The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19
ieopyrfsht. 1892 by The Constitution
Publishing Company

l3nta the most notable. instructive and
eloquent address that has been heard in 4
G eorgia since the civil war. The subject +,
was The Wanderer." slave ship that !
landed on the Georgia coast in 1858. But /
the whole address was an historical re- /
cital of many political events that led
up 10 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 i
Grady was its chairman, and supposed
Was published in pamphlet form and
could be had on application. But i have
sought in vain to fina d copy. L have
newspaper copy, but it has been worn to
the quick and is almost ille31ble
wrote to Judge Pope Barrow, VINO Is
General Jackson's executor. and he can
find meme among the Generals papers.
Can any veteran furnish me copy?
would also be pleased TO obtain copy I
Of Daniel Webster's speech at Capon |
Springs, which was suppressed by ms
and TO which General jack |
son makes allusien. General jackson
was great man. He won his military 1
laurels in the war with Mexico. He was
assistant attorney general under Bueh- |
anan when Jeremiah Black was the
chief. He was the vigilant. determined, !
conscientious prosecutor of those VINO
owned and equipped and Differed the
only slave ship. that ever landed on the
Georgia coast. He was man of splen-
did culture and a poet of ability and
reputation. Strange it is that this mag
Aificent address has not been compiled IN
the appendix of some Southern history
as landmark for the present genera
ton. 1t is sad and Notifying that our
Young and middle-aged men and our
graduates from Southern Colleges know
so little of our ante-bellum history. The
Northern people are equally ignorant CT
the origin of slavery and the real causes
that precipitated the, civil war Most
Of them have vague idea that SLAYER!
Was born and just grew up in the South
came up out of the ground like the H.
year-old locusts-and was our sin and
our curse not one in ten thousand
will believe that the South never I'M
porfed a slave from Africa, but got all
we had by purchasing from our Northern
brethren. | would wager a thousand
dollars against ten that, not a man under
fifty nor a school boy who lives North of
the line knows or believes that General
Grant. their great military hero and
idol was q slave owner and lived of OF
their hire and their service while he was
fighting us about ours. Lincoln's pro-
cl,marion of freedom came in 1868. 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 Apple
toms Encyclopedia General Grant
owned these slaves in st. Louis, Mo-.
where he lived. He was a bad manager
and lust before the war began he moved
10 Galena ard went to work for his
brother in a tan yard While there he
caught the war fever and got good
position under Lincoln, but had he re-
NAMED in St Louis would have greatly
preferred one on our side. So said Mrs
Grant few years ago to newspaper
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
shin, called the Erie, was convicted III
New York city of carrying on the slave
trade (See Appleton.) Just think of 1t
and wonder. In 1851 our Northern
brethren made war upon us because We
ensiaved the negroes we had bought
from them but at the same time they
kept en- bringing more from Africa and
begging us TO buy them. How many
know that England, our mother country,
never semaneipated her slaves until 1915,
when twelve millions were set tree IN
the East Indies and one hundred millions
of 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.
LIP to that time every civilized country
bought them and enslaved them.
English statesmen and clergymen said
it was better to bring them away than
to have them continue in their barbarism
ana cauibalism.. And it was better.
believe it 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
middle 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. me owners said
they can afford to lose half and still have
a thousand per cent profit. Rev. John
Newton, one of the sweetest poets who
ever wrote hymn. the author OF
Amazing Grace, How Sweet The Sound
That Saved Wretch like Me2' Savior,
Visit Thy Plantation Safely Through
Another Week" and many others, was
for many years deck hand on slave
ship and saw all its horrors. He be-
came converted but soon after became
captain of a SLAYER and for four years
pursued it diligently and mitigated its
cruelty Then he quit and went to
preaching and says in his autobiography
that il never occurred to him that there
was anything wrong or immoral in the
slave trade where il was humanely con
Quoted. The Savior said 'Oftenses
must needs come, but woe unto them
by whom they come.
In Appletcn's long and exhaustive ar
ticle on slavery it is said that slavery
IN some form has existed ever since nu'
man history began And it appears 10
have been under the sanction of Provi-
dence as far back as the days of Noah
and Abraham The latter had very