The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-10-29
Bill aR TELLS The FACTS.
ignorance in the Rorih--laany
Think Slavery Just Grew Up
in the S0uth--FeW Know
That Grant Owned
Slaves.
Atlanta Consultation.

Atlanta Constitution.
Wanted-In 1884 General Henry E.
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 ssThe Wanderer,
slave ship that landed on the Geor-
gia coast In 1885, 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
mas grown up since were profoundly
Ignorant and still are. It was deliver.
ed by request of the Young Mems
Library Association, when Henry
GRADY was its chairman, and suppose
was published in pamphlet formi and
could be had on application, bat !
have sought in vain to ind q copy. l
have a newspaper copy, but It mas
been worn to the quick and is almost
illegible. wrote to Judge Pope Bar
row, who is General Jackson's execu-.
tor, and he can find none among the
generals papers. Can any veteran
furnish me copy9 would also be
pleased to obtain copy Of Daniel
Webster's speech at Capon Springs,
which was suppressed by his publish
ers and to which General jackson
makes aIlusion. 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
4t b chief. He was the Figilant, deter
mined. conscientious prosecutor Of
these who owned and equipped and
omcered the only slave ship that. ever
landed on the Georgia coast. He was
a man of splendid culture and poet
OF ability and reputation. Strange 1t
is. that this magnificent address has
not been complied in the appedix OF
some Southern history, as a landmark
for the present generation.
It is sad and mortifying that. our
young and middle aged men and our
graduates, from Southern colleges know
SO little Of our ante-bealum history.
The Northern people are equally igno-
rant of the origin of slavery and the
real causes that prsei pitated the civil
war. Most of them have vague idea
that siaSsry was born and Just grew
up in the South-cane np ont OF the
ground like the I7ryear-cld locusts-
and was o1r sin and cur curse. Not
one IN ten thousand viii believe that
the South nerve imported slave from
Africa, bat got all we had by purchase
from our Northern brethren. would
wager a thousand dollars against ten
that not man 1nder fifty nor school
boy who lives North of the line knows
or beliYes that General Grant, their
great military hero and idol, was 8
slave owner and lived off of their hire
and their service while he was fighting
rs about ours. Lincoln's proclama-
tion Of freedom came in 1853, but Cen
eral Graut paid no attention to it. He
continued to use Them as slaves until
.January, 1863. tSee his biography by
General James Grant Wilson in APP
pletoa's Encyclopedias. General Grant
owned these salves IN st. Louis, Mo-,
where be lived. he was bad man
ager 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 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
newspaper editor in st. Augustine.
How many of this generation North
or South know or will believe that as
late ais November, 1851, Nathaniel
Gordon, master of a New England
slave ship, called she Erie, was con-
Yicted in New York city of carrying
on the slave trade. (See Appleton. J
Just think of it and wonder. In 1851
our Northern brethren made war upon
as 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
them. How many know that England,
our mother country, never emancipat-
ed her slaves until IS43, when twelve
millions were set free in the East
Indies and one hundred millions Of
dollars paid to their owners by act Of
parliament2 1t is only within the Last
half century that the importation Of
slaves from Africa has generally ceased.
TJp TO that time every civilized coun-
try bought them and enslaved them.
English statesmen and clergymen said
it was better to bring them away than
to have them continue in their bar
barism and cannibalism. And it was
believe it was Gods providence
taat they should be brought away and
placed in slavery, but the way it was
done was inhuman and brutal. The
horrors of the middle passage, as the
ocean voyage was called, is the most
aweful narrative I ever read, and re-
minds me of Dante's Inferno. !"
About half the cargo survived and the
dead and dying were tumbled into the
sea. The owners said we can afford to
lose half and still have o thousand per