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iffiil the Gastonia • grow* greater, not leaa. _ J_ Published Twice a Week—Tuesdays and W F. WAKSBAU, UUm u4 Progrietor. DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION OF HOME AND VOL. XX1IL_ GASTONIA, N. C.t FRIDAY, OCTOBER IT, BOX Airs LETTER. Ha Vuli SmAwd Yoeth Co Baaw Seat horn History Soya 6ml Owned Slaves While Fight lag aa Ah sat Oar*. .uuiu c<f«ot«n». Wanted—In 1881 General Hen ry R. Jackson, of Savannah, de livered in Atlanta the most no table, instructive, and eloquent address that has been beard iu Georgia since tbe/civil war. The subject was "The Wanderer," a slave ship that Landed on the Georgia const in 1858, Bat the whole address was an historical recital of many political events that led to the civil war and of which the generation that has grown up siuce were profoundly ignorant and still. It was deliv ered by request of the Young Men's Library Association, when Henry Grady was its chairman, and 1 supposed was published in pamphlet form and could be had on application. But I have sought in vain to find a copy. 1 have a newspaper copy, but it has been worn to the quick and is almost illegible. ! wrote to Judge Pope Barrow, who is Gen eral Jackson’s executor, and he can find none among the general’s papers. Can any veteran furnish me a copy? I would also be pleased to obtain a copy of Daniel Webster’s speech at Ca pon Springs, which was sup pressed by his publishers and to which General Jackson makes allusion. Oenerai Jackson was a great man. He won his military laur els in the war with Mexico. He waa assistant attorney gener al under Buchanan when Jere miah Black was the chief. He was the vigilant, determined, conscientious prosecutor of those who owned and equipped and officered the only slave ship that ever landed on the Georgia coast. He was a man of splendid cul ture and a poet of ability and reputation. Strange it is that this magnificent address had not been compiled in the appendix of some southern history as a landmark for the present gener ation. It is sad and mortifying that our young and middle-aged men and our graduates from our southern colleges know so little of our ante-bellum history. The northern people are equally ig norant of the origiu of slavery and the real causes that precipi tated the civil war. Most of them have a vague idea that slavery was born and just grew up in the South—came up out of the ground like the 17-year-old locusts—and was our sin aud our curse. Mot one in ten thousand will believe that the South never im ported a slave from Africa but got all we had by purchase from our northern brethren. I would wager a thousand dollars against ten that not a man under fifty nor a school boy-who lives north of the line knows or believes that General Grant, their great military hero and idol, was a slave owner and lived off of their hire and service while be was fighting us about outs. Lincoln’s proclamation of freedom came in 1863, but Gen eral Grant paid no attention to it. He continued to use them as slaves until January, 1665. (See his biography by General James Grant Wilson in Appleton’s En cyclopedia. ) Gen. Grant owned these staves in St. Louis, Mo., where he lived. He was ■ baa manager and just before the war began he moved to Galena and went to work for his brother in the tanyard. While there he caught the war fever aud got a good position under Uucoln,but bad he remained in St. Louis would have greatly preferred one on oar side. So said Mrs. Grant a few years ago to a newspaper editor in St. Anoustine. How many of this generation North or Sonth know or will believe that aa late a* November, 1861, Nathaniel Gordon, master of a New England slave ship called the Brie, was convicted in New York city of canying on the slave trade. (See Appleton.) Just think of it and wonder. In 1861 our northern brethren made war upon tu because we enslaved the negroes we bad bought from them, but at the same time they kept on bringing more from Af rica and bagging us to buy them. How many know that England, our mother country, never eman cipated her slaves nndl 1843, and When twelve millions were set free in the Bast Indies and one hundred millions of dollars paid to their owners by act of parlia ment? It is only within the last hall century that theimportation of slaves from Airies has gener ally ceased. Up to that time ev ery civilised couatry bought them and enslaved them. Eng luh statesmen and clergymen said it was better to bring them •wav than to have them continue in their barbarism and ctuibal ism. And it was better. I be lieve it pres God's providence that they should be brought •way and placed in slavery, but the way it was done was inhu man and brutal. The horror* of the middle passage, as the ocean voyage was called, is the most awful narrative I ever read and reminds ine of Dante's "Inferno." About half the cargo survived and the dead and dying were tumbled into the sea. The own ners said we can afford to lose half and still have a thousand per cent profit. Rev. John New ton, one of the sweetest poets who ever wrote a hymn, the author .of "Amazing grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.” "Saviour visit thy plantation," "Safely Through Another Week," and many others was for many years a deck hand on a slave ship and saw all its horrors. He became