The Worcester spy., 1899-11-10

or what their rights are? One Of our
Ideals as a nation Is the subordination
of all other ends to the happiness Of the
individual. have come to the conclu-
sion that certain races have certain
rights, but that those rights involve
duties.
The fact of the Hebrew having had
a genius for morals, the Greek for art,
the Epglishman for legislation, means
that they have duties to perform along
the lines of morals, art, legislation. No
race has a right to existence just be-
cause it Is race. There used to be a
great cry that the missionaries were
Christianizing the Hawaiians, out of
existence, but why should that be a
calamity The dead and the unborn
have no race claims. Therefore, / say
that the race which proposes to do
something must preserve itself pure.
In the second place." continued the
speaker. ut is our duty to practice such
Christianity and to carry into the
world such a mission that we shall ex-
ert benet1eent influence upon all men.
This can be done upon the Individual,
the household and society, law and gov
ernment. We believe that every one
within our borders has education, lib
erty, happiness that he has the COM
forts and reflnements of home and
t4Sdilll we D6ll6N6 IIlal IleF6
be more natural division Of wealth,
and that every man should have a com
mon participation in legislation. There
is vast portion of the country where
man believes that to appeal to the
law Is degrading.
Nationality is better than race: it
means the concentration of a people
around certain ideals of happiness. We
want homogeneity. Nationality can do
more than race. We want a common
patriotism and laws that will foster
it; a common law and subordination
to it: q common love of country; a
common fellowship of men. We can
fulfill these conditions by cherishing
the public school. There is a way of
making nation richer without adding
a dollar to it, that is by adding not
riches, but richness Of life. Another
means of realizing our ideals is by
endowtng colleges. If you are not your
self prepared to teach the orphan boy
to read, the orphan girl to sew, help
others to do It," In concluding, Mr..
Gable spoke in warmest commendation
of Berea college.
In introducing Dr. Frost, DR.. Mo-
Cullagh said:
81 think that there is no man in the
United States better fitted for the po-
sition which he occupies than is Dr.
Frost. He loves his work. He be-
lieves In the capabilities and possibili-
ties of the people for whom he is
spending and being spent. He is labo-
rious, patient, persistent optimistic,
enthusiastic, and his righteous ambi-
ton is being crowned and will be
crowned with success
PRESIDENT FRosTs ADDRESS.
In the spirit of the noble words to
which we have just listened, I am here
to unfold a patriotic enterprise Of quite
unusual character and promise. The
largest single fact about our country
is its duality-the two streams of his
torical development which give US a
north and a south, The solidarity of
these sections Is cause Of grave anx-
fer to their political solidarity so much
as their estrangement in their ideals,
their ways of thought, their CONNER
cial and social life. The great enter
prise to be explained to you touches
this problem of the diverse ideals of
the two sections. We have discov-
cred break In the solid south--a meet
ing place where northern and southern
philanthropy may shake hands,
The hitherto unreckoned element in
the southern problem is the mountain
region. And as we shall see the fu-
ture of this region affects not only the
southern problem, but most Of the
other problems which concern us as a
nation.
About 1850 the last effort to abolish
slavery by movement of the southern
ers themselves failed and from that
time southern anti-slavery men were
driven out or put to silence.
The great exception was in central
Kentucky. There were more anti
slavery southerners there, and they had
sius NJ Clay. Clay had the family
standing which gives influence, and the
great virtue of courage. 1t was his
pleasant custom on entering a court
house or church house, to speak, to
lay on the desk before him a copy of
the Bible, and a copy of the constitu-
ton, reading the clause which guaran-
tees the right Of free speech Then he
would remark: Gentlemen, there may
be some here who do not care much
for the Bible or the constitution, and I
must have other arguments for them, I"
and from his deep addle-pockets he
would draw forth bowie knife and re
volver. and lay them beside the books.
Then he was ready for a discussion!
In seeking to build up a support for
free speech and anti-slavery sentiment,
Gen. Clay took note OF the mountains.
There were people who owned land,
but did not own slaves. Among them
he sought supporters, and he thus be-
came the discoverer Of the so-called
Mountain Whites"
(They object to that name as you
would object to the name, worcester
Whites,' and we DO not use it in Be-
rea. Yet these people are 80 distinct
q type that they really need some dis
tinguishing appellation. They speak
of themselves as 'the mountain peo-
ple.")
Gen. Clay purchased a Boundary
of mountain land, on which he estab-
lished an anti-slavery stronghold. At
his invitation, the eloquent and intrepid
John G. Fee, son of a STAKEHOLDER in
Braoken county, came here and found
ed an anti-slavery church, which was
long aided by the American Mission
ary Association, and which still exists.
Out of this church grew Berea col
lege, and it's first head, Rev. j. A. r.
Rogers, an Oberlin graduate, native of
Cornwall, Ct, began publishing arti-
cles about the mountain people before
the war.
We speak of this history because it