Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

<h2><SPAN name="HISTORICAL_COMPOSITION" id="HISTORICAL_COMPOSITION"></SPAN>HISTORICAL COMPOSITION</h2> <h4>BY</h4> <h3>ANNIE L. BURTON </h3> <p class="center"><ANTIMG src="images/image_04.jpg" alt="Decorative Image" width-obs="600" height-obs="48" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>It is only 132 years ago to-day that the British troops, who had occupied Boston, made a riding school of the Old South church, and otherwise sacrilegiously disported themselves, were persuaded to get out under the compulsion of the batteries set up on Dorchester Heights. But when the last company embarked for Halifax, it carried the last British flag ever unfurled by a military organization on Massachusetts soil. That was the end of foreign domination in Massachusetts. And by a happy coincidence this is the legendary anniversary of the birth of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, whose memory has been an inspiration in the struggle of another race for Liberty.</p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</SPAN></span></p> <h3>A QUESTION OF ETHICS</h3> <p>New York, Dec. 17.&mdash;Andrew Carnegie declared yesterday in a speech on the negro question that the negroes are a blessing to America, and that their presence in the South makes this country impregnable and without need of a navy to defend itself.</p> <p>"Suppose," said Mr. Carnegie, "Great Britain were to send her war fleets to America. It would amount to nothing. All that the President of the United States would have to do would be to say, 'Stop exporting cotton.' The war would be ended in four days, for England cannot do without our cotton.</p> <p>"We don't need a navy; we are impregnable. Because we have 9,000,000 colored men anxious and willing to work we hold this strong position, and I am interested in the negro from this material standpoint, as well as from the more humane point of view."</p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</SPAN></span></p> <p class="center"><ANTIMG src="images/image_03.jpg" alt="Decorative Image" width-obs="600" height-obs="49" /></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />