The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-06

the Federal constitution.
"For the purpose of this occasion
we care not how the African slave
first placed his unhallowed feet on
Southern soil. Suffice it to say that
although the South had at onetlme
no inconsiderable career of maritime
adventure, mo ship or shipmaster oil
hers had ever In a single case peen
implicated in the illicit African slave
maintained slavery to be the most
dangerous element in the country.
From the beginning the statesman OF
the South scented danger1n the great
race problem with which they were
being saddled and the question that
was uppermost in their minds was,
what shall be done with the enamel
pated serf9
The Evils of Slavery.
"Much as / deplore slavery said
Patrick Henry, Il see that prudence
! forbids its abolition Henry Clay
asserted that FThe evils Of slavery
are absolutely nothing in COMPARE
son with the far greater evils which
would inevitably follow from sud
den emancipation And again Me
says: IF l were to invoke the
greatest blessing on earth which
heaven, in its mercy, could bestoW
ON this nation, it would be the sep
aration of the most numerous
races of its population and Nthelr
comfortable establishment In distant
and distinct countries Mr.. Mason,
of Virginia, went farther IN declar-
ing 'The traffic is internal. To per-
NIT it is against every principle III
honor and safety Mr. Calhoun was
of the opinion that the existing rela-
tions between master and servant
cannot. be destroyed without subject
ing the two races to the greatest ca
lamity and the section to poverty.
desolation and w~retchedness.
"Virginia in October, 1779, and
: Georgia, in 1898, passed acts pro
| hibiting the importation of slaves
| The former act provided for a pen
: atty of 1000 pounds, and also every
! slave imported contrary to the true
interest and meaning of this &C
shall, upon such importation becom'
t free,' thus, to the everlasting cred1
\ tof the South, upon whose devote'
! head the walls of holy wrath hav
t been so unjustly and brutality pour
t ed out for propagating, nourishln;
and harboring slavery, she leads tn
world in an earnest attempt to pre-
vent the very thing of which she J
d accused.
tHow can the Union be saved
) Numbered Mr.. Calhoun from the foo
of the Senate IL years before the bt
ginning of hostiIities. There is br
; one way by which it can be, wit
certainty, and that is by a full an
final settlement on the principles c
Justice, Of all the questions at issr
a. between the two sections. The Seut
a asks for justice, simple justice, an
IS less she ought not to take. She hi
= no compromise to offer but the Coz
ID stitution.'
"When the red curtain of W;
ne rolled upon the American stage
s revealed the South in arms reat
g. and willing to defend all tn
ne makes life worth living, the Fro
tb dom of country, the honor of the pc
pie, the sanctity of home"
on To Meet Next at Birmingham.
l4 The Grand Camp, United Confedt
=. ate Veterans reelected its genel
officers as followins:
Commander-in-chief General Step
Il. en- d. Lee.
Lieutenant General, DEPARTING
On Army Of Nortehrn Virginia, Gen.
vine Walker.
Lieutenant General Department
Tennessee, General Clement A. /
ans.
me Lieutenant General, TRANSMITS
sippi Department, Gen. W. L. {
bell.
ng All the officers were chosen by
clamation.
Birmingham was chosen as
his city for the next, the eighteen,
err nual reunion of the veterans. OIL
ich cities competing were San Antol
Of and Nashville. The vote at Fl
b" stood about 1000 to 800 in favor
the Alabama town. =
ore The report of the committee
DRY resolutions was adopted without
ear bate. 1t recommends that the spec
act es of Gen. S. D. Lee; Senator il
or w. Daniel and Col. R. E. Lee, Jr.,
tut printed in pamphlet form for dis
orn button and endorses the objects
Gus aims of the Arlington Confeder
,ns, monument in Arlington Natio
nee Cemetery.
for Ga the correct representation
'eds the Confederate battle flag the re
ers, buttons committee submitted as a S
the stitute Ft,that the action of this
the ISOLATION, at its convention held
md. Nashville, Tenn, IN 1904, be
nno- dorsod and reafirmed.s