The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23
HOAR AT CHARLESTON
THE MASSACHUSETTS, SENATOR'S AD-
DRESS TO SOUTH CAROLINIANs.
New Union of the North and South and
the Race Question Discussed
FOrefathers' Day Celebrations.

CHARLESTON. s. c., Dec 22-The
seventy-ninth annual banquet of the New
England Society was given at the Charleston
Hotel here tonight. The leading speakers
of the evening were Senator George f. Hoar,
of Massachusetts, who responded to Fore
fathers Day" Senator John l.. McLaurin,
of South Carolina, who responded to Our
Country and the Hon. Joseph B. Cum
ming, of Georgia, who responded to 1.-The
Mayhower." The banquet was an elaborate
and brilliant function, and there were seated
at the tables one hundred guests. Senator
Hoar's address was largely of an historical
nature and touched but lightly on the issues
of the present day He said in part:
IF there be a single lesson which the peo-
pie of this country have learned from their
wonderful and crowded history it is that
the North and South are indispensable to
each other. They are, the blades of mighty
shears, worthless apart but, when bound by
an indissoluble union, powerful, Irresistible
and terrible as the shears of fate; like the
shears of Atropes. severing every thread
and tangled web of evil, cutting out for hui
mainly it's beautiful garment of liberty and
light from the cloth her sisters spin and
weave.
Il always delight to think of these States
of ours not as mere aggregations of indi-
viduals, but as beautiful personalities,
moral beings, endowed with moral char
acters. capable of faith, of hope, of MEM
DRY, of pride of sorrow and of JOY, of cour-
age, of heroism, of honor and of shame.
Certainly this is true of them. Their power
and glory their rightful place in history
depend on these things and not on the num-
beTs and extent of territory The separate
entity and the absolute freedom, except for
the necessary restraints of the Constitution
of our different States is the cause alike of
the greatness and the security of the coun-
try yywnataver ostronoon,erts nav have ev
listed in the past, or may linger among us
now are born of ignorance and will be dis
PEELED by knowledge. believe that of our
fcrty-five States there are no two who. if
they could meet in the familiaritieS of per-
sonal intercourse, IN the fullness of per-
sonal knowledge, would not only cease to
entertain any bitterness, or alienation, or
distrust, but each would utter to the other
the words of the Jewish daughter in that
most exquisite of idols which has come
down to US from the beginning of time
g 'Entreat me not to leave thee. or to
turn from following after thee; for whittier
thou goest | will go; and where thou
my people, and thy God my God
Where thou diest, will ] die, and there
will 1 be buried; the Lord do so to me, and
more Also if aught but death part thee and
me.
I'm the great and magnificent future
which is before our country, you are to con-
tribute large share, both of strength and
beauty. The best evidence of our complete
reconciliation is that there is no subject that
we need to hurry by with our fingers on our
lips The time has come when Americans,
North. South, East and West, may discuss
and quiet spirit without recrimination and
without heat. each understanding the other,
each striving to help the other, as men who
are bearing common burden and looking
forward with common hope l know that
this is the feeling of the people of the
North. l think know that it is the feeling
of the people of the South. In our part of
the country we have to deal with the great
problems of the strife between labor and
where vast masses of men, born on foreign
soil, of different nationalities and of differ
ent races, strangers to American principles
to American ideas, to American history are
gathered together to exercise the unaccus-
toned function of self-government in an al
most unrestricted liberty. You have to deal
still by still larger difference in the physi-
cal and intellectual qualities of the two
races whom Providence has brought to-
gether
Il should be false to my own manhood If
l failed to express my profound regret and
sorrow for some occurrences which have
in the South. l am bound to say that. con-
sidering all the circumstances, the North
has been the worst offender.
1T is we'll known Cor if il be not we'll
known ! am willing TO make it known that
j look with inexpressible alarm and dread
upon the prospect of adding to our popula-
ton millions of persons dwelling in tropical
chimes, aliens in race and in religion either
to share in our self-government or what is
worse still, to set an example to mankind
of the subsection of one people to another
We have not yet solved the problem how men
same land in accordance without PRINCIPLES
of republican rule and republican liberty /
am not one of those who despair of the sou-
ton of that problem i'm justice and in free
dom. | do not look upon the dark side when
| think of the future of our beloved land
l count it the one chief good fortune of nv
own life that. as l grow older j look out
on the world with hope and not despair
We have made wonderful advances within
the lifetime of the youngest of us
While we hear from time to time of oc-
currences much TO be depored and utterly
to be condemned. yet, on the whole we
are advancing quite as rapidly as could be
expected to the time when these races will
live together on American soil in freedom
in honor and in peace Every man ENJOYING
his just right wherever the American Con-
stitution reigns and wherever the American
flag hoats-when the Influence of intelligence.
of courage, of energy, inspired by a lofty
patriotism and by Christian love will have
its full and legitimate effect, not through
disorder or force. or lawlessness but under
the silent and sure law by which ALWAYS the
superior leads and the inferior follows The
time has already come when. throughout
large spaces in our country. both races are
dwelling together In peace and harmony
believe that condition of things to be the
rule in the South and not to be the ex-
ception. We have a right to claim that the
country and the South shall be judged by