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SPEECH OF GEi. WADE H.AMPTON,
Delivered before the ' S1lier8' A .eo
ciation," at Wailhalla, South Coro
lina, September 22, 186.
Fellow-Cit':cns and Brother Sil
diers of Pickens :-In res ples to
your kind invitation to join you
to-day, I have come to partieipate
in the grateful ceremonies of this
occasion. It affords me great sat
isfaction. I assure vou, to do so,
because it is so eminently fit and
proper that every survivin Sol
dier of the South should, at all
times and everywhere, Pay al pos
sible respect to the memory of his
dead comrades. Another reason
which urged me strongly to be
present to-day, was that. I might
have the pleasure of seeing again
so many of the men who fbuglht so
long and so well under my ciom
inand. I remember with pride
that the brave Kilpatrick. who now
sleeps in a soldier's grave, brought
his gallant Company of mountain
eers to fight under the banner of
my old Legion, on the glorious
field of Manassas, and I take plea
sure in saying here to-day, before
their kindred and their fillow-citi
zens, that they did honor to their
State. Pickens gave to me besides.
Calhoun's brave men and volun
teers in that noble German Battery
of Bachiman, one whole company
in the gallant 1st South Carolina
Cavalry, which formed so impor
tant a part of my old and beloved
brigade; that brigade which. though
it fought oit an hundred fields,
never knew defeat.
I recollect that when that re "i
meit made its first charge I had
the honor to be with it. 1 recall
that bloody 9th of J une, when, at
Brandy Station, its glorious ban
ncr was baptized in blood. All the
stirring incidents of that eventtul
day r'ise up vividly b)efore me, as I
look upon t he faees of the vet erans
who were sharers in its glJory. 1
see again that nmagnificent pano
rama of fertile hill and smliilig
vale, lighted up by the lurid glare
of' war. I see our cavalry s epara
ted, fighting in every quarter
against !.davy odds. I see the en
emy gaining groundl everywhere,
save where your brigade was fight
ing, while our gallant chief, the
heroic Stuart. wit hi chiaract erist le
courage, (lashes bimuself tf rst against
one column and thent :against an
other, hit in vain. Thi circle of
fire slowly but surely ch~ sed around
that devoted band. until they were
the only ones within its folds.
There was but one r oad over whi :h
you could withdraw, and acro ss
that were the serried ranks of lhe
enemyv. whose guns were already
thundering upon you.
All saw the critical poCsit ion inl
which you were pldac d. b ut thloug~h
all saw it. not one man qjuailed.
The day seemed lost, and so it
would have been, bout for the . )ld
Brigade,"' as we all loved to call it.
With banners proudly fl.viing, with
sabres <rlistening borightly, with
ranks as regular as if on parade, it
turned1 to mteet the niew einmy.
who vainly hoped to har its way.
The niob le Cobb) Legion-thani
which no bet ter regIiment ever
fought-was in front. yoour reg'i
ment next, fllowed by the brave
old 1st North Carolina, and the
dashing Jeff. D)avis Legisn, when
I or'dered the chiarge. A rtilery
ploughed1 th1roughl your1 r'anks{-dis
mfountedl men, in line o battle,.
covered the hill, and cavalry. by
its counter char2>'. tied to cheek
your progries. N Et a sh~ot was
fired by my men. lbut with drmawnm
sabres, theyJ rodeo .steadilyv throughi
that storm of fire fir mmore than
my, save the dead and the woun
ed, Whose ghastly\ wounds told
llore eloqu1entily thian words could
do. what good work my keen sa
bres had dlone. Artilery, standl
ards1. prison1 rS. were all captured
in that char're and the fight was
over. I relellher I Iperville.
where again the fortunes of the
day seemed lost, until that Brig
ade, lIy a series of desperate char
"es, which I have never seen sur
p1assed, snatlicd victory from the
very grasp of dcfeat. And Gettys
lurg with all its gory memories,
brings to Imy' recollection the brave
deeds of t lieS tried soldiers. I
have not forgotton-I never shall
f rg.et.hbrot hersoldiers-tlhat when
Ii-n'e wounded Ironi that fatal
ieldl. I sellt wor(1 hack to my men
to hold their ground to the last,
how nobly and,l at what a cost. thev
calrriedI ot what I t lien believed
to be the last order I should ever
give them.
