The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-04-26
UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, April, 2s. 1878.

| ~, anu lcupeSC as L never
saw This must be something of the sen.
sation We will have when the bestormed
nights OF earth end in the sunburst cclcs.
tial."
Tho most cheerful city of tho South to.
day is New Orleans. She is rejoicing in
the rescue from years of unrigh.eous gov
crnment. Just how the State of Louisiana
has been badgercd, and her every idea of
self.govcrmcnt insuitcd, can be appreciated
oniy by those who come face to face with
the facts. While some of the best patriots
OF the North went down with right mo-
yves to mnSle in the reconstruction of the
state governments of the South, MANY of
these ptfyrimists wcrc the castogF ursk, ticy.
ing politicians Of the North, who, otter be-
Ing stoned out of Northern waters, crawled
up on the beach at the South to sun them
selves Applause Tho Southern States
mad enough dishonest men of their own
without any importation. The day of
trouble has passed. Louisiana and South
Carolina, for the most part, are free. Gov
crnor Nichols of the one, and Governor
| Wade Hampton of the other, have the con-
mucnce OF the great masses of the people.
There is only one word that can describe
the feeling of the South to-day, and that
word is "Hopc". They recovered from the
hrst encouragement Of ruined fortunes, and
are expecting better ones than they lost,
and they will have them. My opinion is
that the largest fortunes are yet to be made
at the South, because there is more room To
make them, greater reaches of country to
be developed, and more gcuiality of climate
ready to smile upon great industries. Sol
change Horace Grcclcy's famous advice,
Go West" and say to our young people,
"Go South" [Applausc. During nv
TWO weeks stay at the South, mingling with
all classes OF people, and in perpetual con.
vcrsatlon, often incognito, l heard not one
unklnd word towards the North or Northern
people. [Applause.] My opinion is that
II to,day Northern man gets hanged at
the South it is because he deserves to be
hanged: [Applausc.] Those congrcssion
al politicians who arc enlarging upon the
belllSerant state of the South must have
some bad design, or be President.makipp
There is no spirit Of fight in the South. !
do not speak of what know. NV obser-
yatlon is that there is not so much need
e5Sf R5irhh fra ss fat mat The Nofn sn6aia be recon
structcd towards the South. [Applause.]
No man on lecturing platform to-day, in
the South, can make any alusion implying
loyalty to the United States government but
his voice will be drowned out by the uproar
of enthusiasm, There is no more use for
Federal military at New Orleans than in
Brooklyn And yet there arc men here
abouts who are still cursing President Hayes
because he withdrew the military, and have
not found out in the last fourteen years that
the war IS over. Let our newspapers and
our platforms quit stirring up the old strifes
There is now absolutely nothing to fight
about. Peace! from Passamaquoddy Bay
to Lake Pontchartrain. Let there be
peace
The hospitaltics Of that CITY Of New
Orleans are unbounded. At thc elegant
home and amid the accomplished faaily of
the Hon. f. j. Ellis, member of Congress,
l had good specimen Of that Southern
hospitality which greeted me everywhere
hospitality not made up of hard constraints
or suffocating proprietics, but genial, hearty,
exuberant and memorable forever. May
the richest peace of God rest on all the
homes that I visited. Mobile, with its
oS"oe'ui ShuiOhCoi huCou, TIC CITY Ol
mansions; Augusta, the city of cultured and
polished homes; Charleston, the city of his
toric mcmorcs-all pass before my mind to-
night in grateful and stirring "reminiscences.
A CHANCE FOR THE BOYs-Thcre is
not profession that is not ovcrcrowdcd-
there is not phase Of mercantile pursuit
that is not overdone. There is no chance
for the coming men in any of the indus.
tries of life in the towns or cities. Law
yers, doctors, ministers and mechanics are
starving to death, and thousands of them
are competent in their callings. But there
is chance for the boys, after all. We
need men wo need honest men. We need
men who will fear God and bow to the
principles of right. We need them at the
head of affairs We need them in the office
of President and in the Senate of the ma
ton. They must be men who will not buy
their way into office or sell their votes to
keep them from the ponitcntiary. This
kind of men this nation must have if it
continues republic, and in this sphere
there is room enough for all tho boys that
arc frolicking about the hearthstone or
coasting on their slcds down the snowy
hillsldes. Boys grow up to be n,ea.- Vest
era Rurai
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