The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27
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Saor nretty considerable carriers
s Them to others
o. Puritan Traits.
.r+ is instructive and interesting to
-,+ness this trait OF character OF the
oes eI,-s which has not disappeared as
1e a4S that their conscientious convic-
yep we're duly subordinated to the
uo C,nloncies of their pecuniary condition.
el. 6nring the Civil War the thrifty
E VeH while battling for the Union
ltaIlinarilv managed to lay in modest
81 epppiy Of pianos or silver spoons. j.
Career of Puritans.
81 do not think history affords evil
sonce of such variety of conflicting
a+jres and abnormally developed in
lLIiua+ion for disastrous interference in
n++ers which do not concern them,
ns have marked the career of the Pur-
a. neople. They have combined won
lso-frI sagacity in business affairs, and
u'arvalous success in their mercantile
ll..,,,r nc fact, the adoption of all
l pul avenues opened by modern re-
enorcb and methods for gaining the de-
sirad end with the most narrow and
bide-bound ideas Of the views of all
raonle beyond their favored border.
Tbev came to this country, as they
claimed. in search of a place where
81 might worship God according to
- dictates of their conscience, and at
80 set I'D a theocratic government,
90 which under penalty of exile, confis
cotion and death, all must submit
They allowed freedom of conscience to
no one; they prosecuted Christian and
savage alike. And when they had dr1v-
en- ont Baptists, Papists and Quakers
w. en IN keep their hands in, killed
some harmless old women whose only
crime was the possession of black
cat
Decreed Slavery a Crime.
"They found the rigors of their cli-
mate too great for the negro, and as
they could make no money out of him,
thew decreed slavery a crime against
Cod. though many of them were en-
gagged in the slave trade as carriers.
"They imported large quantities of
rnoIasses-made by slave labor in the
Southland made rum from it, which
they sent to the benighted Africans of
the slave coasts, where it was employ
ed in debauching the chiefs, and in
barter for slaves, whom they sold else
where on account of their scruples of
conscience On llOlQlliS AllSn III SuDJGC-
ton.
"They have always acted as though
on most intimate terms with the Deity,
and have never doubted for an instant
that they were and are the chosen peo-
pie Of God and destined to reform their
less favored neighbors. Such a peo-
pie could have no love for a constitu-
ton which guaranteed rights to others
which were opposed to their narrow
and prejudiced ideas; nor could the
Union appeal to them.
William Lloyd Garrison said: What
is the Union to me?' and his newspaper
had displayed as it's motto: The Con-
stitution a Covenant with Death, An
Agreement With He'll
THE South in coming INTO the Union
no more thought of yielding any con-
troll of the domestic institution of slav-
cry to the general government than the
North of granting power to it to regu-
late the aims houses within their juris-
diction.'
The Abolition Movement.
Bishop Kelley adverted bitterly to
the abolition movement in the North,
with its expression in the calumnies of
Garrison and his allies and the at
tempt of John Brown to start a servile
instruction in the, South. He de-
nounced the movement as violating of
the plain mandate of the supreme law
OF the land and as rendering impos-
sible the then efforts of some of the
slave states to emancipate the negroes
gradually. He continued:
Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher advised
sending arms to Kansas to aid in re-
sistance to law, and he publicly sub
scribed for twenty-five Shapes rifles
for the same purpose.
AS early as 1S43 the Wesleyan Meth
odist Church excluded from member
ship all who bought, sold, or held
slaves, or claimed it was right to do
so Two years later the Methodist
Episcopal Church, North and South,
came to separation because of an at
tempt to depose a Methodist bishop in
Georgia for marrying a lady who held
slaves. Emigrant Aid Societies were
formed in Massachusetts and Connecti-
cut Tor the purpose of colonizing Kan
sas with abolitionists who carried
tnlther no agricultural implements
save rifles. The women, headed by Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, came with sig
natures of LOO of Andover to urge
congress to violate the Constitution
and defy the law.
Tribute to Southern Women.
I am quite sure that I need not
state here my high admiration for wo-
manhood in the sphere where God has
oestlned her to reign supreme. There
is nothing which fills me with more
alarm than the occasional evidence af-
iorded of few-and, thank God-very
lew OF our Southern women who would
ape the manners and initiate the acts
OF the Northern variety of mannish
womankind.
Her place is on a pedestal so high
mat we would fain ne'er see her descend
10 trail her stainless robes in the mire
of politics.
The Old Southland to that 1 have
never faltered in. my allegiance-en-
throned its womankind and crowned
her with brilliant diadem of honor and
chlValrous reverence, so that respect
Tor woman was an instinct with
Southern youth.
AS mother. sister and wife she
[elgned supreme and every home, from
Ihe highest to the lowest, felt her in
Huence, and acknowledged her sweet
ana gentle sway. No pomp of cere-
Hhony or regal vesture were needed to
mark her position or command respect,
out conscious of the reverence in which
she was held and nobly fulfilling every
uuty OF her state she reigned absolute
IN the hearts of her household.
ohe bore without murmuring the
lIlaIs and horrors of the war and
paced on the altar of her Country
iIeeuom the sacrifice of her best be-
pEed' and so carefully trained her
daughters that, If no other inheritance
came to them, they were enriched in
,ueeu IN the heritage of their mothers