The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-04-30
A SLAP AT THE BLOODY SHIRT.

~ 20 nome our mOtner way,
"A SLAP AT THE BLOODY SHIRT.
Mr.. Tdln,age Returns from tie South to
Remark Upon the Viyor and Immensely
Of Stal'oart Lying.
Mr.. Talmage directed his congregation
yesterday to sing, "My country, tits of thee"
said his text-Judgcs l., 15-and continued
as follows: "To meet engagements in nine
of the Southern cities and to catch q
glimpse Of the South land in the Spring
time, made trip two weeks long below
Mason and Dixon's line. went equipped
with questions and hungry for information
on moral and religious and political subjects
1 had grave to visit in Georgia, that of
my uncle, DR.. Samuel K, Talmage, for
twenty years President of Oglethorpe Uni
versity. When the war for slavery broke
out he lay down near the scene of his USE
fulness. He was one of those who are the
adornmcnt of the Southern pulpit. Such
men as Jas. II. Thornwell and Smyth and
Duncan and Pierce are to be mentioned with
him. l went resolved to see and make
report of what saw while South. 1 had
no political record to look after or guard,
for the career of my usefulness has opened
since the war closed, My admiration for
the Democratic and Republican parties, as
parties, is so great that it would take one of
McAllisters most powerful magnifyiug glas.
ses to catch glimpse of it. American pol
itics is rotten. That party steals the most
which has the best chance. TApplauso I
l found while South the most perfect proof
that the bulk Of the stories We get here in
the North, distilled by special correspon.
dcnta, arc sheer fabrications and most per-
sistent attempts to misrepresent the real
character of largo section Of our people.
There is no more need of governmental es.
pionnge at Charleston or Savannah and the
other Southern cities than there is in New
York or Boston. Some people have an idea
that the sentiment in the South leans towards
the reestablishment of negro slavery. Ah!
the people arc all heartily glad to get rid of it,
and the plains now are placed under bet
ter system Of cultivation because it is gone.
Old planters told rae that the worry and
anxiety and the care of looking after
plantation of negroes is all gone, and now
all they have to do is to pay the wages ut
the end of the month. Put it to ballot in
the South whether or not you would have
again the system which prevailed before the
war and you would get laundering mega
tive. The fight for slavery closed sixteen
years ago and those Northern politicians
who keep the subject of American slavery
still lollinS might as well try to make the
Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island or the at.
tempt Of Aaron Burr to found an empire
test for our Fail election. The whole sub
ject of American slavery is dead aud
damned. The negro loves his work and his
South. When we hear Of rivers dragged
and lakes to fish out colored men who have
been flung in we get but sample stories of
what the North is expected to believe of the
South, but they are so ridiculous as hardly
te need contradiction. There is no NAL
treatment Of the colored people, and as for
American slavery, look for it in your North
ern cities among the army of employees
See your female clerks. They need your
sympathy far more than the workers of the
rice swamp or the sugar plantation. Find
them ON Fulton street, Brooklyn Broad.
way, New York; Washington street, Bos.
ton Chestnut street, Philadelphia. We
want reformation in all these places to pro-
tect the weak from tyrannical employers,
and we had better begin our charity at
home
"Another impression is that there is an
hostility to Northern men who come to the
South to settle. The impression is that
they arc to be ku-kluxed or otherwise made
uncomfortable. 1t is lie. They want
all the help they can get from the North.
They want the cotton spindles near the
cotton fields and Northern men to manage
and Northern girls to tend them. Ofcourse,
there is no more admiration for fools and
braggarts there than here. A man may
90 down to Southerner as he works in the
field and begin his self lfexultance, I'm from
Boston, / am. Yes, l marched through
this very section with my regiment re-
member killing heifer en- your front stoop.
What good thrashing we gave you, didn't
we, nowp Such man as that, to say the
least, would not get very hearty welcome.
He would not be chosen deacon in the
Church aud it would not be surprising If
he moved off on the most mobile section Of
o fence and came down without much attend.
ance to the landing place. Yes, and should
plause) A Brooklyn man is as good as a
Mobile man if he behaves himself There
is not a NOR, hospitable people in the world
than the people Of the South. (Applause.)
I bring to-day general invitation to you
all and all the North to go to tho South
and settle down. Horace Greeley's cry of
GO West must be changed to Go South
or rather added, for there is room enough
all over. There are fortunes by the hun
dred to be made by the first men to 90 in
to take possession of the riches ofthe South.
You Northern workers, 90 down whore you