The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-29
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A SLAP AT THE BLOODY SHIRT.


A SLAP AT THE BLOODY SHIRT.
Mr. Talmaeo Returns from the South t to
Remark Upon the Vlgor and immensely
of Stalwart Lying.
Mr.. Talmage directed his congregation
yesterday to sing, "My country, 'tis OF
ihee," said his text-Judges l., IS
and continued as follows: ITO meet
engagements in niue of the Southern
cities and to catch q glimpse of the
South land in the Spring time, l made q
trip two weeks long below Mason and
Dixon's line. l went equipped with
questions and hungry for information
on moral and religious and political sub
jects. I had grave to visit in Georgia,
that Of my uncle, DIR. Samuel K. Tal,
mage, for twenty years President Of
Oglethorpe University When the war
for slavery broke out he lay down near
the scene of his usefulness. He was
one of those who are the adornment Of
the Southern pulpit. Such men as Jas.
H. Thornwell and Smyth and Duncan
and Pierce are to be mentioned with
him. I went resolved to see and make
report of what I saw while South. l
had no political record to look after or
guard, for the career of my useful
ness has opened since the war closed:
My admiration for the Democratic and
Republican parties, as parties, is so great
that it would take one of McAllister's
most powerful magnifyipg glasses to
catch glimpse of it. American politics
is rotten. That party steals the most
which has the best chance. Applause
I found while South the most perfect
proof that the bulk of the stories we ge.
here in the North, distilled by special
correspondents, are sheer fabrications
and most persistent attempts to misrep'
resent the real character of a large section
of our people. There is no more need OF
governmental espionage at Charleston or
Savannah and the other Southern cities
than there is in New York or Boston.
Some people have an idea that the senti-
ment in the South leans towards the re-
establishment of negro slavery. All J! the
people are all heartily glad to get rid Of
it, and the plains now are placed under
better system of cultivation because it
is gone Old planters told me that the
worry and anxiety aud the care and look.
ing after plantation of negroes is oil
gone, and now all they have to do is to
pay the wages at the end of the month.
Put it to ballot in the South whether or
not you would have again the system
which prevailed before the war and you
would get laundering negative. The
fight for slavery closed sixteen years ago
and those Northern politicians who keep
the subject of American slavery still roll
ing might as we'll try to make the Door
rebellion in Rhode Island or the attempt
of Aaron Burr to found on empire test
for our Fall election. The whole subject
of American slavery is dead and damned.
The negro loves his work and his South.
When we hear of rivers dragged and
lakes to fish out colored men who have
been flung in we get but sample stories
Of what the North is expected to believe
of the South, but they are so ridiculous
as hardly to need contradiction. There
is no maltreatment of the colored people,
and as for American slavery, look for it
in your Northern cites among the army
of employees. See your female clerks.
They need your sympathy far more than
the workers of the rice swamp or the
sugar plantation. Find them on Fulton
street, Brooklyn; Broadway, New York;
Washington street, Boston; Chestnut
street, Philadelphia. We want reforma-
.:,n in all these places to protect the
weak from tyrantical employers, and we
had better begin our charity at home.
Another Impression is that there is
an hostility to Northern men who come
to the South to settle. The impression
is that they are to be ku.kluked or other
wise made uncomfortable. 1t is lie.
They want all the help they can get from
the North. They want the cotton spin
dies near the cotton fields and Northern
men to manage and Northern girls to
tend them. Of course, there is no more
admiration for fools and braggers there
than here. A man may 60 down to q
Southerner as he works in the field and
begin his self.exultance, 'Im from Bos-
ton, I am; yes, I marched through this
very section with my regiment; remem-
Der killing heifer on your front stoop.
What good thrashing we gave you,
didn't We now2' Such man as that, to
say the least, would not get very hearty
welcome. He would not be chosen a
deacon in the Church and it would not
be surprising if he moved off on the most
mobile section of fence and came down
without much attendance to the landing
place. Yes, and should be inclined to
say he deserved it. (Applause.) A
Brooklyn man is good as a Mobile
man if he behaves himself. There is not
more hospitable people in the world
than the people of the South. Zap
plause.) 1 bring to-day general invi-
tation to you all and all the North to 90
to the South and settle down. Horace
Greeley's cry of Go West must be
changed to Go South or rather added,
for there is room enough all over. There
are fortunes by the hundred to be made
by the first men to go in to take posses
sion of the riches of the South. You
Northern workers, 80 down where you
can breathe. The fare is only SIS, if you
are not too particular how you travel.
Afraid of heat? You have hotter days
here than ever are there. Of feverH
Wherever you 60 West, or South, you
have an acclimation attack, and it is only
a different kind of shake, Laughter.)
Stop cursing the South, and stop lying
about her, and 60 South and develop
her immense resources ofmining and for
ests. (Applause.) Let your Northern
young men settle down with the South
ern young women, and under the mag
nolia grove and the orange tree put your
political feuds asleep in the cradle of q
generation half North half South. ZAP
plause.) I hate 10 see these stories of
the Southern people gotten up and kept
up for base political purposes. Zap.
plause). Another wrong impression is
that the people of the South are antago.
nistic to the United States government.
The people of the South submitted to