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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, VOL 6 THE GLEANER PUBLISHED WUEKLT BY • K. S. PARKER Urabaa, PI. C, HaUn of Hubtcrtptwn. Potlayt Paid ; One Year $1.50 Six Months : 75 Three Months fio Every person sending ns a club of ten sub scribers with the caab. entitles himself to one free, for the lengh of time for which the is made np. Paper* sent to different offices No Departure from the Cash System Rwlea ml Arfrcrliaiag Transient advertisements payable in advance: yearly advertisements quarterly in advance. il m v 2 m. it m. | tt.m. il2 m. quare *3 00jf8 00 «4 00 t6 00 *lO 00 2 '! Transient advertisements |1 per square (or he first, and fifty cents for each subso insertion. ■* 1 , A DINI'ODRSB Of T. DeWITI TAL. NAOK. [From The Sanny South.] Dr. Taimage took his text from Judges 1., 15: "Give me a blessing/ for thou hast given rae a South land, give me also springs of water.". • • To our natiou God has given a South laud. It is a vast and magnificent reach of country, but it needs lo bu iiriguted Iron, the fountains, of divine blessing, and our nation ought devoutly to pray hi the words ol the text: "Give me a bless* ing, for thou hast given me a South land; give me also springs of water.'?' A few weeks ago, to meet engagements in nine of the Southern cities and to catch a glimpse of the Southern tpring time and see how that region is remipor ing from tbe desolations of the wur, I started South, equipped with n mind full ot ques'ions And hungry tor information on all subjects, social, political, moral and religious. Among other things 1 bad a grave to visit in Georgia, tho grave ot my uncle, Rev. Dr. Samuel K. Talmage. for twenty years the President of Oglethorpe ' University. Atter walking amid tbe ruius of the institution which he founded aud from which a multitude of men went forth to positions of influence in all parts of the laud, but an institution slain by the war, [ went out to see his last resting place. Wbeu our civil strife open*, ed Ms heart broke and he lay dowu near by the scene of hid eminent usefulness, the monument over hiiu adorned with liis name aud the suggestive passage: ••How beaatiful upon the mountains are the feet ot them thai bring good tidings, N that publish peace." lie was of that Uaud of contemporary ministers of tho South who, after eloquent words aud long service for Cnrist, are now resting Iroin tbeir labors —Dr. James 11. Thorn well, whose life, written by Dx- Palmer, is a holy cuchautment, aud Dr. Thomas : Smyth and Dr. Duucau aud Dr. Pierce and many others. But my vision was not so much with tbe dead as with tbe living , I started on the tour with no partisan predelictions aud uo prejudices, aud resolved to tell on my return what I saw, whether it might bo generally approved or denouno ed by oue or both sections. I had no political record to guard or defend, for my chief work iu tbe ministry has bcon done since tbe war closed. Sly admira tion for the Democratic party aud tbe Republican party, as parlies, is so small that it would take one of McA lister's most powerful magnifying glasses to dis cover anything of it. AXKKICAX POLITICS ABE ROTTEN, and 4h*t party steals the most which has the most chance. I had all 'he doors of fu/ormation opened to me. I talked with high and low, Governors and water-car riers, clergymen and laymen, lawyers, doctors, editors and philanthropists, with tbe black aud the white, old reshleuls of the South aud new settlers from flic 1 Hortii, and i found there liavo beeu tbe 1 most persistent and outrageous misrepre-! sentatious in regard to* tbe South by i many of tbe correspondents of secular and religious journals and by men who. overbearing aud disbouest in tbeir be* f.. bavior at tlie Soutb, have bad inlorioat (lan given to lbein that tbeir company #ita not desirable. If a man go South and behave well be will be treated well. There J* no more need of rlgoious gov ernmental espionage in Atlanta, Augusta or Macon tban there ia in Boaton or New York. The present diaposition of tbe South has been so wrongly set forth that I purpose now. ao far aa I am able, to oorract tbe ate retyped slanders concern-' fag it. Flrat, it baa alwaya been represented to as that Uie Soatb was longing tor tbe Old system o| negro slavery. . So far from that being true tbny are all glad to have got rid of it. The plautera told me that tM7 ean culture tbeir fields with less ex* pense nndepibe new system tban tbe old. A gentleman who bad 125 tlaves before tbe war, told me that tbe clutbiug and feediug of them, the taking care of the aged who could not work, and the provision for helpless colored childien, was au expense and anxiety and exhaus tion. Now tho planteis havo nothing to do bat to pay the wages when they are due, the families looks after their own | invalids and minors. So they all say, j without one