Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-02-23
disconnected with the cotton factories but ne.

disconnected with the cotton factories, but ne.
cessary to the maintinance of the black oper,
atives.
'sCotton manufactures have been the pioneers,
which have introduced and given an impetus to
all other branches Of Mechanism, in Great Br-
tain, the continent of Europe and this country"
That negroes have ability enough to follow
successfully most Of the lorer mechanicalrrades
is borne out by the daily observation ofevcry one.
Let the skeptical count the nunfber OF negro
carpenters, brick layers, house painters, wheel
wrights, blackslniths, tanners shoe makers, etc,
in his own neighborhood! am writing to slave
holders naw, will reason with non,saveholders
presently.
Then how can it gravely be alleged, that a
price, or rather the hire of negroes so much ?
-one occupation should cease to pay, would not
slave owners abandon it Immediately and lay
hold of something else more profitable. Is this
not the course they pursue now when any busi-
ness is overdone? Would not the same equili-
brium be preserved among the various employ.
ments of the South, after revival that exist among
them now2 To advance the proposition. that
our planters would invest capital in Africans,
with whom to make cotton, or sugar, or hemp,
or rice, or tobacco, or grapes after the culture
of either had ceased to pay, is to say that they
should each and all have Il guardian appointe
to manage their investments for them. What
restraint is imposed upon their discretion now
in baying negroes for the cotton patch, the
sugar field, the rice swamp, or the copper mine
Is there any except that of self interest? Does
not one STAKEHOLDER plant this and another that?
Does not third put his negroes to trades-a
fourth set his to cutting lumber, and fifth start
his to manufacturing, rs his own self interest
may direct? Then let our labor market bc
governed by demand and supply, Us the labor
market of the North is. Let us buy negroes in
Africa, as we'll as in Virginia, when Virginia is
unable to furnish them. Where did the free
trade South learn the doctrine of protecting her
citizens against themselves Such principle
is more congenial to. centralized, imperial France
than it is, or ever can be hope, to the Southern
States.
Mules are rs necessary on instrument i'll rails
ing cotton as negroes and mule will last fifteen
years which is half the average duration of O
negro's life. A mule will likewise cost about
one fourth as much as negro does There is
also surplus of mules III the North West, and
we can purchase Just as many as we want fol
growing cotton, yet does any man object to q
thousand droves of mules coming to one neigh
borhood in the South for sale2 Is any one
afraid of himself that he will buy mule when
he ought not, any more than he would ar
African negro? Economically speaking itwouli
be lust as wise to hold public meetings for de
nouncing that stirling man of enterprise William
Culbreath, for fetching drove of mules into
Edge6eld District for sale, as it is to hold them
for denouncing the patriotic Lamars for fetching
cargo of Africans into the same District
They should be applauded, not condemned.
SCIPIO.