Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-04-20
Truth From the South.

The Brooklyn Tabernacle was filled TO over
d>wing Sunday morning. Dr.. Talmago had
anccuactd sermon upon what ho had seen
and heard in 90 itqairing visit to tic Empire
State CT tho South, aud when in his iolroduc.
| tory PRAYER. h, prayed that The North. the
S-uh, the East atd the West might be
brought to icel that they gro of one nation, and
that God might save the QuacD and bless
the President, every ole tell Certain that these
lhvocsllJos we're l.sdiug up 10 discourse on
| poucs. Itea politics became q moral GER
taiOIy wheu tho pastor asked tho vast congre
CATION 10 DO Morkan's great organ and Ais
coIrct aud The boy choir in giving volume to
! My couutfy, 'tis of thee,
| Sweet land Of liberty.
This lcsplrog national air having been sung
with all tho power that q Brooklyn Taberosole
cousregEtlon cln give to muse when their hearis
are 10 It, DE-. Ialmase read his tx from
JUICES, l., 15-."Grv, me blessing, for thou
hast given me South land; give NE also spring:
Of water" Caleb's daus shters wedticg gitt
90 her marriage to O.huiel was farm 10 the
South, bus it was land that required irrigation
and hence Achsah asked her father to give her
also springs. The magnificent South, into which
! the preacher recently penetrated, also needed
Notwithstanding from tho springs of Gods
mercj. Dr. Talmsge said that he went into
the South iu 40 irquiriog frame of miod, 10
see how the people are recovering from the
desolaious Of war. lie had grave 10 Georgia
to visit, tho grave of his Uncle Tslmage. who
was tor tweGty years the head Of Oslethorpe
UOiVersiy. But the preachers mission was
cot With tie dead. He went to Georgia with
10 partisan feeling, for he had no political
rtcIrd TO preserve. His admiration for both
political parties, democratic and republican,
was 50 small that 1t would rtq7ire Maca ister
microscope to see It.. The political parry steals
the nlost tba: gets tho best charcs Both Dor
ties have ma!cvoluntly nsrcpress n.ed the
| South, and she has been misrepresented by the
| press d 80.
Ihn Preacher drew picture OF c)nstuuan.
tial Is stoniau sru!ting in Charleston ur 10
Savannah and assuming TO be better mao
than the men hn met, and tauntiug the South
oruers with their defeat iu the great war. Such
3 man would not be likely 10 return to New
Eoglaod with favorable impression of
Southern hospitality. The fact is Dr. Tai
mage went ca to sey, it man behaves we'll in
the South be will be treated we'll. 1t is MT
true that he South desires to re- establish pegro
slavery. IL you We're to 20 to the ballot bax
with the question. Stall negro slavery be re-
| Iuststed?' the vote would be unaoimousIs
dead and damned. The owners of the land cav
that thcv can work their lands better With free
negrOts than with slaves better with free
negroes han With whites. VITO have 10 be sc
cimated-and the landowners feel that theg
depeld upoa tho negroes for labor aud tho 90
srOeS fesl thtlr depen5caos upon their latr
masters Tor the pay for their labor. The polii.
cisn. who ar suIl agltatiog the slavery question
are taking nonsersc, aud the talk sbout drag
g'n2 5kcs aud rlvcls Tor the oorpsas of murderi d
ue. rocs IS bll malignant f.lsohood. My obser
Va'ons teach me that the treatment Of the
women ceIks aud other clerks in the shops of
New YoIk end Brooklyn. which is exeorabIe, i,
m"rs d"serv'ng Of rub !c cecsure than the treat,
msut to which auy negro is subjcc:ed ibis
SIDE ot heaven there Is Do more bospitable poo
p!o than those OF the South. Applausc.
ti9raca G1tcley's sd7ics to young men to 60
Tes! shnu:d have the addendum. Go South"
Tics: who 20 first will make ior!uaes.
| Dr. IalmaSc gave his hearers briof s;alsti.
c.l Vlc1 OF ,hs uadeve!oped resources of tho
EisterD, Gut aud Southern Atlantic States,
aad wondered why men wi starve 10 tho over
crowl&t ct!e.. Land is within the means CT
tho pcoFts. ID the South, the heat i, ntten
sreattr oa sutIy summer cay 10 New York
than 10 Gny part Ut tho South. and the death
:=te IN G2Urg,a and Syu!h CLr)llpa is lower
Ihsn u NV York. Therefore, no said, "S;cp
curo'og about the South asd 20 down and d.
Vslul nor WoldGliuI r!syu;o.s. LIE: ten thou
s1ra NoIthCru mn 10 drTo sed marry ten
tn.oa4ud Son;h2ra Sr s. aoL let the "a .lipg
OF tue Not.h aod Sou'h thereafter b, doue
ever ten thousand ctsd!,s." llo braided AZ a
taisahocG he assertion that tEe Scuh doesu's
H:le,mr N'rihcrarrs, and 81 10 tic pcliiriaus'
c'y ii aG'sg0nsn 10 the u. s. b. praoGed
'hat a!:o IS ial-ehood. TAX about fire.
caters. DC cnu'laaed, If they eat fire they
nave private tables at which 1t i, ca;eo. They
ale the mcst placid, s3 m pathetic hosptsble peo.
PIE ever saw. The pnopu OF the South are
'Uy.i to-day, ni:d if d foieign foe ,hould try TO
&C! II. fout on this country o. way of lntimids
ti,n or conqu7st, 1 believe that the forces of
Mcclellan aid beauregard. Bragg and Geary,
Tue e1- sttsldenS ana Lee would come shoulder
to shuulder the blue snd the gray, and that
hore would be the gus rom forts hamilton,
flcaers and Sum.er joint IN one great chorus
OF thunder aDd f,me. The tscL 1t ia lh,s coun
Try We have hsd big family fight and it is as 1t
might be If neigh Dor should Interfere in qua
Tel 0etWeen hu2band and wifs The gres.
mhtses Of the people are right. IF half dozen
politicians al The n orio and halfa dozen poll
ticiaIs 1T the south would only consent to die
thsrs would be no moro sectional scrimonv
: Applause lttney Will bury tut CT sight these
/ lew oemsg" guss we Will pay ell The e1Uenses cf
cstaaqus sud eEitsph, and Of q brsss band tc
play to them III, 'rosue's msrch.'n ~
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cur ilas. We hsve been heavy spccuiai ors aud
sle noH ready to state that cur stock is com.
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are prepared 10 say II you will give us call We
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CHEAPEST STOCK 10 the country, Washington
uot excepted. Coovioce yourself. aud pr,cs
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