The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-26
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Rev. DR.. Edward L. Pell, editor OF tn
Bible Reader, an excellent monthly pa
per.and son Of the late we'll known ant
Rev William E. Pell, for years edito
Of the North Carolina Christian Advo
cafe, is to publish some months hence
q ork treating Of negro slavery in tn,
south and the relation of owners t,
their slaves. He is a native, We thinl
~ Raleigh, and his father before him
was ais a native of North Carolina
aDE- Pell Is a young mau Of good abil.
&fes.and writes clearly and tersely and
has many qualities that will fit him 70,
b peculiar work he is undertaking
He will do a genuine service to the
cause of humanity anu truth by
correcting some of the gross errors,
Misrepresentation and ISLANDERS that
have been INDUCED in for generations
by malicious or ignorant writers in the
north. They have been either wholly
ignorant Of the real facts as to slavery
or they have ~designedly misstated and
magnife6 the true condition and the
evils growing out of it. We do not
stop to inquire at this late day why
this a been done, but we know we'll
that falsehoOds have abounded, and
Mrs. Stowe is responsible for much Of
h wrong impressions made upon
easily receptive and credulous minds
cropping in darkness and not crying af-
ter h light. A writer in the Atlanta
Constitution lately said, in remarks
upon DR.. Pelrs projected work:
Malicious representations of the So
clal conditions prior to the war in gar
hled fiction and milk and water history
nave been broadcasted in every section.
and even the books placed in the south
ern schools are saturated with VenO-
NOUS injections Of doctrines against the
true sentiment of the section. The re-
aat1ons which have existed between
slave and master throughout the south
have been pictured in the most abhor-
rent light n all the ills that the pre-
JUDGED inauguration of splentic writ
ers could %conjure up have been spread
out to show the character of ante-bel-
aum civilization"
our gifted and pains-taking North
Carollnian will do something doubtless
TO dispel the blackness of darkness now
resting upon the minds Of northern
readers. 1t will do something, we hope,
in mitigating the horrors of slavery
which the ~imaginations of certain
Hcribes cup there" have greatly inten-
sif1ed, and will serve as some corrective
Of the evils engendered by flamboy-
ant rhetoric n vindictive villipend-
Ing. We hope DR.. Pell will fi--d it in
accord with his plan to tell how slavery
was first introduced, by whom, how the
AFRICAN negro Jared, why he was ship
ped south and so on. We have afore-
Zine shed some light at this point and
u d to what we have given if we
really deemed it necessary. There are
more downright hypocrisy, cruelty,
selfishness, meanness and d%epravity at
tached to negro slavery in New England
than the uniformed reader has ever
dreamed Of. The statistics Of New
England furnish the evidence that is
overwhelming. The people "up there
sent out their slave ships, forced the
Africans from their native homes.
sold them into slavery, treated them
most shamefully, even inhumanly, got
rid of them so soon as they became
profitless. and selling them to the
whites began the abolition
war that brought forth such cut-throat
devils as old John Brown and culmina-
ted in one of the most s~tupendous wars
that ever shook a continent. All this
has been established and can be shown