Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-06
MORE FACTS ABOUT SLAVERY.

The Washington Post continues its
educational efforts to convince it's
readers that slavery was not endorsed
or supported by the great men of the
South at any period of it's history. The
system was forced upon this section in
the beginning and its perpetuity was
| source of constant anxiety to the wis
est thinkers and bravest men this sec
ton produced. While slavery is now
purely an academic question, there are
so many erroneous views held about it
that the efforts of the Post can not bur
be appreciated by any lover of histor-
ical truth. While the present genera
ton North may not become fully ac-
quainted with the facts it is quite
probable that the next one will, and
that with the appreciation that slavery
was maintained against the wishes Of
the Southfs leaders in the beginning Of
the Republic, and that the great bulk
of them at any period of its history
would have been eager to grasp a tan
gible method of freeing the South from
the thraldom that slavery put upon
it, there will come flood Of historical
light that will finally and forever re-
move any embers of sectional i'll feel
| ing that may remain in that section.
Here is the latest utterance of the
Post on this subject, a subject tina al
ways has an interest, especially when
so many facts are. grouped together
so tersely and with such effectiveness:
7 There is nothing new in Frederick
Trevor Hills paper citing that George
Washington was opposed to African
slavery, though he was a Shareholder
The same is true of Jefferson the Ran
dOlphs, the Marshalls, the HarrisOns,
and nearly all the r. F. VS., of the
old Commonwealth. 1t was with pain,
if not with disgust, that the Father of
His Country when presiding over the
convention that formed the Federal
Constitution, saw the four New Eng
land States join the Carolinas and
Georgia and force into that instrument
| section 9 of article /, authorizing the
African slave trade until the year 1908.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvan-
| ia, Delaware. Maryland and Virginia
protested but each State having but
one vote it was a case of Z to 6, and
slavery won, because New England
had the ships for the trade and the
three lower Southern States the fields
| for the slaves If that section had not
| been incorporated in the Constitution
there would have been fewer slaves at
the South in 1860 than there actually
was.
In Kentucky there was a strong
anti-slavery sentiment Henry CLAW.
the Breckinridges and the MarshalIs
led it, The Underwoods. the Hardins
| Tompkins. and many others of the
very cream of the State opposed slav-
| cry, and when the New England anti
slavery society was set on foot there
were more than 100 such societies
south of the Mason and Dixon line
These all dissolved when the North I'M
dertOok the business.
There Is curious fact, rarely. if
ever, commented on and that is that of.
the troops Kentucky sent to fight for
the SOuth-1S61-65- large per cent
were anti-slavery in sentiment-that
is, they looked on the institution as
| an evil, and would have been rid of If
But much stronger fact is that an
| Overwhelming majority of the 10000
soldiers Kentucky furnished the Union
cause were strongly proslavery. and
embraced that cause because disuniOn
would bring Canada to the Ohio Rfv-
err and 2 fugative slave could not
then be reclaimed.