The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-11-01

Vc(O. Otl tlly NCVC40t1 AutNf0SA AA4O g.
copy? would also be pleased to ol1-
tain copy of Daniel Webster s speech
at Capon Springs, which was suppress
! ed by his publishers and to which
General Jackson makes allusiOn. Gen.
eral Jackson was great man. He
won his military lausels in the war
with Mexico. He was assistant at
! torney general under Buchanan when
jeremiah Black was the chief He was
the vigilant, determined, conscien-
! tious prosecutor of those who owned
and equipped and offered the only
slave ship that ever landed ON the
Georgia coast He was man OF
splendid culture and poet of ability
and reputation. Strange it is that
this magnificent address has not been
compiled Ia the appendix of some
southern history as land mark for
| the present generation. Itis said and
mortifyfng that our young and middle
aged men and our graduates from
southern colleges know so little of our
ante bellum history. The northern
people are equally ignorant Of the ori-
gin Of slavery and the real causes that
precipitated the civil war. Most of
them have q vague idea that slavery.
was born and just grew up in the
South-came up out OF the ground
like the II yeay old locusts-and was
our sin and our curse. Not one In
ter t:BuskSzga wifi ibei;Eve tflat TIE
soutfT never Imported a slave. from
A frfca, butt got al we had by purchas-
ing them fr0na our northern brethren.
would wager a thousand dollars
against ten that not a man under fifty
nor a school boy who lives north of
the line knows or believes that Gener-
al Grant, their great military hero
and idol, was q slave owner and lived
off Of their hire and their serviceswhile
he was fighting US about ours. Lin
coins proclamation Of freedom came
in 1868, but General Grant paid no
attention to it. He continued to use
themias slaves until January 1865 (See
his biography by General James Grant
Wilson in Appleton S Encyclopedia
General Grant owned these slaves in
St. Louis, Mo-, where he lived. He
was bad manager and just before
the war began moved to Ga'ena
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. Augustine.
How many OF this generation north
or south know or will believe that as
late as November, 1861, Nathaniel
Gordon. master of a New England
slave ship called the Erie, Twas con-
victed in New York city Of carrying
! (Sno Anv,1nfirv,\
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 bringing more
| from A frica and begging us to buy
them. How many know that Eng
land, our mother country, never eman-
cipated her slaves until 1S43, when
twelve millions were set free in the
East Indies and one hundred millions
/ of dollars paid to their owners by act
of parliament? 1t is only within the
last half century that the importation
of slaves from Africa has generally
ceased. Up to that tinesesery civil
lied country bought them and en-
slaved them. England statesmen and
clergymen said it was better to bring
them away than to have them com
tinue in their barbarism and cannibal-
ism. Ard It was better. Ibelieve 1t
was God 8 providence that they should
be brought away and placed them in
slavery, but the way 1t was done was
inhuman and brutal. The horrors OF
the middle passage, as the ocean voy-
aga was called. Is the most fula mar