The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-12

they themselves created il, and all they did
toward helping the poor freedman was TO
establish the Freedman's Bureau and the
Freedman's Bank. The Senator from
Maine says that the savings banks Of
Massachusetts have millions upon mill
IONS OF the savings of the laboring classes
OF Massachusetts, put away safely. Oh,
MIR. President, so did those freedmen
when you organized that vortex to draw
into 1t the sweat, the muscle, the labor,
the toll Of those poor people never to
Sc: ); again. Of cour.c Massachusetts
has millions Of money deposited in her
savings banks. She had the Freedmans
Bank to draw on "a well ~ the savings OF
the mechanics Of Massachusetts. You
organized the Freedman's Bank sane.
toned by the great power of this govern.
mcnt, and you drew into it, under the
Prctcxt of philanthropy and guardian.
ship and protection, millions Of money
from those poor people, and you have
never paid it back to them.
The Senator says that the civilization
of the South is founded upon the barba-
rrism of slavery. We'll, Mr. President, it
Is not y matter of much practical consc.
guence at this day and generation who is
responsible for slavery in this country
v,
~ il is said, mot very creditabIc per.
haps,) and inaslnuch as the Senator has
invited US into this arena, instead Of to
The hustings, to discuss the facts of his.
tory with him, will read IA letter from
Hon. Jeremiah 5. Black to Hon James
A. Garfield in 1876 on the subject Of sla-
very. He says:
The plymouth colony and the pro-
vince OF Massachusetts Bay we're pr0sa-
very to tie backbone. you doubt this
} refer you to Moorc's History of Slavery
IN Massachusetts, where the evidence
consisting chiefly Of records aud docu-
iHcnts perfectly authenticated) is prOduc-
cd and collatcd with fulncss and fair.
ness which cannot be questioned. The
plymouth immigrants planted precisely
the doctrine which you ascri5c to the
jamestown colOnists; that is to say, they
held that the negro had no rights of
manhood that the white man might
buy, own and sell him and his offspring
forever Practically and theoretically
they maintained that human slavery in
| its most malignant form WAS II perfectly
just, proper and desirable institution,
&C."
Then he goes OH to say:
"They executed this theory
That is the Massachusetts people
| ito the fullest extent in their own wars
with the Indians. Without cause or
pr0vocatiun, and without notice or warn.
ing they fell upon the Pcquods, massa-
cred many of therl, and made slaves Of
the survivors, without distinction Of age
or sex. About seven hundred, including
many women and children, were sent to
i lie West Indies and there sold on public
account, the proceeds being put in the
colonial treasury. Eight score Of these
unfortunate 7 :ople escaped from the
butchery by flight, and niterward gave
themselves up" &c.
Then he goes OH to say that the Indians
| did not make good slaves, that they were
insubordinate, that they were restless !;
and the good, pious people of Massachu.
sctts sent them to the West Indies TO
exchange them for backamoors or Afri-
cans. Not content with ensaving the
Africans and Indians, they enslaved the
white heretics who approached their
shores and sent them off and exchanged
them for Africans
great thoughts and historic verify SO
full Of patriotic wisdom and constitu.
tional learning, that / shall ask to incor.
y.
1t should be preserved among the
archives of the Government, and com.
mend it, prayerfully do / commend, it.
to my friends on the other side, when
they rise. and charge that the Southern
civilization is based upon the "barba-
rism" of slavery.
Who arc some of the offspring OF that
civilizations" Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, Henry, Writ, Marshall,
the Randolphs, the Lees, Tnney. Pink.
ney, Macon, CASTOR, Mangum, the Ru.-
lodges, the Pinckneys, the Marions. the
Sumters, the Pickens, the Hamptons,
the Calhoun ., the Lowndes, Troup. Craw-
ford, Benton, the Jacksons, Davis, the
Clays, Lewis, the Crittendens, the Pres.
tons, the Breckinridges, Thomas, Candy,
Drnyton, Gibbon, Scott, and Taylar.
The great naval hero, Admiral Fnrragut.
whose monument this entire city turned
out to see uncovered, was one Of the "bar.
barians" who rose from that "civiliZa-
ton" He whom the Senator seeks to
preserve in enduring brass in a public
park OF this city was one of tho "barbari-
ans" from that "civilization." George H.
Thomas, for whom you have made en-
equestrian statue in one of our hand.
soonest reservations, who led the armies
of the Union as perhaps few others of
those great soldiers led them, wns an-
other of the "bar arbarians" whom the Sen.
ator now seeks to denOunce.
Mr.. President, remember when as boy
Iattcnded the deliberations ofthe Senate,
and subsequently to have heard some.
thing about the slave oligarchy." that it
was arrogant, aggressive, strong. Perhaps
it was; will not argue that; but one
thing | can say for it and its illustrious
associates of the North: In the history
Of this Government they never plundered
the public Treasury. they never organized
"Credit Mobiliers," they never made
possible "Black Friday" they never had
five circuit judges of the United States
Court to resign their seats under the
threat OF impeachment for corruption
and fraud, they neger had their represen.
tstives kicked out OF Congress for "selling
cadetships," they never traced corrupt
contracts to the very door of the White
House, they never had race conflicts, they
never had rotten borough governments
to rob the people, sustaining them with
bayonets; they did not drive American
commerce from the high seas to put pub.
lie p!nnder in their pockets; their great
statesmen never had their debts paid
by corporations and manufacturing com.
panies. They may have been aggressive,
they may have been strong, they may
have been arrogant, but none of these
sins that have enumerated, and many
SToTo TINT . might enunicTato from Re.
publican history, can be laid Mt their