The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-12
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DIR. SHUTTER DISCUSSES THE
SOUTH, ITS HISTORY AND
CONDITION.
HE PRESENTS NEW VIEWS.
STATEMENTS NOT GENERALLY RE
ALLIED OR ACCEPTED BY
PARTISANS.
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
| Brilliant Picture of the Coming
Dixie-The Race cues
ton.
HE PRESENTS NEW VIEWS,
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

lished?' was asked DR.. Marion D. Shut
ter, after his address on 1.-THE South;
Present and Future" delivered before
a large congregation at the church Of
the Redeemer yesterday morning.
yes, I do" was the frank reply,
'for they would be considered by most
people here as embodying strange
ideas for a Northern Republican to
hold"
DR.. Shutter began his sermon by re-
ferring to the emancipation, as follows:
Mr.. Chittenden relates in his Rec
objections of Lincoln that once, to-
wards the latter part of 1864, as the
great president lay upon his favorite
! couch in the registers Office, he broke
! into magnificent strain-a beautiful
wordpainting Of what the South would
! be when the war was over, when slav-
cry had been destroyed, and she had an
opportunity to develop her industries
under the benign influences of peace.
A grand vision seemed to flash before
Mr.. Lincoln's mind Mr.. Chittenden
says that many years afterwards the
incident occurred to him when he lis
tened to the following words Of well
| come addressed by a Southern orator to
a Northern delegation: You are stand
! ing this moment in the gateway that
leads to the South. The wealth that
is there, no longer hidden from human
| eyes, flashes in your very faces. You
can smell the roses of a new hope that
| fills the air. You can hear the heart
beats of progress that come as upon
the wings Of heaven. You can reach
forth your hands and almost clutch the
gold that the sun rains down with his
beams as he takes his journey between
the coal mines and the cotton field;
the highlands Of wood and iron Of
marble and granite; and the lowlands
| of tobacco, of sugar and rice, Of corn
and kline Of wine and milk and honey
| 1.-THE vision of Mr.. Lincoln" con-
tinued DR.. Shutter, as today passing
rapidly into realization; the future will
complete it's glory. The death Of Lin
coin arrested its contamination His
name is revered in the South at this
moment. Henry Watterson delivered
lecture on Lincoln In Atlanta during
my recent visit there, and declared that
Lincoln was a man inspired of God,
and the best friend the South ever had;
and the great audience that filled that
|
| echo.'
THE SOUTH AT THE WARS CLOSE.
Referring to the condition of the
South at the close of the war, DR.. Shut
ter said: There are three things we
must never forget; first, when the Con-
rederate armies disbanded and the SOL
| diers tOiled YEARLY back on foot, they
found awaiting them nothing but ruin
and desolation and famine" Then Dr.
Shutter depicted the pitiable picture Of
the Southerner and his desolated home,
! ragged family and all prevailing chaos
The Southerner accepted his situation;
he bowed to the decision wrought out
by the sword. But" said DR.. Shut
ter, upon the backs of the Southern
ers, bending to their new and untried
labor, was laid the burden of negro
suffrage. Their slaves were not only
free, but elevated at one stroke to po-
Itical equality. President Lincoln, a
few days before the hand of the assas-
sin struck him down, had suggested that
the experiment might some day be
tried with a few Of the most intelli-
gent and that the nation should be
guided by the results But he never
contemplated the wholesale enfran-
chisement which was so soon to be con-
summated above his tomb. The South
then had not only to ask, how shall
we create new industries?' but how
shall we deal with this mass Of en-
franchised ignorance? Looked at
from this distance-above the storms
of wharf.-the granting of suffrage upon
him, unprepared as he was to receive
it, was unjust to him and the source
Of his after woes, but it seemed like a
measure of retaliation upon defeated
and suffering people"
Thirdly DR.. Shutter described the
period of reconstruction. "Staggering.'
he said, under the double load 1 have
already described, the South was COM
PEELED to add another"
The Carpet ba ggers'' here received
some of Mr.. Shutters attention that
was not eulogistic; he described them
as the men who did no fighting and
came only for plumber after the war
was over and then in conjunction with
the newly elevated slaves, "inaugura1-
ed those orgies of corruption and rob-
berry, in which ignorance, incompe-
tence and dishonesty went blunderins
to the verge of anarchy"
Then he reviewed the great deprecia-
ton in value of property and the de-
plorable increase of debts that took
place during the reign of the negro and
| carpet Dagger" The white man OF
the South, he said, felt that something
must be done to save the land from
humiliation, and they regained con-
troll of the state governments, which
they have held ever since through
growing prosperity.
RACE AND INDUSTRIAL CUES
TION.
DR.. Shutter next took up the race and
industrial question of the South saw