exception that 1 could find. If at the ballot-boxes of the Southern Stales the questiou should now be snbs milled: ''Shall negro slavery bereinstat* ed?" all tho wards and all the cities and all the counties and all the States wculd give thundering negatives- They fought' to keep it eighteen years ago, but now there is universal congratulations at its overthrow. Thank God that North and South at lat't are one on the same subject, and this effort of our Northern politicians to keep the subject of slavery rolling 00, is as useless and iuapt as to uiako the Dorr rebellion of Rhode Island, or Aaron Burr's atiempt at tho overthrow of the United States Government, the test of our fall elections. The whole subject of American slavery is dead and damned. I inquired everywhere: "How do tho negroes work uuder the new plan ?" The answer was: "Well, very well. Just after the war there was the disorganiza tion that naturally came of a new order of things, but now they work well. Tbey work far better thnu Northern laborers that come here, because our colored peo ple can better euduro our hot climate, and on a warm summer's day, at the nooning, they will lie down iu tbo field to enjoy the suu." My friends, «all that talk about dragging the rivera and. lakes of the South to haul ashore black people murdered and fiuug in, though serious* ly believed by many people at the North is a FALSEHOOD TOO RIDICULOUS TO MKHTION 'lll a religious assembly. The white peo ple at (lie Sonth feel tbeir depeiulmice on the dark people for tbe cultivation of their lands, aud the dark people leel their dependence on the white people for wage*. From what 1 have observed here at the North of the oppression of some ol our female clerks in dry goods stores and the struggle of many of oar young men on insufficient salaries, which they mnst take or get nothing at all, 1 give as my opinion that to day tber« is more considerati'Mi and sympathy for colored labor at tbe South.than there is consid* eration aud sympathy lor employes in some of the stores on Fulton avenue. Brooklyn, or Broadway/ New York, Washington street or Chestnut street, Philadelphia. All the world over, there are tyrauuical employers, and lor their maltreatment of subordinates, white or black, tbey are to be execrated; but the place for us to begin reformation is 'at home. ( Another misrepresentation in regard (o the South 1 core when I wy ihey are uol antagonistic to the settlement of North ern men within their border*. We have been told that Northerners going there are knklnxed, crowded oat ot social life, unrecognized, and in every way made uncomfortable. But tbe universal sentK inent as I have fooud it was, "tend down your Northern capitalists; send down yonr Northern farming machines; buy plantations; open stores; build cotton factories and rice mills; some I come right away; come by teus of thousands and by millions." Of course ihey have no more iikluic for Northern fools or Northern braggarts than we have. A man who goes South aud sets down bis valise at tbe depot and. goes upon tbe nearest plantation to say by word or manner to the planter, "I have come down here, to ahow you ignoraut people bow to farm; we whipped yon iu the war, aud now we propose to whip you in agriculture. 1 am Irom Bostou, I am; that's tbe bub; you look very inocb like the man that 1 I hot at South Mountain; ! thinK it must have been yonr brother. 1 marched right through here in Ibe fuurth regiment ot voluuteers.' 1 killed aud quartered a beiter on your ffout stoop. What a poor, miserable race of people you Southerns ers are. Didn't we give it to you? (lai ha!" Such a man as that, to say tbe least, will aot make a favorable impress sion upon the neighborhood where be comes to settle. (le will not very soon get to be deacon in cburcb, aud if be ope dm store be will not have many cus tomers,,aud ii be should happen to get a free and rapid ride on tbat part of a fence which is most eati'y removed, aud should be set down without much refers euce to tbo desirability of the landing place, you and I will not be prolestants. Any moral man who will go South and exercise just ordinary commou sense, will be welcomed, made at borne, aud coming from Brooklyn, will be treated jnst as well as if be came from Mobile. 