Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-05-20
fALHAGE On TIM seUTH.

ms been wishing fhe South of fafe Ed
be brings away from TIE coiton and o.
afige land impressions which win very
likely astcnisa the ordinary New YORK
end New England audience. We make
liberal extracts from bis .sermop.. Z
The FIRST misrepresentataon in regard
20 ghe eqush fzwish % correef - that the.
sollbtFh people want 70 get back and
have re-instafed slavery. Why, all the
people are glad 10 get rid Of il. The
planters told me thai they could cult
vate their land now at less expense nm
der the new system oi labor than under
the old. A planter who had hundred
and twenty slaves before the war said
that there was so much care necessary
in looking after so many slaves and in
looking after the aged who could not
work, and helpless childhood. that there
was constant anxiety and vast expense
and exhaustion. Now they have moth
ing 10 do but pay the wages when they
are due, and each family looks after It's
oWn invalids and minors. Submit TO
the ballot-box ofsoutlsern people to-day
the question, "Shall negro slavery be
Fe-instated :" and ell the wards, and sll
the cities, and all the counties, and all
the states would give laundering neg
alive. They fought Tor the institution
eighteen years ago. but now they con-
graiulate themselves at the overthrow
Of the institution. God be thanked that
north and south al last We have one sem
lment on that subject, and those north
ern politicians who keep the subject Of
American slavery rolling on and rolling
ON are doing thing as useless and In
apt as it would be to make the Dorr re-
bellion Of Rhode Island, or Aaron Burr's
attempt at the overthrow Of the United
States. government, test for our fall
elections. The subject Of American
slavery IS dead and damned. said TO
the planters: "How do these men work
aow under the new system 7" and they
replied: "They work well; we have no
trouble; there was good deal Of trou-
bic Just after the war closed, and de-
meralization and disorganization conse-
quent upon change Of things. but nov
they work most admirably. and they
work far better than the northern men
who come here, because the climate
seems better adapted TO the colored peo-
pie, who will on summer day, at their
incoming, 60 out and lie down to enjoy
the SUM-" My friends, all this talk
about the dragging Of rivers and .he
lakes of the south TO haul ashore ne
groes murdered and flung in. while IL
may be believed by many Of The north,
is falsehood so absurd il is hardly fit
TO mention in a religious assembIage.
The white people of the south feel their
dependence on the dark people for the
culture OF their lands; the dark people
feel their dependence on the white peo-
pie for the payment Of their wages.
From what have seen OF the oppres-
sion Of female clerks in some Of the dry
goods stores Of the north, and from
what have seen OF the oppression OF
some young men at the north on small
salaries. which they must lake or get
nothing at ell, | have come to the con-
clusion that there are more considera-
ton and sympathy for colored labor AZ
the south to-day than there are consld-
Grafton and sympathy for some Of the
employees in some of the dry goods
stores on Fulton avenue, Brooklyn;
Broadway. New York; Washington
street, Boston; Chestnut street, Phila-
delphia. In all the land and in ali the
earth there are tyraBnlcal employers,
and their maItreatment Of sUbordinates,
white or black, deserves execration.
But in the work Of reformation let Us
begin at home.
Another impression in regard to the
south that / wish TO correct Is, that they |
are antagonistic to having northerners
come down there and settle. The whole |
impression given here at the north has
been that il northeFners 90 down south |
they are kukluxed. kept out OF secretly, |
or getting into society thrown out again, |
and in every way made uncomfortable. |
From the states where visited the cry |
comes, and / bring II to-day to their |
name, "Send down your capitalists,
send down your northern farming ma
chimes, come and buy our plantations.
open stores, build cotton factories and |
rice mills-come by the hundreds, by |
lhe thousands, BY The millions, and come |
right away" declare here that that |
Is the sentiment Of the south. Ofcourse
there is no more admiration at the south |
for northern fools and northern brag-
CARTS than there is here. IL man go-
ing south shall put bis vslise at the de-
pot, then 90 up on the nearest pIanta-
lion and say, BY his manner or by |
words: "We have come down here to |
show you southern people how to farm,
We whipped you in the war, now we
are going to whip you in agriculture:
AN from Boston, am; that's the 'hab';
how much you look like q man shot |
at South mountain; believe il was
your brother, | marched right through |
here IN the Fourteenth regiment Of vol
lnteers, ] killed aud quartered heller
on your stoop; what a poor, miserable |
race otpeople you souiherners are, didn't /
We give It TO you ha ! ha P'-such q |
nan as that, to say the least, will not /
make q favorable impression And ne
VII not De very soon elected as elder
of one OF their churches, and ifhe should
oPen store be would NOT get many /
customers, and If such q man as that
should get > free and rapid ride on that
part Of fence which Is most easily re-
moved, and be set down without much
reference 10 the desirabilily Of the