Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-15

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that the desire to retain slave properly
| gave them nerve for the batter DOES
! any man living know or soluleF III
this state who was fighting for the negro
! or his value In money? l never hea.u vi
one The Stonewall Brigade OF the ARMY
OF Northern Virginia was fghtlnS or
! ganiZation. / knew nearly every man
| in H. for [ belonged to 1t for time, ana
| I know that / am within proper bounos
| when I assert that there was not one
| soldier I'm thirty who owned or VINO
| ever expected to own slave. The South
| fighting for the money value of the nesro'
What a cheap and wicked falsehood.
| Finally, and this deserves a separate
paragraph, with respect to the motives OF
| action. we would be glad IL Mr.. F1ske or
| any other northern author would reileve
us of the mental confusion resulting from
! the contemplation OF the facts that Ro-
| bert T.. Lee set free all OF his slaves long
before the sectional war began, and that
| Il s. Grant retained his as slaves until
| they we're made free as one or the re-
suits of Lincoln's emancipation proclama-
| tioni-
Soldiers and gentlemen. we accepted in
! full faith and honesty the arbitrament
| of the sword. We are to-day all that
may be honofably meant by the expression
! loyal American citizens" But we are
] also loyal to the memory OF our glorious
dead. and the heroic living of the Con-
federacy, and we WIZ defend them IN our
| poor way from the false and foul asper-
| sions of northern historians as long as
brain can think or tongue and pen can
| do their office. We desire that our chill
dren shall be animated by the same
spirit.
THE SLAVE TRADE.
Mr.. Fiske Furthermore teaches our chill
| dren that, but for the war, the South
would have reopened the slave trade
| He tells an unsupported story OF slave
| ships landing their cargoes in the South.
| Those of us who were men in the later
| ffties will remember rumor that about
| that time a vessel-called the Wan1erer
and commanded by a southern man
brought cargo or Africans INTO soutn-
ern river. 1t was also rumored that one
or more ships. owned and commanded by
northern men (one S was then said, be
/ longing 70 the president OF Massachu-
setts anci-slavery society were en-
gagged in the same work. The sto-
/ ries may. or may not, have been
| true Granted the truth; the fact
| that one or more Yankee slave-traders
had returned to the sins of their fathers
! does not prove that 10000 of them were
| about TO do so; nor does the pdrcnase OF
such cargoes BY half a dozen southern
| planters prove that 100000 OF them had
| determined thus to strengthen their work
/ ing forces.
Alr. Fiske. in his work. overlooks the
/ fact that late in the ffties the great
/ Southern Commercial Convention met m
Montgomery. In this convention every
| State in the South was largely repre-
/ scented, and Mr.. Yancey. in an able and
/ powerful speech, urged that the African
| slave trade be revived. Among others,
Judge Pryor, OF virginia. opposed the
proposition I'm a notable address, and IL
/ was defeated by a decided majority.
/ | beg you to consider the following
! contrast: George III forced the virginia
| Governor to veto our Virginia act Of llOs
prohibiting the further importation Of
/ slaves. Mr.. Fiske tells us that in Jeiter-
/ sons first draft Of the Declaration of In
! dependence, this act (of the King was
made the occasion Of fierce denuncia-
tiOn Of slavery, but In Difference TO the
] preiudces Of South Carolina and Georgia,
! the clause was struck out by Congress.
/ Mr.. jefferson wrote that passage, ana IN
his account Of its omission ne alludes 10
| the prejudces Of some Of the Southern
[ States. but imputes the action taken
| az much, II not more, 70 the influence
OF the northern maritime states, not be
| cause they were holders Of that kind
! of property, but because they were large
| traders In the same. II is important
! TO our present purpose that our children
/ find in Mr. Fiske's history no hint OF the
| .acts we have narrated, and that their
| truth is wholly inconsistent with the
spirit and apparent intent Of the MARIA
''The Origin OF the Late War" published
by the Appletons I'm 1866. but out Of print
for lack OF northern popularity Is book
author. Mr.. George Lunt, Of
Boston. in Mr.. Flskes own State Of
/ Massachusetts,, tells us that an unholy
combination between Massachusetts Free
soilers and Democrats to defeat the
| Wings with no reference to any prin--
| chile at ALL sent Sumner to Congress and
materially contributed 10 the causes Of
the war; partly through that Preston
| Brooks incident which Mr. Fiske so UNI
fairly describes. slavery" this author
observes, was the cause OF the war just
as property is the cause of robbery"
! LINCOLN AND SLAVERY.
| II Mr.. Fiske will read the Lincoln ana
Douglas debates Of the time before the
| war; If he will read the emancipation pro-
clamation itself without preconceived
opinion, he will see that not even for
| Lincoln himself was slavery the cause or
action or its abolition his intent; that
emancipation was simply war measure.
not affecting, as you know, the Dorder
| States that had not seeded; simply IN
tended to disable tho fighting States, ana
more thoroughly 10 unite the rabid abo-
| litionsts of the North in his own deadly
| purpose 10 overthrow the constitutional
! rights Of the States.
| from which as you remember, he dated
| his abolition proclamation, he very clearly
indicated his view of the cause OF pur-
pose of the war on his part: II he could
:
slaves, he would do IT, If he could save II
| by freeing one-half and keeping the other
| half in slavery. he would take that plan;
i II keeping them all in slavery would ef-
| feet the object, then that would be MS
course" Further, with respect TO the pro-
| vocation offered to the South that led 10
the war-so far as slavery was its cause
| Mr.. Webster, I'm his speech al Capon
! Springs in 1851. used these words: Il do
| not hesitate to say and repeat that II the
| Northern States refuse wiifully and delib-
| erately TO carry into effect that part or
| the Constitution which respects the resto-
| ration of fugitive slaves. the South would
| no longer be bound 10 keep the compact.
| Mr. Lunt and Mr.. Webster were Massa-
| chusetts men like Mr. Fiske. Mr. Web
ster was a great constitutional lawyer;
| Mr.. Lincoln was President. Yet We do
not learn from Mr.. F'isks that any OF
! these heresies or mistaken purposes had
currency I'm Massachusetts or in the
| Union. He would teach all men That Mr.
| Lincoln claims Immortality as the apostle
! OF freedom. He Is a co-worker with the
orator OF their absurd Peace Jubilee. who
| lately proclaimed that the flag of Wash
| ington was the Flag OF Independence;
| the flag of Lincoln, the Flag OF Liberty.
| Demands of shareholders" C0nces-
sions TO shareholders" these and the like
are the expressions our author uses 10
paint a picture of an aggressive South
s"FeY, perhaps know that General Grant
| was a xlaye- holder, but the fact IL that
he hsf ieyofal In the State OF Missouri,
ard (. I, were freed. Ike those IN the
| ton. sehese slaves. said Mrs. Grant.
| came ~ him from my fathers family.
for lived In the West when / married
zoe General. who was then a lieutenant
in the army"