The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-05-13

zs=s.s,-szs Sweet land OF liberty -
And the sermon was as follows:
sUBJEcr: e MISTAKES ABOUT THE SOUTH
sH coRREcrED,"
JUDGES j. Is: "Give me a blessing
for Thou hast given me South land ;
give me also springs of water"
Caleb's daughter, just married to
General Othniel, had received of her
father as a wedding present farm at
the South in warm and sunny CLINE.
She asks for the further gift of some
springs of water near by so that her
farm may be properly irrigated and re-
freshed by the waters brought in tun-
mel or aqueduct. Give me bless
ing for thou hast given me South
land give me also springs of water"
To our nation God has given South
land 1t is vast and magnificent
reach ofcountry, but it needs to be ir-
rigated from the fountains of divine
blessing, and onr nation ought. devot-
eddy TO pray in the words OF the text !:
!. q Give me blessing; for Thou hast
given me South land; give me also
springs of water."- r.
A few weeks ago to meet engage
ments in nine of the Southern cities
and to catch glimpse of the Southern
springtime and see how that region
is recnperating from the devastations
of war, I started South equipped with
a mind full of questions and hungry
for information on all subjects-social,
political, moral and religious. Among
other things, I had a grave to visit in
Georgia, the grave of my uncle, Rev.
DIR. Samuel Talmage, for wenty years
the President of Oglethorpe Unlvers-
ity. After walking amid the ruins Of
the institution which he had founded,
aud from which a multitude of men
went, forth to positions of influence in
all parts of the land, bot an institution
slain by the war, went out to see his
last resting-pIace. When our civil
strife opened his heart broke, and he
lay down near by the scene of his use
fulness, the monument over him
adorned with his name, and the sug-
gestive passage: "How beautiful up
ON the meuntains are the feet of them
that bring good tidings, that publish
peace.p He was of that band of con.
temporary ministers of the South
who, after eloquent words and long
service for Christ, are now retiring
from their labors. DIR. James H
Thornwell, whose life, written by DR.
Palmer, is holy enchantment, and
Dr.. Thomas Smyth, and DR.. Duncan
and DR.. Price, and many others.
But my mission was not SO much
with the dead as with the living.
started on the tour with no partisan
predilections and no prejudices, and
resolved to tell on my return what
saw, whether it might be generally
approved or denounced by one o.
both sections. l had no political re-
cord to guard or defend, for my chic
work in the Ministry has been don'
since the war closed. My admiration
for the Democratic party and the Re
publican party, as parties, is so small
that it would take one'of McAllisier'
most powerful magnifying glasses t.
discover any thing Of it. American
politics are rotten and that party steal
the most which has the most chance
had all the doors Of information
opened TO me. I talked with higl
and low, Governors and water.car
riers, clergymen and laymen, lawyers
doctors, editors and philanthropists
with the black and the white, old res
idents of the South and new settler
from the North, and l found Their
have been the most persistent ant
outrageous Misrepresentation in re
gard to the South by many of the cor
respondents" of secular and religion
Journals, and by men who, overbear
ing and dishonest in their behavior q
the South, have had Infusion give
to them that their company was no
desirable. If q man 60 South and be
have well, he will be treated vel
There is no more need of rigorou
governmental espionage in Atlanti