The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
The following sermon was preached at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle recently;
THE SERMON,

The following sermon was preached at thu
Brooklyn Tabernacle recently;
THE SERMON.
"Give me blessing, for thou hast giver
me south land give me also springs Of wa
ter" Judges |, 10.
To meet engagements in nine of the South
ern States, and to catch n glimpse OF the
southern springtime, and to SEQ how those
regions are recovering from the desoations
Of war, started few weeks ago southwark,
equipped with my mind full ofquestions, and
hungry for information on all social and po-
litcal, moral and religious subjects. Among
other things, / had grave in Georgia to
visit, the grave Of my uncle Rev. DR.. Sam
uel X Talmage, for twenty years the Pres-
dent of the Ogelthorpe University. When
the war opened his heart broke, and he lay
down to rest near by the scene of his eminent
usefulness. | went southwark with no parti-
san predictions. had no prejudices.
was resolved on comng back to report what
saw, whether it might meet with general
favor or the condemnation of one or both
sections. | had no political record to guard
or look after, since most of my ministry has
been passed since the war closed, My admi
ration of the Democratic and Republican
parties as mere parties is so small that it
would take McAlister's most powerful mag
nifying glass to see anything. Laughter.
American politics is rotten, and that party
steal the most which has the most chance.
Laughter At the South all the doors of
information seem TO be open. talked with
high and low, with Governors of States and
water carriers, lawyers, cergymen doctors
judges of courts, and found that there had
been persistent and in SOME cases outrag-
eous Misrepresentation Of the feeling at the
South by some correspondents of some Of
our Northern secular and religious newspa-
pers, and by over.bearng and dishonest men
who, going from the North to the South, be-
haved there in manner that excited no
friendliness. found out that If n man be.
HAYES we'll at the South he will be treated
well. [Applause.] There is no more need of
severe governmental espionage in Charleston
and Atlanta and Augusta than in New York
and Brooklyn. Applause. The feeling ut
the South to-day has been SO misrcpresented
that / shall devote this mornings sermon to
the correction of the misappi Extensions and
TO the overthrow, so far as may be- able, of
some of the ISLANDERS.
THE FIRST MISREPRESENTATION
In regard to the South that wish to correct
is that the Southern people want to get
back and have reinstated negro slavery.
Why, all the people are glad to get rid of it.
The planters told me that they could cult
vate their land nowat less expense under the
new system Of labor than under the old "A
planter who had hundred and twenty
slaves before the war, said that there was so
much care necessary in looking after so many
slaves, and in caring for the aged and for
helpless eolored childhood, that there was
constant anxiety and vast expense and ex-
haustion. Now they have nothing to do but
pay the wages when they are due, and each
family looks after its own invslids and
minors. To the ballot-box of the Southern
people to-day the question, "Shall
negro slavery be reinstated?" and all the
wards, and all the cities, andall the counties
and all the States would give laundering
negatives. They fought for the institution
eighteen years ago, but now they congratu-
late themselves at the overthrow of the in
stitution. God be thanked that North and
South at last have one sentiment on that
subject, and those Northern politicians who
keep the subject Of American slavery roll
ing on and rolling on, are doing a thing as
useless and inapt rs it would be to make
the Dorr rebellion of Rhode Island, or
Aaron Burr's attempt at the overthrow
of the United States Government, test for
our fall elections. The whole subject of
American slavery is dead and damned. l
said 70 the planters: allow do these men
work now under the new system ?" and they
replied; "they work well: we have no trou-
BILE; there was o good deal oftroube just af.
ter the war closed, and Generalization and
disorganization consequent upon q change of
things, but now they work most admirably,
and they far better than the Northern men
who come here and work, because the eli.
mate seems better adapted to the colored
people who will on summer day,
at their incoming, go out and lie down
to enjoy the SUM-" My friends, all this
talk about the dragging of the riy-
ers and the lakes of the South to haul ashore
negroes murdered and flung in, while it may
DO believed by many at the North, is false
hood so absurd 1t is hardly fit to mention in
areligious assemblage. The white people of
the South feel their dependence on the dark
people for the culture of their lands; the
dark people feel their dependence on the
white people for the payment Of their wages
From what / have seen of the oppression
of female clerks in some of the dry goods
stores at the North, and from what | have
seen Of the oppression of some young men
at the North on small salaries which they
must take or get nothing Mt all, have come
TO the conclusion that there is more consider
alton and sympathy for colored labor at the
south to-day than there are consideration
and sympathy for some Of the employees in
some Of the dry goods stores on Fulton
street. Brooklyn; Broadway, New York
Washington street. Boston; Chestnut street.
Philadelphia. We want reformation in all
Inc land In regard to the treatment Of sub
o.