All these proud but sad nemo
ries come throiiginlg fast upon my
heart. wlen I look again upon the
men w -ho shared with me f'or years.
the privations, the perils and the
glories of the past. And though
meetlil them under such circum
stances as the present, is fraught
with manmv sad reflections, it is a
source Of ilfitl''" ratifieatioll to
me to see thei once more. you,
of my old command, never failed
to respond when I called upon
you. and now that Vou call on me
to join with you in paylng a melr
ited tribute of respect to our mar
tyred dead. I would he ungrateful
in(leed. were I to refuse to answer
to the appeal.
To Pec(Ord the names of"the brave
menlt wo ave their lives to the
country;: to perpetuate the memli
ory" ortheir heroe acedis ; to deck
their humllble --raves with flowers.
as we Imluru tihell' ultimely fate.
are the sal and the Only privi
leges we have. In our poverty
we are not al)le to raise suitalde
im onunicti s to mark their last rest
ing places ; in our (lefeat. we feel
that as far as human wisdom can
tathom. they dlied in vain ;and in
our grief at their loss, we can
scarcely reconcile tL. :(death with
the perfe~ct .ut ice and the intiniite
mercv of the Almighty. It was
not perm'Iittc teio surviving' kinth-ed
and friends to co nsignm their loved
remains te '' eir last home, with
all the tokens of respect and
honor but t hey Sledl. ne'verthle
Ies-. ini hi nored grlaves. and thejir
"Sunk to rest,
Uy a'l their country's wishes blest."
No p ius hand ceet t heir sacred
dlust. They sleep whirever the
1 olds o( th le Southiern ( r~osS has
waved in triinriph, a~ld thley 111n(
it resti ng' places on the field s their
valor won. Your government sets
ap art and donlSedrates$ great Ia
tionual C'emetecries on your soil for'
those who. while invading that
soil with tire and sword, were wel
cmed to hospitable graves ; while
the mcen who died on, tmd in de
fence of thI eir~ nat ive land, sleep) in
unmarked. or perhaps unknown
graves. Their ashes are not per
mnit ted to repose in N%ational (Cm
eterics, aind brand'ed as r'eb els
while living, they have ntot thle
pi 'vi lege, ace'orddd to t heir foemen.
of Chist ian Sepul t ure--whien dead
"iTheir's was unconsecrated clay."
It behoo ves us t hen--thle men who
stotod slhouluder to shoulder with
them whlile they were light ing fo r
heir cunltry'--thle p etople in
white h-C fencie ther laid down
their Ii ves, to show tby all the
means ini our1 pow\er, that we arc
iriateful for the sacrilices they
made in our behalt. andi that we
reverence thieir memory. The As
sociatit)n y<>ui have thI's tl:i formeid.
ha:s t lise laudable i ject S n view,
antd if these were its only pturpotse,
it shuldb meet thle cordial appro -
In ouri StateC. Liut h1121 and wvortiiy
a- are Ithe-e alimu. it cointemplat e
TIoh e Ult >chil beth the nuaked,.
phlaul. to colort the widow to
alleviate sufferings of all, and to
pour balm into their bleeding
hearts. God will surely bless an
undertaking which has such holy
purposes in View, and the goodl of
every land will think that you are
proving yourselves worthy of the
men who (lied in the effort to
make you free. I bid you God
speed in this holy work., and I in
voke upon it the blessings of the
Almighty. I hope that organiza
tions of this sort will spring up
throughout the entire South-that
they will scatter blessings broad
cast over our land, and that they
will serve to bind our whole peo
pie together. I canllot collceive
how any one. evell tile most zeal
OUS an1d suspicious of that police
who now ilfest our country, canl
findII anything objectionable in
them. But the Military Satrap
who now ho0)lds rule in New Or
lea s, has already forbidden all as
sociations of Coifed1erate Brig
ades, Regiments or Comlanies. for
a11Ny purpose whatever, and I sup
pose lie will soonl issue a general
order, declaring it Ireason fo r even
the pitying hand of sorrong --
men1 to drop a flower on the hum
ble grave of any poor soldier. who
laid down his life at the call of his
State.
