Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-12-29
Southern Sentiment.

A PATRIOTIC UTTERANcE FROM GEORGIA
A noticeable sermon was preached on
the day of the recent national Tha nks-
giving, in the town of Oxford, Ga. by
Rev. DIR. A. G. Haygond. president of
Emory college of that place. The sermon
has been printed upon the request to the
citizens of Oxford and students OF the
college, who heard 1t, and copy is before
us.
After considering the duty of observing
the day of Thanksgiving in accordance
with the proclamation of the president of
the United States and of the governor of
Georgia. Doctor Haygood mentioned as
among the general causes for gratitude to
God, the facts that this is Christian ma
ton; that our country is at peace; that
the election of president has taken
place so quietly and that the result was so
pronounced that mo sane man can doubt
that Gen. Garfield has been elected presi-
dent; that we have had $50 clean and
able an administration during the past
| four ears; and that the whole country
is SO prosperous.
He next considered some of the special
reasons why 'the south" should thank
God and take courage. Recalling the
condition of the southern states fifteen
years ago and the prospect before them
after AppomatOx, he asserted that their
present condition is "maryelously good"
In proof of this he mentioned these facts +:
Our tax returns will show that there is
life and progress in the south. But Stats
tistcal tables are not the only witnesses
in such case. Let people use their own
ewes. Here is this one iact-the cotton
crop, as AN exponent of the power OF our
industrial system. In 1879 we made
nearly five million bales; in 1880 1t Is
believed that we will make nearly six
million bales. We never made 50 much
under the old system. Tuere are more
people at work in the south to day than
were ever ut work before; and they are
raising not only more cotton, hut more oil
everything else. And no wonder for the
farming of to day is better than the farm
ing of the old days; and in two grand
particulars: First. bet er culture; second
the ever increasing tendency to break up
the great plantations into small farms.
Our present system is more than restoring
what the oil system destroyed.
The great body of our people not only
make more than they did before the war,
, hut they make IL better use of it-they
! yet unspeakubly more comfort out. | an
willing 10 make the comparison OF 1t on any
line Of things that you may suggest, Tor
know both periods. Remember that l an
. speaking OF the great mass Of people, an,
+ not OF the few great slave holders, some o
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