Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-03-30
and then assuming to rcrronch us for not only


the mir. The beasts Of the field prey upon the
gentle lamb and the timid doc. Man--promt man
not only prcys upon oil thcse, but he also pTuys
upon his owa kind. The strong white man has
prcycd increasingly upon the lives, labor and lsnd
of the inferior races for tho last three centuries
especially and the destruction of the colored tribes
has lately progressed with renewed energy. These
are jttc,s patent to the school boys. Therefore,
Oh ye tenter-hoartod, sugary, auti-slavc trade
laor,llists who hold IN Indians land and control
Il negroes lnhor do not ccnsure mo for telling You
the truth! 1t is we'll enough now and then to re-
view fret principles and to let the "latter day
saints behold themselves in the loss of truth.
"Distance lends enchantmcnt to the view"
But no distance of time or space cnn ever lessen
the enormity of the abstract wrong which South
crn land ownors and slave holders have inflicted
upon the Indian and Negro. Hence, sweet-ton-
gued gentlemen! you must take things III the
concrete, or you must be Ashamed of yourselves, II
YOU will exercise eithor Judgment or memory?
But shall again prescribe for your sick conscience
The discovery Of America and the discovery of
tho passage around the Cape of Good Hope pro-
badly had moro agency in uboiishing white slave
ry in Europe than any pressure OF subsistence up
on land, especially in suine of the States in mid
die and Southern, Europe. After those two events,
the white man acquired spirit of Inaratine ad-
venture, which urged him iuto new enterprises aud
brought him into conflict with all the colorcd or
weaker races of mon. Those conflicts established
his superior prowcss, and since then the Caucas-
sian every where has claiulea equality rs his nat
ural right-has struggled to rank as the peer Of
his fellow. The Serf then commenced to assert
his right of expatration at least and from that day
he has also beon constantly usurping the land and
enslaying the labor of oil the inferior races. So,
that now in 1859, tho prospect is fatering for the
white race mt no distant day to lord it over the
babitnblu globe. The migration from Europe is
80 and rapid in this age ct steam That ere
= century more she riill have become so sparsely
populated that slavery may be established there,
and predict the establishment OF negro slavery
in that white mans home before 1859.
So heavy has been the draft upon Europe for
emigrants to distant lands that several States Of
that Continent now have loss than 10O inhabitants
to the sQuare mile. The present attitude Of France
anu En- gland on the subject of the negro and AZ
! rica uurtcnd that new era is dawuiug upon the
| world When negro slavery shall have taken rUut
in France and in the other States of Europe, per
haps there will then be some such thing consti-
tutional liberty for the white man throughout the
whole eurth. Africa is beginning to feel the impulse
| of the white man carrying Magma Carta with him
and urging the sentiment OF subjection to scryi-
tudc of an inferior to superior race. All right,
| which to plant slavery throughout this Western
| Continent Then we will ruiss no objection to
| England, France and the other Powers Of Europe
sppropriating tho land vf all Africa and Southern
Asia, as well as the labor of tho negro and Coolie
apprentice But until England in particular shull
consent to such reciprocity J. for one will continue
| TO make war upon her monopoly Of Asatc and
African lubor.
The white race neod never, and probably will
never again. to any considerable extent, suffer for
| subsistence. Steamships can now speedily trans
port the excess of population from ono Continent
or Island to another, where land is more abundant
and rail roads can then readily carry the cmi-
grant into tho interior. No millions vii! per-
sh OF famine in Ireland, or elsewhere. If they
DO, they will deserve their fate. White men now
have the printing press, mail and telegraph to
get information to the best place. whittier ~ cm
crate for cheap land or high wages They also
have every facility for quick transportation nnd
revolvers, US well MS other improved firearms to
conquer land from the colored races or to control
their labor The late acts Of Eusla and France
i the Chinese nnl Japanese wators.are as Uni-
nous, us their recent performances in Africa Il
would appear that henccOrth As!atics and Africans
IRE to labor and Europeans to cnjoy. Why should
our white population form any exception to the
general rule Of Caucassiuu ascepdeucy! While
are steadily pursuing tho policy Of pp,opriating
The land and labor Of the inferior races, why
should we adopt tho half-handed policy Of only
appropriating their land But forgot. Our gou-
ermacnt has no foreign policy Still it is policy
with our pcopic to appropriate the land of the in
rerior races and to cXteud toward the tropics But
why should it not also be the policy Of our people
TO get more labor from Africa, or Asia, as we'll I'M
more land from the Indian or Spanish Mongrci
since thoy ure both so unfit for slaves?
