davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22

despatched their victims, the cries for mercy,
the pleading of innocence for pity. might
paint this all again in the terrible colors of
the vivid reality,if if 1 thought your courage
needed such wild excitement
But know you are strong in the might of
the Lord. You will go forth to battle on the
morrow with light hearts and determined
spirits, though the solemn dlty-the duty of
avenging the dead-may rest heavy on your
souls.
And in the hour of battle, when all around
is darkness, lit by the lurid cannon's glare
and the piercing musket's fash, when the
wounded strew the ground, and the dead litter
your path, then remember, soldiers, that God
is with you.
The eternal God fights Tor you--He rides
on the battle cloud-He sweeps onward with
tke march of the hurricane charge-God, the
Awful and the Infinite, fights for you, and
you will triumph.
- Reg rRO tQkc tHe CtOoTuJ uislst Pe'iob W S'e
Syord."
You have taken the sword, but not in the
spirit of wrong and ravage. You have taken
the sword for your homes, for your wives, for
your little ones. You have taken the sword
for truth, for justice and right, and to you the
promise is, "Be of good cheer" for your foes
have taken the sword in defiance of oil that
man holds dear, in blasphemy of Ctod-they
shall perish by tie sapord.
And now, brethren and soldiers, I bid you
all farewell. Many of us may fall in the fight
of to morrow-God rest the souls Of the fallen!
Many of us may live to tell the story of the
fight of tomorrow and in the memory of all
will ever rest and linger, the quiet scene of
this autumnal night.
Solemn twilight advances over the valley
the woods on The opposite heights fling
their long shadows over the green of the
meadow-around US are the tents Of the Con.
tinental host, the suppressed hustle Of the
camp, the hurried tramp of the soldiers to and
fro among the tents, the stiffness and silence
that marks the eve of battle.
When we meet again, the long shadows Of
twilight will be flung over peaceful land.
God in Heaven grant It'll
Lei us pray.
PRAYER OF THE REVOLUTION.
Great Father, we bow before thee. We in.
woke thy blessing, we deprecate thy wrath
we return thee thanks for the past, we ask
thy aid for the future. For we are in time oi
trouble, oh, Lord and sore beset by foes
merciless and Implying; the sword CLEANS
over our land, and the dust Of the soil is
dampened with the blood Of our neighbor;
and friends. OH God Of Mercy, we pray thy
blessing on the American arms. Make the
man of our hearts strong in thy wisdom
bless, We beseech, with renewed life and
strength, our hope, and Thy instrument, ever
George Washington. Shower Thy counsell
on the honorable, the Continental Congress
visit the tents of our hosts; comfort the sol
der for his wounds and Affections nerve hin
for the fight; prepare him for the hour o
death. And in the hour of defeat, oh Got
of hosts, do Thou be our stay, and in the hou
Of triumph he Thou our guide.
Teach us to be mercifu. Though the mem
ory of CALLING wrongs be at our hearts, knock
ing for admittance, that they may fill US witt
desires of revenge, yet, let US, Oh! Lord
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22
Lazy Boys.


A lazy boy makes lazy man just as
crooked twig makes crooked tree. Who
ever saw boy grow up in idleness that did
not make vagabond when he became man,
unless he had fortune to keep up appear
ances. The great mass Of thieves, paupers
and criminals that fill our penitentiaries and
alms.houses, have come to what they are by
being brought up in idleness. Those who
constitute The business part of the community,
those who make our great and useful men,,
were trained up in their boyhood to be indus,
trious.
When boy is old enough to play in the
street, he is then old enough to be taught how
to work. OF course, we would not deprive
children of healthful, playful exercise, or the
time they should spend in study, but teach
them to work little by little, as child is
taught at school. In this way he will acquire
habits of industry, which will not forsake him
when he grows up to be man. Many per-
sons who are poor, let their Children grow
up to fourteen or sixteen years Of age, before
they put them to labor. Such children, hav,
ing no idea what work is, and having &C.
quired habits of idleness, go to impose upon
the employers with laziness. There is re-
pulsiveness ia eli work set before them, and
to get it done, no matter how, is their only
aim. They are ambitious at play, but dull at
work. The consequence is, they don't stick
to one thing but short time and they rove
about the world, get into mischief, and finally
find their way into the State prison or alms
hnuoa
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22

