The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-04-29
TALMAGE ON THE SOUTH.
Mistakes About Us Corrected
Two Visions ON Look
out Mountain.

discourse to his Brooklyn congrega
ton, which will attract universal at
tention. His subject was Mistakes
about the South corrected" W.
make the following extracts from the
sermon:
/ started on the tour with no par
tisan predictions and no predjudices,
and resolved to tell on my return
what | saw, whether it might be gen
orally approved or denounced by one
or both sections. l had no political
record to guard or defend, for my
chief work in the ministry has been
done since the war closed. My ad,
miratien for the Democratic party
and the Republican party as parties,
is so small that it would take one of
McAlister's most powerful magnitying
glasses to discover any thing of it.
American politics are rotten, and
that party steals the most that has
the most chance. l had all the doors
of information opened to me. l talk
ed with high and low, Governors and
water carriers, clergymen and laymen,
lawyers, doctors, editors and philan-
thropists, with the black and the
white, old residents of the South and
new settlers from the North, and l
found that there have been the most
persistent and outrageous misrepre-
sentatiOns in regard to the South 10y
many of the correspondents of secular
and religious journalsand by nell who,
overbearing and dishonest in their
behavior at the South, have had in
formation given to them that their
company was not desirable. If a
man 60 south and behave well he will
be treated well, There is no more
need of rigorous governmental espion
age i'll Atlanta, Augusta or Macon
than there is in Boston or New York.
The present disposition of the South
has been so wrongly set forth that /
propose now, 50 far as l ana able, to
correct the stereotyped ISLANDERS con-
corning it.
This side of heaven there is no
more hospitable people than the peo.
pie of the South, and now | bring
message from all the states Of the
South which | visited, inviting immi-
grants thither. The South is to rival
the West as an opening field for
American enterprise. Horace Gree
ley's advice to 60 west is to have all
addenda in Go South" The first
avalanche Of population thither will
make their fortunes. 1t is national
absurdity that so much of the cotton
of the south shoull be transported, at
great expense to the North, to be
transformed into articles of use. The
few factories at the South are the pio-
neers of the uncounted spindles which
are yet to begin the hum of their
grand march on the banks of the Sa-
vannah, Appalachicola and the Tom
bigbee. There stands Georgia, with
its $4,000 square miles, and South
Carolina, with its $4,000 square
miles, and Alabama, with its so, 722
square miles, and the other states,
none of them with more than ten per
cent of their resources developed.
When will the overcrowded popula-
ton of our great cities take the wings
of the morning and fly to regions
where they shall have room to turn
round and breathe and expand and
become masters of their own corn
fields or rice swamps or cotton plan
tations or timber forests. The state
ment so long rampant at the North
that the South did not want industri.
Gus, useful and moral Northerners to
settle among them, 1 brand as a po-
litical falsehood, gotten up and kept
up for political purposes.
Again, | have to correct the i'm
preston that the South is bitterly op.
posed to the government Of the Uni
ted States. The South submitted to
arms certain questions, and most Of
them are submissive to the decision.
There is no fight in them. We heard
much about the fre-eaters of the
South, but if they eat fire they have
a private table and private platter of
Goals in a private room. sat at
many tables, but | did not see any
thing of that kind of diet. Neither
could | see any spoon or knife or fork
that seemed to have been used in fire
eating. Why, sirs, never saw more
placid people-some of them with all
their property gone and starting life
at forty or sixty years with one leg or
one arm or one eye, the member miss
ing sacrificed in battle! 1t is simply
miraculous that those people feel so
cheerful and amiable. 1t is dastardly
mean to keep representing them as
acrid and waspish and saturnine and
malevolent. l have travelled as much
as most people in this and other lands,
and l have yet to find more affaole,
delicately sympathetic, whole hearted
people than the people of the South.
They are to-day loyal and patriotic,
and if a foreign foe should attempt to
set foot on this soil for the purpose of
intimidation or conquest, the forces of
Bragg and Geary, Mcclellan and
Beauregard. Lee and Grant would
come shoulder to shoulder, the blue
and the gray, and the cannons of Ft.
Hamilton, Sumter and Pickens would
Join in one chorus of thunder and
fame.
The fact is that this country has