The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-14
A Slap at the Bloody Shirt.

'tls OF thee,' said his text-Judges l.,
10 and continued as follows: "To
meet engagements in nine Southern
cities and TO catch glimpse Of the
South land in the spring time, made
trip two weeks long below Mason
end Dixon's line. I went equipped
with questions and hungry for infor.
nation on moral and religious and
political subjects. I had grave to
visit in Georgia, that Of my uncle,
DR.. Samuel X. Talmage, for twenty
years President of the Oglcthorpe
University. When the war foc sla-
very broke out he lay down near the
scene of his usefulness. He was one
of those who are the adjournment of
the Southern pulpit. Such men as
Jas. Ii. .Thornwell and Smyth and
Duncan and Pierce are to he mention
ed with him. went resolved TO see
and make report of what l saw
while South. had no political rec.
ord TO look after or guard, for the ca
rcer of my usefulness has opened
since the war closed. My admiration
for the Deh.ocratic and Republican
parties, as parties, is SO great that it
would take one of McAllister's most
powerful magnilying glasses to catch
glimpse of it, American politics
arc rotten. That party steals the
most which has the best chance. Ap.
plause found while South the most
perfect proof that the bulk of the sto-
ries we get here in the North, distill-
ed by special correspondents, are
sheer fabricaLions and most Dcrsis-
tent attempts TO misreprescnt the real
character of large section OF our
people. There is no mole need of
governmental espionage at Charles
ton or Savannah and the other South
ern cities than there is in New York
or Boston. Some people have an
idea that the sentiment in the South
is the re-cstablshment Of negro sla-
very. All J.! the people are all hearth
~ glad to get rid Of it, and the plains
are now placed under better system
Of cultivation because it is gone. Old
planters told me that the worry and
anxiety ard the care and looking af-
ter q plantation OF negroes is all
gone, and now all they have to do is
to pay the wages at the end of the
month. Put it 10 ballot in the South
whether or not you would have again
the system which prevailed before The
war and you would get laundering
negative. The fight for slavery closed
sixteen years ago and those Northern
politicians who keep the subject Of
American slavery still rolling might
as sell try ITO make the Door REBEL
ion in Rhode Island or the attempt of
Aaron Burr TO found an empire test
for our fall election. The whole sub.
!iect of American slavery is dead and
damned. The negro loves his work
and his South. When We hear of riv-
crs dragged and lakes TO fish out col
orcd men who have been flung in we
get but sample stories of what the
North is expected 10 believe Of the
South, but they arc so ridiculous as
hardly to need contradiction. There
is no maltreatmcnt OF the colorcd pco-
pie, and as for American slavery, look
for it in your Northern cities among
:hc army of employees. See your
female clerks. They need your SYM
pathy far more than the WORK CTS of
the rice swamp or sugar plantation.
Find them on Fulton street, Brook
lyn; Broadway, New York Washing
ton street, Boston; Chestnut street,
Philadelphia. We want reformation
in all these places TO protect the weak
from tyrannical employers, and we
had better begin our charity at home.
Another impression is that there is
a hostility to Northern men who
come to the South TO sctlle. The i'm
preston is that they are TO he ku-
kluked or otherwise made uncomforta-
bic. 1t is lie. They want al! 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. Or course, there is no more ad-
miration for fools and hraegcrs
there than hero. Aman may 60 down
w u uS lC WOl AS Ill Vic
field and begin his self-cxultance,
"l',n from. Boston, I am; yes, l
marched through this very section
with my regis ent; l remember kill
ing hciler ON your front sloop.
What u good thrashing We gave you,
didn't we, now" such man AS
that, TO say the least, would not get
very hearty welcome. He would
not be chosen deacon in q Church
and it would not be, surprising If he
mored Off on the nest mobile section
Of fence and come down without
muck attendance to the landing place.
Yes, and ! should be inclined to say
he deserved it. (Applause.) A Brook
lyn man is as good as q Mobile man
If he behaves himself. There is not
a more hospitable people in the world
than the people OF the South. Zap
plausc.) | bring to-day a general
invitation 10 you all and al the North
to 90 TO The South and settle down.