Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-05-01
TALMAGE ON THE SOUTH.
He Tells His People What He Saw and
Heard.
Mistakes About Us COrrected--TwO
Visions Oh Lookout Mountain.

Mistakes About Us COrrected---TwO
Visions Oh Lookout Mountain.
DR.. Talmage preached a discourse to
his Brooklyn congregation, on last
Sunday, which will attract universal
attention. His subject was mistakes
about the South Corrected" We
make the following extracts from the
sermon:
started on the tour with no partizan
predictions and no prejudices, and re-
solved 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 min
istry has been done since the war clos.
ed. My admiration for the Democrat
ic party and the Republican party, as
parties, is so small that it would take
one of McAllister's most powerful mag
nifying glasses to discover anything of
it.
American politics are rotten, and
that party steals the most which has
the chance. | had all the doors of in
formation opened to me. l talked
with high and low, Governors and
water-carriers, clergymen and laymen,
lawyers, doctors, editors and philan-
thropists, with the black and the white,
old residents of the South and new set
tiers from the North, and l 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 information given to
them that their company was not desir.
able. if man 60 South and behave
we'll he will be treated well. There is nc
more need of rigorous governmental es
pionage 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
propose now so far as am able, to cor
rect the stereotyped ISLANDERS concern
ing it.
| This side of heaven there is no more
hospitable people than the people o
the South, and now bring messag,
from all the States of the South which
| visited, inviting immigrants thither
The South is to rival the West as al
opening field for American enterprise
Horace Greely's advice to 60 West i
to haye an addenda in $50 South.
The first avalanche of population
thither will make their fortunes. Iti
national absurdlty that so much Q
the cotton of the South should be tran:
ported at great expense to the North t
be transformed into articles of use. TIL
, few factories at the South are the piC
neers of the uncounted spindles whic
are yet to begin the hum oftheir gran
march on the banks of the Savannah
.VAppalachicola and the Tombigbet
There stands Georgia, with its $500
, square miles, and South Carolina, wit
its $4,000 square miles, and Alabam,
l with 50,722 square miles, and Mort
D Carolina, with 50,7O4 square mile
e and the other States, none of thel
0 with more than ten per cent. of the
resources developed, When will II
g overcrowded populations of our grei
n cities take the wings of the mornir
t and fly to regions where they sha
!. have room to turn round and breatl
d and expand and become masters
s their own corn.felds or rice swamps
|. cotton plantations or timber forest
'f The statement SO long rampant at Il
# North that the South did not want j
70 dustrious, useful and moral Northerne
e to settle among them ] brand as pol
If ical falsehood, gotten up and kept
for political purposes,
:. Again, have to correct the impr'
!. sion that the South is bitterly oppos
to the Government Of the Unit
States. The South submitted to arr
=, certain questions, and most of the
. are submissive to the decision. The
- ), is no fight in them. We heard mu
about the fire-eaters of the South, b
! If they eat fire they have a privi
i table and private platter of GOALS in
:. private room. l sat at many tab
~ but did not see anything of that XII
~ of diet. Neither could see any spC
=, or knife or fork that seemed to ha
: been used in FIRE eating, Why sirs
never saw more placid people-some
them with all their property gone
y starting life at forty or sixty years