Having ealrnle(I for h imselfan un
dying evil fiune by the savage
barbarity wit which he executed
the atrociou1s order to devastate
one of the fiirest portions of -ir
ginia. he seems still inclilled to do
no w as he did tilel, wage cruel
and relentless war upon unarmed
and lldlefeleeless citizens. 1 hope
that you1 Association will escape
the fate of those in -New Orleans.
an? that it will soon le sheltered
safelv unler the protection of our
own State. when civil law shall
have superseded martial law, reas
suming its benign sway. and pro
tectin" by its ample shield the
rights, the institutions and the
persolls of our people. For many
long and weary months we have
waitedl for the realization of our
ardlent hopes. this fultillhnent of
our just expectations; but we still
wait in vain. The grasp of mili
t arv power has not Vet r'elaxatedl
its hold.
You may perhaps, fellow-citi
zens, think that anyv discussion of
genera':l pol it ies is ilnai propri ate on
ant occasin oi f thIiis sort, but as I
may not ' agin~II hmve an 0jpport t
the record. or to correct the mis
(lentlalUtd1Uresellt }MllSt 'nl. dissem
inated by the Ihelical press. may
I claim your indlulgence for a birief
discussioni of thlese t opies. It is
full time that 50ome v)iee fr'~om thle
Sonth shiou Ili e raised to (declare.
that lionugh conq(utered she is noit
humiliated 1: hough she submits
she is no t deuraided :that she has
nut lost lher sell-respect :that she
laid down her arms on hionorale
terms with the most perfe ct faithi.
and t ha:t she has a righit to ide
manid a like obiservanlce o thiemi on
the part oftthe North. Wouldl to
God that some voice more piotient
tha:n mine would uitter these
rut his! Would to Goil t hat t he
ti]gl.es O1tf ise great.saene
of ('arolina, wllo in time 11ast.
warned,. cOunseled. directed ' ur
peole, wer?1e not hiushied in dleatIh,
or that those which uuore receut tly
stirr1edl the Southbern heart to its
pi.<>ifiuldest ile dlis. were niot inow
as silent as deat hi it self!
But pierhiaps in the midst of' this
silence so primn~id, even my voice,
feeble as it is, may be not without
that weighlt which always attach
es to tlhe utterence of trultl. alnd
in this hope. I~ vent ur'e to discuss
our condition and our policy.
What, then, is our' conijiition ? For
fur' years thic South was the vie
timi' of a cruel and ulnnecessary
war--a war marked on the part
of' her opIponeni ts lby a barbari tv
never'] surpased. if' eu aIled, in t. he
an nals of civilized1 warhare. Tfhe
on nearly every battle-field she
was victorious. and her enemies
were forced to resort to weapons
more congeilal to their nature
fire and flmine. The torch was
applied with an unsparing hand.
The mansion of the rich ; the cot
tage of the poor ; peaceful vilages
thriving cities ; even the Temples
of the most high, God, fell before
this ruthless destroyer, leaving to
mark the spots where once they
stood, but ashes and blackened
ruins.
All the industrial re.:luurces of
the South were wantonly destroy
ed or stolen, and gaunt famine fol
lowed in the footsteps of the in
va(lers. The men who had borne
without a murder every privation ;
who had facel death in a thousand
shapes wit hout flinchiing were not
1o)of against the cries which come
to them from homeless and starv
ing wives and children. They hiid
down their arms, which they had
crowiied with eternal lustre. and
they aecepted the terms offered to
them by the -North. What were
these terms ? h rol htiout the
whole var. the 'North declared in
the most solemn and authoritative
manner that she fought solely to
re-establish the Union ; to bring
back to one fold all the States. and
to give to all equal rights and
equal liberty. This was the con
stant declaration c, Mr. Lincoln.
Mr. Seward not only announced
the same principle, but he declared
that whatever might be the result
of the war, not only -would all the
rights of the Southern States be
preserved. but that all their insti
tutions would be intact. The con
gress of the United States in a
resolution. passed I think unani
mnouslv, a111l never ret re1 a
noulmeed the object and the sole
obj ect of the war to be the restor
ation of the Union. unmler the su
premacy of the Constitution. The
very p( wers under which we laid
down our arms, promised the pro
tectionl of the Government and
gave the assurance that we should
not be interfered wit h. so longr as
we obeyed the laws of the States.
