Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-01-12

of the South be rene%ed-her swnmps reclaimed, or
her wild lands opened up.
1t is idle to oppose re-opening the trade through
any fenr of the negroes gaining the ascendency ana
giving us another edition of 1Iayti. We have but
about four million negroes while there near seven
million whites in the South II would exercise per-
haps half tho ships of New England twenty years.
constant employment, to import enough Africans TO
allow but ono to each white person. Assuming the
to be but equal in und other military Yr
tues, surely each white inhabtunt could find no di-
Guilty in controlling Slave. Tho most approved
writer's upon social and governmental philosophy an
nounce that one Cunservator Of the peace is quite
sufficient TO preserve order even among whites. In
Slave community almost every white person is u
pence officer, md negroes cheeifnlly bow to tho
white nuMs Supcriority-as the white man is fortified
with the authority of law-with the assistance Of
cultivated intcgence-wth the most improved fire
arms and II pIsctscd skill in the use of them, it is
not unreasonable to suppose that the whites Of the
South could hold in well regulated subsection, On hun
drcl Slaves to one freeman.
In Brazil tho two races are about equal and we'll
nigh evory department Of human industry thriVe'
there like green buy troc In truth the day IS not
distant from present indications when that mighty
empire will eclipse every State in Christendom. At
this moment it has more territory than the United
States-a greater river and tributaries than the Mis-
sissippi-a incr climate for slave labor at least-a
more fertile soil and choicer products than the South
ern States of this Union, rs well MS more stable
Government than ours and one just free. 1t also
has moro negroes than the United States-rases coffee
for the world US we do cotton and is the State Of
South America rs ours. is Of North America. Hero
then we have shining example of the eimmeusc good
accruing to sueioty which has IN equal number of
black sluves and white freemen.
But in the palmest days of Athens til: proportion
of slaves to freemcn over forty to one, still no
danger resulted to tho State although the slaves and
masters we're of the same race Athens of fell
rs every State must fa, but it was by foreign inra-
sion not by servilc nsurrccon. Cases analogous to
this might be cited in the hstsry of Roman and jew
ish slavery.
As to lIayti there were about twenty blacks to one
white, when that favored sland was conquered by
the negroes. Yet every thing glided on smoothly
until the French Revolution broke out notwithstand-
ing the Hayan masters, long previous to that event.
had rnhor invited their negroes to rebellion by eav
ing them upon distant plantations, often in charge Of
only negro drivers, while they themselves following
the characteristic instincts of Cclt settled in cities
and vllages-thus leaving their negroes free to plot
Ito organisc-to act But even with thes: tempta-
tions to instruction they continued faithful slaves,
cul,ivatins prolific lIayti, like garden, until the
desolating mapia of tn: Revolution embroiled the
masters in civil war with the free negroes aud half
breeds, about tho question Of setting the spros free
Then it was and not till thsn the .seahle
bctwecu mast9 md slave, aRdwuof tho South should
take waruinglhat the !nsurroc!Op In Hayt began
with the half breed frer.nsgroos. This howover was
suppressed aul NIL might have atll gone merrily with
IIayti, had nd Pandora's box been opened shortly
afterwards blythe National Assembly of France pro-
claiming the ptcal equality OF all races, and dis
patching Commissioners to publish the emancipation
of the blacks throughout the Island. Shall such
prccodent rs tlis be cited deter from having at
least one snvcfnr every white Mt The South? Away
with such childish, old womansh objection to reri
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