Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-02-16

and that our wines Or handleS made from the
American grape aress palitable as those brought
from France. Bathough the soil, climate and
native grapes there, yet the labor is wanting
30 as to saysdahe six million dollars year,
which we NJ for Spanish and French adutera-
lions calls Champaign, Sherry and Cogniac.
If wehad suffciency of African labor, the
RoyalH, Nobility and Gentry of Europe would
notsxen have monopoly as they now do Of all
tbt real price of the grape. Nor would corn
tShskey, diluted AMI seasoned with logwood spi.
ces, tobacco and such like, there constitute as it
now does most of the wines which we drink.
Besides less "Pop Skull" would then be use I,
and the health of our people would be promoted
as we'll as the cause of temperance advanced,
since all travellers testify that wine producing
country has much more sobriety than whiskey
making one. 1t could easily be made clear,
that half a million of Africans would pay their
owners good hire if they were set to making
wine at once. If it were done according to the
experiment of Messrs. Mcdonald Crawford and
Others, probably vast tracts of our poor pine
land, out of the talest tree in which you can
now knock fox squirrel, with lishtrwood
knot, would then become redeemed from sterility,
and the sand.lappers who can now hardly live
on huckelberries in summer and pine mast in
| winter, would then have chance for improving
their condition. Another view, which ought not
to 20 unpresented is that the older slave States
should begin right away, to engage in grape
culture, as offering perhaps the most lucrative
employment after cotton growing, which they
could undertake when the fertile lands of the
South West shall have monopolized the culture
of cotton, as must be the case in q few years.
whether the slave trade be re.opened or not
North Carolina is already awaking TO the i'm.
portance of largely cultivating her long neglected
Scuppernong and Cstawbs. In fact the increas
ing grape culture of this country has contributed
in no small degree to bring about the present
scarcity of African labor.
But for arguments sake, let US admit that
every department of southern agriculture could
| soon be over.suppled with labor, if the trade
we're re.orened, would there still be left no prof
table path of industry untrod among US How
many steamers have we for our Rivers o.
resses for our coasting aud foreign tradeS How
many rail roads or factories have we? If we
had The labor to do the grading and forge the
iron would we still be so far behind the North
! and North West in railway accommodations fol
our people? Has negro too little brains, OF
skill to dig dirt with spade7 The free states
have erected more rail roads and cut more ca
| mails than we, only because they have had more
labor to do it with. They have constructed more
factories and diversified their industry more
from the same cause. The demand for more
labor with which to orect and work our rail road:
is another business which csn permanently EN-
ploy perhaps 100000 new negroes. Brazil is al
present constructing number Of long railroads.
and the effect has been TO almost double the
value of negroes in that thrifty Empire, within
the last FIVE years. If We had the negroes here
which section would first build Pacific Rail
road, the North or South?
| We also need about 10000 more negroes to
manufacture Southern salt. With epe.y appli
auce for making salt, we yet import annually in
tue ueishborhood Of $2,oOO,O0O worth. Moreover
the boiled Salt of Liverpool, whence We obtain
our supplies cryslalizes very imperfectly and
consequently its antiseptic properties are moi
comparable to those of our solar, or evaporated
salt of the Mexican Gulf From its inferior
quality the Liverpool salt is now prohibited from
being used in curing the Army and Navy pro,
visions Of the Federal Government. The meat
curing establishments of the North West and
he Fisheries Of New England would also gladly
substitute our Solar for the Liverpool salt, il
they could but get it. Still we have to accept
the Liverpool article and pay higher foreign
freights, because we have not the labor to make
our Abwn salt. If the foreign salt trade were
discontinued, vessels coming hither for cotton
would compete with each other for rail road
iron AS ballast instead of bringing salt, and there
by diminish freights. We have anumber of evspo
rating salt establishments on the Gulf coast
which pay large profits but they cannot supply
half the demand for Solar salt from the want Of
| labor. II the Yuukees therefore would have
cheap good salt and lower foreign freights, they
must let our Southern salt works have more AT
| ricans. SClPlO.