A"FoNr" OIL TrpE.-As a scrap Of infor-
nation we give the proportions in which the
different letters are cast to a font Of type, and
in which they occur in print: Letter e, $500;
t, 900; a, $50; IL, o, Q, i, 800; b, GAO; r,
62O; d, 44O n, $40; c, IN, 300; f, $50; w, y
200; 6, p, 10; b, l6O; v, ls0; k, 80; g,
so; j. x, 4O;z, 20. Besides these are the
com ined letters, Fl, so; Fl, 40; f, 20; fl,
IS; fl, 10; m, lOi e, S. The proportion of
the different letters OF capitals differs very
materially from that of the small letters, the
letter being usod most frequently, then I,
then A and E, &c.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22

tury, If he had known one who had pursued a
business strictly Of the character of the specu.
lator for thirty years that came out rich. He
said he did not know any. "All our rich
men have accumulated their wealth by gradual
and constant accessions" We have known
many men who were pointed out as "im-
mensely rich" through speculation, but in
every case that We can recollect, they after
wards failed.
a RICH EsrArE.-The best legacy which
man can leave to his children, is tie ability
to take care Of themselves. Fit them for
active, responsible business, and they have at
once an income; but this income in as much
greater in value to them than the same in
come left in money, as activity and useful
employment are better than idleness and
lounging and dissipation. Give young man
good moral habits and good practical
thorough school education, (which by the way
need not necessarily be acquired at Schools
and he can secure salary of perhaps two OF
three hundred dollars at first, and in success.
sive years up to thousand dollars. He is
then worth thousand dollars, his real Xalue
counted in money. But a poor young man
who can make thousand dollars year, is
worth far more than young spendthrift who
has sixteen thousand dollars, because he is
more useful in many other ways, and is making
himself happy instead of miserable.
"WHAT BUSINESS SHALL Follow ?"-This
question is often asked, and the proper answer
may be, any useful and legitimate business
That is usually the best business for man
which he can perform best. He must be well
fitted for whatever he undertakes. After
that, success depends upon the man, and moi
on the business. We have known some men
of deficient energy and capacity who failed
with the most favorable commencement; and
others who, under. great difficulties, persevered
without faltering until eminently prosperous
But it is all.essential to stick to your busi
ness. Several years are often required to
attain proper knowledge of all the ramihca
tions of trade. A man who was clearing
FIVE thousand dollars year, remarked, ":fo'
the first Eve years I made almost ~ nothing
by that time he had accumulated great expe
rience. Another, person of high capacity
changed his occupation eight! times tim in fourteen
years-he began rich and is now poor,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22
From the Charleston Courier.
Southern Patronage. to Southern I'm
ports and Domestic Industry.

SOEthern EatroRdSc- ~ SouIhoIh AAa-
ports and Domestic Industry.
.,S'i No. W.. aS
The failure Of the Augusta Cotton Mills
has done more to put back the progress Of
manufacturing at the South, than any failure
that has taken place, and. the success of
Graniteyille has. been q beacon light. which
has kept. confidence somewhat alive in that
most needed and simplest Of all branches of
manufacturing With the. Augusta Company
some twenty-five or thirty cotton manufac-
turing establishments in the South went
down, and others have dragged 4out'a sickly
existence from the same cause-want of home
patronage. 4s2
From the same cause the various attempts
to make buckets and tuhs,. in different parts
of the South failed. They were far better
buckets than those made, at the North, but
our merchants would not purchase them.
twenty-five cents in the price of dozen
buckets would tempt the country merchant
to buy Yankee.artcle instead of the home.
made, which would give lwice tue satisfaction
to the consumer, but would not pay so good
o profit, to the ,vender;. and here lies the
grand secret why home patronage is not lib
orally extended to the encouragement and
protection Of Southern enterprise and home
industry, IF which We will treat more fully
as We progress with the subject. There was
quite a spirit abroad son.e years ag" for
raising broom corn m.d manufacturing br'oms.
and that business hns failed AMI been alan
doned from the san Cause, Chair making
is another branch of manufacturing that ought
TO have succeeded ut the South; but that
shared the fate of other enterprises from the
same causes,
Paper making is another and very impor-
tant branch of business to the South, and
that has suffered seriously from the want Of
Southern patronage Even our newspapers
were not until recently, printed on Southern
paper, and ,:5.;:..:2
ticle. One ""t
in New Orl
-a.i.,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22
!: From tho Charleston Courier.