converted, but soon after became captain of a slaver and for four years pur sued it diligently and mitigated its cruelty. Tbeu he cjuit and went to preaching and says in his autobiography that it never occurred to him that there was anything wrong or immoral in the slave trade where it was hu manely conducted. The Saviour said: "Offenses must needs come, but woe unto them by whom they come." In Appleton’s long and ex haustive article ou slavery it is said that slavery in some form has existed every since human history began. As it appears to bave been under the sanction of Providence as far back aa tbe days of Noah and Abraham. The latter bad a very great household and many servants whom he had bought with his money. The word slave ap pears but twice in the Bible. It is synonymona with servant and bondsman. There has been no time since the Christian era that tbe dominant nations have not owned slaves—sometimes the bondage was bard but as a gen eral pile tbe master found it to his interest to be kind to his slaves. As Bob Toombs said in his Boston speech: "It is not to our interest to starve our slaves any more than it is to starve our horses aud horned cattle." Shortly after the little cargo that the Wanderer brought were secretly scattered around I saw some of them at work in a large garden in Columbus, Ga., and was told that they were docile and quickly learned to dig and to hoe, but that it was hard to teach them to cat cooked meat. They wanted u raw and bloody. They were miser able little runts, "Guinea negroes,” with thick lips and flat noses, but they grew up into better shape and made good servants and I know were far better off than In their native jungles, the prey of stronger tribes, and made food for canibals. No, there was no am in slavery aa instituted in the south by our fathers and forefathers, and that is why I write this letter—per haps the last I shall ever write on this subject. I wish to im press it upon our boys and girls so that they may be ready and willing to defend their southern ancestors from the baseless charge of suffering now for the sins of their fathers, A northern friend writes: "Do please let np on the negro. We np here are tired of hipi- Give ns more of your pleasant pictures of domestic life, etc., but let the negro go dead." He does not know that the negro and what is to become of him ia a question of tremendous moment with us and it must be written sboot. But I will refrain as long as it is prudent. Just now 1 would like to hire s man to cuss tbe black rascal who came into my back yard the other night and stole my grind atone. For five year* I have let every darkey grind hts ax who wanted to, and now I can't grind my own. The fact k I nave no ax to grind, for they stole that first. Pat Bis Feat In It. Ckk«e» bmSItnM. Mrs. Ferguson reached over, took a long, dark hair off her husband's shoulder, and held it np for bia inspection. "That," he said, srgry at her implied suspicion, "is from the horse's mane. I have Just been carrying him. "What made you suppose," she asked haughtily, "that I thought it was anything else?” At which he ahniak back be hind Jiis newspaper again, feel* lag aa if he had kicked hard at something and missed it. SHE SLAPPED THE DRUNKEN STRANGER. MIm Hansen, the Leading Lady o( tha Paul Gilmore Company, Forcibly Reaanta Mn| Me* loatad by n Strange Man— A Sensational Scans in Franl el tha Central Hetel. ChailolU Ob-crrer. 131b. At 1:30 o’clock yesterday af ternoon Col. R. O. Colt, uf this city, bad bis face slapped by Mias Grace Hobart Hanoon, of New York, who is the leading lady of the Panl Gilmore Com pany The occurrence took place in front of the Central Hotel. After he had been attack by Miss Hanson, Col. Colt wheeled and ran into tlic Central Hotel bar. With tears streaming down her face the actress impetuously followed him as far at the saloon door and then seeing the character of the place, turned and entered the hotel office, ex claiming to Mr. J. T. Matthews, the head clerk: "What sort of men is it you bayc in this place ?” The large number of people who were on the streets and witnessed the episode betrayed a natural and lively curiosity. Mias Hanson bad been seen to leave the Central Hotel annex and wslked up street in the direction of the square. When she came to the Gem Restaurant Col. Colt walked up beside her and brushed against her shoulder. She paused, looked at him for a moment, and then resumed her walk. A second time Col. Colt came alongside the actress, lurched against her rudely and, as she paused, leered into her face. I hen, quick as a boxer. Miss Hanson bit out with ail her might, and the sound of the blow coaid have been heard to the end of the block. Col. Colt immediately dis continued his primeval methods of introducing himself to a stranger. An Observer reporter inter viewed Miss Hanson in the parlor of the Central Hotel last evening. She wis visibly agitated. "The worry over it all sent me to bed," she ex claimed, smiling feebly. "Can’t you keep the matter out of the paper? I don’t care so much for myself, but I under stand he has a family. "The occurrence has unnerved me completely, and as I had never been South before, I had a pretty poor opinion of the men of this place until I was informed that Col. Colt was a rank out sider. Do you tbiuk it necessary to publish the story ? "Yea, tbe thing was too public and too sensational to be sup pressed. Do yon mind telling me jnst what took place ?” "Why, the affair puzzles me completely,” said Miss Hanson. "I came out of the annex door and was walking up street when this man came np from behind me, walking to keep pace with my steps, and brushed against me with his shoulder. "I was amazed and thought at first that the man’s rudeness must have been accidental. Bnt when I glanced up I found him glaring insolently in my face. He said nothing. 