Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-16

cruel form, and that they are responsible for
the institution, as it was only the Northern
States that engaged in the slave trade.
Colonel Falkner alludes to this fact simply
with the view OF indicating the trHth OF
history and to show that those who are de-
flaming the South for advocating an institu-
ton 90 brutal and inhuman are not free of
blame. The following and many similar
extracts from the Lialc Brick Church has pro-
duced storm of indignation in the North.
1t is nothing but plain statement OF an
undeniable fact, and the severity of the
reference consists in its unadulterated truth.
Colonel Fslkner makes the oentenarian, Mr..
Barnard, one Of the leading characters in his
novel, say:
! The Redfeld farm as the one on the right was
named by I 9w1er ays IN 5g from
ca by its proprietor. of course you are cogniZant
hue and CRY against siave6oiders have been slave
| owners ourselves. The naked truth IL We are re-
we opened the Pandora-box on the American con-
tinent Consequentiy we are more goity snaH our
t1sion w 3e imnorted negroes from Africa and
1 made slaves of Them; we sold them 70 the people
The pTiee we start the csmor against the slave
holder. II you would hear loud shouts and Jealous
Il <.
thunders forth anathemas sgains. sinners; he has
pity for his old associates, but would PACK them
| Clergy. Just so il is with US: we have been con
| verted; have repented; we have been psr-
| doned, UhiteWashed; and now we wage relent-
less war against sinners; but mean TO keep the
| proceeds Of the sale of our negroes-gou may be
or course we have except the likely ones who
could be sold for good price Have we not cursed
| and abused the Southern Shareholder Have we
not exhausted our vocabulary of epithets in Sc
lecting hard words TO hurl at the people OF the
that hotbed Of slavery. but win hold the price
we received for our negroes. Ii we do all these
stonement for the sin Of originating the institu-
ton?
The volume, from beginning 10 end, bris-
ties with just such jagged references TO
slavery as it once existed in the North
There is much genuine beauty and psthos in
the book. The writer gently glides from
one subject to another. The interest is stir
ringly kept mp, but an Abolition fanatic is
frequently doused with cold shower. bath.
The people of the North, even those OF Mas
sschusetts, maintained that human slavery
in its most malignant forms was perfectly
just, proper and desirable institution, en-
,irely consistent with christianity, and they
bought and sold men, women and children
in human bondage. The slave code planted
in Massachusetts, was the earliest in Amer
lea, and the most cruel in all its provisions
1t was adhered to for generations. 1t was
81 srds.lIy .be.de1e5, not because il was sim
full or wrong, but solely and entirely because
it was found, after long experience, to be uu-
profitable. Indeed, emancipation was forbid
den by law, unless the owner gave security 10
maintain the slave and prevent him from
becoming q pauper. To evade this law,
these who had in6rm negroes encouraged
them to sue for their freedom, and permitted
judgments to go against them, declaring tn at
the negroes were free and always had been.
Pickaninnies were given away like pigs, be-
cause they were not worth nursing, and no
doubt many were drowned like blind pup
pies. In the above extract Colonel Falk- |
ner gives q correct epitome OF the institution |
of slavery as it once existed in the North, |
and it is not surprising that thoss who have |
wept over .he curse of slavery as depicted |
in Uncle Toms Cabin should endeavor to al
lence any exposure of the slave trade or
Northern States. There is much general
ignorance as to the origin Of slavery. Nearly
all the colored people OF the South believe
that the Southern whites alone arc -esponai.
bic for the Institution, and hence, much of
heir hatred of them. But the truth is slav-
Try is as old as the world. George Bancroft
how at an early day the whole OF Europe
raficked in slaves. In the middle ages the
purchased white men, christians
md others, and sold them to the Sarscens
n Sicily and Spain. In England the Angle
saxon nobility sold their servants as slaves
o foreigners. The Portuguese first imported
legro slaves from western Africa into Europe
n 1442. Spain soon engaged in the traffic,
md negro slaves abounded in some places of
hat kingdom. After America was discov-
red the Indians OF Hispaniola were i'm
ported into Spain and made slaves. The
,paniards visited the coast OF North America
md kidnapped thousands of the Indians,
Ehom they transported into slavery in Eu-
ope and the West Indies. Columbus him
eli kidnapped 500 native Americans, and
emit them into Spain, thatthey might be pub {
cling North American Indians into I
ondage continued two centuries. Negro
avery was FIRST introduced into America by .
panish shareholders who emigrated with
heir negroes. A royal edict of Spain au-
lorized negro slavery in America N 1913.
ling Ferdinand sent from Seville fifty slaves 7
labor in the mines. in 1881 the direct I
affic in slaves between Africa and His
aniola was enjoyed by royal ordinance. !
as Casas, who saw the Indians vanishing
way before the cruelty of the Spaniards, !
lggested that the negroes, who alone could !
,dure severe tolls, might be further en- '
loyed-this was in 1913. Sir John Haw-
ms was the FIRST Englishman that engaged
4 the slave trade. In 1862 he transported I
large cargo of slaves to Hispaniola. 10 t
557 another expedition was prepared, and 4
ueen Elizabeth protected and shared in the u
.sfic. Hawkins, in one of his expeditions, ]
It fire to an African city, and out of 5000 n
Inhabitants succeeded in seizing 260. james n
NTH and Thomas Keyser, says Mr.. Ban
oft, first brought the colonies to participate
/ slavery by importing in 1854 cargo OF
sgroes, and that at a later period there
ere both Indian and negro slaves in Mas T
In 1925 Dutch ship entered
ames river nd-funded twenty negroes for ,
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