Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-02-27
Will the southerr People Leave the
Country!


10 Territories, is doubtless to put them out of
the next Presidential election; and thus, Sc
cure their continued ascendcncy, By their ma.
another object lying behind this which the
Abolitionists proper and greedy land specu!a-
tors, seek to accomplished drive out CT dc
stroy the influence and control of the white
population in the South, by substitutin.
Northern emgrants and capitalists in their
s:ead.
The complaint now made is (although with
no foundation in fact, yet believed in cxten-
sively at the North) that Northern men could
not safely -et:le in the South, under the exist
ing State Governments. OF course, emigru-
tion will never take place, to countries in
which property and life are rot safe. By
abplishng the governments of the States, aud
substituting the despo'Sm Of military author
ity Throughout; the S,uthern States it Is
th0nght, that with Northern dominion by
Northern bayoaets, the y ,rtl,crn cmicrai.t
will be the master Of the country, ard Can
easily c,n,rol and appropriate it.
Tne-e is fact in history which these peo-
PIE do not seem to kaow or consitlcr-thn; a
people conquered by another people seldom
leave their country. The S,xols cvnuntr.d
the Britons-the Normans the Sa1ons and Il
portion of France; but the conquer ed race in
neither country LEI: the ccantry. In sll the
inroads and conQues.s in Europe BY northern
s-Huns-TurkS-Ya people
conquered did not abandon their country.
Ttey absorbed their coayucrors. The single
exception is that Of The Moors in Spain; but
thcu they were driven out by religious per
sccutiou, which left tLom no choice but emf
grafton or death. The impulse to remain in
the country where we have been born a;d
reared, God has implanted in the breast Of
every man, as his great instrument for popu-
lating the world. But for this impulse the
whole human race would abandon the colder
and more sterile regions Of the earth, and
rush into the richeHand milder resions Of the
temperate zone.
Now, with this powerful impulse acting on
tue white population Of the Southern States,
there must be some more powerful motive &c
counteract it, and to induce their abandor-
ment of their country. Their population is
interested chiefly in agricultural pursuits
that pursuit Of ali others, which makes msn
least migratory. They may be divided into
c!asses-the formerly slave holding, aud non
av"holding classes. The slaveholding class,
BY the census OF 1860, did not amount to four
hundred thousand. Will these leave the
Southern country? Very few Lave done SO
since the emancipation of their slaves-1st,
because they were ruined by emancipation;
and have Lad not n sufficiency to supporl
them in for-ign land from the wreck
OF their property-and 2l because Whist
h., SC j. L.. Ion frhoc.
constitute their sole means of support. They
will not emigrate. VIII the formerly non
slayeholding population leave their homes and
the South? Why should they leave them (?
The placing Of the Southern States, under
military rule, or the rule of negroes under
Northern emigrants, must have one of two
eftects-ether order, or disorder will be pro-
duced. Iforderis produced the South
ecn population will have no motive to abandon
the country. If disorder is produced-then
the Northern emigrant will not come into the
country {; aud, of course, will not appropriate
it. In either alternative, Northern predomi-
nance will not prevail and the native popu-
lation of the South, will rule the South. That
a great deal of mischief, may be produced by
the efforts or the part of the Radicals of the
Northern SLateS, 10 uepFesS auu rum lhe
Southern States, in order that they may be
appropriated by the people Of the Northern
States,-we have not 8 doubt; Bat we have
- Kttl e doubt t4at all these efforts will fail.
Fhair only success will be, if persisted in, the
certain and Inevitable separation, OF the South
ern from the Northern States, at some future
day. In the meantime, nothing will be
gained, beyond the Inflammation and grati6,
Cation of our worse passions. Nothing will
be settled, which shall be settled by force or
fraud. Every blow the Northern States shall
inaict on the South, will recoi on themselves.
Their material prosperity will be impaired i
their standard of lRossls will be lowered, BY
their habituAl practice of oppression AND
wrong towards others;-and the spirit Of lib
ersy, which is nothing but the spirit Of justice
and integrity, which maintains rights above
the lists of gain OF power, will be debased ;
and the very despotism, they shall erect over
VS., will finally ride over them, through the
old beaten highways of anarchy and blood
Charleston Mercury.