1 walked away tumidly, bnt be strode quickly In' my side. I said to myself that the whole thing was absurd, that it was broad daylight ana on a pnblic street and no man would dare to accost a woman under aneb circumstances. But this Col. Colt brushed against me heavily the second time and when 1 stopped he got in front of me and leaned hit face down to stare at me. * If I had hod a pistol I would have shot him dead without a moment’s hesitation. 2 fait helpless. None of tbe in our company was in tight and I was surrounded by strangers, I had to protect my self, and I—I—struck him.” "Hard?" "As hard as 1 could, I think. Then 1 know I made a perfect baby of myself by crying on tbe streets. I was utterly maddened snd unstrung, and, on impulse, followed tbe man to tbe saloon dooT, thinkiur it was the hotel entrance. 1 nope no one here will miannderataud ? 1 know how horrible It sounds to say that a woman struck a man." "No one will misunderstand." "For Southern men are not like that—" "No, not exactly." "And 1 am tony—bnt 1 should lika to have killed him. If people understand just how 1 was placed they will not blame me, will they ?" "No, sorely not." MANY IEUTIVES IN GASTtN. Death el Mra. Elisabeth McGill and Mra. Nancy Crawford Near Blacksburg, S. C. at*ck«buit14. Yocfcvtlla Uauairo. On Satnrday evening, ^October 11th, about 7 o’clock, Mra. Elizabeth McCM died at her home ou King's Creek, in the 88th year of her age. She waa the daughter of Mr. Alexander Galloway, and waa born in March, 1815, on Clark’s Fork, in York connty. About sixty years ago she was married to Mr. James McGill, a son of Cap tain Win. McGill, who was one of the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Western York. Soon after their mar riage, the young couple settled down on the large plantation given Mr. McGill by bis father, built themselves a comfortable home, lived upright and useful lives, reared a family of children who have been good citizens and honored members of society. Several years ago Mrs. McGill had a tali, from which the suf fered a great deal, and which made her lame the rest of her life, and for almost a year she has been as invalid, and confined to her room and bed. The death of her husband, which occurred in March last, waa a great blow to her, and despite the constant and tender care of ber children and friends, she grew gradually weaker, until death came to her relief, and she entered into the rest which is prepared for the people of God. She bore ber afflictions with great patience and waa al ways resigned to God’s will. She waa one of the oldest mem bers of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church at Smyrna, sad her profession of religion shone forth in her every day life. In all the relations of life, as wife, mother, friend and neigh bor, she tried to do her whole duty, and of her many virtues, that of faith in God and an hntnblc and abiding trust in His will and charity towards all, seemed to be the chief. On Snnday afternoon, in the pres ence of a large concourse of relatives and friends, and with services by her pastor, Rev. Mr. Oates, her remains were laid to rest in the old Smyrna church yard. Mrs. Nancy E. Crawford, widow of Mr. John H. Crawford, died at the home of her brother in-law, Mr. Jno. S. Mints, near tbia place, on Sunday morning last, aged about 89 years, ana was buried yesterday by the aide of her husband in Bethany church cemetery. Mrs. Craw ford was the daughter of Mr. John Young, a prominent farmer of this section of old York county, and she was one of a large and influential family. She waa married to Mr. CrawfoTd soon after the war and they moved to this place, then known as Black’« Station, in 1870, and built one of the first bouses ever erected in the place. After ber marriage, she became a member of the Associate Reformed church, and lived a consistent tnembeT of the same. She was possessed of fine traits of char-' octer, a kind heart, and won many friends during her life by her good deeds. [Both of the above named de cedents are mourned by wide family connections in Gaston county. Mrs. McGill waa a daughter of Dr. J. C. Galloway’s uncle, and waa also a first cousin of Mrs. Ed Whitesides, Mrs. M. B. Parsley, and of Messrs. Meek and Alex Craw ford. Though 80-odd years of age, she was bright and clear in tmnd until the last. • Mrs. Craw ford also was related by mar riage to mauy of the same fam Ules.