Oh! save him-that poor young man You
may save him-he can never save himself, for
he is sold, aye sold; all his clear intellect
and lofty endeavor; all his proud birthright
Of manly independence, noble, unainching
purpose and fearless self reliance, sold to
ii,the worm Of the STILL"
aNothing to you. only a stranger-im-
pertinent interference7" Nothing to you :
What for then did Providence place him in
your path 2 Father of chat bright eyed boy,
mother Of that fair haired girl he had a faith
er, o, mother once save him as you would
save that boy from q drunkard's grave, that
girl from the untold uiseriesof drunkard's
wife. ..:'s se..it - ~ -:
: Man Of God, pass not by on the other side.
Man of Science, is he nothing to you7 Think
how you wrestle with the destroying angel
for his victim; how yon battle, inca by incl,
with the very foot in the grave, for his prey!
Can, you do. nothing here? Is there no anti!
dote for the fang of that viper, that @stingeth
like a serpent and biteth like an adder.W
Must it be alone forever; to creep and coil
into the soul without let or llindrance:"
Christian man, Christian woman, is he
nothing to you? Save him--he is worth
saying-God made him in His image; Christ
died to redeem him, and shall You abandon
him2 You
"Heir of the self-snme heritage, I
Child of the sclf.same God
Hs hath but stumbled on the path
Thou hath in weakness trod."
Fearfully sulIied and dim, ere the shattered
debris Of that image of the Almighty, but
there is hope Of him still. He has struggled
-manfully once--he will struggle again and
again, feebly and more fitfully, sor the coil Of
the serpent is around, the spell OF the sorcerer
isupon him, and the strength of his iron will
hut yours unbroken. Go to the re
::-nra than the strength.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22
For the Advertiser.
.aLz-"


The grave of the heart with long Withered roses
It's memories vain, its regrets, and its void,
Sounlkc the true grave where al dreamless reposes'
The still, painless form that chill Death he's de-
stroyed!
ALI this tomb of the heart, all around it entwipiug
The sunbeams that glittercd in Hopes Long Age,
Till the shadows of grief mingling with their
bright shining,
Spread pail DER the past land its joylight below!
Life is too short with its passionate dreaming,
Itshopes aud its fears, and ita wild restless love
For hearts that adore beyond nl of earths seeming,
To throb calmly on, when loved forms afar rove.
Absence, this gloom of the grave not its quiet
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22
14liistellaneous.
A Revolutionary Relic.

The following eloquent Revolutionary Ser
mon, preached on the 10th of September,
l777, on the eve of the battle of Brandywine,
by the Rev. Jacob Prout, to large portion
of the American soldiers, in the presence of
General Washington, General Wayne, and
others of the Continental army, was recently
discovered among the old papers of Major
John Jacob Schcefnyer, an o.Ecer of the
Revolution. 1t should be perused by every
lover of patriotism.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22

Lne subject of bet, or, that hc should win a
wife by gambling for her; and, perhaps, be-
cause he knew the old man was "hard to
beat" and there was strong probability OF
his losing both wheat and wife.
It was not until the Major with his usual
obstinacy, had sworn that unless he won her
he should never have her, that the young
man was forced reluctantly to consent to play.
The table was placed, the candles lit, the
cards produced, and the players took their
seat With Miss Fanny between them, to
watch the progress of the game. The cards
we're regularly shufaed and cut, and it fell to
the Majors lot to deal. The first hand was
played, and Robert made gift to his opponents
high low game. Robert then dealt, the Ma
jor begged; it was given,' and the Major
again made three to his opponents one.
SSH to two," says Miss Fanny with a
sigh.
The eMajor as he dealt the cards, winked
and said .....s,.,z-. ..-.s...=5.
"I,m good for the wheat, Master Bob"
The old man turned up trump-it was o
spsde-Fanny glanced at her fathers hand
her heart sank; he held the three, eight
spot, and the king She then looked at Rob
ert's hand sand lol he had the ace, queen,
deuce, and jack or knaye. She whispered to
Robert to beg-he did SO.
"Take it," said the Major
Robert led his deuce, which the Ma|j"'
took with his three spot, aud followe>' by
playing the king. Robert put his queen upon
it. The Major supposing it was the young
| mans last trump, leaned over the table, and
tapping his last trick with his finger, said:
"That's good as wheat"
"fs it Z" asked Robert, as he displayed to
the astonished Major the nee and jack, vet
in his hands.
aHigh, low, Jack, gift and game" shouted
Robert.
aoutp CALCULATED Fanny.
aGood az wheat" added Robert, as he
flung his arms around her neck and kissed her
In due time they were married, and eyer
after that when anything occurred Of a pleas
ing nature to the happy couple, they VI ould
express their emphatic appreciation of it by
the phrase, {" Good as wheat. !"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22
VOLUME XXEs--:,::E!o. q:


