Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-09-14

only thirty-three thousand were imported.
This is only fraction over nm average of one
thousand year. :
He quoted DR.. Bowen, now in africa, to
prove that the number taken to Brazil of less
than an average of fifty thousand per annum
for FIVE years, greatly reduced the number of
negroes in the territory that supplies slaves
1t is very sparsely populated, consi cred as q
whole, and never has, and never can, supply
large surplus number Of inhabitants. The
utmost number that can be expected to arrive
in the South for Il series Of years, is fifty
thousand Year; whereas Europe, with its
nearly three hundred million souls, eau spare
US three hundred thousand whites year.
DR.. L. cited the report Of the Commissioners
of Emigration, recently made to parliament,
to show that over twenty.three thousand Irish
emigrants had returned to Ireland in the last
year, over eighteen thousand of whom were
| from America. This fact shows the large de-
mand for laborers in the most prolific human
hive the world has ever known. In the last
ten years this official report shows that Irish
men in this country sent home to their friends
fifty million dollars sum only one-tenth as
large as that of the wealth created by them by
their industry.
Is it not something that our country has
gained FIVE hundred million dollars in ten years
by the honest toll of persons born in Ireland ?
Is it not more that we have gained, but near.
| " all at the North, three times five hundred
million dollars by the labor.of three times
larger industrial lorce, which was born in Ger
many?
Senator Hammond says that twenty-five
dollars will bring negro most comfortably
from his master in Africa, to his master in
South Carolina. GrInt it. And does not
this fact prove that if per chance yon ever
g,.l too many sla"es from Africa, the negro
that car!,s len dollars amonlh, will put into
I'll. yocii;ct Of Ills owner iu isro months md q
F.; I.,,f cy.r;. ;'iinc needed 70 send him back to
/ .l.ica :. wiser man than he was when he LETT
the land of his nativity? Do you not see
in the case and safety with which laboring
people from Europe return to their native
country, that negroes will work their pas
sage back to Africa, or to Central or South
America, with the utmost facility?
Why should We ignore the great and grow.
ing advantages of commerce when they are
patent to ali? Commerce creates the demand
for more laborers to produce all commercial
articles, corn and wheat and meat, as we'll
as cotton and rice and tobacco, in the plant.
ing States; and commerce will ere long bring
us the laborers we so much need.
Mr.. Yeadon, of the Charleston Courier,
followed DR.. Lee iii an able and lucid argu-
ment against the rc-openiug of the slave
trade. will not attempt to state the points
he made, for fear of doing him injustice. He
was followed by Mr.. Jackson, of this city, in
favor of the trade. His remarks were we'll
considered and effective; but the evening was
too much consumed by previous speakers to
give Mr.. J. an opportunity to deyelope his
views, and correct the assumed errors of is
able opponents. The debate was no; closed,
and no vote was taken. Good feeling pre-
dominated, and the subject will Probably
have one or more discussions before the club.
a SPECTATOR.