wherein we resided. These dlecla
r'ationis were mfadeC not onily to the
South. but to foreign nations ;:anid
the SouthI was asse red t hat she had
but to acknlowledlge the sulpremiacv
of tlle Nat ional ( overllmen t to h)e
received in to the Unioli. as equal
mnembIers of the great failyi of
State~s. wvith aill her righits and all
Teewere the termfs upon)h
which the South capitulaued. On
ber part she was to cease wari-to
renew her allegiance tothe Nation
al Governmecnt. aindu to express her
lovalt v to t he Constitiution of t he
Unitedl States. O n the part ofthle
\or' it hlere was to be aiiniett
orn the p:ast--a recogiiiti' o1 of t lie
m ot hieri States as equal muembIoers
of t lie lnion--alii a solemun pledge
t hat aill theiir righits shoi1hl be held
sacred. This was the construction
placedh by the Souith upon the coy
enanit ent ered into. and it is the
<>ir inI i and Ilollest construct ioul
it will adhnit of. JIow have the
p)arties to t his covenan1t fulilj
their ob,ligat ionis ? I have sai
thIiat thle South I has perfb rmnel
hier's withi the most perect. Luhiih.
Let inc prove' the assert ion. She
was to cease war. Wlhenl 011'rn
inaii(lill g oflicers siglned the Con
ventionis which put a stop) to the
war, (every soldier of' the Conifed
eracr. from the Potomac to the
Rio G (rand'e. l aid do wni hiis arms
aundreturi n ed to his hIme uu.or to
the spo t where his home had been.
The next condition of the terms
required from the Sout h, a renew
al of her allegiance to the General
C ovelimellt. In every 50uillern
State, thie pieople by their Conven
tions, their Legislatures, and in
:ividuially. conformedl pr'ompjtly to
this coinditioni. Lov-altv to the
Constitution oft the United States
was exacted, as thle onily other ar
tiele of thei teems requii red of the
Sont hi . I asser et hiiat shie Ihas ful
iled this poart Of th copat ai I
well as the others, to the letter,
and that in the t uc acceptition
of the word she is loyal. What is
"loyalty ?" It is nothing more or
less than faithfulness-obedience
to thelaws ofthat Government un
der which you live. Have any peo
ple on earth manifested a higher
faith, or been more obedient to the
laws of the land, than we have been
since our allegiance to the Gov
ernment has been renewed ? Many
of these laws we regard as illegal
and unconstitutional, but to not
one of them has the shadow of re
sistance been made. We have
yielded our implicit if not a cheer
ful obedience to all, trusting that
time would rectify the evils n
dler which we labor. What h1igrh
er proof of loyalty could be given
than this ?
But, fellow-citizens, was the
South ever disloyal to the Consti
tution of the United States? I
deny that she ever was. and I
cballenge her most bitter enemy
to adduce one single instance in
which she Las been. From the
adoption of t hat Constitution, up
to the time when she framed one
for her own -governance, no one
can lay to her charge a single
violation of any clause of that
instrument. Did she ever propose
j to change it? Did she ever evade
any of its provisions ? Did she
ever denounce it as a "league with
hell and a covenant with the
devil?" Nay nore, when she
framed a Constitution for herself
did she not adopt the old an(l
honored one almost word for word'?
IId the North been but half as
loyal as the South has ever been,
no war would have desolated our
country. and the Union would be.
ct.t it- Iim;(( r intendedl-One
of equal and sovereign itates,
1)U11(1 together by the strong ties
of paternal affection, instead of
what it now is, a consolidated
.despotism of the stronger States,
ruling with a rod of iron, the
weaker ones. The South is, and
ever has been loyal in the proper
sense of the word.
I am aware that the North has
given a new meaning to this word
when applied to the South. For
the South to be loyal in the eyes
of the Northi. she must admit her
self to be iniferior in all p)oints ; she
must dlee!are that she has sinned,.
andIlike arepentant child. she must
humbly sue for forgiveness. She
mul1bt }pronounce State 1?ghts and
St at Qs Sovreignlty fhlalcies.and she
mulhst forIget the tcehing s otfPtriek
IIlen Vy. Of .Jeffersonl. iind of3 lndisonl.
