Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-06-09

rarty supremacy Is the recent start
ling natural increase Of population at
the South and the decrease OF lat
the North, except by foreign immi-
grafton, az disclosed by the last cen
sus. Hence the untounled and ma
lignant charge OF fraud against the
last census returns from the South
generally, and S u;h Carolina in par
ticular, because the women Of the
South fulfill the destiny for which
nature intended them-to multiply
and replenish the earth. a duty they
are encouraged TO- perform oy reason
of little or no divorce being granted
south OF Mason and Dixon's line. But
at the North where usually it is al
most as easy to get divorce as # Is
to get married, nearly every wife
among three. four hs Of the native
population seems tc have a horror OF
bringing many children into the world
Ito prevent which she resorts to
French practices)-lest when her
beauty has faded, her husband may
take another wife and leave the moth
er to care for the children or the
children to care for Themselves or 60
uncared for. 1t would appear hard
indeed if the South should be pun
ished for her very virtues, or rath-
er for the absence of vice and ain, by
being deprived Of her fair share OF
the pubic domain because she obeys
the laws OF God, is opposed to di-
yorce, deteats Malthus aud shuns
French methods Of sitting popnla-
ton. Yet such fate may be In store
for her, as suspect tine Republican
party, to maintain its sectional as
tendency, will ere long take the
ground that no more Of the public do
main shall be sold, and that it;Jaust
be held as free land for the landiess,
not merely to retain the native and
attract the foreign population, but
also to entice negroes from the South,
who are wanted at the North rs much
for servants and laborers as for vo-
ters. The late Kansas exodus was
only the torerunner Of many other
exoduses which are to follow, and
the Republicans believe that the en-.
actment Of law giving homes to
the homeless would raise both black
and white crusading host sufficient
to cverrun the North-west with Sec
tinnal partisans. Besides, the Repub-
i:can party needs Il new battle ery
to carry elections, and it can find
none so popular as homes for the
homeless" because, as l before said
the Democrats OF the new States and
Territories, as we'll as every agrarian
in the country, will combine with the
sectional Republicans OF the old States
to bestow the public lands as a gilt
either TO the new States or to thes set
tiers therein. Wherefore. instead Of
longer deluding ourselves with the
idea that the public domain will be
appropriated to help educate the freed
men of the South, let US be prepared
to see it disposed OF to promote Sec
tional Republican party success at
the North.
Nor is there any better prospect oil
securing III appropriation OF money
directly out OF the national treasury
TO aid III eulighteniug the negro. The
member OF Congress who woald serl.
ously advocate such thing would
either be laughed at AS lnnatic or
hissed out OF the Capitol as rebel
war claimant. Northern Democrats
would unite with Northern Republi-
cans in regarding such Is proposition
as war claim, and as Northern Dem-
ocrats are more unanimously and in-
tensely bitter than Republicans against
anything akin to a var claim, it la the
supreme OF folly to expect help from
Washington 10 educate our sstaly
emuncipated slaves Neither Moth
ern Republicans nor war Democrats,
who constitute majority of the Dem.
ocratic party at the North, eympathize
in the least with the South st the
presence OF one million oi ignorant
negro voters III her midst. IN tha
contrary, ths9 really gloat over it in
their hearts AZ deserved political
punishment for secession.
So far from it being true that the
whites OF Soulh Carolina are hoafle
to educating the blacks, WHEN IT is
remembered we have no permanent
accumulated school fund like most OF
the Northern States, and wheli il is
further remembered that the bulk OF
our annual school tax Is paid by the
whites, Wills it is mostl;, consumed
by the blacks, it can truthtu!ly be a.
hrmed that perhaps no whlre lan1
owners in America pay 20 large tax
for the education oil their own CHI
dren AS those of South Carolina.
Again, it is a remarkable fact tha
although the colored people Of tbs
State number over 100000 souls AID
whites less than 100000, yet he
whites carry the entire State deb; aid
,]eirav all the expenses of the State
Government and help educate tile
negroes besides. The negroes draw
more money out Of. the treasury br
their schools than the total amou,t
of all the taxes they pay. ! am 4
fast friend to the negro, but l cann't
gee the wisdom or ustice OF forcing
the white property-owners to do any
thitg more Tor educating him THAI
TO give him for that purpose all tn
taxes he pays the Srate for ever
purpose. At the present | jear ow
people ara too poor to endure All
very great increase OF school tax, e.
ther 10 better the white schools or c
imp. owe the colored ones. / may b
mistaken, but would be delighted .
become convinced that | am ms
taken
Undoubtedly the greatest obstaclr g
to Improvement in our e hoo! system
are poverty and sparse population
Immigration rightly encouraged, to
gether with rigid economy and diver
sliied industry, especially lnsnnisc