1 might give many illustration', I give one: A member of Ibis church moved to Charleston, S. C.. seven or eight years GRAHAM, NO, WEDNESDAY MAY 12 1880 I ago. Ue went without fortune. By his I mercantile assidnity he toiled on up. Was he well received? Judge for your selves, as 1 tell you that a few days ago, hie body was taken to the Episcopal church, of -vldcli he had be" come a -vestryman, for the members of the Board oftrade,the orphan ohildren ot the asylum of wbicti he was a director, and a great throng of the best citizen* assembled, amid a wealth of flo *al and musical tribute, all making an occasion, described by tho Chariest on Courier, a* almost unparalleled at the obsequies of any private eitlzen. * This side ot heaven there is no more bospitablo people than tbo people of the South, and now 1 bring a nietsago from all the States ot the Sontb which I visited, inviting immigration thither. The South is to re lieve the West as au opening field for American enterprise. Horace Greeley's advice to go West is to have an addenda iln "Go South," The first avalauclie ol ' population'thither will make their for tunes. It is a national absurdity that s% much oti be cotton of the South should bo transported at great expense to the North to be transformed Into artidos ot use. Tlio few factories at the South are the pioneers of (lie uncounted spindles which are yet to begin the bum of (heir grand march on the banks 01 the Bavau«> nsh, Appalacldcola and the Touibigbee. There stands Georgia, with Its 68,000 equaro miles, and South Carolina with its 94,000 square miles, and Alabama with its 50.722 iqiare miles, aud North Carolina with its 60,704 square miles,and tbd other States, none of them with more than ten per cent, of their resourcos do" veloped. When will the overcrowded populations of our great cities take tlie wiugs of the morning and fly to regious where they shall have room to turn round aud breathe and expand and beoomo masters of tbeir own coru-flolds or rico swamp* or cotton plantations or timber forests. Land to be had there in the Southern States FKOM ONE TO TWEHTY DOLLARS AM ACHE. Only sl6 to gat there and you are not I too particular as to bow you go. Do you sav tbe climate is hot? The ther mometer runs up higher York every summer than it doee in North Carolina aud Georgia, though the heat is more proiouged. Afraid of the fever? The death rate of Michigan snJ Geor gia are equal, while'the death rate, ac cording to the,last census, is leas accord ing to the population iu Georgia than in Connecticut and MaiAo Whether you go Weat or South you will propbably have one acclimating attack. It is only a difference of style of shake. There is no need that England or Ireland or Scot land auy longer suffer for room or bread i'lie tide of emigration uow |»ouring into tbia country are greater than at any time in biatory— 2l,6sß emmigrants last month arrived in New York, 5,000 em migranta last Tuesday iu and around Castle Garden. This is only an intima tion of what is to come. Make two cur rents. While you put ou extra traius to take them West by the Pennsylvania, Erie and New York Central, put on trains on the Baltimore Washington, aud Chatanooga and Atlanta and Charleston to take them South. There are tens of thousands of fortunes waiting for men who have tbq enterprise to go and win them- The South beckons yon tooomo. Stop cursing the North, andlying about the South, and go and try yourselves tbe cordiality of her welcome aod the resour ces of her mines, her plsutations and her forests. Perhaps this ia the way God is goiug to settle this sectional strife. There will be hundreds of thousands of our brightest, most most moral voung men, who will gu South for resi dence, and tbey wilt invite tbe daogh ters of the South to\help them build up homes among tlie magnolia and orange groves, and their children will be half North and half South, half Georgia and hall Vermout, half South Caroliua and half .hew York; and thereafter to divide the county you will bave to divide th 6 • children with soiue such sword as Solo mon Mtrcasticalls proposed for the divis ion of tbe contested ehild, and the Northern lather will say to the South ern mother: "Come my dear, 1 guess we had better put this |K>litieal feud to sleep in the cradle" The statement so long rampant at the North that the South did not waul ioduatrious, useful and moral Northerners to settle among them 1 brand as a political falsehood, gotten up and kept up for nothing but political purposes. Again I have to coroect the impres sion that the South art bitterly against the government ot the United Suites. Tbe South submitted to arms certain questions, sod most of then sre submis* sire to tbe decision. There is no fight in them. Wo hesr much sbont tbe fire enters of the South, but if they rat fire they always have a private table and a private platter of coals in a private room. I sat at many tabl's, but I did not sse anything of thst kind of diet. Neither did I see any spoon or kuife or fork that aeemed to hsve been used in fire-eaung. Why, sirs, 1 never saw more placid people—some of them with all their |fa>perty gone and starting in life at forty and sixty years of age with oue leg, one ariu or one eye, the missing member sacra Heed iu battle! It is simply miraculous tlmt those |ieople feel so cheerful and so amiable. It ia dastard* ly mean to keep representing them as acrid and waspish and saturine and mal evolent. I have trawled as much as most people iu this and other lands, and 1 have