tend to say that we 'IHck patriot 1T the
South. and that. I; -.e arena ''<,':-- :; :;
whose breasts zdowa55
domestic enterpi,ast '< s.n:sias 80.
Youwill scarcety@e- a4 =
rejoice 70 sea-, any
growing up among =. ~
Idea that we can mr..
ton as good ant. as c!
made at the. MOI.
commend the spirit IN :a:i..,
talist TO invest his mon Jrslch Of
manufacturing, but when I goods manutac-
tured have to trd customers, lin order to sus-
tam the manufac,ory, there is aniunaccounta-
bic indifference and apathy, and that gives
the merchant power. to dictate: T.. .ihe purcLa-
9 r, and if he be governed, hy seifah motives,
Ihe..will offer tie article on whichhe can make
the most and will be likely to put forth an
article which hos been manufactured faraway
from home. Every body knows the. price Of
home made goods, and not !mlc'i chance for
pnfit on them. -; ;'A .'>s.. 'l3i.S..,s. -.
In purchasing supplies there IS g mac
countable indifference speryaiing everywhss
.atihe South about palrunizihg> home indus
try. That fact isstrongly cxeiapltied in tue j
almost universal use Of Yankee shoes, when Z
everybody knows that: they will not wear
half as long as Southern male article, and
that they are aearers in the end to the con-
sumer; Their again there is the article Of chr
,riaee and wagon harness, one good set Of.
hume.made is worth two of such as lyoH ars
able to buy ready made, and s,ill.we find
people unwilling to pay a reasonable advance
in price for sIbsantial homemade article. =
Those who are not convepant with such mat
ters may think We exaggerate, but all man.
ufacturera at the South will confirm whatwe
say about the want Of Southern patronage to
enable them to dispose Of gleir manufactured
articles. .l,.;sis. :. )
Politically We are the most suspsctipg,
wide-aWake people OIL the face Of the.clobc--
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22
Rules for H

rules were: .aa @S
Il. Cut short your losse.
2. Let your profits rul.
In order to do: this, o..
ence-and to. avoid q TO,
begin small. Feel. yo'
had a quick and powe:
learn from him, obseryir
our knowledge, instead
When in Egypt, he and II.
were riding out in a dark
beach, where it was. yer.
the tide came in rapidly. a
every moment deeper v
stood ): they could not Sc
land, they became alarme
and destruction threatened
seemed never to fail for o,
ordered all to form a circle,
.'outwards. They did so. ]
to ride ahead (; if any found
deeper, they were to turn al
it growing shallower, they
and all the rest to follo'
them to dry land. 1t is
! Proceed cautiously in differ
failure results, wheel alb :,
tends, go ahead. This is
out Ricardo's rules, "Cut s
let your profits run on"
ANOTHER REQUISITE FOR
i'm. unfinching pri
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22

fields of corn looked forth from amid the waste
of the wilderness, and the glad music Of hu--'
man voices awoke the silence of the forest
Nowl,God Of mercy behold the change
Under the sanctity of the name Of God, in
voking the Redeemer to their aid, do these
foreign hirelings slay our peoplel They
throng our towns, they darken our plains, and
now they encompass our posts on the beauti,
full plain of Chadd's Ford. -
/" They ,0ho take the S,rord, shall perish 6y the
Suord."
Brethren think me not unworthy of belief,
when I tell you the doom of the British is
near. Think me not vain. when / tell you.
that beyond the cloud which now enshrouds
us, I seegathering thick and FAST the darker
cloud and the blacker storm Of Divine re-
tribution. -
They may conquer us tomorrow: Might
and wrong may prevail, and we may be driven
from the 6eld--but the hour of Gods own
vengeance viii come!
Ay, fin the vast solitudes Of eternal space
---if in the heart of the boundless universe,
there throbs the being Of on awful God, quick
to avenge and sure. to punish, then will the
man George of Brunswick, called King,feel
in his brain and in his heart, the vengeance
of the eternal Jenovahl As'bhght will be
upon his life--a witllered brain, an aceursed
intellect; q blight will be upon his children,
and upon his people. Great God how great
the punishment
:. A crowded populace, peopling the dense
towns, where the man of money thrives, while
the laborer starves !: want striding among the
people in all the forms Of terrors all ignorant
and God:defying priesthood cRuckling over
the miseries of millions; "o''2' "nd merci-
less nobility adding VT
heaping insult upon
royalty corrupt to shesve
rotten to the very core;
ed hand.in-hand and te.'
of woe and death; th'a "
doom and retribution n
English throne and tn
Soldiers look ar
faces with a strang
morning we will all ~sv : ;.'.-:s--
need 1 tell you your unworthy Minister -.
march with you, invoking Gods aid in the
fight? We will all march forth to battle
Need I exhort you to fight theNgood fight, to
fight lor your homesteads, and for your wives
and children?
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22

