The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-12-11
FALSE PROPHETS.

The fools and madmen of this "nation" never
grow tired of butting their heads against the
granite truths built up by history and experi-
euca. Phlanthropio fools and madmen are the
same every where, aud only few examples are
needed to prove it.
When the Abolitionists of England clamored
for emancipation in the West Indies, the great
argument adduced in its favor was q pecuniary
one-it was contended that free labor would
make those islands blossom like the rose," aud
that their imports aud exports would be quad.
rupled. The argument was q telling one, aud
an appeal to John Bulls pocket was never yet
made in vain; SO emancipation was decreed and
England's West India possessions have never
been worth anything to her since Robespierrs
and St. Just preached the same doctrine in
France in 1889, and Hayti was "regeuerated
and disenthraed." And where is Hayti nowI
1t has relapsed into wilderness, the negroes into
savages, aud the whites have nearly all left the
island. So little do men heed history and pro-
fit by its teachings that we heard just the same
class of arguments when abolition agitation
commenced here, as were employed to secure
the action of the British and French Govern.
ments upon the question of emancipation 10
their colonies. "Liberate your slaves" we were
told, land million Of freemen will rush to the
South the first year of the act" Well, they
months since the deed was done, but "the mil
lion of freemen" have not been forthcoming.
Again; it was predicted by famous Radical
oracle of abolition, in speech in New York
city shortly after the war, that "in two years
America would resume her supremacy in the
cotton market" But six months of the two
years are left for the fulilIment of this prophecy
and yet see nothing which promises to veri.
fly the prediction.
The most liberal estimates of the cotton crop
for the present year which have come to US from
different sources, do not exceed one million
of bales, against Jour millions the year before
the war! So dirt-cheap and mean do the Abo.
lition orators and presses feel at being xposed
in their deceit and falsehood that they are try.
ing to explain the deficiency in various ingeni-
Gus ways, ascrbing it to bad weather. long
droughts, poor seed and cotton worms; but it
will not do. The stubborn, cruel fact stares
them in the face that cotton has not been pro.
duced as they predicted, and has not been cheap.
ened as they swore it would be by the abolition
of slavery. And these base, false prophets are
indicating their own want of confidence in the
truth Of their vaccinations about the future Of
cotton by advising their people to go to raining
,Uoot and far! Does that look as if they ex-
pected cotton to be hereafter abundant aud
cheap? Does it argue we'll for the truth Of the
men who belong to the party of Progress" and
great moral ideas when We hear them advising
return to the condition of their ancestors, who
pulled fax and spun with the dstaff? Verify,
the car of civilization has baked in its path,
and is about to be rolled back by the model re-
formers of the age Surely the world should
not again take to weaving fax aud wool if scot.
ton is to regain its supremacy" by the aid Of
free labor.-Rtchmond Times.