Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-07-17
!: Better live Here Il IN Poverty than Die

Beggars in Strange Lands.'
A very interesting correspondent of the
New York Day Book, over the signature OF
g WARwlcK," writing from Alabama, is utter
ly oppoaedto asouthern emigration" and
exhibits, like thousand of others; most de-
voted attachment-to our oppressed old South
Iand.o He t6o.has anabiding faith in the fu-
ture regeneration and glorious prosperity
Of the South. Perhaps be is correct in his
conjectu5es::, AT any rate il is we'll that Hope
+-well-nigb all that is now left us-still re-
mains with, and at times affords US a cheerful
ray oflight of the @SBetter time coming
But-to tho comments of G.WARwIoK." This
writer says; 17'''s.'''
GA valued friend from Keachi, La, en-
quires:my .opinionon the subject Of ".south.
ern emigration Dhe soutben mind and
heart are painfully exercisedupon .thisques-
tom. Many eyos'are turned towards. British
Honduras; some to Brazil some to Ven.
ezlela, !. Mongrel oppression has driven the
best and wisest men. among US to the verge
of despair. The winged Pegasus is at the
.docr. but the head Of the Gorgon has not been
stricken of, and arhithcr Should tre fly? Not,
certainly, to the uncertain destiihies of colo
niaror. haifcstablishCd States; in which soci-
ETY. has already developed tho gravest evils
which we>fear for the South. Mongresm is
rampant from the Pacific to the south pole.
Terrible as the ordeal through whicaa We are
passing is-fearful as the future seems to be,
am net prepared to advise my friends to
eutigrate from the United States~ l. cannot,
like Reley's noble Spanish Soldier. e.makc
any country mine" I,haye nns" private coat
for Italian stnettos,: Icannot. ~,
ID be trsacherous with the, YaliQoa, drink with
. The Dutcl chimncy-swccper.w with the IRISH, +,
A gentleman with the TFclsh, and turn arrant
Thief with the E"glish:'
It is not true that "the vretclied have no
country" Bcrtram Ties. My country is eo
erytAiag to- me! Subjogated, Impoverished,
persecuted; distranchised,' plundercd, kneel
upon this bare moller-earth, wi!hno SHELTER
for NJ grey head but.the blue ght heavens
above me, and swear to c-edify. these fallen
affairs OF constitutional liberty, or perish in
their ruins. Enos, with his burning torch,
has never k;ndTed fame OF devotion in a
human heart more intense than that which
inspires the love with which'1 cling to the
rugged bos 5n Of these soaring mountain crags,
and Kiss their rocky lips IrtheSs Hills"
will I.live, anl dying, sleep with my children
and CaIbers III heroic friends in,their lovely
vaics.. 8: V aat | did, l. did in honor" and
will not Ry the consequences J. -. 81. d,
81 SAID to sorrows awful storm, go,
- That beat acains ny breast,
Regeneration mays; dcs:r5y TIL; form,
And lay it low in rest; '-
- But still the spirit tina, uaw. brooks s2.4
Thy tempest raging high,
Undauntcd on its fury looks
,f With steati fast eye" - =
/. I hage no dol6t of the ultimate glorious
dcstiny oftbe South. Ny children will live
to see her star in he. ascendant on this Con-
tineut, and leading the consultations oi
Europe, in iheir oirc|ipg glory towards the
csnira! sun Of commafcia! prosperity and
supreme civilization The sun is inan eclipse.
These shadows will soon be di.9ersed. There
.will be struggle, AID sacridcc, aat sorrow,
opening sepuchre, and rcnding veils, cruci-
tixon a.;d funeral griefa, bur ilr resurrection
and ascension! The great Democratic heart
Of this nation "is not dead but sleepeth.
lis miehty~hand will yet be uplfted-to regen-
crate and save. lu that. hour, Voc TO the
h'oody ,conspiratorS whose. treaso'S have des-
,.atcl the land! Apart -liroin all sentiment,
1T is the Interest, material social. ard moral,
.ol the southern people t' remain III ibis coun-
iry and reconstruct its fallen fortunes. We
Lad better live here in poverty t1ah die beg
CARS in strange lands. Bat We shall not cor
tinne poor The great West WI sbicid Us
agaipsi uniUst taxation, r.: d in less than ten
years, New England. will repudlete Ter own
preccdents and be howiiqg at the gates o!
the Capital, like hungry dog, ior crust Q:
bread