The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-16
False Prophets.


lowing excellent article:
The fools and madmon of this s'na-
ton never grow tired Of butting
their heads against the granite truths
built up by history and experience.
Philanthropic fools and madmcn are
the same everywhere, and only q few
examples are needed to prove it.
When the Abolitionists of England
clamored for emancipation in the
West Indies, the great argument adj
duced in its favor was o pecuniary
one. It was contended that free labor
would make those islands "blossom
like the rose" and that their imports
and exports would be quadrupled.
The argument was Il telling one, and
an appeal to John Bulls pockets was
never yet made i'll vain; so emancipa-
ton was decreed, and England's West
India possessions have never been
worth anything to her since. Ro-
bespierre and st. Just preached the
same doctrine in France, in 1888, and
Hayti was ''rcgencrated and olsen
thralled." And where is Hayti now?
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 profit
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 emanci-
patton in their colonies ''Liberatc
your slaves" we were told, ''and a
million Of froemen will rush TO the
South the first year Of the act"
Well, they have been liberated, and
it is now eighteen months since the
deed WAS done, but the "million of
frcemen" Lave not been Forthcoming.
Again: 1t was predicted by IA
nous radical oracle Of Abolition, in a
speech in New York shortly after the
war, that Sin two years America
would resume her supremacy in the
cotton market" But six months of
the two years are left for the fulfill
ment of this prophecy, and yet we
see nothing which promises to verify
the prediction.
The most liberal estimates Of the
cotton crop for the present year
which have cong to us from different
sources, do not exceed one million Of
bales, against .Lour imiNions the year
before the war! So dirt-cheap and
mean do the Abolition orators and
presses feel at being exposed in their
deceit and falsehood, that they are
trying to explain the deficiency in
various ingenious ways, ascribing 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 produced rs they pre-
dicted, and has not been cheapened
as they swore it would by the aboli-
tiQn 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 raising wool and 1iax Does
that look as if they expected cotton
to be hereafter abundant and cheap?
Does it argue well for the truth Of
the men who belong to the party OF
progress" and great moral ideas,
when we hear them advising q return
to the condition of their ancestors,
who pulled flax and spun with the
dista1f? Verify, the car of civiliza-
ton has baked in its path, and is
about to be rolled back by the model
reformcrs of the age! Surely, the
world should not again take to weav-
ing flax and wool, if "cotton is to
regain its supremacy by the aid Of
free labor.
a Southern man is said to have Of
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