The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-07-10
For the Marietta Journal
SOUTHERN VIEW OF ABOLITION
RADICALISM

tstion, insult, persecution aud whole
sale robbery as the Southern people.
And all these sufferings are the re-
suit Of envy under the oame OF re-
ligion and philanthropy. Forbear-
ance and long suffering have long ago
ceased to have any influence upon
the abolition radical. heart. The
time has come when facts and his
tory must vindicate and shield the
Southern people. The North urged
op by England from generation to
generation became the bitter enc
mics of the Southern people on &C
count Of slavery. But who is re-
sponsible for African slavery in
England and America9 10 the
year 1906 the English govern
| ment had engaged 1870 ships ex-
clusiveIy 10 the African slave trade.
a very large proportion OF the
wealth CT England 10 the product OF
the African slave trade. Nine tenths
of all the shipping engaged in that
trade was from Northern ports
Less than eighty years ago every
Northern State voted in Congress to
continue the African slave trade ex-
cept one, and every Southern State
voted against it. Less than seventy
years ago the bishops. doctors,
elders and deacons preached from
the bible that African slavery, the
slave trade and slavery were in &C
cordance with the bible, a humane
and benevolent institution. Were
they right then Let history and
experience speak for themselves.
What have all the missionaries
that have labored and suffered in
Africa done to civilize and christian
ize Africa? What has slavery and
christianity done for the negro ia a
few short generations ? The aboli
ton radicals themselves being judges
they declare the negro nov capable
of seIf,government, capable of legis
Iatiou, of occupying the balls of the
Senate and House of Representatives
along side with Clay, Webster, Cal
houn, Stephens and Conkling. The
negro has been elevated by slavery
and Southern religion and Southern
civilization to com partnership with
such cultivated prela.es as Bishop
Haven to eat and sleep with, and
for wives and husbands for Boston
society.
Were the expounders of God {
word wrong eighty years ago Let
the above facts speak for them
selves But who is responsible tot
African slaeery Ii the South were
to count all the negroes with their
increase they ever brough, from AT
RIGA to America, | doubt # they
would number fifty thousand.
am now sixty years of age and
| never knew one Southern man who
had engaged in the African slave
trade. England and the northern
part of the United States are respon
sible for the propagation of slavery
principles and the slave trade. 1t is
due to the Democratic religionist OF
the north to say that they have al
ways been true to the government
and ins. toward the south both before
and since the war, and our hope in
God is that they may save this coun~
try. believe under God they will.
What has bsen the practical effect
of the teachings of abolition radical
ism upon the convictions and actions
of those who have embraced its prin
cipIes 4? From a Southern stand
point, for many long years these ab,
clifton radicals, engaged in seducing
and stealing negroes from the own
era, their fathers sold them to. 1t
they we're honest they had the mon
ey and the interest for which their
fathers sold them, why did they not
purchase the negroes, and like phil
anthropist and christians set the me-
groes free. They we're phlianthrop
ic and pious in setting the poor slave
free. bat kept the money their on
cestors sold him for. This is fair
sample of the politics, civilization,
morality aud religion of all abolition
radicals, as further shown by all
their acts political and religious be,
fore the war and during the war and
since the war. What is the history
of the morals of the abolition radical
armies in the South ? Where is the
house they did not rob Where is
the woman they did not search and
rob her of thimble, watch, jeweIry,
spoons, etc : They hung up by the
neck the aged and inhrm to make
them toll where their scanty supplies
and treasures were hld from the
boards of thieves and robbers -
What manifestations of phianthro-
py, civilization and religion Many
poor helpless widows and children
robbed, insalted, and homes burned
down, left penniess, frieudless and
homeless And if there is a single
aboIitionist radical, bishop or doctor,
who has not put the broad seal of
his appreciation upon all the foul
deeds perpetrated by the soldiery, |
have not been able to see or hear of
him.
The Northern abolition radicals
educated a race of sbolitionists in
mart out of the very money their