yet to find a more affable, deli cately ay in pathetic, whole liearUd peo ple than the |»eople ot the Buuth. They ate to-day patriotio and loyal, end if a fc reign foe ahould attempt to set foot on this soil for the purpose of intimidation aud conquest, the forcea of Bragg and Geary, McClellan aud Beauregard, Lee aad Grant would come shoulder to shoul der, the blue and the gray, and the can nous of Fort Hamilton,* Sumpter, aud Plokeni would join in OME CHOHUA OV THUNDER AND FLAME The fact is that Ibis country Km had a big laeiily fight, but let a neighbor come in to interfere, aud von know how lhat always work*. Husband and wife in contest, the one with a earn* and the other with a brooai.stick, il tome im l>erth)ent idividual attempts to come be** tween them, he geU both eane and broom-stick. 1 have sometimes thought that the North and the South would never understand each other until the approach of a commlin enemy sompela thorn to make a common cause. If for eign despotisms think we have no coho sion, no centripetol force aa a nation, they hate only to test it. The fact that, instead of the thirteen ooloniea, we em barace everything from tlie Atlantio to the Paoifio ocean implies no weakening or national grip. By steam and eleo tricity our country is within easier oon*. trol than at tlie foundation of the govs eminent. It took two weeks to get of ficial communication across the country at tlie start; now it takes two minutea. San Francisco and Galveston and Dee- Moines Sre nearer to Washington now th»n Richmond was then. There never was a time when this nation was so tbor ougly one as to-day. Would to God might more throughly appreciate it. You see the whole impression of my Southern journey wss one of high en. courMgeinent. The great masses of the people are right. If half a dozen poli ticians at the north and half a dozen at the South would only die, we should have no more sectional acrimony. It is a case for undertakers. If they will bury these lew demagogues out of sight, ere will psy the entire expense of catafalque and epitaph, and furnish enough of brasa band to play the rogue's tnarch. But time, under God, will settle it. The generations that lollow us will not share in the antipithics and bellicose spirit of their auceatoni, and will sit in amase ment at a state ot things which made tlie uational graveyatds of Murfreesboro Gettysburg and Richmond an awful possibility. vVeek before lasl I took a carnage and wonncf up Lookout Mountain; Up, up, up! Standing there on the tip-top rock. I saw five States of the Union. Scene stupendous and overwhelming! One is almost disposed to take off hia bat in the presence of what seems to be the graodest prospect on this continent. Then* is Missionary Ridge, the beach against whLh the red billows of Federal snd Confederate courage surged and broke. There sre the Bine Mounttins of North and Carolina. With strain of vision, there is Kentucky, there is Virginia. At our feet Chatanoogs and Caiekamagua, the peonuhetstion of which proper names will thrill ages to come with thought* ot valor desperation and agony. Looking each way and any way from the top of that mountain earth works, earthworks—the beantifui Ten nessee winding through the valley, mak ing letter "S" after letter "8," as .if that letter stood for shame, that brothers should have gone into masesee with each other, wbilp God and nations looked on. 1 have stood on Mt. Washington, and on the Sierra Nevadas, and on the Alps, but never saw so far aft from the top of Lookout Mountain. Why, sirs, I looked back seventeen years, and I saw rolling up ths side of that mountain the smoke of Hooker's storming party, while tlie foundations of eternal rock quaked with the cannonade. Four years of inter necine strife seemed to come back, and without any chronological order I saw the event; Norfolk Navy Yard on fire; Fort Sumpter on fire; Cnarleston on fire; Richmoud on fire. And I saw Ellawortii fall, and Mcpherson fall, and Bishop Potter fall, and Stonewall Jackson fall. A'id I saw hundreds of grave trenches afterwards cut into two great gaabee across the land, the one for thi dead nun of the South. And my ear as well as my eye waa quickened, aod I beard the tramp, tramp of enliating I heard the explosion of iSiucs snd gun ■ powder magazines, snd the crash of Jfoj> tifiaatiou walla, and the "swamp angety and the groan of dying hosts; snd I saw still further out, sud 1 saw on the hanks iof the Penobscot snd Oregon, and the ' Ohio, and the Hudson, and the Roan oak, and the Yazoo, and the Alabama, wid • owbood aud orphauage and childlessness —some exhausted in grief and others stark mad, aud I said: "Enough,enough have J seen into the past from the top ol Lookout Mountain Oh! God show me the future." And etandiug there it wa» revealed to me. Aud I looked out, and I saw great populations from the (North moving South, and greet