Why should soutLern slave holder, hesitate
longer about enlargng the area Of negro slavery
by extending it into the territories and into soy of
the present free States, which could be done if the
slave trade were revived? Why are they not alive
to the Importance of planting slavery beyond the
United Stutes, aud especially in Mexico or Central
America? Why contend for the abstract right tu
extend the area ofslavcryin Kansas, Califorun and
in other localities wilho 1t furnishing tho Africa,
necessary to accomplish it? The eascst way to
attain "mo-al victory" over nbolt;onsm Is tn
revive the slave lrnde. Would the Irish ret ,ru 10
tho land of the Shamrock if they could get cheap
negro labor to work our cheap land ut the South
Would they not DO inclined to tilibuscr tho fertile
territory owned by the mongrel Spaniards, and
thcu enjuy themselves in the shade while negro
once n savage, but now civilized being by means
of slavery, should work for them? Would not the
German, who at present settle in the North West
pursue the same course? Would not hordos Of
abolition Yankees come South for the same pur-
pose? Would not abolition then decline 80 fast
that it never could DO rosusinted? There was
time when yankees und foreigners both moved
Southwark to get cheap land and cheap labor, but
that wus before the slave trade was closed.
Yet from the epithets with which some slave
holders anathematize the slave trade (tho only
means of getting more slave Stutes) it would yecu
;hat they apprehend if another slave State were
erected out Of our territories that if one or two
nr three of them were carved out of Mexico and
Central America, it would dcrrecato the price and
hire OF our present negroes to u ruinouS amount.
0a yes? The auncSation of Florida aud Louisiana
and other slave States has done The establish
meut Of slavery in Cubn aud Brazil has ruined the
value of our slaves, has it mt? We could now re,
euhee cheaper from Brazil aud sugar cheaper from
Cuba if slavery were abolished there, or If the
slave trade had not been kept open so long by
those two States. could VIC not? We could then
give England a bale Of cUtton for sack Of East
Indin cnfse or for barrel of British India raised
sugar, besides paying her freight and exchange
between East India and the Uuited States, which
is little longer voyage than from the West Indies
or Brazil to our shores.
"Oh judgment thou art fed to british beasts
And men have lost their renson.'
Ii the statements bi her newspapers and 0ratOrs
are competent evidence, cconomic considerations
have had Ms much TO do with emanti ra,inn in the
West Indies ns sentiment. England abuish,d sla-
very in the West Iudics-procured lis abol;shmout
on the Spanish American Main,-soug,it to have
it abolished in Cuba and Brazil-h.s since eudea-
vored to suppress the slave trade in Cuba, Brazil
and every where else outside of her own colonies,
and now opposes our extension toward the tropics,
which she is willing even to 4 Aficansc, or convert
into @ pandemoninm, to prevent either us, or any
other American State from raising tho tropical
products, which We want in exchange for the
grain crops Of the North West for our raw cot
ton, MS also to prevent US from manufacturing that
cotton with slave labor. Yet our own Navy il on
the coast of Africa to further these desisns and
Southern Slaro holders as well as Northern gruin
growers are shouting amen? If Demos,heuese
were living at the South. lie would probably say
to our people, what he did to the Athenians for a
kindred folly,
"Tbere is thick darkness, it seems, between you
and tho truth !"
When England emancipatcd her Vest India
negroes she owned but little land on this continent
well adaDted to slaycry-nut enough To even make