The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-05-08

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Mr.. 1aImRge ON the south
i Mr. Talmagc directed his congregation yes.
tcrday 10 sing My country, It's of thee" said
his tcXt--Judgcs J. lj-and continued ~ fol
flows: TO meet engagements in nine OF the
Southern cities and To catch - glimpse OF the
South land in the spring.timc, ! made Il trip
two weeks long below Mason and Dixon line.
| went equipped with questions and hungry
for information on moral and religious and
political subjects. ! went resolved To see and
make a report OF what | saw while South. |
had no political record 10 look after or guard,
for the career OF my usefulness has opened
since the war closed. | found while South the
most perfect proof that the bulk Of the stories
We get here IN the North, distilled by special
correspondents are sheer tabrlCatIOns and most
persistent attempts 10 mlSrcprcScnt the real
character OF large section of our people.
| There is no more need of governmental cspion-
age at Charleston or Savannah aud the other
Southern cities than there i in New York or
| Boston Some people have an idea that the
sentiment in the South leans towards the rees-
taDl>mcnt OF negro slavery. All he people
are all heartily glad Ia get rid of 1t and the
plans now are placed under better system of
cultivation because ii is gone. Old planters
told me that the worry and anxiety and the
all gone, and now all they have Ia ii" Is Ia pay
| the wages at The end of the month. Pat it to
! ballot in the South whether or not YOU would
| have again the system winch prevailed before
the war and you Will get Il laundering mega
tive. The fight for slavery closed slXtCCs
wears ago and those Northern politicians who
! keep the subject Of American slavery still roll
ing might As well try to make the Dorr rebel
/ lion in Rhode Island or The attempt of Aaron
/ Burr te found an empire test for our fall clCC-
ton The whole subject Of American slavery
/ is dead nd damned. 1Acncgro loves his work
ard his South. When We hear of rivers dragg
ed and lakes To fish out colorcd men who have
been flung IN we get but sample stories ofwhat
! the North is expected to believe Of the South,
tut they are 80 ridiculous IL hardly 10 need
contradiction. There j. no maltrcamcnt Of
/ the COlOrcd people, and as for American >lay-
| cry, look for it in your Northern cities among
/ the army otcmployGes. See your female clerks.
I'Ihcy need your sympathy far more than the
workers Of the rice Eamp or the sugar planta.
| ton. Find item on Fulton street, Brooklyn;
/ Broadway. New York; Washington street,
| Boston; Chestnut street, Philadclpma We
want reformation IN all these places To protect
/ the weak from tyranniCal employers, and we
had better begin our charity at home
another impression is that there Is an hos
tihty to NurIhcrG men who come to the South
TO settle The impression is that they are To be
! kukuxcd or othrrWis" MA, =" uncomfortable IL
/ Is a he. They want all The help they can yet
from the North. They want the cotton spnd-
les near the cotton fields and Northern men to
manage and Northern girls to tend them. OF
course, .here is no more admiration for fool,
and braggarts there than here. a man may
20 down Ia "A SOuthcrnrr rs he works in the
field and begin his sclicXultanCe, I'm from
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very section with NV regiment; | remember
killing 4, heifcr ON your front s,oop What a
rood lhrashing we rave YOU. didn't we. now -
Such a man AS that to say the least. would moi
rrt a very hearty welcome He Would not he
chosen a denCun in tL,. Churrh and II wouId
not he surprising if he moved of ON the most
mobile section of "A fence and came down with.
ont much attention 10 The landing place Yr.
and should h,. inclined tn say he deserved i,
i\nul,usc, \ Rrnnklyn man j. az rnnu a.
| Mobile man if he bchnycs himself There j,
not Il more hosp,tab,c ucnnlc m the worldlban|
the r,nlc pf fine Snurh l\nnlnu.cl hiring
Ia dav n prnrrnl invitation ia vnu nil and ali
The North 10 90 To the south and settle down
Horace Grrriry's cry nc Go West, uus, Inc
rhnuocI IN Cd Snsth ar rather odlrJ for
There is room cnouoh nil over There are ror.
tnnc. lac ,hn LunIr,d tn Inc ,n,Ic L,, tho Gr.,
men ia y,o in tn lake. nos,.s.inn of tb9 rIrbr. Of
thr Snuih Van Northrrn w,rk,rs ro down
where van cnn hrc.thc me rorr - nslv Sti
If ynu .ra not ,nn n,,,icnI,,r h,,, ,,,,, iroy,I
| \fr,,I nr hr,t. Snu have hotter DAYS hero
thon cvrr nre thcrn ort.v.r, Whcr,vcr vnn
rn Iy,,, ar SnutI, ,nu Lny, 81, ucc'imotin,y, -,
| lack and il il onIv - different Kind nT a shake
| P W. oI'',' ~ ','P
immrn.,. rrs"urrrs Of mininr and fnrc.,s IN
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