The daily gazette., 1880-04-20
From the N. Y. Star.
Tatnsage's Southern Trim.
He Gives a Glowing DescrIptlnn
OF Southern Hospitality.

"OOD AhiNd Ar HALF A DOZEN DEM
AGoGUEs WOULD DIE, AND LET rHI
NATION BURY THEM.
The announcement that Rev. DR.
Talmage would devote his discourse
to observations on his recent trip to
the Southern States drew a large con.
grega ion at the Brooklyn Tabernacle
Sunday morning. The text was
"Give me blessing, for Thou hast
given me south land; give me also
springs of water"-Judes i. 10. DIR.
Talmage said that his trip IN the Sun
ny South had done much to impress
him favorably to that portion of our
great Republic. If any preiudices had
existed in his mind they had given
way to the more noble sentiments.
with malice toward none and char
ity for ALL" The fertile fields and
sunny skies of the South Ian gladden.
ed his eyes, and he felt like one walk
ing in an Eden on earth; but, while
he praised the country, he would not
omit to give the people of the South
their just need of praise. He added |:
1.-The Southerners have their faults
and who on this footstool is perfect?-
but they are proverbially hospitable
and open-hearted. Nowhere this side
of Heaven can we find more cordial
welcome than that which greets us on
| the old plantation. The text refers
to springs of water. The Southern
country is blessed abundantly with
literal water. The figurative springs
OF water that are needed, however, are
capital and enterprise-capital invest
ed in factories and business projects.
and the enterprise necessary to devotion
the resources of the land. There is
abundant opportunity for the North
erner to make home for himself and
family in Dixie, and, if he will mind
his own business, and not meddle with
that Of his neighbors, he will fare well
enough. He must not go there with
the arrogant idea that he can conyer
all men to his way of thinking. He
must not boast of his exploits in kill
ing Confederates in the late war
Neither should he boast that in for
aging expedition he killed and quar-.
tered a heifer on their front stoop. 1t
would also not be well for him to tell
the people that he was from Boston.
the Hub of the Universe, and that he
had appeared among them to teach
them farming and how to manage
things generally. Meddlesome Yam
KEGS get very little encouragement in
the South"
referring to political agitators who
create no end of ill-feeling between the |
people of tie North and the So nth, Rev. |
Or. Talmage said: SIT would be good |
Thing if half dozen demagogues OIL |
each side would kindly consent to die, |
as the citizens could well afford to pay |
heir funeral expenses. II Is not men |
Who mind tn 'ir own affairs who make
mischief In the world. The citizens of
the South ave no more admiration for
fools than we have; but they do admire
honest common sense. A great deal has
been said out the supposed abuse of
the colored race in the South. l cap tell
you that tie freedman OF the South is
better paid and is treated with more con-
slderation than are many of the male
and femsl, clerks and operatives in the
stores and shops of New York, Philadel-
phia or Boston. 1t has been argued that
the planters would restore the old sys-
TEN of African slavery If they had the
power. This is mistake. The planters
told me that they found it much cheaper
to employ freedmen aud pay them theirl
wages than it was to get the work done
with slave labor. The owners of slave
we're Obliged to take care of them, sick's
or well and in old rye when they could
do no labor. 1t was the nature of the
slave TO shirk whenever there was an
opportunity. Not so with the freedman.
de taxes an interest in his labor. He
eels that he Is the architect of bis own
ortune, and that his success or failure
depends altogether upon his individual
conduct. The freed slave feels that he is
| man in the sight of sod and Lis fellow
nen. He knows that by industry and l
Iugality he can secure home and a
for himself in the social
cale. Recognizing the fact that he has
ometimes to live for, the future to him I
$ fun of brightness. "It has been said ,
hat the climate of the South was not as
lealthful as that of the Nor.h. OF course
here are certain sections of the South, c
llst as here in New York State, where
niasmatic diseases prevail, but taken
s a whole the mortality IN Dixie's Land a
will compare favorably with that of YER
mont, Connecticut and other Northern !
,tates."
DIR. Talmage confined his discourse
% plain narrative and argument until :
description of his visit to Lookout
Mountain gave him an excellent op-
to indulge in a fight Of !
'ancy. He said that he rode to the
op of the mo oIntain in carriage and
~ he stood upon the summit and
looked about him, the scenes of the
ast seventeen years passed in review
before his mental vision. In imagina-
tion, the gate of heaven opened, and
the spirits of two soldiers who had =
ost their lives in the war of the re- 1
bellion stepped forth. One of the
soldiers had belonged to the Confeder-
ate army, and the other fought on the
Union side. But now the old feud be-
tween the warriors was forgotten-