The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-04-26

| LILO iu't ue SonetnlnS OF the SEN
satlon we vii! have when the bestormed
nights of earth end in the sunburst celcs.
tial"
Tho most cheerful city of the South to.
day is New Orleans. She is rejoicing in
the rescue from years of unrigh.eous gov
crnmcnt. Just how the State of Louisiana
has been badgercd, and her every idea of
self,govcrment insuitcd, can be appreciated
only by those who come face to face with
the facts. While some of the best patriots
OF the North went down with right mo
tlves to mingle in the reconstruction. of the
state governments of the South, many of
t'tfsrsc ptfyr rimirrs-wrr cast0nS SrnZ &ffryv
ing politicians of the North, who, after be.
ing stoned out of Northern waters, 'crawled
up on the beach at the South to sun them
selves. [Applause.] The Southern States
had 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-
ildcnce 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
first discouragcment 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 gcniality 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 my
two weeks stay at the South, mingling with
all classes Of people, and in perpetual con-
vcrsation, often incCgnito, l heard not one
uukind word towards the North or Northern
people. [Applausc.] My opinion is that
II to-day Northern man gets hanged at
the South it is because he deserves to be
hanged: [Applause.] Those compression.
al politicians who are cnlarging upon the
belllgerant state of the South must have
some bad design, or be Presidcnt-making.
There is no spirit Of fight in the South. !
do not speak of what know. NV obscr
walton is that there is not so much need
tNesstrtA testfr as Sat mat The Torm should be RECON
structcd towards the South. TApplause
No man on lecturing platform to.day, in
the South, can make any allusion implying
loyalty to the United States government but
his voicc.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
OF, platforms quit stirring up the old strifcs
There is now absolutely nothing to fight
about. Peace from Passamaquoddy Bay
to Lake Pontchartrain. Let there be
peace
The hospitalities Of that City of New
Orleans are unbounded. At the elegant
home and amid the accomplished family of
the Hon. f. j. Ellis, member Of Congress,
[ had a good specimen of that Southern
hospitality which greeted me everywhere
a hospitality not made up of hard constraints
or suffocating propricties, but genial, hearty,
cxubcrant and memorable forever. May
the richest peace of God rest on all the
homes that l visited Mobile, with its
beautiful churches Macon, the city of
mansions; Augusta, the city Of cultured and
polished homes; Charleston, the city of his
toric mcmorics-all pass before my mind to-
night i'll grateful and stirring "reminiscences
A CHANCE FOR TIE BOYS.-Thcrc is
not profession that is not ovcrcrowdcd-
there is not phase Of mercantile pursuit
that is not ovcrdone. 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
arc competent in their callings. But there
is a chance for the boys, after all. We
need men ; We 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 pcnitcntiary. This
kind of men this nation must have if it
continues rcpublic, and in this sphere
there is room enough for all the boys that
arc frolicking about the hearthstonc or
coasting on their slcls down the snowy
hillsidcs Boys grow up to be n,cn.- Vest