Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-04-03

:. "."Ur-mIau"iip VG tnr Ivu
trarg it rather appears as I. we w.r.'
placed III the hands OF rulers, ;iiGcr,y
deficient in all capacity lor iand ing
great questions in which ar inv6tiv
ed the material interests, no oily Of
the Southern States but of ali Tie
S."tes, North us well us SoutIl-tilase
on the Atlantic coast as well ~ those
upon the Tar of Pac.tic. F~r this
great community OF commonwe:ilth<
Is IN Itself, a world in miniature, oc-
cnpied by au active, energetic, and
industrious people, having n custom
houses upon their interstate frontiers,
but proving by exaInpe the beneti-
clal results OF commerce when gov
erned by the rules Of Providence
a living exelnpli6cation Of the dec
trnes OF Allan Smith, iu the con-
crete. .
For eight long years. Congress. in
stead q letting the conquered TT ebeIs
aI'ne' ana re'tlng upon the policy so
well set forth in the terms OF their
surrender Tolerant and Sherman; nm
der the lead OF the miserable pos.i-
Clans who have unfortunately heen
substituted in its two Halls Tor the
statesmen. who used to sit there. has
devoted all its energies t. build uu
tie Republican, party instead Of giT4.
ing that srctr'n an opportunity OF re-
covering from the waste OF the val
and thus adding to tll., wealth and
prosperit, OF all the States, and OF
all the people of every State. No
effort has been made to know any.
thing of the South. Her white men
have been rudely thrust aside almo4
entirely from any participation in
the councils Of Congress, and tie
places whic.' should have welcomed
them have be, u occupied by northern
vagabopds who had gone South sim
ply to gather up the spolls OF our ;,r-
mics; along with these have come
negroes, fresh from the barber shop
or the plantation, who like their white
colleagues, only know how to draw
their pay anu vote with the majority
1t has not been the effort Of the
government to permit the develop
ment of the immense wealth which
lies dormant ip every Southern field.
Even under all their difficulties and
disuouragements, it is the great a:ri-
cultural wealth of that section which
has saved us from utter commercial
ruin. Cotton is now as it has been
for half Il century, our great export,
and is the basis Of all on: trade with
foreign nations, and affords employ
nept to tens OF thousandsof hands in
he Northern States. In the year
sading on the lst day of September
1872, there were nearly two millieni
of bales Of cotton exported from this
comparison with this IN
oolnt OF commercial value, the pro-
luct of the precious metals sinks
nto insigni6cancc
An eastern paper, dilating upon
his subject, calls attention TO France
md her wonderful recovery frsm the
'esults Of her invasion by IL fr-ign
lrmy. The same resul would have
,een Show here, had our devastated
'tates-hko Frapce's devastatel pro-
7incea-5eep left unmole<ted Ly the (
government, and been sufferedto work q
lnhindered in the task Of building 9
Up their -trodden prosperity. It
eally looks like the very madness of
vlndictive >pirit-this continuous
'fort to keep the Southern States be-
ieath The constantly falling hammer
# Congressional unfriendly les;sla- !
ion. The very worst men it pbssess.,,