The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-04-17
Barlow Man Throws More Light
Upon 5 omo Li.tle Known Facts,
THE CAREER OF PATHFINDER FL, MONT
Gil Didn't Know that Cradle Of
American Liberty Was Built
With Money Made In the era.
die Of American Slavery.

Englishman named Hobson lectured
sunday night ia Philadelphia on ethics
asked II It was right to accept
aarity from illgotten gains or from
such men as Carnegie, Rockefeller ana
Rhodes, who made their fortunes by
nonopolies and trusts and crushing
out the small dealers.
The editor OF The World answers,
III charity money is to be scanned and
dislnfected where shall the process
stop. Shall we boycott Faneuil hall,
tle cradle Of liberty, because 1t was
afIlA from the profits, the blood money
ob Peter Faneuils slaves? The jolly
Bachelor and from his slave trade ana
selling beads and w6tered runs to the
Indians? These were the bases Oh
many New England fortunes now be-
ing used for generous purposes. We
are inclined to say let charity have
what It can get. The more sinful the
channel through which fortunes have
come the better It is that 1t should now
diverted to good uses. Luther sai0
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 lib
erty was built with money made in the
cradle OF American slavery. Appleton
says that prior to 1875 New England
had brought from Africa over 100000
slaves and sold them further south.
q for awhile they were in such de-
ml4nd that the negro traders in Massa-
chusetts seized and sbld the young In
dams who had strayed too far from
their wigwams and actually stole and
carried away and 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
Z or drown women as witches as they
did at Salem?
y My friend from Oregon seems anx-
10Y to handle my book and sell it, but
ins Ssts that l shall make more proof
that General Grant was a slave owner
and hired them out until the surrender.
I referred him TO Grants biography,
written by General James Grant Will
son, who was chosen by Grant to write
1t. If his people will not believe him,
neither would they believe if one rose
from the dead. The trouble is that
most OF his people are either foreign
ers Or of foreign birth and don't know
anything of American history. The
truth is our people are profoundly ig-
norant of the history of their fathers
and forefathers. Not one in a hundred
know that Georgia was the first state
thar prohibited the African slave trade.
Pen sylvania sold negro slaves at sher.
land abolished slavery long before, but
continued the importation from Africa
on the sly until 1861. Our people
bought them because they were profit
able in the cotton fields and in the cul-
ture Of rice and sugar cane. For TWEEN
ty yeayNs before the war our best people
wish 70 abolish slavery, not as an act
of humanity, but because they were
increasing so fast and were in the way
OF poor white men and were demoraliz-
ing to the sons Of the rich, and their
amalgamation with the whites was a
visible curse in many families. And so
Joseph Henry Lumpkin, our chief JUS
tice. began a correspondence with Hen.
nv Clay about his scheme Of gradual
emancipation My father and many
othera co-operated with the plan. but
the pgaIignant threats of the abolition
lists smothered 1t in its birth. The
other day had a social call from some
northern gentlemen, and as the sub
1ect Of the war incidentally came up
q solid veteran happened to mention
something about Fremont and said he
knew him very well, for he was the
first man he ever voted for and that he
served under him during the war.
Well said 1. do you know where he
was borR7 No, he did notrup north
someWht ERE. NO" said I, "he was a
Georl Aant-born in Savannah, educated
in charleston. His father was a
EreGehman, his mother a Virginia
lady The boy was a fine scholar, but
unruly and disobedient Became a tu-
tor IN mathematics, was appointed lieu
tenant of engineers and with Nicolas
Nicolet made a typographical survey
OF Checokee, Georgia, in 1888, ~ first
that eEer was made
My northern friend was amazed. No,