Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-07-08

to land, es to political poxes, and eysa the
right to live. He would not say this because tho
sentimental white humanitarians would have been
shocked, and because he wished to rse the South
ern negroes as instruments to accomplish their
own dostruction-and they have been thus used.
All the wise negroes who desire real political and
social equality in tho State, ought promptly to
take advantage of the liberality Of che private
sentimentalists and Congressional knaves to get .
passage to Liberia. By waiting too long the asdor
and money Of these fellows will grow small ar by
degrees and uglier less. Even in Africa, sambo
will not likely be allowed to remain in peace for
any great while, on account of the startling in
crease of the ubiquitous white man, and from
climatic cause, which viii be explained after first
stating how aelinatic .canss came p shsye: much
to do with abolishing slavery in The South, and
Why the same cause will prevent negro suffrage
from being established here.
Ths,destrpction of negro slavery in vths Omitted
States, under lths most favorable eireamsaneeL
was only question of time. Tho ATst normal
movement Of. a dense population in the tsmpsrass
regions is toward similar climate either in an
Eastern or Western sdirectioh, ,ofzto high table
lands southHard, a. climate sdepends rs mnch on
elevation as on latitude. Aftsr all accessible
temperate eclimstes bayebscn occupied, the second
normal movement of dense population is toward
its ndtarat arase-the picsLwhsre hunah life
j.. short and unproliac- -Shers but tttls food,
fasl, shelter, or clothing Is necessary-shsrp, ms
vegetation isa1 perennial Jungle and as sysry
other Tree has something GOOD toest, man need
have no care for subsistence. But may indulge Ills
passions 1uithonts tstinssAyh.se sprd neither has
the native power, nor feels the necessity to exert
itself, where premature decay idisnss., vice, war
and pestilence reign so supreme that gray haired
mnu. .dIhostfesseemsd d wizard AN intelligent
/ mon therefore approach tho TROPICS wFhgrsatre-
luctance, in search of 4 permanent heme, -"
Before the war, it Was generally aIgy at the
Norshtha. mostof theslass stases,a.nd espen;.l-
ly the Cotton statss; tho natural aboas-of1n-
ortia, disease and death to sboriis white man.
1t was the former prevalence Of this islisf, North
Sf Mason ;DiIons lns, '|thst so1asrh.Ss SssSsn-
ciled the Northern. masses 70 snliep to1eration
of slavery in the States, where Il was established
but experience has denonstrated'thss siiing cli-
mate, health soil, and variety Of productions into
co6sfderatiSn, perhaps the best spot on tkssNorth
American cOntinsns in which for . whiteIn to
make his horne and better his condition by his
own lssor, is ID these Cotton States parihg.ths
war the million Of; men in the Federal Army had
ample opportunity TO ascertain all these facts.
Contrary to all expectations even Of Sorthernesa.
both the Federal and Coufedsrats armieJ eampsd
and slept on the naked grouud often, In fact nsu-
ally with no canopy bueheaven, and with perfect
inpunity, in all sorts Of weather, both BY day and
by night, at all seasons Of the year, oven in the
rice folds Of Carolina, In the sugar sswaups of
Lousiana The moment this ssaiubrity of tho
Southern climate became known 10 tie hrfdy
Teutons Of the Federal Army (for the bulk Of
that army were either Germans, or 1nsh, not Yam
KEGS, that moment the fate cf slavery and Of the
slave was sealed: Those soldiers determined no
longer to permit. tbs negro, witt an indefinite
prospective increase of his race in state of sla-
very, to cumber tho ground in such country, to
tho e:Icinsion sftEe' whites imsn and shssere-
turned soldiers are the votors who have been giving
sIch, heavy Bad. lsts,
annashey are.ths; men Sshs Win command their
former Commander in tho next Presidential elsc-
,ion. Forperhapssw TWO years after thscommencs-
ment of the war, most OF the Federal soldiers
weie stropgiyopposed to the abolition of slavery,
but FOR months before tie end Of tie VIII, and
mostly from the csuse just indicated, that army
we're almost unanimously in favor-of destroying
the Institution. Therefore, at the close of hosti
tiles, President johnson knew thstit'was idle for
him to try to redeem the pledges he had given as
"a Senator in regard TO slavery, and he harbsen
most foolshly, as we'll as unjustly abused Tor net
essnying to mako good those pledges. Since the
South formally abolished slavery, the President
has stood by herewith sn honesty, ability, courage
and fortitude that entie him to gratitude, not
to our denunci.tions. The only thing for which
no patriot either North, South. East or West, can.
will, or ought ever to forget or forgive in tho
President, was the introduction into American
politics. ID time of peace, both theIfact andns,ne
of tha. ominous Mexican institution, Z" Provision
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do it By his evil gsnius-TSeward.
,Lat,erly quite as great change has como oyer
the opinion Of Europeans, In regard to tho eli-
mate of middle Africa, as has taken place in the
minds, of the Northern people in reference to the
climate Of the South. Formerly Equatoriai' AZ
rica was believed to have tho worst climate In the
world, and to be the most fatal to the white man.
This is now considered true only CT o strip along
the Western Coast, ms nearly all the great unex-
plored regions Of Central and Eastern Africa
have recently been discovered to be high table
lands of fertile soil, with an equable and r,sther
good climate quite as desirable es several Oe the
climates In which some families Of the yhito racs
are now doing well. Livingston, and nulihsr
Of late Missionary travellers, have establlihed
these facts. Since the Commencement OF the
Modern Crusade, every thing concerning tho col
ored man is done for the sake Of religion. mo,ali
4 ty, humanity. England has hksn the land in
this sacred work Of sending religious MissioaArss
in every direction. at the expense iof tho public
treasury, to report on soils and olimatsss and to
suggest how bsstto send the heather 70 Hssyea.
! or somewhere, so the whito man can get Din land.
Cortez and Pizaro conquered both Mexico and
and Peru for the good Of Religion. One God and
morality saints Of, Neg England have also sent
the Indian to his long home, and thsn bsoueht
the negro here. through pioas motives. sie'was
likewise devotion to humanity which maae them
lately love tho Southern slave so dearly. Napier
| too has just knocked King Theodore on-the head