Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-11-15
-The Fieuda BIZ Humnnitx.


The Fiends Of Humanity. =
IA Native Ouban'l writes to the Hsrasd
that. g the friends of humanity 55ssSds h,
ought to have said; are now: busy at work
trying to overthrow the relation Of the races
in Cuba, and be predicts forthose interesting
individuals brilliant success. Let us look
for moment at what these propagandists
4 have. already accomplished. Sixty years ego
they destroyed production in Hayti by re-
moving the negroes fpm the-conttol'of their
masters, and the 7geos00O rbs. Of sugar
that island then produced have been utterly
blotted. out Of existyaca. The negroes and
mulattoes since then haye had, On an average,
labout two revolutions such as they are, per
year as for their condition; j. is: an. estab-
lished fact that they are rapidly re!apsing
into their ancient Aficanism. The Spanish
American possessions followed next; and:alt
the vast trade and traffic with which old Spain
built up, in the eighteenth century, the great,
est maritime power of the world, at that time
vanished awsy, es the.dew before: the. sum
mer's SUM-, The English islands followed
suit in 1884, and deosy, desolasionahd ruin
have been their portion since.' Three yeafs
ago the Federal army took possession Of the.
sugar parishes Of Loaisiana, the most produ !.
tive agricultural land, per the acre, Of an;: in:
the ,,szols United. Satss. Nowhege, North,
South, East, or Wessdid the land produce;so
much per hand employed as did the sugar:
estates of fLouisiana.3;It .wasareall3-a land
overfowing with milk Esand; honey. 1t turned
ont over 100000 hogsheads Of sugar annually.
Now, this has been aWep, sway By the !" iffends
of humanity" and perhaps, though it is doubt
full, whether Thousand lhogsheads. will be
scraped together this gear. Half Of the ne.
groes have nisarably pgrished- BY disease and
starvation, while the!whites have beer: reduc-
ed from wealth and aMuence to absolute beg.
!. gary! As for the rest Of the South under the
rule of the exterminators, it. is: needless to
specify details. Therice culture is sbandon.
ed. We learn from New York merchants
that the Carohniansp now get their rice from
India! 1t will soon be ths'ssarne way with
their cotton. nc snI5 spot left On this con-
tinent where SUGARS now produced in any
quantity, is Cuba and Porto Reo, and row
it is proposed to, eradicate thatl: Great
God! are the peopla.sdemented:2 Did any
ono ever hear ofsuch Internal temfoolery be-
fore2 Here are people at the North, who
find it hard work:to make both ends meet
even by the closest scoinioomy:, They are pay:
ing sixty cents per yard for mNslins that
ought to be had sfor ten. They are, paying
twenty cents for sugar that; ought to be: had
for eight. Seventeen cent? for rice thatought
not to. be oyer sssyea Fifty. cents: for coffee
that ought to !sr twelve, and yetithey
I seeh as fsnath
ing was, the matter. Some FIVE OF six millions
Of negroes in our own country and upon the
adjacent islands, are idle, lazy, non-producing
semi-savages. Thousands upon thousands
of white children must go uneducated in or.
der that these negroes may be supported in
sloth. The white -masses must be- ground
down by taxation TO pay the'interest upon the
debt which las been incurred to ruin, fhe PC:
groes and impoverish their. masters, and yet
these .fends Of humanity are not satisfied
Was there ever such madness since the world
began? Was there ever such widespread
4 lcowardice, such base submission to dogmaL
which every sane man knows areas false as
the bottomless pit is deep7 Is there no man
hood left to speak the truth to the maniaci
in power? Verify, We shall deserve, as !
people, greater, punishment than ever be-
fore fell to the lot of mankind, for we are
bringing upon ourselves, with our eyes open
greater calamities than have ever before be.
? fallen any people. When the wrongs we
have done these child.people shall react upol
ourselves in the horrors Of war Of races
aud poverty fill our land, then, and not til
then, will we.realize. what these, .fends :o
humanity have-doue, and what. We. in on,
cowardice, allowed them to do.--New Yors
Day Book. Co.. ........-
THa REPUBLIC OF GzEArtBR1rAIN.A-Ths
New York Hersld is Responsible for the fol
lowing: = =
A movement is on foot, but not yet fullJ
). developed, to change the Fenian programme
and instead of aiming alone atthe Liberation
: Of Ireland, to aspire to q still greater object
and that is the overthrow Of the Englisl
monarchy and the; erection of the republic o
Great Britain. Not Ireland alone is to par
ticipate in the Fepiau liberation. movement
but.th entire British empire is TO. share III
its benefcisnta operations. Inclnded ia thi
grand arrangement are, first, alodgment il
,'|,and- the possession of Canada and, second
the fitting out Of feet Of Fenian cruisers
after the manner of the British.rebel crui
sers Alabama, Florida, 1Shenandoahi:Stone
wall, &c. The vessels can prey upon; ;BritiAl