The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-13
FOUNDATIONS.
Interested in Question Of Charitable
Use of Ill Gotten Gains.
He Sees Statement That Faneuil Hall
Was Built from u S1avc-Trad-
er's PrOfits-The Character
of Gen. Fremont.

A little scrap from the New York
World put me to thinking. A certain
Englishman named. Hobson lectured
Sunday nightin Philadelphia on ethics
and asked if it were right to accept
charity from ~ill-gotten gains or from
such men as Carnegie, Rockefeller and
Rhodes, who made their fortunes by
monopolies and trusts and crushing
out the small dealers.
n editor of the World
IF charity money is to be scanned and
disinfected where shall the process
stop? Shall we boycott Faneuil hall,
the cradle of liberty, because it was
built from the profits, the blood mon
ey of Peter Faneuil's slaves? The
Jolly Bachelor and from his slave
trade and selling beads and watered
rum to the Indians? These were the
bases of many New England fortunes
now being 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 tits thatit 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. Appleton
says that prior to 1776 New England
had brought from Africa over 800, 600
slaves and sold them further south, and
for awhile they were in such demand
that the negro traders in Massachu-
sets seized and sold the young Indians
who had strayed too far from their
wigwams and they 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 or
drown women as witches as they did at
Salem?
My friend from Oregon seems anx-
ious to handle my book and sell it, but
insists that l shall make more proof
that Gen. Grant was a slave owner and
hired them out until the surrender. |
referred him to Gen. Grants biogra-
ply, written by Gen. James Grant Will
son, 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 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 II own people are profound
ly ignorant of the history of their
fathers and forefathers. Not one in a
hundred know that Georgia was the
first state that prohibited the African
slave trade. Pennsylvania sold negro
slaves at sheriff's sales as late as 1913.
New England abolished slavery long
before. but continued the importation
from Africa on the sly until 1861. Our
people bought them because they were
profitable in the cotton fields and in the
culture of rice and sugar cane. For 20
years before the war our best people
wished to 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