You. mien of Picken's, mu'st forget
t he illusvtriouls son1 you gave to our
St ate, and von must brand Calhoun
a. atIrai tor. The names of3MfeDufTle
('lheves. JI arne. Halalil ton, 1[arper,
must no longer he held in reverence
in thir~ own State, as those of
great statesmen and pure patriots,
b ut the. meni who bore them, like
thir1 nimortal compatriot. are to~
he cailled traitors, and thenr doc
rines sedIit ions. You will not be
loyal until vou im port, along with
everything else, your politics, your
morality and your religion from
I know niot, fellow-citizens, how
it may h e with others, but for' my
self, I p)refer' still to cling to the
political iith taught by her great
A postles of' Liberty. I repudiate
as heretical anid damnable that
morality which inculcates a higher
law" than tihe Blible teaches. And
as t'o religion. 1 confe'ss that af'ter
t he way they call heresy, so wor
ship I tihe "(God of myi iht hers."
We obey the laws of the land: we
pay the taxes levied on us ;we
support the Constitution; and we
acknowledge t he sunpremacv of t he
Nationial Go (vernmenlCt. Thme North i
has no right to demnand Or to
expect of us. mlore than this. She
has no right to ask that we should
give up tihe (divine right-which 1
even slaves enjoy-of f'reedom of
Opinion ; that we should deny tile
prin fc1iles we hld sacred ; lvhat we
mhudI abIase ouirselves in thle (dust 1
to 1)-oniae her good will,o that
we should kiss the rod that smites
us.
"Shall frree born men,in humble awe
Submit to servile shame,
Who from consent and custom draw
The same right to be ruled by law,
Which Kings pretend to reign."'
Shall we, who were freeborn men,
be so base as to declare that our
country has met the fate it de
seved ? Shall we submit to the
shame which would cling to us
forever, if we athnit that we have
been guilty of treason? Shall we
cover ourselves with eternal infamy
by branding as traitors the men
who died for us and to whose
memory you are now paying
honor? Never! Never! Never!
Let any fate. however hard. be our
lot, rather than that such dishonor
should be ours ! When the gallant
wV.arrior-kin" of old, saw in the
defeat of his brave arnm-. the ruin
of all his hopes. proud. though
conquered. he could still exclaim.
'all is lost save honor." Let us.
amid the failure of our hopes. the
wreck of our fortunes, strive to
save. like him, what is far more
precious than all else, our honor.
I have given you the record of
the South. I have shown how
well she has kept her faith un
tarnished, how closely she has
observed her obligations. Let me
turn now to the record of the
North. Bear in mind, that in
giving this, I shall simply state
ftets, leaving you to draw your
own inferences. I propose to say
what the North has done. I do
not intend to dise_lss the morality,
the honesty, or the justice. of her
actions. When the tyrant disputed
the assertions of the philosopher,
and endeavored to draw him into
an argument, the reply of the
latter was : "-I do not choose to
argue with the commander ofthirty
lotiviz.'- ittUU being a pia
opher, I can recognize the force of
this answer. and I waive arg'ument,
as totally inappropriate in a dis
cussion of this sort. Facts, which
are said to be stubborn things.
will be amply sufficient for my
Purposes at present.
For four years the North waged
war upon01 us. only, as she solemunly
declared, to bring us back into the
Union. More than a year ago the
South1 expr'essedl her willing"ness to
retur'n, an yl et she is now as
effectually out of the Union as if'
she had never formed a part of it.
The North pr1ofessed to fight f,'r
the Constitution. As soon as she
had the power to do so, she
chang~ed that C'onstitution, and
she 'violated its sacr'eu pr'ov'isons.
TheC North protested that she did
not iigh~t for conquest, or for plun
decr. The Southern States are at
this moment practically conqueredI
provinces, and more of their move
ab)le property is now in the hands
of Northern soldiers, who stole it.
than in t hose ofits rightful possess
01rs. The piarole which Southern
soldiers received promised, as I
have already\ saidl, that they,
should not be interfered with, so
long as they obeyed the laws ofl
their own States. And vet on their
return to their States they were
not allowed to exercise any right
pertaining to free citizens, until
they had, under oath, endorsed all
the Acts of' Congress and (declared
te abolition of slavery' fixed.
irrevocale and' co(nst itut tonal.
