The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-12-10

bought them. But Brazil was their mar
ket after 1910. Maryland and Virginia
ceased to buy. The South had enough.
The natural increase supplied her plan
tations and reaction of public sentiment
set in. The example of Jefferson and
Randolph in freeing their slaves was fol-
lowed by hundreds. The colonization
Society shipped thousands of manumitted
slaves to Liberia, but they did not 60
willingly, and they perished soon after
they got there. 1t was cruel exile into
the jaws of death. My father, as executor
of Major Waters will, sent thirty seven
of his slaves to Savannah, from whence
the colonization Society took them to
Liberia in 1s49. They were well.provid-
ed with clothing and given 500 apiece
in gold. Thirty of them died within two
years and the other seven escaped by
strategy and came back to Georgia to live
with their old masters children. In 1860
free negroes were common all over Vir.
ginia. In 1861 we found at Winchester,
more freedmen than slaves. The Old
Dominion was fecked with them and the
sentiment was fast working Southwark,
and but for the threats and bulldozing Of
the abolition party, Southern slavery
would have passed from us by gradual
emancipation as advocated by Henry
Clay and Berrien and Joseph Henry
Lumpkin. The truth is that the blood Of
the million who fellin the war is upon the
abolition party and its followers-the
higher lawsaints who broke the compact
and were the first to set aside the consti-
tuition and the laws and the decisions of
the higher courts in the government.
The fanatical, malicious and mean spirit
ed scoundrels, as Hawthorne calls them,
are up there yet exercising themselves in
their peculiar religion, which is to abuse
the South and preach temperance and
ship rum to Africa. We are reviving no
animosities against the Northern soldiers
who fought to preserve the Union, for
they had patriotic motives and followed
the lead of General Grant, who owned
slaves in Missouri and lived off of their
hire up to 1868. He has been sainted.
Fortune or fate cast him on that side.
The dice fell that way. His battle cry
was the "Union," but New England de.
nounced the Union as league with hell
and a covenant with the devil, and the
battle cry was "Free the negroes and turn
them loose to kill, burn ard to destroy"
What a disappointment awaited their
malicious desires and expectatious-not
hand was raised, not frebrand was
lighted, but faithful, loving and true,
most.of them stood by their old masters,
and their wives and their children, until
freedom was forced upon them. Verify,
as General Jackson says, monument
should be erected to their loyalty that
should reach the stars.
And now, Mr.. Editor, think I will
feel better. sometimes the pentup feel.
ings must be ventilated, indignation must
explode, or it will tester and corrode in
our vitals and blood poison our better
nature. Yes, I think I will feel better
for good while. will cultivate peace
and harmony with all who love it. There
are some signs up north thatare comfort
ing. A Northern man who fought on the
other side sends money to mark the grave
of soldier, and an Hin is man writes
me that General John M. Palmer is not
even member of the Grand Army of
the Republic. Nobody seems to know
the John Palmer who raised all that
rumpus about the flag. a northern lady
writes nice letter about her father, who
was killed at Chickamauga in 1868. He
fell within the Confederate line, and his
sword and watch were taken he was
Colonel of the Thirty. eighth Regiment,
Illinois infantry, and his name was Da-
yid Harvie Gilmer, of Pittsfeld, III.
This lady would rejoice to find that
sword, and if any confederate veteran
has. it or knows of it he will please inform
me.
And now it is in order for the North
to act the gentleman and apologize and
shake hands and say no more about flags
or rebellion or treason. We are ready
to forgive everybody except some.
BILL ARP.