Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-11-01
BILL APPS LETTER.
Nominations CT the Popular Sage Of
Barlow
THE PHILOSOPHER is REMINISCENT
tie Discusses Events of the Past On
his Usual Happy Manner - Things
lie Does Not Know.

Wanted-In 1851 General Henry r.
Jackson. OF Savannah. delivered in
Atlanta the most notable instructive
and eloquent address that has been
I heard in Georgia since The civil war
/ The subject was The Wanderer."
slave ship that landed on the Georgia
/ coast in 1855. But the whole address
was an historical recital OF many poll
/ teal events that led 20 the civil war
and OF which the generation that has
grown up since We're profoundly ig
/ uorant and stil are. II was delivered
i by request OF the Young Mems III.
brary Association. when Henry GRADY
was its chairman. and l supposed was
published in pamphlet form and could
+ be had on application. But / have
sought IN vain 20 end a copy. 7 have
newspaper copy. but IL has been worn
90 the quick and is almost inegible. ]
wrote 20 Judge Pope Barrow. who H.
General JaCksCn's executor. and he
can hnd none among the generals
papers. Can any veteran furnish me
copy- I would also be pleased TO OBJ
tain a copy u Daniel Webstcr's
speech at Cap0n Springs. which was
suppressed by his publishers and %
which General Jackson makes alius-
Ion. General Jackson was great man.
He won his military laurcls in the war
with Mexico Re was assistant at.
torney general under Buchanan when
J jeremiah Black was the chief He was
The yiEiiant. determined c0nscicn-
uous prosecutor az those WAC owned
and equipped and Differed che onil
slave ship that ever land 90 on The
Georgia coast. he was man 20 spiea-
did culture and a poet OF ability and
reputation. Strange it is that this
magnificent address has not been
compiled IN the appendix 0f some
southern history as q land marx for
the present generation. BIZ is sad and
modifying that our young and middle
aged men and our graduates from
Southern colleges know SO little OF our
anfc-bellum history. The Northern
people are equally ignorant of the
origin % slavery and The real causes
that prcC initatcl the civil war Most
20 them have vague idea that sllt-
cry was born and just grew up in tlc
Scurh-Came MP out OF the ground
Nhc the 17-ycar0ld locusts-aud was
our sin and our curse. Not one in zen
thousand viii believe that the SOUTH
never imported a slave from Africa
hut got all we had hv purchase from
our Northern brethren I would wager
=
not man under dfty nor "a school boy
who lives North 90 the line knows or
believes that General Grant tlCi-
great military hero and idol was
slave owner and lived OF ~ their hire
and their service while be was fight
Ing ND about ours LincOlns procll-
nation OF freedom came in 1855. but
General Grant paid no attentiOn to H.
He continued % use them as slaves
until January. 1865. iSee his Biography
by General James Grant Wilson in
Appleton's Encyclopedia General
Grant owned these slaves in St Louis
No. where bc lived. lie was a bad
manager and just before the war be
gan Do novel % Galena and went ~
work for his brother h. the LANYARD
while there ne caught the war fever
and got q GOOD position under Lincoln
but had le remained I'm ST Louis
would have greatly preferred one ON
our side So said Mrs. Grant few
years a-o 20 news paper editor IN 81
Augustine.
How many Of this generation North
or South know or viii believe that as
late as November 1851 Nathaniel
Gordon. master oi a New ENGLAND
slave ship called the Erie. was con-
v.cteo in New York city of carrying
on The slave trade. fSee Appletcnl
Just think ~ 10 and wonder. IN 1861
our Northern brethren made war upo-
us because we ensllvef the ncrr0cs
we had bought from them but ar the
same time they kept ON bringing more
from Africa and begging us % bus
them How many know tc1- England
our mother country. never cmanci
Dated her slaves until 1888 when
twelve millions were set free in thr
TIA. ...a ...In .FH Hr..r
Of dollars paid 10 their owners by act
OF parliament? b. is only within tht
lsst ha1 century that the importation
. u slaves from Africa has gencrally
. ceased. u % that time every civfliz "a
country bought them and erslavel
them. English statesmen and cicrg~
nen said IL was better % bring then
away than 10 have them continue g
, their barbarism and canibalisn- Ane
Il was better ! believe IL was Cod
p providence that they shu1ld =,
{ brought away and placed "a slavery
q but the way il was done was inhumaI
5 and brutal. The horrors OF the mid
/, die passage. as the ocean voyage VA
: called. IS the most awful narrative
1 ever read and reminds me OF Dante
! Inferno" About half the cargo sur
i vived and the dead and dying wer
D tu~ bled into the sea The owners sal
{ We can AFFORD 20 lose half and sill
e have a thousand per cent profit Re,
3 John Newton. one Of the sweetes
poets who ever wrote q hymn. the al
= thor Of Amazing grace. how swee
: the sound. that saved wretch lih
mc2" Savior. Visit Thy Plantation.
Safely Through Another Week" an
many others, Was fo many years
, deck hand on slave ship and saw A
4 its horrors. He became converted. bi
Z, soon after became captain OF a slave
! and for four years pursued II ar