Amnesty for the pa.st had been
repeatedlyV p)romised to tihe Souith,
yet how many of her citizens are
still, in the brotherly language of
the Radicals, only 'unpardoned
rebels,'' whilst her most honored t
md( best b)elovedi son languishes J
n a felon's cell. denied the sacred~
ight guar an teedl by thle Consti tu
in, of a - speedly trial by an im
artial jury. The Southern
3ates were to by rec. ognized~ as 1
squial menmbers oft the Union. Th1eyv
tre still excluded fr'om that Union; f
td even in the imposit ion of taxes, F
here is no equality. for the cot ton C
>f the South has to bear a heavy a
lisrim'inati ng tax. for thle benefitS
f the North. .\ll the igh~ts of t
hle &1 outh wvere to be bmehl sa('cred.
al ihs uemlv the i*jht to live. b
and to labor. perhaps to complain,
though to do so may be treason.
I have placed bcfore you the
record of the South and that of
the North. Let the world decide
which is entitled to honor; which
to shame. I have drawn in dark
colors, but alas ! in too true ones,
the condition of our country, and
I now turn to the discussion of
what should be our policy. In the
anomalous condition in which we
are placed, it is a matter of great
difficulty to mark out the proper
course for us to pursue, but there
are certain cardinal principles of
which we should never lose sight.
The first of these is. that as we
accepted the terms offered to us by
the North. in good faith, we are
bound by Ovey dictate of honor,
to abide by them fully and honest
ly. They :re none the less binding
on us, because the dominant and
unscrupulous party at the North
refuse to accord to us our just
rights. Let us, at least, prove our
selves worthy of the rights we
claim; let us set an example of
good faith, and we can then appeal
with double effect to the justice
and magnanimity of the North.
These virtues, I would fain hope, are
not totally extinct among that people,
and there are brave men there, who are
battling for justice, for constitutional
liberty, for the equality of all the States,
and for the rights of the South.. The only
hope, not alone for tne South, but for
freedom itself, on this continent, lies in
the success of this party. We are their
natui allies, and I would sacrifice much
-where honor and principle are not
invaded, and then I would not yield one
jot or tittle-to strengthen their hands
in the great contest, which is soon to
decide the fate of Constitutional Liberty
and Republican Institutions in the
United States. The President of the
United States has lent the great in
fluence which his high position, his
strong intellect, his firm purpose and his
indomitable will, give, to this new con
servative party, and to his support every
Southern man should rally cordially.
We may perhaps feel that he has not
gone to the extent of his power or of our
expectations in carrying o: t his policy
to its legitimate ends, but we cannot
forget that he has been the only bulwark
to stand between our unhappy country
and cer.tain, irretrievable and everlasting
ruin. But for him the horrors we endured
during the war would have been far
surpassed by those of peace. And though
differing with him in- many points, I
cheerfully accord to him the highest
praise for the brave and patriotic stand
be has taken in defence of the South and
f the Constitution. There is one other
point on which there should be no mis
understanding as to our position, no loop
n which to hang a possible misconstrue
ion as to our views, and that is the
bolition of slavery. I have already
intimated that the mode by which the
North secured the acquiescence of the
South in the consmmation of this pur
pose was a breach of faith on her part.
Of all the inconsistencies of which the
North has been guilty-and their name
is Legion-none is greater than that by
which she forced the Southern States,
while rigidly exe!uding them from the
Union, to ratify the constitutional amend
ment abolishing slavery, which they
:ould do legally, only as States of that
Union. But the deed has been done, and
[for one, do honestly declare that I
never wish to see it revoked. Nor do I
elieve that the people of the South
ould now remand the negro to slavery
f they had the power to do so unques
oned. Under our paternal care, from
,mere hanE he grew to be a mighty
ost. lHe came to us a heathen, we mado
ri a Christian. Idle, vicious, savage in
us own country ; in ours he became in
lustrious, gentle, civilized. Let his
istory as a slave be compared hereafter
-ih that which lhe will make for him
elf as a freeman, and by the result of
hat comparison we are willing to be
udged. A great responsibility is lifted
rm our shoulders by this emncipation,
nd we willingly commit his destiny to
is own hands, hoping that he may prove
imself worthy of the new position in
hich he has been placed. As a slave,
e was faithful to us ; as a freeman, let
s treat him as a friend. Deal with him
ankly, justly, kindly, and my word for
he will reciprocate your kindness,
lingng to his old home, his own country
ad his former masters. If you wish to
e him contented, industrious, useful,
id im in his effort to elevate himself in
e scale of civilization, an'l thus fit himu
ot only to enjoy the b!essmngs of freedom,