Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1869-11-03
The SoaaieSs. EGlnpIess

The Soa2ieSs, GGlupiess s-s'
Parker Piilsbur is peraten s5e has
been down South and Tor IL 'psi ane
in his life he las seen the ysgI II hlS
native lair. And he does 5lo5 Inn
During the eariier portic{s Of tins an-
cient abolition career, 5lthopgh often
earnestly ure % visiRthe Southern
States, and a4Gecaonatelg assured that
upon arriving there he would De .nr-
nished with a free ride land allayed IN
an elegant fttiag SUIT toS clothing COM
aosaa ins4,.,aa .Aa orodeet 4
North Carolina
domestic tow!s .sees ny aee4nei
10 .ava5l hiinss9 invitations,
and rename where ne
/ evolved 800 Of his own
inner consE aesfo, set
linn NJ or d s9o2tam OF
the Amt,- .9lqrs,,s aNd %or-
shipped him Bt' q Last
betaken himself tos th, Ae has
seen his idol as he - and IN some
letters to the Reco1aS gives ex-
preston to his disgust y hazement.
He found nothing as he eted to see
it. Even the liquor at hs6outh is bad
at least, the festive bowl which Mr.
Parker Pillsbpfy's colored friends in
Char1eston.commendcd toNhis feverish
lips was filled with hell-broth. The
whiskey here is diabolical,' exclaims
poor p P, and yet they (the colored
people, appear to love 1T more than
anything else, women as we'll as men.
We certainly would never have thought
Of selecting Mr.. Parker Pillsbury as
faster; but he speaks so authoritatively
concerning the quality of the negro
whiskey in South Carolina that we no
longer doubt his capability. If the
whislSey there is worse than the IVo,ld
Commissioner found it to be in New
York, we pity poor P. P, and pray for
his speedy return ere he finds snakes
in his boots. AS for the negroes, they
must be abandoned to their fate. They
drink it red hot from the barrel, clean
and pure he continues, still harping
on the whiskey, and l have seen
mothers pour it thus down the throats.
of their six months old babes.
But this was not the greatest shock
experienced by Mr.. Parker pillsbury.
Not only did he find the negro idol
whom he had. worshipped a drunken
sot, but he saw that even that wonder
ful panacea for all human ills, the bal
lot, was uselecs, and worse than useless,
to him. If he had his way just now,
while suffering from the diaboical whis-
key Of the negro-quartcrs in Charleston,
he would reconstruct the reconstructed
South once more, a ID shut out the man
He surely must have low estimate
Of the solemn responsibilities of gov
ernment,' lie exclaims, "who would
force the ballot Oh thousands to be seen
all over the South. And forced it was
on many men, wherever the slaves have
voted. # s. * They knew no more
and cared no more for what they did
in voting than if they were as infantile
in years as they are in political eXpe
rience." As for the social condition Of
these wards of the nation" these ma
tional freedmen for whose sake Mr..
Charles Sumner demands that the coun-
try shall be kept in turmoila few years
longer nothing can be more fearful than
the picture drawn by this astounded
abolitionist. Marriage does not exist
among them; very few children are
born; = "infanticide is common )" in
their wretched homes no family meal
seems ever to be provided, each mem
Der of the family doing his own cook
ing and eating what he can get; knives
and forks are unknown among them; /;
huts have no floors, no windows, no de-
cent table, chair or bed II saw in
fa1.ts and very young children naked
from morning till night, says the peni-
tent Pillsbury, "and boys Of at least a
dozen years with only a single garment,
and that but scanty apology Mtny
women, young and old, had little on
above the waist, and nothing below the
knees and then Mr.. Parker Pillsbury
goes into details where we cannot fol-
low him, lest we should turn the stom-
ach of New York this morning at its
breakfast.table. Is this scene from
life in Dahomey or among the Digger
Indians that Mr. Pillsbury is describing
or are these the men, and the wives and
children of the men, for whom the land
has been soaked with blood and the ma
ton impoverished The ballot may
be the one thing needlul there" adds
Mr.. Pillsbury, :" but, it seems to me,
soap, fne-tooth combs, pots, kettles,
chairs, tables, knives, forks, spoons,
decent food, cooking, and clothing, glass
windows, and looking glasses should at
least 90 side by side, if they may not
precede the rights of suffrage and OF
sovereignty" Oh, Parker! Oh, Pills
bury! Why were not you and all the
other fanatical fools in the country
warned in time, and why were you and
they deaf to the voice Of common sense
and prudence, until the mischief you
now deplore was done beyond remedy
N. Y. World
A BABY STABBED TO THE HEART