Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-07-08
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Slaves used 10, be worth. This induced the
Northern people, 10 sellther Africans oths South,
and to import cheaper white labor from abroad.
E also caused the South to.rcducest the breeding
Of Africans to q science. This greatly increased
value Of the Slave likewise soontsught his master
not only to treat him tenderly, but to guard him
jealously, as he had legs. Tho poor native whites
here, as we'll as poor white mon from tho North,
and from Europe, either wanted land in the South,
or employment at good wages in our delightful
climate, but could get neither on account Of the
competition of negro labor, and the monopoly Of
land by the slave owners. It was not long there;
fore before these poor whites began to want
sambo ont Of the way, and often instructed as
we'll as persuaded him to use his legs. As white
population continued to multiply, these same poor
white men, to get land, or employment Themselves,
made open war with constantly increasing Bit
terness on the very Institution Of Slavery. This
caused the slave owners not only to .repel poor
white laborers from abroad, but TO expsl poor
white men from the South, or to drive them in
colonies as it wereto the thin lands of the South.
The ndtiviies Of population in the United States,
as disclosed by the last Federal Census, bear wit
ness to this fact. Before the war South Carroll.
'nians were accustomed to think that the 6tatewas
being ovorrun by Yankees, and that our native
whites were too well pleased with slavery, and
too strongly opposed to the aboliionists to settle
among them, yet in 1860, there were
Natives of South Carolina in Free States and
/. 50 Territories, tiG 49, l0656.
Natives Of Free States and Territories in South
Carolina, 1897.
Even in the wild Territorie, Of the NORTH. .wSst
beyond Kansas, our State had 215 native repre-
ssntatives in 1850, of whom 81 were revelling in
the beastly rites Of Utah. ~ .-aI.a 80
What aggravated still more the jealousy of the
slave ownerr and the hostility to slavery Of the
poor white man in the South, at the North and in
Europe, was the second fatal policy Of tae South
ern people, not to develope any indistty but agri
culture, and to avoid manufacturing, mining and
commercial pursuits, because they would beget
towns, and introduce poor whites, who IL was
thought would dcmoralise the slaves, and under
mine the institution of slavery itssH.a The motto
Of our local. statesmen was, "No Home Industry
but Agriculture With Free Trade in the work
shops, and markets of the world" They forgot
that tho white poor here and elswhere had to live
someAop.
With the cessation Of the Free Slave Trade, the
only policy by which slavery could have long
been maintained, would have besnil the South
diveraifying her industry, to give employment to
al poor native whites, and to such asmight choose
to come hithcr from the North, or from abroad.
Iustead of this all our surplus capital invested
in more negroes from the border Slave States, to
exhaust moro land to make paore staples, to buy
more negroes, to e1pel moro poor native whites,
and to repel moro foreign whites. This was the
short circls, or rather tread, IN which the South
moved 10 work out her own destruction. While
the surplus capital of the South thus went to build
up Factories, Ships, Rail Roads, Banks Palaces
and Cities at tho North, as we'll .s to invite enc
mics to Slavery in poor white laborers from Eu-
rope, the self numbering South kept nothing to
show but gals and suilie.,as most Of her fixed
capital was nailed up in cofir once every thirty
three years, and buried in the old fields. 1t is
obvious that the Wings were right in seeking to
diversity Southern industry, siace, if Manufac'
turing, Mining, Ship Building, and the like, had
been developed here, in oil probability slavery
would not have been abolished in the United
States for several generations to come, and the
Southern people would not no,o be SO poor even
with slavery abolished. As our ancestors were
blind in closing the Free Slave Trade. go their
children have been equally blind In developing
no industry but agriculture. xs:8
Tho great void in the labor market of the
United States, created by closing the Free slave
Trade, and by sending all the surplus capital q
the South, Northward to develope new industries
for white labor there, caused millions upon mil.
lions of Europeans to pour into the Northern
United States, until the stream Of wbite popula.
ton. having crossed the Continent, turned South.
ward, when it was checked forta time by the Dor.
der Slave States. This temporary check only
served to increase the jealousy of the slave owners
and to intensity The hostility of tao swelling mas
ses at the North, until finally it eliminated .n a
war, which tas ended in the abolition Of slavery,
(which was inevitable sooner or later) not for the
good of tho negro, but for his destruction, to
make room for the white man., and the Northern
masses do not intend TO be cheated out Of the
fresh elbow room which they have acquired in
this friendly climate and prolific soil. The ssnti-
mental fools, and the designing knaves who want
office, may prate as much US they please aboutthe
uisger being "man and dsbrother,. about the
linalienabe righta of humanity-abont all men
being born FREQ and eqhal, and about negro, suf-
frage, but the masses-the sensible aboltionista,-
have no idea of admitting the negr, into the Tanks
of the governing class. AL. colored mon belong
only to the governed class in white society, and
it is the settled policy of that society To so govern
them that they may be happier out of the world
than in it. y b. <z'd
All practical future aggitation about the nigge.
in American politics, will be how best to get'rd
Of him, not how best to make ga man and broth
or" out of him. AS long as Quashee was property,
worth. monopoly price by the Free Slave Trade
being closed, his master was under bond not only
to treat him well, but make others do it. That
shield having been broken, every white American
now, except the ssn,imentalists at the North, and
many of their old masters at the South will prove
an Ishmaelite to the cOlored gentleman.
The right of qualified or absolute sufrage has
been given to handful of negroes in few States
at the,North, but it was not done from sentiment,
or principle, butoply from policy, as part Of the
electioneering machinery to abolish slavery at the
South. The negroes were put into the army for
the same purpose, and not to fight as it is we'll
established that sambo con stand neither steel nor
lead. It was pretended to make soldier Of him
only to undermine and dcbauch the institution Of