The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-02-04

A little scrap from The New York
World put me to thinking. \ GER
tain F;nglishman named IIobson lee
tured Sunday night in Philadelphia
on ethics and asked if it was right to
accept charity from ~ill.gottcn gains or
from such men as Carnegie, l'ockcfcl-
Ter and Rhodes, who made their for
tunes by %monopolics and trusts and
crushing out the small dealers.
The editor Of The World answers,
eff charity mon.y Is to be scanned
and disinfcctcd whore shall the pro
cess stop? Shall wc boycott l'ancuil
hall, the cradle Of liberty, because it
was built from the profits, the blood
money Of Peter l%'ancuil'S slaves?
The Jolly Bachelor and from his
slave trade and selling beads and
watcrcd rum to the Indians? These
were the basis of many New England
fortunes now being used for generous
purposes. We arc inclined &c say let
charity have what it can get. The
more sinful the channel through which
fortunes have come the better it is
that it should now be diverted to
good uses. Luther said it was folly
to let the devil have all the good
tunes. That is good doctrine" God
sent it, but the devil brought it, has
good foundation. But didn't know
that the cradle Of American liberty
was built with money made in the
cradle of American slavery. Apple
ton says hat prior to 1916 New Eng
land had brought from Africa over
300, 900 slaves and sold them further
south, and for awhile they we're in
such demand that the negro traders in
Massachusetts, seized and sold the
young Indians WHO had straycd too
far from their wigwams and they
actually stole and carried away aud
sold the son of King Philip, an Indian
chief, who was at peace with the
whites. But what would not a people
do who would burn and drown women
as witches as they did at Salem?
Ny friend from Oregon GEMS anxi-
Gus to handle my book and sell it,
but insists hat I shall make more
proof that General Grant was u slave
owner and hired them cut until the
surrender. l referred him TO Grants
biography, written by General James
Grant Wilson, who was chosen by
Grant to write it. If his people will
not believe him, neither would they
believe if one rose from the dead.
The trcIble is that most Of his people
are either foreigners or of foreign
birth and don't know anything Of
American history. The truth is our
own people are profoundly ignorant of
the history Of their fathers and fore
fathers. Not n in a hundred know
that Georgia was the first State that
prohibited the African slave trade.
Pennsylvania sold negro slaves OF
sheriff sales as late as 1843. New
England abolished slavery long be-
fore, but continued the importation
from Africa on the sly until 1861.
Our people bought them because they
were profitable in the cotton folds
and in the culture Of rice and sugar
cane. For twenty years before the
war our best people wished to abolish
slavery, not as an act of humanity,
but because they were increasing 80
fast and were in the way Of poor white
men and were demoralizing to the
sons of the rich and their amalgama-
ton with the whites was a visible
curse in many families. And 80
Joseph Henry Lumpkin, our chief
Justice, began a correspondence with
Henry Clay about his scheme Of grad
ual emancipation. My father and
many others co-operated with the
plan, but the malignant threats of
CdC aoollClOulSLb SmOtnCreu IL In It's
birth. The other day I had a social
call from some northern gentlemen
and as the subject of the war incident
ally came up a solid veteran happened
to mention something about Fremont
and said he knew him very we'll, for
he was the first man he ever voted
for and served under him during the
war. Well, said I, do you know where
he was born? No, he did not-up
north somewhere. NO." said 1,
che was a Georgian-born in Savan-
nah, educated in Charleston. His
father was q Frenchman, his motbcr q
Virginia lady. The boy was a fine
scholar, but unruly and discbedicnt.
Became a tutor in mathematics, was
appointed lieutenant of engineers and
with Nicholas Nioolet made a typho-