The Tupelo journal., 1902-10-31
WANTED BY BILLARP
Speech Delivered in 1881 by Gen.
Harry R. Jackson.
eage Of Barlow Thinks 1t the Most
Notable, Instructive and ElO-
Quent Address Heard In Ge0r.
gia Since the Civil War.
lC~opyrfShted by Atlanta Constitution, and
Reprinted by Permissionl

tCopyrfShted by Atlanta Constitution, and
Reprinted by Permissionl
Wanted-In 1881 Gen. Henry r. Jack
son, OF Savannah, delivered in Atlanta
the most notable, instructive and elo-
quent address that has been heard in
Georgia since the civil war. The SUBJ
ject was 1.-The Wanderer,' a slave ship
that landed on the Georgia coast in
1858. But the whole address was an his
torical recital of many political events
that led to the civil war, and of which
the generation thathas grown up since
were profoundly ignorant and still are.
1t was delivered by request OF the
Young Mems Library association, when
Henry Grady was it's chairman, and ]
supposed was published in pamphlet
form and could be had on application.
sui L have sought in vain to find a
copy. l have a newspaper copy, but 1t
has been worm to the quick and is al
most illegible. l wrote to Judge Pope
Barrow, who is Gen. Jackson's ex-
ecutor, and he can find non among the
generals papers. Can any veteran fur
nish me a copy? Iwould also be pleased
to obtain a copy of Daniel Webster's
speech at Capon Springs, which was
suppressed by his publishers, and to
which Gen. Jackson makes allusion.
Gen. jackson was a great man. He
won his military laurels in the war with
Mexico. He was assistant attorney gen.
eral under Buchanan when jeremiah
Black was the chief. He was the vigil
liant, determined, conscientious prose-
cutor of those who owned and equipped
and differed the only slave ship that
ever landed on the Georgia coast. he
was a man of splendid culture and a
poet of ability and reputation. Strange
it is that this magnificent address has
not been compiled in the appendix of
some southern history as a land mark
for the present generation. 1t is sad
and notifying that young and mid
dle-aged men and our graduates from
southern colleges kno.g so little of our
ante-bellum history. T%henorthern peo-
pie are equally ignorant of the origin
of slavery and the real causes that pre-
cipitated the civil war. Most of them
have a vague idea that slavery was born
and just grew upin the south-came up
out of the ground like the 17-year-old
locusts-and was sin and our curse.
Not one in 10000 will believe that the
south never imported a slave from
Africa, but got all we had by purchase
from our northern brethren. would
wager a thousand dollars against ten
that not a man under so nor a school
boy who lives north of the inc knows
or believes that Gen. Grant, their
great military hero and idol, was a
slave owner and lived off of their hire
and their service while he was fight
ing us about ours. Lincoln's proclama-
ton of freedom came in 1868, but Gen.
Grant paid no attention to it.. He con
tinued to use them as slaves until Jan
uary, 1865. (See his biography by Gen.
James Grant Wilson in Appleton's
Encyclopaedia Gen. Grant owned
these slaves in ST. Louis, Mo-, where he
lived. He was a bad manager and just
before the war began he moved to Ga
lena 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 wouldhav greatly preferred
one on our side. So said Mrs. Grant a
few years ago to a newspaper editor in
St. Augustine.
How many of this generation north
or south know or will believe that as
late as November, 1861, Nathaniel Cor
don, master of a New England slave
ship called the Erie, was convicted in
New York city of carrying on the slave
trade. (See Appleton.) Just think of it
and wonder. In 1861 our northern breth-
rem made war upon us because we en-
shaved the negroes we had bought
from them, but at the same time ti.ey
kept on bringing more from Africa and
begging us o buy them. How many