—Gaxxtts.] As It I. la London. No Y«k rr***. A single gas company ia Lon don owns over $130,000 coin freed meters, through which the public purchase gas by the pen nyworth. Consumers are num bered by millions, and they are increasing daily. The innova tion is immensely popular. The consumers pay as they go. There is no worry over the spproachiug visit of the collector at the eua of the quartet, no terrible ulti matum, "If you don’t pay up your gat will be cut off I" livery person buying gas by the penny worth is visited once every five weeks by the collector who un locks the meter and carries away its bronse contents in a ha*.' There art 1000 collectors in all, and the mass of coin they handle in the course of a year ia enor mous. Imagine $1,800,000 in pennies, the annual takings. Over 750 tons of bronse t TOC FKElfCHCOAL STUB. A Trouble Thai la Maol leapacta ■aa—hlaa Ka Americas Cea tf iipofiry • New Vortr Time*. It mnst be particularly bitter to the owners of the French coal mine# that just at the time when they had a market for their an thracite at least better and big ger than they had ever dreamed of on account of the strike in Pennsylvania, they should have been disabled, from taking ad vantage of it by having a strike of their own on their hands. The details of the strike in France have a curious resem blance to the details of the strike in Pennsylvania. And the Preach strike is not to much smaller than the Pennsylvanian aa we might imagine. There are aakl to be 102,000 coal miners in France, end 120,000 of them are aaid to have joined the strike. In some districts, however, work is going on as usual, while in the departments of the North and the Paa de Calais it has been abandoned altogether. The workmen who refuse to join the strike are known in France as the "Yellows," which is at least a less disgusting designation than that by which such a minority is known among our strikers. Bat they are treated in much the tame way. Three hundred of them it seems, have been attacked at St. Etienne by 700 strikers and handled very much as they would have been handled at Shamoldn. rwii.uuiii.ciy jot uk preserva tion of order, the French govern ment turn larger powers than the government of any American State would have, except after an actual declaration of martial law. For example, the French government has absolutely for bidden the tale, in the mining regions of obsolete muskets, ob solete for military purposes, of which naturally there is an enor mous quantity in France. More over , the French government has an enormous standing army at command, and still again, every Frenhcman, especially ev ery official Frenchman, is deep ly impressed with the necessity of preserving order. Violence and intimidation on a scale large enough to be dangerous are thus excluded from a French strike, and the strikers and the "Yel lows" arc left to a contest of en durance, on comparatively fair terms. The strikers have appealed to M. Combes, president of the council, and have not obscurely threatened him with the Social ist "vote* in case he nses the power of the government to re store and maintain order. But M. Combes is likely to be leas impressed with the loss of that vote than with the loss of the votes of honest and peace able people which he will lose if he acquiesces in riot. In many respects France is a highly civ ilised country. In tome she can give an example in civilization to ourselves._ im trace ai VML CUew Cfcimki*. When hostile armies confront ed each other in the ages gener ally called "dark" each rested on its anna from sunset Saturday to •corise Monday. It was the "truce of God." In an age deeming itself full of light and in oil respects superior to the ages described as "dark" brutal sensationalism knows no trace of any sort. A Jew-hadng Paris paper warned the miserable Dreyfus that it he dared appear at the funeral of Zola be would be biased and otherwise mal treated. The savagery with which raci al prejudice wages its squalid hot sanguinary battles fears neither Deity nor devil. The ferocity of the Jew baiters of the French press is the more despicable be cause much of it ia inspired by mere wanton senaationalisixuand their malignancy would he wan ton had they happened to get on the other aide of the qucatiop. RoVal Baking Powder oarcguaros toe iooa jgjjpgt slum. . [LADIES’ COA — In our varied line of coata far Ladiea, Miuci, found a ran combination of ntyle, elegance, vite your iaepection of onr varied stock. rOt LADIES. m ew mdil (rtm itr mom ss-^es^'Sforcvsfc?1-'! ■— -■ ' -1 JAMES F. YEAGER. LADIES’ FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY. Extra Trousers. These are extra Trousers ia aura ways than one. They are extra value at theae apodal prices and they are extra fine ia quality. • They are "Cut to Pit,” well made— fast exactly as we want them as to shape, sixe sad sewing. If you are stout, all right; if you are slim, all right; if yon an average, all tight. Every well dressed man knows Ac advantage of an extra pair or two of well pressed Trousers. They make the old suit look like a new one. But not every man knows how good a pair of Trousers we can give him foe $1.2S to $7.SO. Come in and me about it. J. Q. Holland! & =85B—lig=g===JL-,lJMI LL 11 ... i,Ll". . L'm!» 1 ... _l. More Good News. We hare jut received another car-load of nice TeoneMce Hor ae* and Holes; among them are some extra fine big moles weigh* ing 1100 pounds and upwards; also some nice, kind, work hones, single driving horses and saddlcn. Come and see o«r big lot of stock, we have aiote than fifty head to ahow yon and they win be sold at prices to soft' the times. ■ If yon want a good hone or mule ho sore to call and scans at once and oblige CRAIG & WILSON.
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