The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-06-28
VETERANS MEET AT NASHVILLE
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the authorities, including the crowned
heads of Great Britain, France ard Spain,
and the Dutch merchants, planted Afri-
can slavery in all the American colonies.
And in their time they and the priesthood
justified this on the grounds that il was
. transfer of the Africans from a condi-
ton OF barbarism and cannibalism TO a
country where they would be instructed IN
the arts of civilized life and i'll the knowl-
edge OF the Christian religion. The nsti-
tutlon of African slavery thus found its
way into all of the thirteen American col
onies, and il existed in all of them at the
date of the declaration of American indie
pendence, in l1iG.'
Ills history of slavery in this country
and the old world led directly up to the
rebellion, and was interviewer wiki strong
argument in favor of the souths position.
| lie said:
.In later times those not familiar with
the facts TO winch l am referring have
| asked the question: ny was tins gr' at
question not COMPROMISED" stating that
| IL would not have cost h1tn of the
| money 20 pay for and iiberate the slaves
that the war cost, ana that in that way
the tens OF thousands OF valuable lives Of
good men might nave been saved and ali
| the attendant suffering prevented.
Tine hrst answer 10 that question is
chat the slaves IN the United States at
the beginning of he war were estimated to
be of the value OF $aJJ.O00,OVU and ii they
were to bc liberated common honesty re-
CURED that II should be at the expense
| OF the nation which was responsible Tor
its existence. The republicans and the
anti-siavcry people were then majority
OF the whole people and had fun pos
session OF the federal government, or were
ready and authorized to take possession
of IL. And they demanded that the whole
loss 10 derive from the freeing of the
slaves should fail on their owners and on
the southern states.
''They never proposed, and would not
have consented for the federal govern
mont and the northern people TO pay any
part OF the cost of freeing the slaves.
THOR patrotism was not OF the Kind
which would cause them To assume part
of the burden of correcting what they
tsaH
And that, 100. wrong. If IL was Il wrong,
which We inherited from other ana older
nations, and WRlCh was Incorporated in
our social and industrial systems ana sane
toned By our constitutions, state and
federal in the organization Of the gov
eminent. The agitators We're willing and
anxious to be patriotic and just At the
expense of other people.
''Thc second answer 10 il is. that the
industrial and social systems of the south
ern states were so interviewer with the in
tercst of slavery that the people then be
Hcved the freedom of the slaves. without
compensation. meant ~" tankrupey or
tn, people ana states where il existed, 10
be followed probably by war OF races. 1
am speaking Of what they then believed.
As an evidence that our own people, in
fhe earlier years of the republic. recoG-
nizod the necessity of aCQuiascing IN the
social ard Industrial conditions which had
grown ont Of African slavery, history tells
us that General George Washington, who
was an extensive slave holder. was made
commauder-in-chief Of our revolutionary
armies.
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