population* from the Boutli moving North, and 1 found that their footsteps obliterated ihe hoof marka of the war chargers. And 1 «aw the Angel (f the Lord of Host* standing in the national oemeteaiea, trumpet iu hand, as much as to say, "I'll wake these soldiers from their long en rauipmeut." and I looked and saw inch snoey harvta's of cotton,-and eueh gol den harvests of corn as I Bad never im ■ agineri; end I found that the earthworks were down, and the gun-carriages were down, and the war barracks.were down, and I saw the rivera winding through the valleys, making letter ••8" after let ter "S"—no more "S"/or shame bat 'B' for salvation. And as I saw that all the weapons of war were fumed into agri cultural implements, 1 was alarmed, and I eaid, "Is this safe?" And standing there on the tiptop rock of Lookout Mountain, I- was so near heaven that I heart] two voiees whieh some way slip ped from the gate aad tbey sang: "Na tion shall not lift np sword against n*» tion, neither ahall tbey learn| war any more. And I recognised the two voioeo. They were the voieea. of two christian soldier* who fell at Shiloh: the one a Federal,Jand the other a Confederate And ttiey were brother*?* •» TBI ILAM. a century and a halt, Texas revolted and declared the province free and in dependent. Tlie republic however had a terrible struggle. Hsrd battle* were tougbt and noble patriots bled for free dom. lu this eoiidet the A lama-mission, at San Antonio, turned into a miliary fort, fotoisbes the most thrilling eha|» ter. On Sunday, the sixth of March, 1886 General Santa Anna, the self styled' •'Napoleon ef the West,** surrounded the Alamo tort with a Mexican army num bering 4,000 ineu, while inside the walk was a devoted band or Texan heroes numbering onlp 188. Among the nobis Vol BoWIe, and that ecccntrio hunter tram Tennessee, David Crockett. Lone befor daylight on that Sabbath morning Santa Anna's bugle secluded en advance, and the ferocious Mexicans rushed with tumultuous shouts towards Alamo. The Texans had but little hope or sucoess against such overwhelming numbers, and no hope of mercy in case ct snrren der. Already tlie Mexican bands were plav'ng the dreadful dequelo, siguifiylng (bat no mercy neol be expected, so I bey resolved to sell their lives as dearly aa possible for the sake oi liberty. Twice (lie Mexicans to scale the walls, and twice ihey staggered back bcloro (be Are ot tbe brave defenders, leaving the ground ttrewn with tbeir dead. Tbeu a third obarge was made, tlie relnclaut infantry being driveu to tbe terilble assault by tbe cavalry. On and on they came through volley alter volley ot deaths-dealing balls. At last (her reached the walls and attempted to seaJe Hiem by laddsrs bnt were burled back br the Texan*. Agalu and were the ladders raised, and again aud again were they thrown down. But soon the Mexicans by overpowering numbers mounted tbe walls and tumbled over like sheep. Tbe last straggle was short and terrible. Tbe Texans fonirbt without ashadow of hope, fought With no other alternative than death before them. Fought In their dying agonr, for It is siid when Col. Travis recieved his death wound a Mexican officer rushed forward to' dispatch him, bat Travis pierced his sssailandl wite his sword and both expired together. Around the dead body ol Crockett were nine Mexi cans be bad slsiu in the last bloody strug- Kle. Bowie was butchered aud uutll itad on bis sick bed, and not a man ol tbe 188 was left to tell tbe awful story. Inscribed on tbe monument that com memorates tbe heroism ol those men, the traveler may read: "Thermopylae had her messenger ol defeat, the Alamo none. On tbe twenty first of April following the massacre at Sen Antonio, the battle of San Jsnciuto was fought. In this last 1 straggle for liberty the Texans went Into battle shouting as a war cry, "Remem ber the Alamo." The Mexieana were defeated, Santa Anna waa captured, and Texan independence secured. From 1886 to 1846 Texsj was an Independent republic, having, during that time, tour presidents, lu 1845 this "'one star re public" was added to our constellation of States. Forty able Massachusetts editors pass ed through I'oilad iphia last night but tlie city preserved lis balance notwith standing the fact. —J 'htladciphia iVssa, "Mavbe there isn't any God for the United States," said a Canadian mayor to Bob liigersoll, "but there's one for Can ada: aud you can't have no ball in Ibis towu to delauie llirn." Tlie yonng lady who presided at a church fair table and "gave change" was spoken of as an incompetent creature by the managers, but she was the first girl in tbe society to get married. Some Chicago folks don't -want the Republican Convention h*-ld there, and Some ot the delegates say it'a because those Cliioagoaus are hoggish aod want all the whisky for ihetuaeivea. — Uotton Poet. 'NO, 11. 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