The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-10-23
Barlow Philosopher Wants Copy
of Gen. Henry Jackson's Speech.
LIGHT ON TIE SLAVERY QUESTION
arp Is Surprised at Ignorance of Ma.
lority OF the Present Generation
as to Recent Historical Facts
and Incidents.


Jackson, of Savannah. delivered in At.
Aanta the most notable, instructive and
eloquent address that has been heard
an georgia since the civil war; The
subject was The Wanderer," a slave
anip that landed on the Georgia coast
In 1898. But the whole address 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. 1t was delivered by request
or the Young Mems Library Associa-
ton, when Henry Grady was its chair
man, and | supposed was published in
pamphlet form and could be had on
application. But have sought in vain
20 md a copy. | have a newspaper
copy, but it has been worn to the quick
and is almost illegible. I wrote to
Judge Pope Barrow, who is General
Jackson's executor, 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
publishers and to which General Jack
son made allusion. General Jackson
was great man. He won his mill
tary laurels in the war with Mexico.
He was assistant attorney general un-
der Buchanan when jeremiah Black
was the chief. He was the vigilant,
determined, conscientious prosecutor
OF those who owned and equipped and
Shcered 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
ls that this magnificent address has
not been compiled in the appendix Of
some southern history as a land mark
Cor the present generation. 1t is sad
and Notifying that our young and
middleaged men and our graduates
from southern colleges know so little
OF our ante-bellum history The
northern people are equally ignroant
OF the origin of slavery and the real
causes that precipitated the civil war.
Most of them have a 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
never imported a slave from Africa,
but got all we had by purchase from
our northern brethren. | would wager
8 thousand dollars against ten that
not man under fifty nor school boy
who lives north of the line knows or
believes that General Grant, their
owner and lived off their hire and SER
vice while he was fighting us about
ours. Lincoln's proclamation of free
dom came in 1863, but General Grant
paid no attention to it. He continued
to use them as slaves until January,
1866. (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
Galena and went to work for his broth
er in the lanyard. While there he
caught the war fever and got a posi-
ton under Lincoln, but had he remain
ed in St. Louis would have greatly
preferred one on our side. So said
Mrs. Grant a few years ago to news
paper 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 for 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
them. How many know that England,
our mother country, never emancipat-
ed her slaves until 1843, when twelve
millions were set free in the East In
dies and one hundred millions of dol
lars paid to their owners by act of par
liament? 1t is only within the last
half century that the importation of
slaves from Africa has generally
ceased. Up to that time every civiliz-
ed country brought chem and enslaved
them. English statesmen and clergy
men said it was better to bring them
away than to have them continue in
their barbarism and cannibalism. And
1t was better. | believe it was God S
providence that they should be brought
away and placed in slavery, but the
way It vas done was inhuman and
brutal. The horrors of the middle pas
sage, as the ocean voyage was called,
IS the most awful narrative ever read
and reminds me of Dante's Inferno"
About half the cargo survived and the
dead and dying were tumbled into the
gea. The owners said we can afford
TO lose half and still have thousand