Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-10-25
ADVANTAGES OF SLAVERY.
Eta6 Slavery Not Existed Negro Race
Would Have Remained Savage.


working Negroes of the South who is
| a respected citizen and is in easy cir
lcunstances, lately gave ont an inter
view in which he declined 10 indorse
or condemn slavery in the abstract,
but thanked God for the opportuni-
| ties slavery in America had opened to
| his race" The interview was carried
by the associated press and was wide
ly copied throughout the United States
withOu. contradlction--wC suppose il
was authentic. But isn't it something
| more than the true expression of an
individual opinion? Does it not carry
d lesson to those who never lose an
opportunity to denounce slavery and
condemn the South for it?
| II is true that New England was
chiefly responsible for slavery in
America; it IS drue that New England
statesmen time and tine again refused
10 let the representatives of southern
states put the slave trSde under ban
and make its suppression a duty of
| the nation Put that only shifts the
burden. is it true, as this egro as.
serts, that slavery was a blessing to
those who called the Sufferers" as
we'll as the nation as whole while
the south only suffered? The death
and tortures that were the fate Of so
many Africans fail to affect the case;
they suffered in their own land, and
suffering accompanies every effort at
change and even every conservative
lot
, Let us consider the slave after he
passed into the south; Immediately
we are condemned for falling 10 give
| him schools But his best friend,
Booker Washington, takes him back to
! the training of slavery and declares
! that he received the best possible;
BOOKS have not enlightened the mid
night OF Africa While the negro is lis
ing TO better things in America on the
stepping stone of the mechanical and
Industrial training and moral re-
Straints afforded by slavery. Capable
negroes were taught on many planta-
lions tire ruliments of educations-re-
ligious training was almost invariably
afforded at the cost of the owners in
stead Of Il rough missionary societies as
now. Wasn't this so much to the
good?
The south, even now, affords 4
scanty support to the University Of
Virgins; a Yale or a Harvard would
starye in Florila Just q negro free
ecIr,l would have hoo, 1,yitb~,,t F,..vit
among a lot of raw Africans-it must
uot he forgotten that the negro was al
ways what he is now-not even in
1865 would Tu5kegee have made its
mark
The Baptist convention declared,
No fixed policy can be ADOPTED with
reference to a problem so shifting; the
greatest uplift e the negro has come
| from contact with Christian whites.
Had there been no slavery in this
country the negro would have re-
manned the slave OF his own race and
Of Mohammedan peoples. America did
not originate slavery and there was a
time, az least, when God approved it
and His law prescribed IT. If it is
wicked anil unutteratly bad' To-Day,
was it always without claim 10 merit?
The wisest statesman of this or any
agc" never condemned it and it was as
a heritaee from them that the south re-
ceived it, Against this attempt to
overthrow slavery contrary TO law
! The south revolted history shows that
( in the north anil west rlch and power
/ full organizations were devoted to the
/ ocular business of destroying slavery
in defiance of the law and published
threats against those who upheld the
/ law Should the south have yielded
its rights without protest to lawless
robbers even though these were Wi
ing to approve their devotion by mar
Ityriom?
some consideration for these facts
on the Part Of our critics would dc
much to put down sectional preju-
tdice" ana a few changes in the books
erl our with the name of he presi-
dent on the title rage Won / notify
1.-THE opinion entertained If him in the
south: these carrying only the correc-
tion Of known and proved errors and
misstatements. Why would it not b.
easy to concede so much and both dis
fed AMI proper TO do so? If the
| champions Of southern views en- the
battlefield may be admitted to tie IA
( ticnal pantheon why not the cham
p.uns IF the views for which they
/ fought? Why does a good cause need
falsehcod and invecive?