The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-22
Uncle TOm-Pappy'
Monument Dedicated


back in 1871, Mrs. Bashinsky said:
THE white people punished the
slaves in Haiti to get their wealth;
they had no interest in them. If the
Negroes of Haiti were goaded to acts
of fiendishness. then it was because
the white people made no effort to
relieve them, to take them away from
their voodoo rites and their primitive
conditions. As it is sewed so it is
reaped. Who would dare accuse the
white people of the South of the
atrocities | have mentioned?
| Christianity In Slavery
"People unfamiliar with the patri-
archal relationship between whites of
the South and the Negro do not an
derstand the conditions. For logical
reasons the people of the South in
heritol slavery. but with all the re-
sponsibilitips that - Christian COW
science could impose. Because their
snneriors failed them tin Haiti IN
acts of kindness. the Negroes re-
beued. but the people of the South
because they did right. the men
(whitel went to the war feeling their
women were protected. tAnplanse. }
i ne DidCk bh WV ti"F'N
nammv-how she loved her white
'chillun'. | speak from experience:
Ny black nanny never left me until
married >. How could anyone get
these sons of these black mammies to
take up arms against their masters
Fred Douglass was right--it couldn
: be done.
at is those qualities we are here
20 memorabilia we, the people of thu
South. take pride We feel prea
sympathy for the aims as outlined
nv Booker 7. Washington and K. K
! Moton. but in a closer way to us, per
haps, is thet old black mammv VIII
shared our lives. nursed our children
= was our confidant.
h True 10 Stars and Bars
; "Mammy now is old and decrepii
but she lives in little rose-covere
q cottage in my yard, and there sh
Il will live until her spirit goes marcf
:. ing on. :. More than l00,O0e,00
sing to that flag oh. long may
n wave over the land of the free an
"a the home of the brave. We of tn
- South are true to the Union; we al
~ true to the Cars and Stripes, an
,s vet, in a higher and truer sense,
the Stars and the Bars.
ayes, we are true to the nation
- flag, but we cant forget the Sta
and the Bars. :. 1t is cheap al
d blatant patriotism that doesn't tran
'e late fidelity, truth and loyalty wi
tribute"
ell Handkerchiefs were in eviden
e and the weeping of the rebel gil
u was audible.
As a wreath was placed on 4
On large gray stone monument, NJ
as Mary bowling Bond. chai"man of t
rs memorial committee, said:
ISIS 1--WE arc here to place the nan
ms of Hayward Shepherd in stone ..
because he and all the faithful ra
10 tie of domestic affection that is t
M foundation of all civilized societ,
ng There was a pause to announce
choir of Storer College. In the f
ar moments that followed a voice. cal
les penetrating and cutting, smote
he air. 1t cut out the very vltals
a every speech that had been made.
las was n direct slap in the face of
at president of the United Daughters
Confederacy, who had lust taken
led seat, amid applause. 1t was the
me lease of a pent-up fire that had
find expression, of deep-seat
to sympathy for John Brown and
the views of modern youth.
the Daughter of Yankee
cid The audience, taken completely
his. surprise, found itself listening
Miss Pearl Tattem, music director
St1rer College, who said.
md 81 am the daughter of Conne'
kerr cut volunteer, who wore the bl
yed who fought for the freedom of
people, for which John Brown str,