The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-05-04


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p,ocx1yx. April 1s-Dr. Tslmage preached
S;-D.urse this morning which wiz attract uni
- attention. His subject was, Mistakes
,hou, the South Corrected" Services opened
nth singing the verses beginning:
INV country, It's Of thee,
Sweet land Of Liberty"
m Talmage took his text from Judges l., Is:
- cive me blessing; for thou hast given me a
s.,,,h land: give me also springs of water."-
The following isa
FrIL REPORT OF THE SERMON.
C.let's daughter, just married TO Gen. Othniel,
had received of her father as wedding present
farm At the South, in a warm and sunny cline
Che asks for the further gift of some springs of
x.ter near by, so that her farm may be properly
irrigated and refreshed by the waters brought in
,upnel or aqueduct "Give me blessing, for
,bou hast given me South land; give me also
springs Of water"
To our nation God has given South land. 1t
: vast and magnificent reach of country, bat
II needs to be irrigated from the fountains of
divine blessing and our nation ought devoutly to
nray in the words OF the text "Giye me a bless
me. for thou has given me South land give
me slso springs of water
few weeks ago, 10 meet engagements in nine
NJ The Southern cities and to catch a glimpse of
The Southern springtime and see how that region
: recnperaiing from the desolation of the war, l
started South, equipped with mind full of ques-
ions and hungry for information on all subjects
Socisl. political, moral and religious Among
other things had grave TO visit in Georgia, the
grsTeo nv uncle, Rev DR.. Samuel T. Talmage,
ior twenty years the President of Oglethorpe
University. After walking amid the ruins of the
institution which he had founded and from which
a multitude Of men went forth to positions of in
thence in all parts Of the land, but an institution
slain by the war, went out TO see his last resting
place When our civil strife opened his heart
broke and be lay down by the scene of his emf
Deni usefulness, the monument over him adorned
with his name and the suggestive passage =
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet
Il them that bring good tidings, that publish
peace" He was Of that band of contemporary
ministers Of the South who after eloquent words
and long service for Christ, are now resting from
fheiT lsbOrs-Dr. James H. Thornwell, whose
life, written by DR.. Palmer, is holy enchant-
InenL and DIR. Thomas Smyth and Dr. Duncan
and DR.. Pierce and many Others.
But my mission was not so much with the
dead a. with the living | started on the tour
with no partiZan predictions and no prejudices,
and resolved 10 tell on my return what saw,
whether it might be generally approved or de-
nounced by one or both sections l had no POI
hiic2l record to guard or defend, for my chief
work IN the ministry has been done since the war
closed My admiration for the Democratic party
and the Republican party, az parties, is so small
thai Il would take one of McAllister's most pow
erfui magrifying glasses TO discover anything of
il
AMERICAN POLITICS ARE ROTTEN,
And that party steals the most which has the
most chance. had all the doors Of information
opened TO me. / talked with high and low,
Governors and water-carriers, clergymen and
laymen, lawyers, doctors, editors and philanthro-
piSts, with the black and the white old residents
Of the South and new settlers from the North
and found that there have been the most per-
sisteni and outrageous misrepresentation in re-
gard 10 the South by many of the correspondents
Of secular and religious journals, and by men
who, oEerbearing and dishonest in their behavior
Al the South, have had information given to them
that their company was not desirable Ii man
20 South and behave well be will be treated
well There is no mere need of rigorous gov
ernmental espionage in Atlanta, Augusta or Ma
con Than there is in Boston or New York The
present disposition of the South has been so
"-SA6y - III "a Unit pAOPOoC INV ~ AdI d. 4
am able, 10 correct the stereOiyped ISLANDERS con-
corning il
First, il has often been represented to US that
the South was longing for the old system of ne
no slavery. So far from that being true, they
are glad TO have got rid OF it. The planters told
me that they can culture their fields with less
expense under the new system than the old A
Gentleman who had 125 slaves before the war
told me that the clothing and feeding of them,
ihs taking care of the aged who could not work,
and the provision for helpless colored children,
vas an expense and anxiety and exhaustion
Now the planters have nothing To do but pay the
wages when they are due, the families look after
her OWE invalids and minors. So they all say,
without one exception that / could find If at
t.s ballot boxes of the Southern States the ques-
Too should now be submitted: Shall negro
slavery be reinsta;edT All the wards and all
ihe cities and all the counties and all the States
would give laundering negatives. They fought
- Keep II eighteen years ago, but now there is
universal eongratulatiOn at its overthrow. Thank
tod that North and South at last are one on that
subject, and this effort of our Northern politi-
cans 70 keep the subject of slavery rolling on is
a. useless and inapt as TO make the Dor rebel
non OF Rhode Island or Aaron Burr's attempt at
Tie overthrow of the United States Government
LIE test Of our fall elections. The whole subject
81 American slavery is dead and damned. in
CURED everywhere: How do the colored people
work under the new plan T The answer was
Well, very well. We have no trouble Just
@'ief the war there was the disorganiZation that
naturally came of new order Of things, but now
ioey work well They work far better than
AoThen laborers that come here, because our
coorec people can better endure our hot climate,
AND on warm summers day, at the incoming,
taey Will lie down in the field to enjoy the SUM-
NJ nends, all that talk about dragging the
nFers and lakes of the South to haul ashore black
a.. l..
SeaieVed by many people al the North, is
RAIsEHooD TOO RIDICULOUS TO MENTION
IN religious assembly. The white people OF the
south ieel their dependence on the dark people
lor the cultivation of their lands, and the dark
Ieople feel their dependence on the white people
lf wages From what have observed here at
me North Of the oppression Of some Of our fe-
maAe clerks in dry goods stores and the struggle
q many Of our young men on insufficient sala-
ne which they must take or get nothing at all,
give as my opinion that to-day there is more
ne south than there 10 consideration and SYM
siny Tor employees in some OF the stores on
ruiion Avenue. Brooklyn, or Broadway, New
iork, washington street. Boston, or Chestnut
street, Pkilsdeiphia- An the world over. there
are yreanic1 employers and for the maltreat-
aaenf o. subordlnaies. white or black they are to
& execrAied but the place for rs TO begin refor
nation IL IT home
Another misrepresentation in regard 10 the
south cure Whsn i say they are not antago-
nIstle 10 the settlement Of Northern men within
iAeir borders. We have been told that North.
efnen going there are kuklnxed, crowded ont Of
ssciAi hfe, unrecognized, and Ia every nay made
uncomfortable But the universal sentiment Is
! lo1Dd II was, send down your Northern CAPT.
1H<s; send down your Northern farming ma
s1-na; buy plAntaiiegs opcn stores; build cot
10 iAcioFies and rice mills; epmel come right