Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-05-01
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We publish gladly the following
sermon of DIR. Talmage, which hai
a strange sound as coming from the
north. thought not osound strange
this preaching of charity and ma
tional brotherhood, from either 8
northern or southern pulpit, though
unhappily it does. How long is il
to be before this spirit of Christian
love is to supersede the baleful gos.
pei Of hate that has 80 long divided
the nation? Oh, Lord, how long
DIR. Talmage preached discourse
to his Brooklyn congregation, on
Sunday, the 18th, which will attract
universal attention. His subject
was mistakes about the South Cor
rected." We make the following
extracts from the sermon:
/ started on the tour with no par
tisan predictions and no preju-
dices, and resolved to tell on my
return what saw, whether it might
be generally approved or denounced
by one or both sections. | had no
political record to guard or defend,
for my chief work in the ministry
has been done since the war closed.
NV admiration for the democratic
party and the republican party, as
parties, is SO small that it would
take one of McAllister's most pow
erful magnifying glasses to discover
anything of it.
American politics are rotten, and
that party steals the most which has
the most chance. i had all the
doors of information opened to me.
| talked with high and low, gov
ernors and Water-carrierS, clergy
men and laymen, lawyers, doctors,
editors and philanthropists, with
the black and the white, old resi-
dents of the south and new settlers
from the north, and / found that
there have been the most persistent
and outrageous Misrepresentation
in regard to the south by many of
the correspondents of secular and
religious journals and by men who,
overbearing and dishonest in their
behavior at the south, have had in
formation given to them that their
company was not desirable. If a
man go south and behave well he
will be treated well. There is no
more need of rigorous governmental
espionage in Atlanta, Augusta or
Macon than there is in Boston or
New York. The present disposition
of the south has been so wrongly set
forth that 1 propose now, SO far as |
am able, to correct the stereotyped
ISLANDERS concerning it.
This side of heaven there is no
more, hospitable people than the
people of the south, and now / bring
message from all the states of the
south which / visited, inviting inn
migrants thither. The south is to
rival the west as an opening field
for American enterprise. Horace
Greeley's advice to go west is to
have AN addenda in ego SOUTH"
The first avalanche of population
thither will make their fortunes. 1t
is national absurdity that so much
of the cotton of the south should be
transported at great expense to the
north to be transformed into articles
of use. The few factories at the
south are the pioneers of the un-
counted spindles which are yet to
begin the hum of their grand march
on the banks of the Savannah, APP
palachicola and the Tombigbee.
There stands Georgia, with its 58,-
600 square miles, and South Caroli-
ma, with its "a, 900 square miles. and
North Carolina, with 59,704 square
miles, and the other states, none of
them with more than ten per cent.
of their resources developed. When
will the overcroWded populations of
our great cities take the wings of
the morning and fly to regions
where they shall have room to turn
round and breathe and expand and
become masters of their own corn
fields or rice sWampS or cotton plan
tations or timber forests. The state
ment so long rampant at the north
that the south did not want indus
trious, useful and moral nOrtherners
to settle among them / brand as a
political falsehood, gotten up and
kept up for political purposes.
Again, ] have to correct the inn
preston that the so4th are bitterly
opposed to the government of the
United States. The south submit
ted to arms certain questions, and
most of them are submissive to the
decision. There is no fight in them.
We heard much about the fire-eat-
ers of the south, but if they eat fire
they have private table and pri-
vate platter of Goals in private
platter room. sat at many tables.
but I did not see anything of that
kind of diet. Neither could ] see
any spoon or knife or fork that
seemed to have been used in fire.
eating. Neither could ! see any
spoon or knife or fork that seemed
to have been used in fire-eating.
Why, sirs, never saw more placid
people-sOmeo of them with all their
property gone and starting life at
forty or sixty years of age with one
leg or one arm or one eye, the MEM
Der missing sacrificed in battle! 1t
is simply miraculous that those
people feel so cheerful and so ami
able. 1t is dastardly mean to keep
representing them as acrid and
Waspish and saturnine and malevo-
lent. / have travelled as much as
most people in this and other lands,
and I have yet to find a more affa-
bic, delieately sympathetic, whole
hearted people than the people of
the south. They are to-day loyal
and patriotic, and if foreign foe
should attempt to set foot on this
soil for the purpose Of intimidation
and CONQUEST, the forces of Bragg
and Greary, Mcclellan and Beaure-
gard, Lee and Grant would come
shoulder to shoulder, the blue and
the gray, and the eannons Of Fort
Hamilton, Sumter and Pickens
would join in one chorus of thunder
and flame.
The fact is that this country has
had q big family fight, but let a
neighbor come In to interfere, and
you know how that always works.
There never was a time when the
nation was so thoroughly one as to-
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