneasy lies tho head that wears . crown"
But now tho people make war upon both Kings
and Noblenen in which conflict numbers must
prevail.
The principle thst one half Of tho Caucassion
world was born ready booted and spurred with whip
In hand to ride the other half, has had its day.
The now principle that white men are all equals,
politically, and that the colored races shall be the
slaves i, the watchward of the age. Our own peo-
pic, or at least the rejecting among them, wish to
apply that principle in all its breadth. While De
Tocqueville admits that the tendency of the age is
toward the destruction Of sristocraces and grants
also that freedom cannot long exist in any country
where there is no arstocrac, be yet fails even to
suggest remedy for the want of aristocracy as
conservator of civil liberty. In his first great
work entitled democracy in America" he actual
QeprecAteS tu0 o4leItuCo VI beSIu ~ VIC
South. Yet Southern Society is the only one on
the face of the earth, organized upon basis to
meet the requirements Of De Tocquevilles posi-.
tions, that NIL are employed in the destruction
of arstoorscies and that still freedom cannot long
exist in any community whore there is no aris-
toerscy.
Here we have no class of aristocracy among
whites Therefore the South has no aristocracy
to be destroyed. Yet every white man at the
South is an aristocrat as regards the negro, md
all Southern white men are "bound together by
CASTE class, corporate, or family ties" to preserve
each others liberty, and hold the negro aborcrs in
subsection. Consequently we have an arstocracy
of caste and class, contra-distingu from the
indiuidual interest of hireling society, and so
need not fear the establishment Of despotism