The evening times., 1911-08-17

date Virginia was on the brink Of
aboltshing slavery. Numerous seman-
cipation, societies existed in different
parts Of the south. In the year 1926
there were 142 emancipation societies.
In the whole country and Of this num-
ber 1O3 were established in the south.
The first, distinctly emancipation pa
per in the United States was published
In Jonesb0ro, Tenn, In 1819.s Wilson
acknowledges that there was no avow-
ed advocate Of slavery in Virginia at
that period. But public opinion un-
derwent revolution on this subject
between 1882 and 1842. It now began
to be spoken Of by some of the south
ern writer's and leaders for the first
time as blessing. What was it that
produced this fateful change of senti-
ment? Perhaps the majority Of our
historians attribute It to economic
causes-cotton raising, the culture of
tobacco. the breeding of slaves for
the far southern markets. But this
conclusion, submit, needs revision.
It cannot be sustained in the light Of
the true history of that period. The
real cause of this revolution in senti-
ment will be set down by the future
historian who shall be a careful stu
dent Of human nature and of the mo-
tives which influence it's action, to the
abolition crusade which was launched
by William Lloyd Garrison January /,
1881. The violence and the bitterness
Of that crusade produced its natural
result. The people Of the south found
themselves held up to the odium of
mankind for the abominable crime of
holding men in bondage, an act which
holy men like Jonathan Edwards and
George Whitfield had committed in
the eighteenth century without offense
to the most sensitive conscience.
Seven months after the publication
Of Garrison's Liberator occurred the
Nat Turner negro insurrection, in
which sixty-one persons-men, women
and children-were murdered in the
night. The south naturally connected
these events as cause and effect, and
the CHASTITY specter Of servile in
surrection like that which desolated
Santo Domingo rose before the imag-
ination of the people from the Poto-
mac to the Rio Grande. After this
the emancipation societies in the
south were dissolved and all discus
sion of the subject ceased. In sup
port of this statement I beg to re-
fer to the following authorities: "The
Southern View Of Slavery" by the
Rev. DR.. Nehemiah Adams of Massa-
chusetts, a strong antislavery man
(thfs book was published in 1850;
"The Progress Of the United States in
Population and Wealth." by Prof.
George Tucker Of the University Of
Virginia, page 108 published in
1S43): "Ruffner's Pamphlet" Lexing-
ton, 1847, by DR.. Henry Ruffner, pres
tdent Of Washington college; the
works Of DR.. William E. Charming
(the famous Unitarian), 1889, page
745 he wrote in 1856; "The Origin
of the Late War;" by George Lunt, Of
Boston. 1865, page SO; Life of James
Buchanan" by George Ticknor Cur
tbs Of Boston, 1888, page 278; Thomas
H. Benton" by Theodore Roosevelt,
1898, page 141; "The Political History
Of Slavery" by William Henry Smith,
1908, VOL l., pages 40, Al. See these
and many other authorities brought
together by Beverley B. Munford in
his recent book ."Virginia's. Attitude
Toward Slavery and Secession, !" 1909.
There is no doubt that the wearer
Of pajamas is inclined to look upon
the nightshirt brigade as delegation
Of fogies.
When you want to see someone, he
is long time getting there, but the
executioner with his axe usually ar
rives on time.
Clothes don't make the man but
that doesn't afford much consolation
for the civilian who loses the girl to
smooth lieutenant.
Everyone has a list of people who
don't do as they agree, but has any,
one nerve enough to put his own
name on such a list?
Every Young man has brilliant fu.