Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-03-16
"THE GLOBE HuMRuG -

Under this caption Western exchange makes inc
following estimate Of the expenses attendant upon
publication Of the Congressional Globe, and other
Congressional printing:
10 give correct opinion in regard to the expense
attending the publication Of tho Congressional Gooe
we give the figures for the past three Congre,S OF
six SESSIONS which figures are taken from tho report
Of tho select committee, to devise means Of reenen
ment: For printing and binding Congressional Glooe
for tho 32d Congress, S20s, sos %; s3d Congress-
1886, 94 34th Congress- $257,9O4 2S; 35th Con-
gresa S265sO 90, making grand total for four Con-
gresses or eight years. Of ss7l $50 so. How do you
like the looks Of that, you that never saw copy ol
the Globe, and you, that never read IL? But here
= little more plunder of the same Sort The report
says the total cost Of the prnIipg for the SD Con-
gress was s3,o2s7s7 90; for Nle s4th Congress- 81
l3l,6ll 59j muking grand total of IS, ,5574s o.,
for four ycars,-or about $l,25O 900 u year. That
will do pretty well, about $4,000 year, to each mem
ber soloy for electioncering purposes But then lne
report OF the Committee goes to say that ID an
nua sum Of 100000 for stationery, twnc md oIsr
articles used in the folding Of Congress- old
ing and sending away public Documents" should DC
added What shall wo say Of this perverse and prof.
ligats generation :"
The statement is indeed startling. OF course The
Congressional Globe is not the mere electoneering
machine our cOtcmporary represents it. LISA work
Of great utility, and perhaps Of necessity. So tho
other Congressional printing. But in tho name Oh
common arithmetic, cannot tho expenses be eartalieu
in some way2
THE HUGUENoTs OF SOUTH CNRoLINA.
"a subscriber" rather pettishly asks, 3Thy we
notice the RickerJccker, Yankee paper, with 'ucn
constant favor und applause%-Our reply Is briefly
this: bccause, yankee yankee, is Quo Of the
purcs most refined, most classic, and most iloorai
journals in America. To show its iuvariabo tone OF
liberality and freedom from all sectional prejudice
we could readily present "a subscriber" with many
passages in point but must content oursef With CIV
ing single one ut this time. 1t is the concluding
portion Of IN article in tho very last numbcron "IAR
HuGUESors OF AMERICA" Mark its temper and tastes
"South Carolina was styled the 'ILoue Of the Hu-
guenots from becoming their principal retreat in the
new world. One thousand emigrants embarked for
Ii Carolina from the ports Of Holland alone These
expeditions left Rotterdam, touching in England on
the voyage to America; Isaac Mnsieg cans over in
one Of them. He had long been u merchant IN hhe I;
and settling in Charleston amassed large fortune,
which he used for his adopted country. In 1851 tho
Lord Commissioners Of James the Second, by tho
royal DOunty, Seut BLK QuQuteQ EQRllSn 0nQ
emigrants to Carolina.
Jean Pierre Pury, of Nouf hatel, emigratsdto Care
lima in the year 1928, with three hundred and seven
tJ five Protestant fImies from Switzerland To this
company the British Government Literally granted
forty thousand of land, with four ponds sterl
ing, to each adult. The settlements were again
strengthened during 1864 by the accession otwo hun
dred and twelve voluntary eIies. Thar pastor,
named Pilbert, accompanied them from France; and
they named their settlement New -BordesuI, in re-
mGmbrance of the capital of Guyenne, thsir former
home. In 1852, there wero not less th.a sixteen
thousand foreign Protestants in South Carolina, and
most Of tbem French. One writer says: 'They live
like tribe, like one family. Each one makes it a
rule to assist his compatrot in his need and to watch
over his fortune and his reputation widthe same
care as his own
In our glorious struggle for liberty, tht French
refugees zeulousy nded the cause of frcedm. South
,rolina was tho first to adopt Independent Con-
stution upon the news Of the buttle Of lexington
and Henry Lnurens was tho President Of the Con.
vcntion, which took this important step. Among her
militia and regular troops were many illstrous de-
scendnnts Of the IIuguenot, Francis Mrion, Peter
Bosquet Samuel Lcgare, and Henry Permneau.
1t is striking fact that three of the even Presi-
dents whu guided the deliberations Of the Continental
Congress were descendants Of the French proestants
Henry Luurens, John Jay, and Film BOudinot-
Two uf tbcn Boudiu0t end jay, alsohe earliest
presiding officers Of the American Bible Society,""
Such and never otherwise, is the style md tendcn-
cy of the KniekerJooker articlea.
Ono word in our venerable brothers ear Why let
your contributor quote after this fashion =.
Their oun Rochelle, the fair RocA&e
Proud city Of the Ea.srs!'"
I. was not thu, that Mucauley wrote it u-,=--,-.