The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-10-24

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 Dantes Inferno
About half the cargo survived and the
dead and dying were tumbled into the
sea. The owners said we can afford
to lose half and stu have a thousand
per cent profit. Rev. John Newton,
one Of the sweetest poets who ever
wrote q hymn, the author Of Amazing
grace, how sweet the sound, that saw
ed a wretch like me" Savior. Visit
Thy Plantation" Safely Through Al.
other 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 be.
came captain Of a SLAYER and for four
years pursued It diligently and mitl-
gated It's cruelty. Then he quit and
went to preaching, and says In his au-
photography that It never occurred to
him that there was anything wrong or
immoral in the slave trade where 1t
was humanely conducted. The Savior
said: "Offenses must needs come, but
woe unto them by whom they come"
In Appleton's long and exhaustive
arucle on slavery II is said that slav.
cry In some form has existed ever
since human history began. And 1t ap-
pears to have been under the sanction
Of Providence as far back as the days
Of Noah and Abraham. The latter had
very great household and many ser.
wants whom he had bought with his
money. The word slave appears but
twice in the Bible. 1t Is synonymous
with servant and bondsman There
has been no time since the Christian
era that the dominant nations have
not owned slaves-sometlmes the
bondage was hard, but as a general
rule the master found 1t to his interest
to be kind to his slaves. AS Bob
Toombs said in his Boston speech: at
is not to our interest to starve our
slaves any more than It is to starye
our horses and horned cattle" Short
~ after the little cargo that the Wan
derer brought were secretly scattered
around | saw some of them at work
in large garden in Columbus, Ga.
and were told that they were docile
and quickly learned to hoe and dig, but
that it was hard to teach them to eat
cooked meat. They wanted it raw and
bloody. They were miserable little
runts, Guinea negroes" with thicl
lips and fiat noses, but they grew VI
into better shape and made good serv
ants and I know were far better of
than in their native jungles, the prey
Of stronger tribes, and made food TO
cannibals.
No, there was no sin in slavery al
Instituted in the south by our fathers
and forefathers, and that Is why
write this letter-perhaps the last
shall ever write on this subject.
wish to impress 1t upon our boys ant
girls so that they may be ready ant
willing to defend their southern ances
tors from the baseless charge Of sui
ferlng now for the sins Of their faith
ers.
A northern friend writes: "Do pleas
let up on the negro. We up here ar
tired of him. Give us more of you
pleasant pictures of domestic life, etc
but let the negro go dead"
He does not know that the negr
and what is to become Of him is
question OF tremendous moment wit
us and it must be written about. But
will refrain as long as it is prudent
Just now l would like to hire a ma
to cuss the black rascal who cam
into my back yard the other night an
stole my grlndstone. For five year
l have let every darkey grind his a
who wanted to, and now can't grin
my own. The fact is, have no ak t
grind, for they stole that flrst-BIL-
ARP. in Atlanta Constitution.