Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-01-12
For the Advertiser:
ROCKY CREEK BAPTIST GHURgH"REY AR:
RTERSON-AFRICANS

Mr.. PErERsS-Rerernt1 Sir 5000 Clergymen in
New England signed petition to Congress to keep
African Slavery out Of kansas, and in their church
meetings they Soted sharpes Rifles to help the work.
No Eps 1kjertel to these men signing petition to
have their Wist W II asfa FaHstitqsiona, they had
done citizens. HAt no-=they mast sign IN their
religious charaters assuming IL cOntrnl OF tho Po-
ltcal action oil the Government through that rolis
ious character. The lamcnted Brooks acquired his
gruateat rcpnW, in land, because he gave Gaming
to the man who justified guoh religious interference
with Government to crcumscribe slavery. We beg
you, Mr.. PETERSON as Moderator, to moderate your
folks for uni afraid, that should We wish Church
and State unitel VIC might call Romo, for she is
used to the thing. Do doht try to initiate her. She
has daughters oven that could bent you go far, it
-onld make 20, ashamed and then, it is so like the
abOiisO4lsis- b. R9 don't! Now do!
shall not sny Tint trnasiag .isl IN: by bringing
negroes here from Arica lie right, but how is tho
s,itutionality of the law to be tested with it?
There was law that. African slavery should not
ro into our Territories North of 36o latitude, and
It s".,,.S ir msny years, till the breach of it
Supreme Court cut which snd Tint lt vas aal md
void ob initio." And that no negro was could be
u citizen of THU country. The judgement Of the
Samc tribunal may declare the luw in this casc
israusc it makes sectional distinctions
in getting lnbor. While the joverpment has eneOur-
aged emigration for hired abor, it lns cu:scd aad
trplIlen down the means Of getting Southern labor,
till Seward has 9ld pf it, ,he battle is fought and
the yirtpry #on," against CIR peetipB-she South.
Abolitionism boasts lhHt she stras aTny frOm US
10000 slaves yolrly--enough to woaken US in Con-
grcss nembcr every years, and It gives two men,
bers moro for tho North. This African movement Is
in tho direction Of helping us against the sectional
legislation of Congress. Your action, Rev Sir SYM
pathiscs not with Southern Rights-you, Sir, will
hold snvery STILL while Seward and the Abuli,ionists
will skin it. Sir, let it go, and let it work out its
Is::::;;av. Let me not strike the blow against my
:!!etliSn
There mny DO l.any OF Us wpo ha!y .iott eny ne
groes, who ioy thank ntyld ii tic world
ought to have white MN for his nRsleri and every
white man ought to haye his negro. But the prices
arc too high for u.s. unless get the unframed Afi
can at reduced prico. But if those who have rs
many Us they wish will not let have thom cheap,
for fear Of our being rich md easy like themselves
Ep Ell haze ppE9 viii be apt not to forget the fact
when Mr. Seward brings the question te tlis fghHRg
point
If the Church will not get any, lcit lot those alonO
who wish to do so, and the risk of Its being H.
legal.
Why should the Rocky Creek Baptist Church take
up the cudgel-are not tho Federal Officers sufficient,
backed by tho gold robbed from by protective tnr
IFS and other means, aud sustained by the public
c1,.nion Of the Abolition North?
'Flilex q 5a,s 80 pcr" Of them and expects
aone, bst feels that iEvoAlabo baa sy@psA{ lo; lin
10 sympathlso In tho saH,s direction With Rnfi!saf2tS
men. He wishes etery woman In the land had no.
gro to do her cook ug, washing and securing of her