VI GA
ments, not from capltal :.
but by the issue Of bonds
generations to come the
debts.
With our immense expo
known in any of the civil.
globe, where are we able
accumulation of wealth :
be found except in the ent
lands and negroes. Our f
gros have risen in value, ]
of money, from a thousaI
millions in value, and our !. ..
in value from the same {
any better off now than =
when Cotton brought as :.
Except from the natural i
gro population, We have nc
wealth. A negro lsborer j
of producing a larger inco
produced. Our soil has nj.
and where, let me ask, is
signs Of our accumulated VIC
1t may be truly said tt
greatest power Of any peopl
come, but it may with rs mi
that we are the greatest spel
most dependent people, and
other people to supply US q:
est necessities Of lie, than a
worl. ,ncompassed by the b
| We rev.. tho Yankees for
] enemies, VI "a We ore spen
| on them In the 1ui'chase Of
articles of domestic use, :;
iy-trap broom and axe-hsl
| steam ensine ahd rail road !
Is it not time that Ee I'VE
to our interest, and exhortir
of the South to patronize hc
to give o preference in all in
the product of Southern
DOMESTIC
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22

listen." w.. & ."sfls
ransomed 60 free, if mans psi
naught y him !; but gold. shew hinge
1t is his God; before it be bows every
pulse of Bsing&human souls as as dus
the balaheJ r---------'' >,
Man of means, buy him off but for one :
month, one year-it may save him. .Resc.
him OF oil hazards, at any cost-save hin
time, save him for eternity.
LOUISE L. NJ.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22
erC nuu-.
~

she was td,d4hattthe young farmer
5 5 make at least one hundred bush.
Major appeared to study for q Ino53
: .p;uptIy proposed s.games Of old
aiseyen sp;" the stakes to be his
sis aaaJ .assinst tee crop of wheat.
course, the young man indignant
because he could not bear the idea
nd of her he loved should be nude
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22
REVOLUTIONARY SERMON.

They pho take the S,oord, shall perish by the
lScord."
Soldiers and FelloU.country:-
We have met this evening, perhaps for the
last time. We have shared the toll of the
march, the dismay of the retreat-aike we
endured cold and hunger, the contumely of
the internal foe, and the outrage of the foreign
.oppresser. We have sat night after night
beside the same campfire, shared the same
rough soldiers fare; we have together heard
the roll of the reveille, which called US to duty,
or the beat of. the tattoo, which gave the signal
for the Ardy sleep of the soldier, with the
earth Tor his bed, and the knapsack for his
pillow.
And now, soldiers and brethren, we have
met in the peaceful valley on the eve of bat
tie, while the sunlight is dying away beyond
yonder heights; the sunlight, that tomorrow
morn will slmmer OIL scenes of blood. We
have met amid the whitening tents of'our en-
campment; in times of terror and gloom have
we gathered together-God grant 1t may not
be for the last time.
| 1t is solemn moment. Brethren, does
not the solemn voice of nature seem to echo
the sympathies of the hour? The flag of our
country droops heavily from yonder staff; the
breeze has died along the green plain o
Chadd's Ford-the plain that spreads before
us, glistening in sunlight; the heights of the
Brandywine arise gloomy aud grand beyond
the waters of yonder stream, and all nature
holds pause of solemn silence on the eve Of
the uproar of the bloodShed and strife7of to-
morrow
+" They ehs take the Steord, 1haN perish by h'
| &lrord
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22

HoNEYMooX.-The word
is traceable to o Teutonic orig
Teutones was o fayourite drink
lin. 1t was made of mead
much like the mead of Euro!
The same beverage was also IN
Saxons, but lavoured with mul
honeyed drinks were used mor'
marriage festivals and which '
among the nobility one lunar m
tive board being we'll supplied
lin. Honah Moon" signified
ro: :nath Of the marriage festiVa
Goth, celebrated by sonthey's P
his wedding-night, from a too IN
in the honeyed drink.