The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-12-10
BILL ARP
Has His Memory Stirred Up by General
Jackson's Speech.
atlanta Constitution.

SOftottttss'N'Ss
General Henry r. Jackson's recent ad'
dress delivered in Atlanta before the
Young Mems Library Association has
impressed me more than any speech or
writing made in the South since the war.
I did not hear it, but I have read it and
pondered it and read it again. 1t has a
historical value that exceeds anything
that has been said or written upon the
subjecs of slavery and the slave trade. 1t
is safe to say that no other man could
have delivered it, for there is no living
man 80 familiar with the facts and whose
peculiar business it was to become famil.
lar with them. Let me say, farther, that
as al argument it is exhaustive and un-
snswerable. Nothing more need be said.
As literary and scholarly effort it is a
masterpiece of cultured thought and
beauty of expression. The truth is, I
was charmed and comforted, and my
thanks 20 out to the noble man who,
having passed his allotted age, was un-
willing to leave his people without put
ting on record that defense of their faith
e-s that truth and honor required. Now,
let him depart in peace. Young men of
Georgia and of the South, have you read
this address? Have you got time and
inclination to read it? Do you wish to
know the truth.of history ?-.eDo you wish
to cherish your Southern pride and have
established the good name and the honor
of your ancestors? Had I been MEM
Der of that Young Mems Library Asso-
citation would have moved the publica,
tion of a hundred thousand copies and
sent them all over the land North and
South and some across the waters to
Gladstone. Had the authority l would
insist that every professor in every
Southern college, male and female,
should read this to his class and teach it
and linger and dwell upon it until the
truth it contains was established in the
minds of tho pupils. 1 would declare it
a substitute for that portion of every
history that treats of the late war and its
causes.
have long believed much that is sta
ted in this address aud lamented that I
could not prove it. The data nor the re-
cords were within my reach, but I knew
enough to feel the sting of fevery reproach
that was cast upon u.s. In spite of
everything that We veterans could do or
say, Northern literature has insinuated
itself into our borders and poisoned the
minds of many of our youth. Northern
histories have crept stealthily into our
Schools and Colleges, end even the his
tories OF our own Southern men have only
timidly aud tenderly defended us for
fear of giving odense. Why should the
historians smother the fact that slavery
began in New England, and the slave
trade was born there and rocked in her
cradle and was nourished and cherished
there long after they had sold US their
slaves and abolished the institution? ?
Why smother the facts as established by
General Jackson from the records that
New England continued in the slave trade
until 1879 and eighty-fve vessels left
New York iu 1859 and 1860 for the Afri.
can coast and carried to Brazil over 3d.
900 slaves? These vessels we're owned
and equipped by capitalists of New Eng
land, who had for half century been
engaged in this business, and who, despite
and In defiance Of Judge Story's charges
to the grand juries of his circuit, never a
man was prosecuted.
Friends, countrymen, read hat.Judge
Story, the great jurist, said in that charge
about the horrors of the middle passage
and your blood sill curde in the veiDs
Eugene Sue nor Victor Hugo ever de-
picted such horrible scenes-horrible
enough, as Milton says, to "create soul
beneath the ribs of DEATH" From 1907
down to 1860 New England vessels,
manned by New England-sailorsi carried
on this trade, and as Judge Story's son
says, "many fortunes were made with the
blood money of the cargoes that survived
the awful horrors of the middlepassage." /"
And they never stopped it until the war
began in 1861. Perhaps they are at it
yet if there is any market for the poor
wretches. Certain it is that New Eng
land is every year doubling the quantity
of rum that she ships to Africa to sell to
the natives.
Now, in contrast to all this there never
was but one vessel in all those years that
was even partly owned or controlled by a
man from the Sou!h-only one, the little
yacht called the Wanderer-and she was
built, manned and equipped in North
ern port. This vessel brought her little
cargo of black humanity to a Southern
coast, and Immediately her officers were
pursued and arrested and imprisoned at
the instance of Southern men--a pro-
ceediug that would have never been in-
stituted in New England had the often
ders and the offence been there instead OF
Savannah.
No wonder that the God-like Webster
was disgusted with the greed and the
hate and the prejudices of his country
men. No wonder he said when they
threatened him: "a man cannot suffer
too much or fall too soon if he sui
fer or fall in support of the liberties and
the constitution of his country"
No wonder that Franklin Pierce stood
by him aud said: "Sir, if your party
overthrows you for this we will take you
up and lift you so high that your head
will touch the stars"
No wonder that when Nathaniel HaW