Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-08-23
GbgedeIS ao6ertiser /,
From the New York Day Book.
The Downfall of New fOrk.

open light of day, with all its terrors, men
will ask themselves this question: Low
was it that there could be "a single citizen,
not absolutely mad and utterly given over to
the Abolition devil, who failed to see the OBJ
yious and NECESSARY destruction SO absolutely
certain to- overwhelm this seemingly prosper
Gus and imperial city ?" We say necessary,
because cause and effect are not only inexora.
bly united by the hand of God, and crime
and its penalty inseparablc and indissoiuble
in the nature of things, but in this case it is
all on the surface, and plain as that two and
two make four, that if the causes now in op-
Grafton are continued, and left to drag after
them their. unavoidable consequences, the
least, the very least Of these consequences
must be tkat, WITHIN the, next eighteen months,
half of this population will be forced to leave
the city to avoid starvation. We do not pro.
pose to prophesy or predict horrible future
ior New York city, or to deaf in mystical
speculation in regard to the future; but we
propose, in thisarticlc, to show, by facts and
inductiye facts, whicfthe most simple and
superficial can understand, thatthe merchants
and men of wealth of this city are ls5oring,
with all their might, to ruin their own for.
tunes, and to bring upon themselves and
their children calamities more swift, terrible
and desolattng than anything witnessed in
history, since the sacking Of Rome by the
GothsS under Alaric.
New York surpasses its great Atlantic RI
walls in it smagnifcent harDor facilities for for
eicn commerce, but that is all; and this
commerce destroyed or lost, it must sink into
dimensions corresponding with the former !;
indeed. with less local manufacturing, &c, 1t
must fall in the. rear ofsPhlladelphia. The
opening of the Erie Canal, thus giving an
outlet to the West, and ,nonopolizing the
great grain trade for some years, gave New
York vast advantages, and that mighty start
over her rivals that she has'inproved so we'll.
But the vast growth and prosperity Of New
York has been in its foreign commerce, based
on the se.called slave.grewn products OF the
South. Europe does, and always will, grow
breadstuffs cheaper than. America, and it is
only in the rare contingency of E failure of
the crops in western Europe that she needs
American grain. The cotton, rice, sugar, to-
bacco, &C., of the Gulf and South Atlantic
States have been absolutely, and. We may say,
exclusively, the material of American ex-
port and New York, with It's magnificent
harbor and its vast surplus capital, monopo-
Gzed this commerce, for even The cotton, &c.,
shipped at Charleston ard New Orleans, was
in New York ships, and the. goods for which
they were exchanged importedbJ New ork
merchants, and carried from this city into
every portion of the Union.
The mere purchase of goods in this city by
southern merchants, though vast trade In
itself, was very subordinate matter. ltwas
the greet foundation fact that the South fur
nished all ,.or nearl: all the material of Ameri
can export, and the exchange of this mate
rial for European goods was almost entirely
monopolized by New York; and around this
nucleus of foreign commerce were gathered
immense. interests and vast population,
which otherwise would never hare becn4herc.
The rapid increase in cotton production, &C.,
the acquisition Of Florida, Texas, &:., the
remo7al of the Indians, and opening up new
plantations in Alabama, Mississippi, &c, went
hand in hand, pari passn, with the increase
of business and popn!ation.in this city, indeed,
we're cause and effect, and if there had been
no violent interruption to the material pft-
er.ss OF American civilization, Lad the sane
lars that, for eighty years past, hare 2een
impei!ing us onward in the path OF prcgfesSs
and AmTrcap Development been permitted
their normal action, ! few. years bence tte
whole fertile Gulf region would have been
restored to productions, and the Gu!; itseii
an American lake, while New YORK city, as
the grand emhorium and center OF exchange
for this mighty production, woald be Without
a rival in the history OF the world. To state
these facts and induclige fac.s--tljs vast trop
ical production and its monopoly by New
York-in q word this cause aud etiec:, %ere
sufficient to show that New York lived, ana
Aeurished, aud became grand and imperial,
in exact proportion with the increase OF pro-
ductiou in the South, and that destroyed, 1t
must be involved in the common ruin, anu
collapse into the dimensions of its Atlantic
rivals.
And this destruction IS now being worked
out with rapidity, certainty and complete
ness, by the Abolition luna,ics, that the iicnds
of hell must sdmire and rejoice at with ex-
ceedinc ioy. Eight millions Of Americans
are dlsarmod and teaten down in tue South,
and the Abolitionists are forcing four millions
of 1ayrees FROM their natural subordinatien
TO an impioa, and forever forbidden level
with the former. OF course society cannot
exist an hour on such basis, for God having
mauc lue hultco oAPSAtoA XIV 49, -S7
inferior, no human power can change the
eternal order, aud force them to level. So
long as the military occupation continues,
there may be somcthins like external order $
but the moment that is Withdrawn the COLI
sion comes; the negro, if not demoralzed
Beyond restoration of social. order, must and
will be exterminated, Of course, for with his
natural inferiority he is in the minori.r. This
would needs be the end in the Border States;
but as the white man is forever incapable OF
growing the products of the Gulf States, the
negroes would most likely be driven into
these States, and left to. drii back into their
original Africanism: Notking else is possible
RESTORATION of the iatural order, or the total
abandonment of the cotton and Gulf States
to African savagezy, aud all the material, the
cotton sugar rice, &C., which formed the
basis of our. foreign commerce, and within
the last twenty years has built up New York,
must as utterly disappear as if they were
consumed by the fse of heaven. The poor,
besotted fools who talk OF "free" labor-that
is, the Labor of the negro without the control
and guidsnes Of the whit. nlaii-might rs