The mountain Democrat., 1864-11-26
The Dovastations OF AbOlltlonI,m.

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into an axiom, that nothing is made in
vain" The great Creator Of all things
has wisely adapted every animate and in
animate thing to some good and wise pur.
pose. Man, in his ignorance, has been
thousands of years in discovering the use
of many Of Gods works, and in applying
them to the purposes of social and intel.
lectual Advancement. A large ge-humber of
animals, now dOmesticated and made use
ful to man, were for years and years al.
lowed to roam in all the freedom of ma.
ture Steam, electricity. gas, &C., &C.,
long laid dormant in natures great labo-
ratory before man discovered them, and
made them serve the purpose of human
''e' V''Ue. <auo1e Two 6t0idfd9 AID nj
ty years ago, whem fa6or vas very scarce
in the New World, the idea was suggest.
ed OF bringing a race of useless, non pro.
ducing savages from Africa, and placing
them under the care and tutelage Of
Christian masters, domesticate, educate
and bit them to be useful and serviceable
beings, both to themselves and Others
In their own country they had been for
ages the same barbarous and savage
tribes, always steadily resisting all civil
izing tendencies, until it became the set.
tied opinion Of the world that only bv be-
ing placed under the control of white
men could their situation be improved. -
The earliest civilizations, the Egyptian
and Carthagnian, had fourished and
passed away, on the African continent,
and yet the natives we're in the same de-
graded condition as ever. That devoted
missionary. Las Cassas, was SO impressed
with the fact that the ameloration of the
| condition Of the negro consisted in colo
niZing them among the whites as a de-
pendent people, that he may be said al
most to have conSecrated a life to that
purpose. And that eminent divine ard
servant of God, the Rev. George Whitfield,
earnestly commended the project, declar-
ing that he himself would be glad to own
some Of these Africans, " that he might
bring them up in the nurture and admo-
milton Of the Lord" In fact the whole
movement was founded upon sentiments
Of philanthropy and Christian civilization;
but now how strangely has the whole sen
timent of the Christian world been chang.
ED Now Christianity demands that the
negro shall be sent back to his native Jun
gl">, shall be permitted to relapse into
his native Savagery. Whitfield and Las
CaSsas are to-day consigned to pcrdtion
hy nearly every representative Of the
Christian religion in the North ard in Eu.
rope. 1t SernS almost incomprt hensible
why this should he so, when We consider
the history of abolitionSm. Let us notice
its progress and its effects very briefly:
Tn" Island Of Hayti was the first spot
where the system Of Las Casas was inter
fered with. Just previous thereto it had
tn most orderly and contented negro
population i'll the world. They were hap,
pv, We'll fed, and were more civilized and
Chri<tianized than any number Of their
rae" hli ever before been. The natural
prosperity Of the island was unexampled
II vas very garden. II formed almost
the sole source Of supply which Europe
at that time hal for sugar. In 1890, the
year previous to the emancipation, it ex.
ported lG3, ,4O5, ,220 lbs. Of sugar, aud over
6o. .OU0, ,OOJ lbs. Of coffee.
What is the con liton Of the island
now \ desert waste. The negroes are
blck again, in the short space of sixty
wears, to the fetish worhip and idoatry
Of the native Africans. As for material
prosperity, it has none. Its sugar crop is
.. Jamaica, Trinidad and all the Islands,
tpIrther With {, ntral America and every
SPOT where the experiment has been tried,
tell the same It ~ Ct moral and material
rula. That I cause whose career has
b,cn thuS marked Shoulh have followers,
passes human comprehension. Bat still
it, iamaticaj followers push on with bold
ne>S and even rrcklr>SncsS If con>c-
quenceS truly appalling. They are deter
&, med tO plunge orr own country into
the ram which their mad schemes have
brought upon others. 10 show that the
) Iutnrrn States are fast following in the
wake of tiic ruincd Island, south Of them.
We ask attention t. the following para
graph from late number Of the New
OIL ans Pirayune:
The cotton Throughout tie .owlandS
threatens to he "A general failure In the
best Of seasons this plant is rarely cult
waited with success in the aIluviai soil of
Lover L9uiSisna, and before the war had
been generally abandoned. The moisture
Of the soil aud heat Of the atmosphere
gives the plant too luxuri4nt and rapid a
growth, producing more stalk and leaves
than h"Ils, and generating the most dc.
>tructvc insects. These causes have on.
Grated wth more than usual effect this
season. We Learn that the insatiate ard
irresistible caterpillar, or army worm, is
every where sweeping the fields With a
raid which puts to shame the most desc,
lating attempts in that line n( its human
itnitatprS. This is true IF all that portion
Of the State included within che Federal
military lines. Beyond this, We hear that
lilt'e or no cotton has been planted. the
confederate authorities prohibiting the
growing OF more cotton than i, needed for
seed. The prospects for sugar are even
more di>couagiHg, the great majority of
ii" sugar cultivatorS having bceG Scducvd
from their old culture by the great de-
nand for cotton. 4 very snail number
of the planters will raise cane enough for
seed for the next crop, and still smaller
number will lay by wood for the furnaces.
There wil hardly be a grinding season.
and the magnificent Weld Of 45O, 600
ho.shradS, of 1851 and 1862. which
declined in 1868 to 40, 900 hog>hrads, viii,
IN 1864, be represented by 0. LnuiSian.
ianS will have to satisfy their paaleS next
year with Island sugar. Our buckwhcat
cakes will have to content themselves
with the thin and inSlpld substitutes call
ed bv high sounding names, hut, oh, so
far below, in richness of >accharinity and
favor, to our delicious sirop de batterie."
Thare We have it, The same old story.
No cotton, no sugar, where abolitionism,
with its destructive influence, extends
Just so much sugar and so much cotton