The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-16
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TIE PHILOSOPHER IS REMINISCENT
Ee Discusses Events of the Past In
tfis Usual itZpry Manner Things
he Does Not Know.

Atlanta the most notable, instructive
and eloquent address that has been
heard in Georgia since the civil war.
The subject was The Wanderer.' a
slave ship that landed On the Georgia
coast in 1888. But the whole address
was an historical recital Of many poll
teal events that led to the civil war
and of which the generation that has
grown up since were profoundly ls,
aorant and still are. 1t was delivered
by request of the Young Mems Ii
brarv Association. when Henry Grady
was its chairman, and | supposed was
published in pamphlet form and could
be had on application. But | have
sought in vain to find a copy. have a
newspaper copy, but it has been worn
to the quick and is almost lllegib!e.
wrote to Judge Pope Barrow. who Is
General JacksOn's executor, n ne
can find none among the generals
papers. Can any veteran furnish me a
copy? / would also be pleased to OBJ
tain a copy of Daniel Webster's
speech at Capon Springs, which was
suppressed by his publishers and to
which General Jackson makes allus-
ion. General Jackson was a great man.
He won his military laurels in the war
with Mexico. He was assistant at
torney general under Buchanan when
jeremiah Black was the chief. He was
the yigilant, determined, consclen-
dous prosecutor Of those who owned
and equipped and of1cered the only
slave ship that ever landed on the
Georgia coast. He was a man OF sptel-
did culture and a poet OF ability and
reputation. Strange 1t 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 our young and middle
aged men and our graduates from
Southern colleges know so little OF u
ante-bellum history. The Northern
people are equally ignorant OF the
origin Of slavery and the real causes
that pr~ecipitatad the civil war. Most
IF them have a vague idea that slav-
sry was born and just grew up in the
South-cane up out Of the ground
like the ~l7-year-old locusts-and was
our sin and our curse. Not n in ten
thousand will believe that the South
aever imported a slave from Africa,
but got all we had by purchase from
our Northern brethren. l would wager
4 Thousand donars against ten that
not a man under fifty nor a school boy
who lives North of the line knows OF
believes that General Grant, their
great military hero and idol, was a
slave owner and lived of Of their hire
and their service while he was fight
ing up about ours. Lincoln's procla-
nation Of freedom came in 1858, but
General Grant paid no attention to it.
He continued to use them as 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 a bad
manager and just before the war be-
gan he moved to Galena and went TO
work for his brother in the lanyard.
While there he caught the wal fever
n got a good position under Lincoln,
but had he remained in st. Louis
would have greatly preferred n 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, 1851, Nathaniel
Gordon, master of a New England
ylave ship called the Erie, was con-
yicted in New York city of carrying
on the slave trade. (See Appleton.)
5ust 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 enamel
pated her slaves until 1S4S. when
twelve millions were set free In the
East Indies and n hundred millions
ct 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 time every civilized
country bought them and enslaved
them. English statesmen and clergy
6ien said 1t was better to bring them
away than to have them continue in
their barbarism and canibalism. And
it was better. | believe 1t was Gods
providence that they should be
brought away and placed in slavery,
but the way it was done was inhuman
and brutal. The horrors Of the mid.
die passage, as the ocean voyage was
called, is the most awful narrative /
ever read and reminds me Of Dante's
Inferno" About half the cargo sur
vived and the dead and dying were
tumbled into the sea. The owners said
we can afford to lose half and still
have a thousand per cent profit. Rev.
John Newton, one of the sweetest
poets who ever wrote a hymn, the au-
thor of Amazing grace, how sweet
the sound, that saved a wretch like
me?" Savior, Visit Thy Plantation
Safely Through Another Week" and
many others, was for many years a
deck hand on a slave ship and saw all
it's horrors. He became converted. but
soon after became captain Of a SLAYER
and for four years pursued 1t DILL
gently and mitigatod its cruelty. Then
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