The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-06-05
VOL. 9.

| been here now, -Dut In Africa Dut tho
Northern men engaged in the trade, found
it to be so profitable, and SO entirely free
from any conscientious scruples were they
that they insisted that their pious opera
tions should continue twenty years longer,
and the South yielded. These slave ira
ders invested their money in lands, houses
and other property at the North, which
made many of their grandchildren or
great-grandchildren rich, and some OF
whom are now leading Republicans.
The Shareholders of the Northern States
did the same thing in most instances by
sending their slaves to Virginia and other
Southern States and selling them, when
their slave labor became less profitable in
a cold climate than white labor, and have
since amused themselves by abusing the
Southern people as slave drivers-and the
Senator, the descendant Of these men, is
here tonight reminding you of the wrongs
you have received at the hands OF your
former owners, and advising you TO avoid
political alliances with your friends and
nneighbors, and 10 seek an alliance with
people in distant States, the Republicans
of the North. / repeat that the conscien-
cious scruples of the North were not seen
cropping out until they had your race in
their pockets, where they have taken
good care to keep you ever since.
There are many good people at the
| North who are your friends, and who
have never engaged in the slave trade,
owned slaves, or approved of slavery. The
same can be said of the South, and if let
alone by the North that class would have
been much larger in the South. More
slaves have been freed by the act of their
owners in the South than at the North.
George Washington owned about one
thousand, which he freed at his death.
Mr. Randolph did the same. General
Oglethorpe opposed slavery in Georgia.
There,is man on this stage who knows
that I had an angry controversy many
years ago in this city for endorsing Henry
Clay's emancipation scheme for Kentucky.
BE was my political leader, / never knew
him to do wrong, but l fear we will never
look upon his like again.
The gentleman from Massachusetts says
T. you ought to identify yourselves with tic
Radical party of the North, because they
have waded through u bloody war of four
years to set you free, to give you the
right to sit upon juries, to ride on rail
roads, testify as witnesses in courts, and
much else. l deny every assertion he has
made on these points. and challenge him
to the proof. He who says that this war
was commenced by the North to set you
free and confer on you the rights which
you now enjoy, faIsi6cs the history Of the
country not otintentionally: [ hope. The
.Government Of the United States, during
the war, again and again declared most
solemny that this war was not commcnc-
ed or being ~agcd for conquest, or with
IA view of interfering with our property in
slaves in the States. Mr.. Lincoln urged
us to return to the Union, pledging the
Government to receive us most cordially,
and give slavery its protection in the
States. We were threatened with eman-
cipation if we did not come back.
In one hand the Government offered us
"Union and Slavery" and in the other
was "rebellion and emancipation" Hav-
ing gone to war on principle, the South
chose the latter. No man Knows this
better than the honorable Senator Nor
will he or General Swayne, who is on the
stand, deny the assertion that | am now
going to make, that we could have gone
back in the Union and held You as our
slaves to-day You are not indebted to
The North or the South for your freedom,
but to God Instead of abusing US You
ought to remember that this rebellion
which you are taught to despise, by your
enemies and ours, who only come amongst
you for your votes, was an instrument in
the hands of God for your deliverance, so
far as mortal eye can divine the purposes
of the creator.
The Southern people do not envy you
your freedom. They would not restore
You to bondageif they could. They have
Your weil-being at heart. / did not fire a
gun for slavery. More than half the.
Southern army never owned slave:
Hardee, Cleburne, and many others signed
petition long before the war closed, for.
your freedom, and to afford you an op-
portunity to volunteer and assist your
white friends of the South in achieving
Southern independence.
President Davis recommended this
course and I, in the theatre, in this city,
endorsed his policy in the presence of
very large assembly, and stated that |
would take great pleasure in commanding
colored troops You acted we'll your part
during that unfortunate struggle, for
which YOU deserve, and have, the graft
tudA of every Southern man and woman
in ourmidst.
The gentleman says that the Mexican
war was brought on and advocated oy
Mr.. Calhoun for the purpose of increasing
the area of slavery. No man ought to
know better than the honored represen-
tative of Massachusetts that the state
ment is untrue. Mr.. Calhoun was to the
last the bitterest opponent of the war
predicting as he did the disastrous re-
suits upon the peace of the country
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