The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17

Meeting topics, and through the lives and
deeds of these actors the young gentles
man who teaches history, ETC., at se4
vance attempts to prove to the present
generation Of the north, his own prem-
Use, that the society of the south had
| ripened gradually into a esssneol OF
traitors and the filth well adapted to-
barnacles and tadpoles when Calhoun
and those who rose here to control after
him gotin their work.
| The book is for sale: Inc lectures
which compIdse its contents were de-
| 1ivered, at so mulch per head to the
auditors, from northern Platforms. The
| lecturer i'm the case was born in Vir-
ginia, reared there educated at the
| university founded by Jefferson and pol
ished off at John Hopkins. The place
OF honor and trust now held by him at
Sewanee was provided by the devotion
or Southern men of the times he mocis
and delames. 1T may not please Mr.
Trent to reflect that the thought is Al
spontanicty but, nevertheless the
Thought is irrepress.ble, that even he
looms UP on the periphery If events
along with a few others of Southern
origin Who hold themselves prepared dJr
stand before the footlights to kick their
afflicted and battle-scarred and ogious-:
ly renowned mother for the door re-
ceipts. Yet again, there is no evidence
in the wide world that Mr. Trent is
not ready to vindicate this, his volun-
tary act, by a special lecture to be added
later on to the series.
Prof. William Parti-Colored Trent,
standing before, a Wisconsin interior
town audience ridiculing Jefferson DAVIS
and all he impersonated of<social and
political life in the land that was the
mother of both, that is one picture true
to 0fe. Leonidas Polk, founder of the
institution that nourishes Professor
Trent, standing defiantly before the guns
of an invading enemy and serenely re-
ceiving into his bosom pa1pitating with
the love of his unfinished work for
Trent and the youth of his dear land5
the death wound of honor. That is the
other picture.
If Professor Trent must chant the
praise of General PoK's conqueror in
rnercenary idyls from the eonqueror's
PLATFORMS that is quite another thing
from the ostensTble project of preserv-
ing the ideal educa tional institution the
University OF the South, which the
mote.
From the point of view of an educated
Southern man, Mr.. Trent is evidently
experimenting with we'll known facts to
see if profitable misrepresentation can
be evolved from them.
Circums tantially considered, Mr.. Trent
is nightly vexed dn buckram) that
America should ever be written down
as a lot of states united. He has set
his heart Gin bucl1ram) upon a Nations
with a big N, to live and lecture in. He
intends to have it Thurs if lectures spokep
and afteuward printed in book form
can give it to him and The rest of us.
1 annex here an extract from the
speech of King George III, delivered be-
fore the House of Lords Dec. 5, 1852, re4
cognizing our independence A tremen-
dous roar of ARTILLERY, immense shouting
on all sides, the day gloomy and DARK
were some of the incidents marking the
kings arrival He assembled the throne
arrayed in royal purple robes and took
his speech from his pocket. Wlhat
would he say? Several Americans, some
tories and some patriots, were in the
great audience breathlessly awaiting HIS
utterance Mr.. Trent will assuredly not
find that King George said to his parlia-
ment anything about a Nation over here.
The king knew of his American colonies,
some under proprietary government,
some under charter government others
under the crown and parliament and
that having set up each a government of
its own, and having assembled those
separate governments in congress at
Philadelphia, each had voted for itself
to declare itself a free and independents
state, united for a specific purpose with
the other states. Thus, when King
George came to the subject, he said:
II lost no time in giving the NECESSARY
onders to prohibit the prosecution of
offensive warfare upon the continent
of North America. Adopting, as my in
clination will always lead me to do, with
decision and effect whatever I collect to
be the sense of my parliament and MY
people, have pointed all my views and
measures, in Europe as we'll as in North
America, to an entire and condfal recon-
Citation with the colonies. Finding It
indispensable to the attainment of this
object, l did not hesitate to go to the
full length of the powers vested in me
and offer to declare them"-here the
king paused evidently embarrassed aud
agitated-"and offer 10 declare them free
and Independent states
Mr.. Trent, all the same, "has never
believed i'm the doctrine of states rights
per se.". Not the kings acknowledge
ment, not actual enjoyment without trace
of voluntary REIMBURSEMENT weighs a
hairs weight with Professor William
p. Trent
1t is late to tell educated people that
Africa, the home of the negro, has a.
fauna and a flora peculiar to itself, diff
fering from fauna and flora elsewhere
in the world that Africa is the home OF
many millions of blacks, divided into
tribes differing among themselves and
totally different from any other race of
people, oil of them savages. Yet Mr..
Trent assumes to the contrary of all
these facts of nature. ~
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