The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-11-10


Capers. Bishop Andrews, were little
less renowned than Wesley and
Whitefeld, and filled the nation ct
, that day with their fame as Bishop
Kavanaugh, Bishop Hendrix, Bishop
Galloway, Sam Jones, and others
from the south, have done since.
Freedom, in it's very essence, upon
which this government was found ed,
is contained in the Declaration of
independence" How comes it that
its author was from this slothfuI and
benigthed section?
Who more than Patrick Henry and
his colleagues in the Virginia house
of burgesses stirred the fires that led
to that revolution?
How was it that a similar "Declar-
alton of independence" was given
forth at Mecklenburg, n c., even at
an earlier period?
| How comes it that Washington,
who led the revolutionary armies
through seven years of toll, and strug-
gle. and hardship. to final victory, and
whose fame fills all lands, came from
this same benighted region?
How comes it that at later period,
when the nation was again at var
with the mother country, that its in
trepid leader, who gained such a sig
nal victory at New Orleans, was from
this same benighted region?
And who was the nero at Lundy's
Lane, on the northern frontier?
And when the country was at war
with Mexico we find that those who
headed it's armies and gained it's vic
tories from Vera Cruz to the very city
of Mexico, were from the same be-
nighted region.
| And as remarkable as the achieve
ments of the south were on the field
of battle they were no less renown-
ed in the councils of the nation.
| Up to the time this sermon was de-
livered the south had control of the
government and dictated it's policy.
1t had furnished twothirds of the
presidents; of the judges of the SUI
preme court it had furnished eighteen
to the north's eleven. Up to 1860 the
south had twenty-four and the north
only eleven presidents of the senate.
The speakerships of the house were
in the same proportion. We had four
teen attorney generals to the north S
five. Foreign ministers, we had
eighty-six to the north's fifty-four. We
had vast majority of the officers in
the army and navy, and the vast ma
jority of those who occupied the mi
nor positions in the various depart
ments of the government hailed from
| the south
| These things are not the outgrowth
of shiftlessness, idleness, ignorance.
intemperance and immortality
A majority of the homes of the
south were those of culture. and in
no section of the country was the
spiritual sentiment more predo'ni-
nant
| This binding of ones vision to the
true condition of the state of the Ma
ton" at that time was all on account
of slavery, which existed for longer
time at the south than it did at the
north.
1t was an inherited system. 1t did
not originate in the south, and the
south dealt with it as humanely and
intelligently as it was possible to Go.
1t was altogether mistake to sup
pose that the negroes were treated as
cattle, as Mr.. Parker, in this sermon,
says they were. No race of people in
the world are more worshipful than
the negroes of the south Whence
came this idea and desire of worship?
They did not bring it with them from
Africa. 1t was the work of the pray
erful teachings of their owners.
| preachers anu lSdCHSIS were dppOlnC-
ed to give them religious and moral
training, and family worship, in which
the negroes joined, was a picture
seen in nearly every southern home.
No one who is correctly informed
can say that the negroes were not as
moral and religious on the day of
their manumission as they are today,
after fifty years of freedom.
And the negroes today look to the
south more than to the north for
friends, and to the old slave owners
more than to the new generation.
| We are glad that the peculiar in
stitution" is no more.
We are glad because now we need
not be blinded to our virtues nor VIC
es, and each section will be enabled
to be weighed and measured at its
/ true worth.
We have built up on these shores a