St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-06
WANTED BY BILL ARP
Speech Delivered in 1881 by Gen.
Harry R. Jackson.
SAGE of Barlow Thinks 1t the Most
Notable, Instructive and El0"
auent Address Heard In GeOr-
gia Since the Civil War.
by Atlanta Constitution. and
Reprinted by Permission1

copyrighted by Atlanta Constitution. and
Reprinted. by Permission]
Wanted-ln 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 sub
iect was 1.-The Wanderer," 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 that has 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 l
supposed was published in pamphlet
form and could be had on application.
But l have sought 10 vain to lind a
copy. l have newspaper copy, but 1t
has been worn 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 none among the
generals papers. Can any veteran fur
nish me copy? lwould also be pleased
to obtain copy of Daniel Webster's
speech at Capon Springs, which was
suppressed by his publishers, and to
which Gen. Jackson makes alluslon.
Gen. Jackson was a great man. he
Won his military laurels in the war with
Mexico. Hewas 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 land mark
for the present generation. 1t is sad
and Notifying that our young and mid
dle-aged men and our graduates from
southern colleges know so little OF our
ante bellum history. The northern peo-
pie are equally ignorant OF the origin
of slavery and the real causes that pre-
cipitated the civil war. Most Of them
have 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 10000 will believe that the
south never imported 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 school
| bow who lives north of the line 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. DE con
tinued to use them as slaves until Jan
uary, 1865. (See his biography by Gen
James Grant Wilson in Appleton's
Encyclopedia 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
| ~cAA
in the lanyard. While there he caught
the war fever and got good position
under Lincoln, but had he remained il
St. Louis would have greatly preferred
one on our side. So said Mrs. Grant {
few years ago to newspaper editor II
ST. Augustine.
How many of this generation north
or south know or will believe that a:
late as November, 1861, Nathaniel Cor
| don, master of a New England slave
ship called the Erie, was convicted IL
New York city of carrying on the slav'
trade. (See Appleton.) just think OF
and wonder. In 1861 our northern breth
rem made war upon US because we en-
shaved the negroes we had bough
from them, but at the same time tie.
Ike pit on bringing more from Africa ant
begging US to buy them. How man.