The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1882-09-22
MRS. CHAPLIN IN CHICAGO.

speaking attractive, the worship earnest, and
the weather much like summer Many
guests took walks before breakfast to the
beach aud the mineral spring. the only spot
where hard drinking" is INDUCED in dur
ing the temperance convocation.
After morning Sunday school there was
preaching, the Rev. Mr.. Libberton, of Du-
raud, leading in prayer, and Mrs. Peters, of
Manistee, Mich, reading the Scripture
chapter.
The Rev. a. a. Knappcn, of Michigan,
preached the forenoon sermon from Second
Samuel, xii, 81: "The word of the Lord
is tried" his general theme being the tests
to which the Bible has been put, aud by
whichit has been proved true.
At 3 p. m, came on the specially attrac-
tive feature of the day, an address on The
Outlook South" by
| MRS. SALLIE F. CHAPLIN,
an emminent lady of Charleston, S. c., and
Superintendent Of the work Of the Woman's s
National Christian Temperance Union in
the South. The following is synopsis:
Mrs Cnapin commenced by saying that
the introduction given her by the honored
President of the National Union, had fallen
upon her ear as though harp string, touch
ed in some far distant sphere, had in this iu-
cid atmosphere just vibrated, aud the time to
which Miss. Willard had Preferred, and which
had seemed so far ava -, because of the many
and deep sorrows intervening, had been
brought strangely near, and memories un-
bidden had come up which could only be
sad.
The bard who sings o. the fallen cause
Mill h,,, 4 .,L 4
and the notes will weep ou, woe. winged be.
cause Of the sorrows and sufferings of my
people. Aye may not say your people,
Tor do you not claim Virginia as your moth.
er State? Did not your territory and that
of most of the States by which you are sur
rounded once belong to the grand old com-
monwealth Of Virginia. which generously
ccded you to the United States Wculd
you sell out your interest in our common
fathers tomb because he was Southerner
and sleeps on the banks of the Potomac?
| know you would not, any more than We of
the South would yield our claim to portion
of the glory which Bunker Hill monument
commentaries, or the patriot blood which
criuisoned Lake Champlain.
Oh, dear friends, we have been wrong,
criminally wrong, for allowing desie ming
dcmagogues to divide those whom God
made one" Daniel Webster was once ask
ed what was the greatest thought that had
ever passed through his mind He replied
his "iudividual responsibility to Cod
Would that every one privileged to cast
ballo: would feel this terrible responsibility,
then statesmen, and not politicians, would
be put in power and our distracted country
,>,1l h.,u Il l. l.
other rs we ought to or We would love each
other more.
Many people at the North think of us at
the South only as slave holders, and believe
the war was fought for slavery. 1t was not
SO, as the brother from Iowa told you yes
terday. In my own State we had only &c,
600 slave holders, and yet, during the first
six months, there were 55 900 volunteers.
We fought for what we believed our rights.
as sovereign States The founder of our
States rights party, Thomas Jefferson, him.
SELF was opposed to slavery. We were not
responsible for slavery. 1t was forced up.
on us by New England and Old England.
and if it was a crime and Il disgrace, YOU
share it with us, for in my own State,
where the law forbidding the importation
of slaves into the State was repealed, Mr..
Lowndes, our representative, urged as an
argument that there were so many inlets
into the very heart Of the State that it was
impossible to keep our New England breth-
ren, engaged in the slave trade, from com-
ing iG to sell their cargoes Therefore, the
law was dead letter on our statute books,
and ought to be repealed.
do not myself, although not a calvinist,
believe that slavery was an accidental sin
that somehow or other had managed to
evade the Allscripg Eye, | think as Jo-
seph was sold into slavery to save his peo-
| ple so these hnrb yi-no were brought to
this country for n wise purpose In the
State of South Carolina before the war, the
Methodist church alone numbered over $50.
600 colored people, and S25.00O was annu-
ally Appropriated and thirty five of the
very best preachers Of the Sonth Carolina
Conference were yearly appointed to
preach upon the plantations, and never have
| heard such singing as have listened to
the
| "Untu'orld voices they raise,
Like the wild birds, their simple notes of praise"
| But slavery has had its day. and while we
wish we could have freed ourselves Of il as
you did, still God knew best. and we may in
eternity see that it was to be just so. But
now the negro is free, and we would not
return them to slavery if we could,
But is there no other responsibility for
them You would think so if you lived
among them as do. Before the war the
liquor dealer who sold them liquor was ar
rested, fined, imprisoned now the govern
ment licenses men to sell them the vlest
poison, and thousands of them go yearly
into drunkards' graves.
Before became at all acquainted with
this temperance work, was in utter des.
pair and sat amid the ruins of our homes