The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-29
A SLAP At THE DL0oDY sHraT.
Kr. Telmago Returns from the soasS, to
Remarie Upon the vigor and Irnmensity
OF StaiUart Lying.

bar. TeimaGo Returns from the E0Rth tS
OF staiWart Lying,
Mr. Talmage directed his congregation
yesterday 20 eing, "My country, 'tis o.
thee" said his text-Judges l., I5-
and continued as follows: "To meet
engagements in nine of the Southern
cities and TO catch glimpse of tht
South land in the Spring time, made q
trip two weeks long below Mason and
Dixon's line. ] went equipped with
questions and hungry fur Information
on moral and religious and political sub:
jects. had grave TO visit In Georgia
that Of my uDclc, DIR. Samuel K. 1'al.
mage, for twenty years President oil
Oglothorpe University. When the war
for slavery broke out ho lay down near
the scene of his usefulness. He was
one of those who arc the adornment OF
the Southern pulpit Such men as Jas.
II. Thornweli and Smyth and Duncan
and Pierce are to be mentioned with
him. went resolved to see and make
o report of what saw while South. /
had no political record to look after or
guard, for The. career Of my useful
ness has opened since the war closed.
Ny admiration for The Democratic and
Republican parties, as parties, is so greot
that it would take one Of McAllister'e
most powerful magnifying glesses to
catch a glimR,a of 1t. American politics
is rotten. That party steals the most
which has the beat chance. ApplauBel
l found while South the most perfect
proof that the bulk Of the stories we get
herein the North, distilled by special
correspondents, are sheer fabrications
and most persistent attempts to misrep-
resent the real character of q large section
of our people. There 10 no moro need of
governmental espionage at Charleston or
Savannah and the other Southern cities
than there is In New York or Boston.
Some people have an idea that the senti-
ment in the South leans towards the re-
establishment Of negro slavery. Ahl the
people are all heartily glad to get rid of
1t, and tho plains now. are placed under
o better system of cultivation because It
10 gone. Old planters tpld me that the
worry aud anxiety and the care aud look
ing aftera plantation Of negroea IL oil
gone, and now all they have TO do IL to
pay the wages at the end of the month.
Put u to ballot in the South whether or
not you would have again the nystem
which prevailed before the war and you
would get thuEderipg negative. 1'he
fight for slavery closed sixteen years ago
and those Northern politicians who keep
the subject of American slavery still rolf
ing might as we'll try to make the Door
rebellion in Rhode Island or the attempt
of Aaron Burr to found an empire q test
for our Fall election. The whole subiect
of American slavery Is dead and damned,
The negro loves his work and his South,
When we hear Of rivera 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 to need contradiction. There
is no maltreatment of the colored people,
and as for American slavery, look for IL
in your Northern cites 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; Broadway, New York !;
Washington street, Boston; Chestnut
street, Philadelphia. We want reforma.
tion in all these places to protect the
weak from tyrantical employers, and we
had better begin our charity at home.
Another impression lie that there is
an hostility to Northern men who come
to the South to settle. The impression
is that they are to be ku-kluked or other.
wise made uncomfortable. It is O lie.
They want all the help they can get from
the North. They want the cotton spin
dies near the cotton fields and Northern
men to manage and Northern girls to
tend them. Of course, there is no more
admiration for fools and braggers there
than here. A man may 90 down 10 q
Soptherner as he works in the field and
begin mis- self-exultance, Sim from Bos.
ton, am; yes, marched through this
very section with my regiment; remem.
Der killing heifer on your front stoop.
What good thrashing We eave you,
didn't we, now p Such man 40 shat. to
say the least, would not get o very hearty
welcome. He would not be chosen q
deacon in the Church and IL would not
be surprising IL he moved off on the most
mobile section of o fence and camo down
without much attendance to the landing
plaeo. Yes, aud should be inclined 70
say he deserved It. Applause \ a
Brooklyn man il u good as O Mobile
man if he behaves himself. There 10 not
% more hospitable people in the world
plauae.l bring to-day vS IUas genera, IayRi. IMR
tatien to yon oil and oil the North to 20
TO the South and settle down. Horace
Greeiey's cry { 60. West must DO
changed to Go South or rather add ed.
for there is rocm enough all over. There
are fortunes by the hundred to be made
by the hrat men to go in to take posses
nj "a rsnt
Northern. workers, go down where you
can breathe. The fare is only SI6, If you
are not too particular how you travel.
here than ever are there. OF fever
Wherever Yen go West, or Soath, you
have an acclimat:on attack, and it Is only
adiftsrent kind Of a shake, (Laughter.l
Stop cnraing the South, and stop lying
about her, .and go South and develop
her immense resources sOfmininga aud for
ests. tAppiause.l Lot your Northern
yonng men sertle doWn with the South.
ern young women, and under the mag
noiia grove and the orange tree put your
political tend9 asleep in the cradle of q
generation half North half South. Zap
piausel hate To see these stories oi
the Southern people gotten up and kept
up for base political purposes. Zap
piause). Another .Trong Impression is
that the people Of the South are antaro.
nistic 10 the United States goysrnniant.
The people Of the South submitted 10
the settlement of the sword and arc sub-
misaiye. II they ''eat fire, they keep q
private platter Of Goals In q private room.
sat down with them and the forks did
not look as fthey had stirred hot coaIa
nor tho epoona aa thnrinit thar hnA in,iInl.