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

Plymouth immigrants planted precisely
the doctrine which you ascribe 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 q perfectly
lust, proper and desirable institution,
&c."
Then he goes on TO say:
"They executed this theory
That is the Massachusetts people
"to the fullest extent in their own wars
with the Indians. Without cause or
proyocatiou, and without notice or warn
ing, they fell upon the Pequods, massa-
cred many of them, and made slaves of
the survivors, without distinction of age
or sex. About seven hundred, including
many women and children, were sent to
the West Indies and there sold on public
account, the proceeds being put in the
colonial treasury. Eight score Of these
unfortunate people escaped from the
butchery by flight, and afterward gave
themselves up" &c.
Then he goes on 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.
setts sent them to the West ladies to
exchange them for blackamoors or Afri-
cans. Not content with enslaving the
Africans and Indians, they enslaved the
white heretics who approached their
shores and sent them off and exchanged
them for Africans.
This document is so luminous with
great thoughts and historic verify, SO
| full of patriotic wisdom and constitu-
tional learning, that I shall ask to incor-
porate it as an appendix to my remarks.
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 are some of the offspring of that
'civilization Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, Henry, Writ, Marshall,
the Randolphs, the Lees, Taney, Pink.
ney, Macon, Castor, Mangum, the Ru:-
lodges, the Pinckneys, the Marions. the
Sumters, the Pickens, the Hamptons,
the Calhouns, the Lowndes, Troup, Craw-
ford, Benton, the Jacksons, Davis, the
Clays, Lewis, the Crittendens, the Pres.
tons, the Breckinridges, Thomas, Candy,
Drayton, Gibbop. Scott, and Taylor.
The great naval hero, Admiral Farragut,
whose monument this entire city turned
out to see uncovered, was one Of the Char
barians" who rose from that "civiliza.
tion." He whom the Senator seeks to
preserve in enduring brass in public
park of this city was oneof the "barbari-
ans" from that civilization" George II.
Thomas, for whom you have made an
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, was an.
other of the "barbarians" whom the Sen
ator now seeks to denounce.
Mr..President, I remember when as boy
T attended the deliberations of the 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 I 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 never had their represen.
tatives 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 plunder 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 l have enumerated, and many
more that I might enumerate from Re-
publican history, can be laid at their
doors truthfully.
The Senator tells us about an 'ir-
repressible conflict" Yes, sir, there
was an irrepressible conflict between free
and slave labor. There were two civili-
cations moving toward each other on con.
verging lines. They met at Fort Sumter
and there the combustion took place, the
issue was Joined. Then for four years
there was "battle of the giants" such
battle as the world has never seen until
at Appomattox one giant fell covered
with wounds and blood and fatigue and
want and exhaustion. He surrendered
and with thac was buried that "irrepres-
sible conflict" Down with it, forever
and for aye, wentthe institution ofslavery;
and am glad oft. Down with it in
grave of blood and ruin and confusion
went the institution, and there ended
that "irrepressible conflict" 1t ended as
l had supposed forever; but let me warn
that Senator that another "irrepressible
conflict" has arisen in this country, not
between African slavery and freedom, but
it is conflict on the one hand between
the people for their Liberties, and arro-
CANT, bloated corporate power and mono
poly on the other hand That is another
''irrepressible conflict" to which l invite
the attention of the Senator. When he
said, "How easy it is to shoot labor
ground down with q hundred years of
slavery" he forgot how labor was shot not
more than four years ago at Pittsburg,
at Chicago, and at other places; labor
that had never been and never will be
ground down" with slavery. Oh, but
the Senator would have us understand
that they are only poor aVhite mechanics, a
"iaacless mob," as another Republican
Senator STYLES them. who ought to be shot