The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-10-29
BILL arp TELLS The FACTS.
ignorance in the North Many
Think Slavery lust Grew Up
in the Soutf--FeW Know
That Grant Owned
Slaves.
Atlanta Constitution.

Wanted-In 1881 General Henry R.
Jackson, of Savannah, delivered in
Atlanta the most notable, instructive
and eloquent address that has been
heard in Georgia since the civil war.
The subject was The Wanderer,
a slave ship that landed on the Geor
gia coast in 1858. But the whole ad-
dress was an historical recital of many
political events that led to the civil
war and of which the generation that
has grown up since were profoundly
ignorant and still are. It was deliver
ed by request Of the Young Men s
Library Association. when Henry
Grady was its chairman, and Isuppose
vas published in pamphlet form and
could be had on application, but |
have sought in vain to find g copy. |
have newspaper copy, but it has
been worn to the quick and is almost
illegible. I wrote to Judge Pope Bar
row, who is General Jaclzson's execu-
tor, and he can find none among the
generals papers. Can any veteran
furnish me a copy? would also be
pleased to obtain a copy Of Daniel
Webster's speech at Capon Springs,
which was suppressed by his publish
ers and to which General Jackson
makes allusion. General Jackson was
a great man. He won his military lau
rels in the war with Mexico. He was
assistant attorney general under
Buchanan when jeremiah Black was
: b chief. He was the yigilant, deter
mined, conscientious prosecutor Of
those who owned and equipped and
Offered the only slave ship that ever
landed on the Georgia coast. lie was
q man of splendid culture and poet
OF ability and reputation. Strange It
is thas this magnifcenc address has
noJ. keen complied III TIE appedlI CT
some Southern history, as Landmark
for the present generation.
It is sad and mortifying that our
young and micdie-aged men and our
graduates from Southern colleges know
so little Of our ante-bellum history.
The Northern people are equally ignc-
rant Of the origin OF slavery and the
real causes that preciQitated the civil
war. Most Of them have vague IDEA
that slavery was born and Just grew
up in the South-came up out OF the
ground like the 17-year-old locusts-
and was our sin and our curse. Not
one in ten thousand will believe that
the South nerve imported slave from
Africa, but got all we had by purchase
from our Northern brethren. would
wager a thousand dollars against ten
that not man under fifty nor school
boy who lives North of the line knows
or belives that General Grant, their
great military hero and idol, was a
slave owner and lived off Of their hire
and their service while he was fighting
Us about ours. Lincoln's proclama-
ton of freedom came in 1863, but Gen
eral Grant paid no attention to 1t. He
continued to use them as slaves until
January, 1861 See his biography by
General James Grant Wilson in Ap-
pleton's Encyclopedia. General Grant
owned these salves in st. Louis, Mo,
where be lived. He was a bad man
acer and Just before the war began he
moved TO Galena and went TO work for
his brother in the lanyard. While
there he caught the war fever and
got a good position under Lincoln, but
had he remained in St. Louis would
have greatly preferred one on our side.
SO said Mrs. Grant few years ago to
2 newspaper editor in St. Augustine.
How many of this generation North
or South know or Will believe that as
late as November, 1851, Nathaniel
Gordon, master of a New England
slave ship, called the Erie, was con
ricted in New York city Of carrying
on the slave trade. See Appleton. }
Just think of it and wonder. In 1861
our Northern brethren made war upon
us because we enslaved the negroes we
had bought from them, but at the
same time they kept on bringing more
from africa and begging Us to buy
.hem. How many know that England,
our mother country, never fnanclFat-
ed her slaves until 1913, when twelve
millions were set free in the last
indies and one hundred millions Of
dollars paid to their owners by act Of
parliament II is only within the last
aalf century that the importation Of
slaves from Africa has generally ceased
Tn to that time every civilized coun-
-rv bought them and cnslared them,
English statesmen and clergyfnen SAID
il was better to bring them away than
20 have them continu" n their bar
3arisne and cannibalism. And j; vas
better.
believe 1t vas Gods providence
raat they should be brought away and
placed in slavery, but tie @ay ii was
done vas inhpman and brutal iae
acrrers Of the middle passage, as the
ocean voyage was called, is the most
aWeful narrative | eyer read, and re-
minds me of Dante's Inferno >
.{bout half the cargo survived and the
dead and dying were tumbled into the
sea. The owners said we car afford to