The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08
COyDU07hD BY S. H. SZ40KHoUSE'
mistakes About the south corrected
DIR. Talmage, who has recently

the iSOuIutIl loOutOSi N"7 ." ~ Va
IMPRESSED with the condition of affai
down here, that as soon as he reache
home, preached sermon fom til
text "give me blessing; for tho
hast given me South land; give III
also, springs of water
He heads his sermon "mistake
about the South corrected" whic
partakes more of the character of
lecture than that of regular sermon
We wish we had space to reproduc
all the good things he says about tn
South, but we only make few eX
tracts in order to show if the Northern
people would only come South, ant
see the condition of affairs us the.
are, and not believe so many of thu
living reports circulated ut the North
il would do much toward obliteratln!
those animosities which have so lonl
existed between the two great sections
and incline immigration and capita
Southwark instead Of Westward.
THE SOUTH DOES NOT DESIRE THE REsTo
RATION OF SLAVERY.
|. The first misrepresentation in regarC
TO the South that | wish to correct, Is, tina
the Southern people want to get back ant
have reinStated negro slavery. why. al
the people are glad to get rid of it.
The planters told me that they coult
tbnir lnnI NOW ut less pNDpnSC
under the new system of labor than under
tho old. A planter who had hundred
and twenty slaves before the war, said that
there was much care necessary i'll looking
after so many slaves, and i'll looking after
the aged who could not work, and helpless
colored childhood. that there was constant
anxiety and vast expense and exhaustion.
Now they have nothing to do nut pay the
wages when they are due, and each family
looks after its own inyalids and minors.
Submit to the ballOt-boX of the Southern
people To-day, the question "Shall slavery
be reinstated?" and all the wards and all
the cities and all the counties, and all the
States would give laundering negative.
They fought for the institution eighteen
wears AGO, but now, they congratulate
themselves ut the overthrow Of the institute
ton.
God be thanked that North and South, at
last we have one sentiment on that subject !;
and those Northern politicians who keep
the subject of Americad slavery rolling on
and rolling on, are doing thing rs useless
and inapt as it would be to make the Dorr
Rebellion of Rhode Island or Aaron Burr
ATTEMPT at the overthrow of the United
States Government Il test for our fall
elections. The whole subject of American
slavery is dead and ID.
T., OnI IatuAat- tln
reports about the Southern people
being opposed TO Northern immigra-
ton in the following strain:
NORTHERN SETTLERS WELL TREATED.
II. Another impression in regard to the
south that | wish to cOrrect-and that il,
that they are antagonistic to having
Northcrners come down there and settle.
The whole impression given here at the
North has been, that if NOrtherners go
down South, they are ku-kluNed, kept out
Of society, or, getting into society, thrown
Dut again, and in every way made uncOm-
'ortable
From the States where | visited the cry
.Omes and bring it to-day i'll their name,
send down your capitalists, send down
Northern farming machines, come and buy
,ur Plantations. open stores. build cotton
actOrics and rice-mills--comc by the hun
lrcdS, by the thousands. by the millions,
nd come right away" | declare here that
hat is the sentiment of the south.
OF course there is no more admiration at
he South for Northern fools and Northern
raggarts. than there is here. If a man
DING South shall put his yaliSe at the
epOt, then go up on the nearest plantation
nd say by his manner or by words: NV c
ave come down here to show you southern
eople how to farm: we whipped you in
he war, now we are going to whip you in
griculture. | am from Boston, | am
hats the Hub How much you look like
man | shot at South Mountain believe
was your brother. / marched right
Trough here in the 18th regiment vOlun- |
'ers; | killed and quartered hcifer on |
our front stoOp. What Il poor, miserable |
ice of people YOU NOllthrrners are! Didn't |
e give it to you? hu =! ha! ''-such man |
that, to say the least, will not make Il
vorable impression And he will not be .
cry soon elected Us elder of one of their
and if he should open Il store, he
ould not get many customers, and if such
man As that should get free and rapid .
de on that part of fence which is most |
lSily removed, and be set down without |
l!ch reference to the desirability Of the
nding-placc, you and | would not be
'Otestants.
liza moral man go South. and exercises
st ordinary cOmmou->ense. he will be
he will be made at home. and
ming from Brooklyn, he will he just as
ell treated as though he came from
obic. 4 southern gentleman fn the
dicnce) mods his head as much as to say,
That's 50.
Why, this side Of heaven there is not a
ore hospitablc people than the people Of
c south; and | bring you from those
ates which had the pleasure of visiting,
ring you to-day an iyitation for immi-
alton that way. The South is to rival
e West as an opening field for American
terprise. Horace Greeley's advice Of
10 West is to have its addcna in SEQ .
uth."
70 test the Southern hospitality {
lich he speaks about, he advises the {
to go and try it, in the
lowing forcible language: g.,
stop cursing the South, and stop lying
out the South, and 20 South and test the :
duality Of their welcome and their re-
IrCes Of mine and plantation and forest. q
by, my friends, that is the way this /
-iOnal difficulty is to be settled. Tens of |
'usand- of young men from the North, I
raj, young men, intelligent young men p
m the North, are to 90 South and make :
ir residence there, and they will invite :
daughters Of the South to help them I
Id houses amid the magnolias and the C
nge-groyes. and their children will be o
{ North and half SOuth-half South Il
rOlina and half Vermont half Georgia
half New York and then to divide the
IntFy YOU will have to divide the chill
~ with some such sword a. Solomon
castically proposed for the division of
tested child. and the Northern father N
] say to the Southern mother, Come +
dear. let us put our political feud to !,
,p in this cradIe!'
Ne believe to-day, if there were not d
many prejudices existing against 7
, South, that Northern immigration e
uld pour here Ikea vast tidal wave, q
tead Of moving westward. Our n
mate and soil are indispensable, fl
| all we need, is capital and a well z
ected labor mixed up with a little II
rthern enterprise aud energy, and il
Ithern fields would blossom with A
lntiful harvest>, and our vast and u
.ural Resources developed to a mar n
Gus extent verifying DIR. Tai 81
ge's prediction, made more potent ol
coming from a Northern standpoint. y
four thousand fig trees, from Europe, y