, 1881-11-27

| out division of party, for his manly respect
| for the public wants and necessities.
| Tho Rev. Ifo:s~ and tho Rev. Nclae-
ls1tnf3.
| We have not the pleasure and honor Of the
| acquatntnnceo Of the lsev. William E. Bog2s. But
| having read, ponlered and inwurdy dgcsted
ILLS remarkable PAPER in the htcrHatto'1a: herteu
| III reply to 81 Mr.. Atkinson On tho Solid South,
| We fully realixc* that there is one rnan in the
| world WHO does nor know that slavery has been
| abolished in the United States, and that that
| man Is the Rev. Dosgs. The Rev. Hogg5'
paper is beautiful paper on the beauties OF
| human bordugc. lie speaks Of tho slavery re-
gime as ~ tho golden period OF American bis
tory, and hoasts OF Clay. aud Marshall, and Fat
| rick Henry, and tho other great men OF the
South rs products of tho peculiar institution.
lie declares that under the slavery regime pow
erty WAS an honor, aud quotes from Alr, Justice
| HASKELL, OF the Supreme Court OF South Caro-
| iiun to prove tlut the Southern college student
'"wto pnid his bourdtuG bills and tuition By ring
| ing tho bell always selected for
! his known WORTH II President Lin
! coin had been made acquainted with
| this fact he would probably have hesitated
| long before Issuing his Emancipation Proelanla-
| ton. Why, alas! why did not tho Rev Bosss
| inform Dir. Lincoln that the Northern college
| student WHO paid his boarding bill und tuition
by ringing tho bell WAS always selected, not for
his known WORTH as ut the South, but merely
| because it was presumed that he would attend
we'll to the duty OF ringing the bell?
+. But tho chief beauty OF the Rev. BogFs' de-
Tense Of slavery consists In the facl that he de-
| fcuds 1t out of the mouths OF New England
| statesmen at,d dyines- LIE says nothing about
/ Mr.. Wcbster's reply to HaJne, but quotes lib
orally from his famous 7th Of March Speech re-
C{Tgyf
! generally considered the masterpiece Of Mir.
| Nebster's lifc." II the institution OF slavery
| had been preserved IN consequence or
Dir. Websters speech on the fth OF
March, 1852 1t might we'll have been
considered his s. masterpiece" But that speech
| having ruined MIR. Wehster's political prospects
| FOREVER, and the institution of savcry having
! subsequently perisncd, 1t seems to be stretching
| tho point to assume its masterpleccship. Dut
! assuming thar the ncv. Boggs does not know
| that slavery has been abolished, bis theory
! that Mr.. Webstcr's fame rests upon bis 5th OF
| March speech becomes rational. Indeed. 1t is
| pluin from tho entire pupcr TINT tho Noy Boegs
thinks the institution Of slavery in the South is
still on trul and that 1t is his duty to show that
on tho whole it ia better for mankind than Tree
| lo,n He admits that On tho subject Of 1nvcn-
tions tho North is In advance OF the South.
but gets in a good counter to tho claim
| of merit on that head by the assertion that
| .stho South gave to tho North the chief inventor
| Of agricultural 1nnchiuery-Mr. Cyrus H. Nc
Cormici1 OF Chicago" +Of course everybody
! but the Itev. Doggs knows that Mr. Mccormick
/ didn't invent his reaper, but of what c0nse-
| euence il that? He owns it, and he was born in
Virginia, where, it seems he didn't c0rc- 70 live
with the Institution Of slavery.
+ The Rey. Borss proves that ostractsm was
oet;o lar trnE
witness-stand :" blessed old man" of the name
| of Wuruer-Judye Hiram Warner, "a noble son
of Massachusetts, who for about half centu-
I rv wore the judicial erInine lin Gcorga) without
T spot or smlrch" sFixinG his luminous eyes !"
| on tho Rev. Boggs, the "blessed old man" re-
| futcd tho charge that linen Of influence at the
| South were unfrieudy to poor young men OF
| merit ~ ,Tns poor young nun of merit from
| New England" exclaimed the blessed Old man us
| he beumcL with bis luminous eyes upon the Rev.
DoSss IL came to Georgia with ouly 45 cents
| in 1uy pocket udded the blessed old man with
luminous eyes, and the men Of Georgia - took
inc by the hand and seut the to the Legislature
--.le youngest man In ttut body they made
| me Judge Of the Superior Court" the youngest
| mar, on tho bcnc," :" And WIS not the mau to
suppress HI honest conviction because it did not
tiud favor with others, 0srracism indeet!" con-
cudcd the blessed old man. - attn Il luminous
ton during the golden period of the slavery
regime" /
Tho Rev. Boggs introduces Sir. Iunt, OF Boston,
to prove that slavery elevated tho African race,
who citcs Mrs. Stoves Uncle Tom ~ Il civil
ICED tnnn and noble Christian, US breathing
evidence that slavery in tho South has dune wun-
ders for the negro." 1--WE have made Christians
OF tho savcs-haf Il million ut least" cxclntms
the Roy. Boggs. = and thus more heatncns havo
f11ea
! missionary efforts of the Protestant world else
| where" He might have added: "And VIC hive
bleached their skins as we'll as their souls' but
this he Indignantly denies Mr.. Lunt is man
| after tho Kov. Hoggs' own henrt. lie quotes him
| us saying: Thoy [she negroes1 nre 1, happy,
| carclcss. unrellcctsng, good-untured race. "1o'
| left to themselves, would degenerate into drones
or brutes," -. compared With tho nguc-
| snitten and suffering settlers, that you ana
have seen in Ohio, or the sickly ano starVeu
operatives we rcnd Of in factories and mines,
those Southern slayes are indeed TO 20 cn'lea-
..In Short" concludes Mr.. Luut, :" these nlg~
rcrs are tho happicst people have ever seen-
| The Rev. Boggs, however. reserves MS
sberes1 " E,1n for last shot ut the enemy-Dr.
! Nehemiah Adams, OF Boston, Dr. Adams was
| "a devotional writer and scholarly preacher OF
| 4 kindred spirit with Jonathan Edwards. y
| ",vho," tho Ncv. Roygs renliuds Mr.. Atkinson,
| Rcy. Adams embodied his views OF the charms
aud beauties Of slavery In ~ little yolumo -
| published in 1854. From this ''iit.ie volume" "
thu Key. Boggs selects Il lot of gems which tend
| to elevate tho Rev. Adams to un immortality Of
| faue, and to. prove conclusivcly to tho mind OF
| the Rev. Nogys that slavery mover, never ought
| to have been abolished.
| The t:cy. s'chemint's pious soul was Tiled
with gloomy: forcbos,sn:s ut tho thought of wit
Messing The horrors OF slavery US ho approached
tho Sunny South; for he had been an opponent
| Of slavery, and his heart was corrupted by
| Northern fancies unI feelings" On the
| subject Whit was his surprise and de-
| light to find "ths persons held to aerr-
| ice or labor in tho South "all in good
.humor, and some Of them in broad laugh." Il
great burden-wa lifted from tho soui Of Nehe-
| n,iah, aud In sort OF rapture he c1cLlins: "a
/ better looking, happier, morc courteous set Of
I people haG neve. seen than those colorcd men.
| women and chillrcn whom / met the Erst few
days OF my stuy ut Savannah" What a con-
trust" the good, p!ous Nehemiah said to himself,
''to that troop ut the Albany landing, on cur
| Western railroad, and on those plies Of boards,