Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-07-17
,,.u, me desires OF the wicked"

, ,,.,u, INC desires oil the wicked.
Will God answer our prayer? To slow
that he will, just look what God has already
done in his providence Look at Fvlt Sumter.
Fur two or three days there never was better
shooting nor more >kiiful management, and
without blood God gave us the victory. But
mark when Maj. Anderson was sa:uilng his
h.g-tLc symbol Of all the ungodliaess and
perjury of his side Of the strife, though in
the battle hundred guns loaded with shot
and she'll killed none, God, without any shot
in the gun, killed several in suluting the sym
Lol of Northern crime. The first time the
Southern flag was lowered on Southern soil
was in Alexandria, Va, but Col. Ellsworth
fell dead by Jackson's ball before itreached
the ground 0 God how easy to show thy
blessing in thy power. Here is death in dis
honoring one flag, and deatl, in honorng an
other. These are more than straws Which
show how the wind blows God works by
means sometimes of His own selection in op-
position to means men may select, but He has
intended us to confile in His working through
the known laws of nature From this point we
have reason to trust lie will answer not the
"desires of The wicked We .,aTe the most
experienced Generals and Officers from the
Old United States Army and Navy, who leave
the cid banner to victory, but who have left
it wien it became the symbol Of tyranny and
crime, fur another. We could run over n
list of officers which would compare with old
veterans in victory Have they lost their
skill2
Oar men fly 10 arms from all classes of
society. They are not of the clsss, which,
destitute of labor and bresd, marched down
Broadway in New York, few years ago,
| with banners on which was written BREAD
OR BLOOD to the tune Of oa,oG0. No
wonder the men of property in Northern
Cities pay we'll to raise Regiments and send
such to the wars. Our men can maintain the
field of themselves, and will do it if need be
whilst ,hey know their cause is just. We
have the means in our great staples to raise
u revenue sufficient to pay our exports ever
two hundred millions, while the North, to
invade us, will be compelled to support twice
as large all army, and their fifty millions of
exports cut oit by Southern Privateers, they
cannot raise any revenue. Already their credit
1 il gone. Ohio votes loan of three millions,
and after the greatest strain can only raise by
lcay three hundred thousand. Lincoln's Con-
gress votes loan, yet he can get only part
of it, and that too by paying one hnudred
d, liars iur.ighty five, and intcresttwicea year
at that. Whilst our Government gets every
dollar at par and more offered than she wants.
Never yet Gid heavier harvests press our
fiells than that which we are nov gathering.
The North says the negroes will rise and
W. will have our hands full with them. /
have no doubt of the truth Of this, but it
will only be in price that they will rise. The
,ure negro never did rebcl-he never will
and men know this who know the negro best.
lie will not give up one Of his first rights
the right Of master,-and especially so when
lie may be sold to worse by Yankee IN
Cuba.
Some of our soldiers now in Virginia, have
better crops than when thay staid at home.
And there arc enough men left to sec that all
things 90 on well. Our boys haze nothing
TO do or think but fight, aud God bless every