The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-04-30
A SLAP AT THE BLOODY SHIRT.

A SLAP AT THE BLOODY SHIRT.
Mr.. Tdlmaye Returns from tie SouM to
Remark Upon tic Nyor and Immensely
Of Stal~ar Lying.
Mr.. Talmagc directed his congregation
yesterday to sing, "My country, tits of thce,"
said his text-Judgcs l., 15-and continued
as follows: "To meet engagements in nine
of the Southern cities and to catch a
glimpse of the South land in the Spring
time, l made a trip two weeks long below
Mason and Dixon's line. 1 went equipped
with questions and hungry for information
on moral and religious and political subjects.
had grave to visit in Georgia, that of
my uncle, DIR. Samuel X. Talmage, for
twenty years President of Oglethorpe Uni
vcrsity. When the war for slavery broke
out he lay down near the scene of his use
fulncss. He was one of those who are the
adornmcnt of the Southern pulpit. Such
men as Jas H. Thornwoll and Smyth and
Duncan and Pierce are to be mentioned with
him. | went resolved to see and make a
report of what 1 saw while South l had
no political record to look after or guard
for the career of my usefulness 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
McAllistcr's most powerful magnifyiug glas-
scs to catch glimpse of it. American pol
itics is rotten. That party steals the most
which has the best chance. [Applauso. I
found while South the most perfect proof
that the bulk Of the stories We get here in
the North, distilled by special correspon-
dents, arc sheer fabrications and most per
sstcnt attempts to misrcprcsent the real
charaeter of a large section of our people.
There is no more need of governmental cs-
pionagc at Charleston or Savannah and the
other Southern cities than there is in New
York or Boston. Some people have an idea
that the sentiment in the South leans towards
the rccstabishmcnt Of negro slavery. All
the people arc all heartily glad to get rid Of it.
and the plains now arc placed under bet
ter system Of cultivation because it is gone
Old planters told rae that the worry and
anxiety and tho care of looking after a
plantation Of negroes is all gone, and nov
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 a laundering mega.
tive. The fight for slavery closed sixteen
years ago and those Northern politicians
who keep the subject Of American slavery
still rolling might as we'll try to make the
Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island or the at
tempt Of Aaron Burr to found an empire n
test for our Fail election. The whole sub
ject Of American slavery is dead and
damned The negro loves his work and his
South. When we hear of rivers dragged
l,l 70 |, hn h,
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
tc need contradiction. There is no NAL
treatment Of the colored people, and as for
American slavery, look for it in your North
crn cities 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; Broad
way, New York Washington street, Bos
ton; Chestnut street, Philadelphia We
want reformation in all these places to pro-
tcct the weak from tyrannical employers,
and we had better begin cur charity at
home.
"Anothcr impression is that there is an
hostility to Northern men who come to the
South to settle. The impression is that
they arc to be ku.kluxcd or otherwise made
uncomfortable. 1t is lio. They want
all the help they can get from the North
They want the cotton spindlcs 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
braggarts there than here. a man ma,
go down to a Southcrncr as he works in the
field and begin his sclfcxuItancc, Pm from
Boston, am. Yes, | marched through
this very section with my regiment / re.
member killing hcifcr On your front stoop
What good thrashing we gave you, didn't
We, nowH Such a man as that, to say the
least, would not get very hearty welcome
lie would not be chosen deacon in the
Church aud it would not be surprising if
he moved off on the most mobile section OF
u fence and came down without much attend.
ancc to the landing piaco. Yes, and should
be inclined TO say he deserved it. Gap.
plausc.) A Brooklyn man is as good as Il
Mobile man if he behaves himself. There
is not NOR! hospitablc people in the world
than the people Of the South. (Applause.)
/ bring to-day n general invitation to you
all and all the North to go to tho South
and settle down. Horace Grccloy'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 hun.
drcd to be made by the first men to 60 in
tc take possession Of the riches Of the South
\ on Northern workers 90 down whore Won