Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-11-27

ion, /. Total, 5S5.
What our people are doing on the Coast.
We commend to the New York Herald the
following extract Of letter from friend in
Charleston, which gives solemn facts for its
consideration. So says the South Carozinian.
CHARLESTON, Nov. 10, 1861.
Edisto Island is nearly laid in ruins. MIR.
]. j. Mikell, Mrs. Hopkinson, and Mr.. l. Lee
gare, have all burned their entire crops-ne-
gro houses, barns, &C., and at o meeting OF
the planters this has been universally, deter
mined on. The same spirit actuates the own
ers Of all the Sea Island plantations. fully
expect 10 hear that the entire Sea Island crop
of this State will meet similar fate. None
will be saved, for all is in the fields or gin
houses; thus twenty thousand bales, the
product of this State, amounting to two mil
lions five hundred thousand dollars, will be
destroyed by the hands Of the proprictors
themselves, rather than it shall fall into the
possession Of our vandal enemies, and I have
no reason to believe that Georgia will pursue
any other course. Her people are as noble
and as self-sacrifcing as ours. The Sea Is
land crop Of last year was estimated at forty
thousand bales, and this year the favorable
seasons made the planters calculate on forty
five thousand bales. Sould the randals over
run Florida, and make any demonstration on
the Sea Island producing portions Of that
State, you may expect the planters there to
follow our example, and thus will the entire
fine staple crop Of this Confederacy be totally
destroyed, estimated in value at SlOO to $3.50
a bale, from four TO five millions; but this is
not all The cultivation of this article will
not be resumed while the war lasts. 1t is
known to you that the sea-board Of South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida are the only
regions Of the earth where fine and ert'a fine
cotton, termed Long Staple, can be success
fully produced. Now, the production of this
article is indispensable to the manufacturers
Of Bolton, Lancashire, and many other of
the districts in England, France, Germany
and Switzerland. There is no substitute ior
it, and the lace and silk spinners will feel this
blow even more severely than we, who only
sacrifice our luxuries; they have, besides
their mills 10 keep in working order and oc-
cuped large number Of operatives to feed,
and these people are not easily managed when
thrown out of employment. There is much
trouble for England, growing out Of Earl
Russell's idea that slavery isa wrong and
against the sentiments of England, and there.
fore, acting on this principle, it were better
to cx:crminatc the institution of slavery and
theSouth, rather than acknowledge our justin
dependence, which wouldinsure the prosperity
OF her people, even though the Yankee Gov
crnment 60 to war for so doing. I hope our
people will remember the course England has
assumed against u.s. and when VIC can, let us
express our sentiments freely. l see now no
hope for the raising of the blockade while
Earl Russell occupies the Government, but. ]
do look in time for q change i'll public senti-
m ,nt so strong that Derby will take the lines,
and the justice we seek be no longer de-
MED US.
The weather is cold and winterish, yet the
body of the people are calm and determined.
The sacrifices our forefathers made during
thetirst Revolution, will cheerfully be endured
again. We will fight and conquer the Yam
kcc yandals on our soil, even thong VIC fight
them without shoes or clothing.