The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-05-17

enlarged. 1t commenced in an hum
be way in 1876 before its founder was
age, and It has grown to be quite a
ilctor in tie publication of Southern
| text books ana other Southern litera-
ture. 1t is gratifying to all lovers Of
southern progress to see the enlarge
r1ent of this worthy business to a cap
! i,ol stock of million and quater dol
i.rs.
Occasionally one sees something
about the decline Of e!oquence in the
United States Senate and House of
| Representative and elsewhere. Now
! :.i>. then is heard burst of eIoquence
IL the Senate, In the pulpit or at the
| bar which makes one feel like the day
OF trre eIoquence amongst American
speakers has not really passed.
Senator Hoar's great auti-ex pam
sion speech contained the following,
which has been referred to as an ex-
ample Of elcquenca that Will live:
y know how imperfectly 1 have
stated this argrment. [ know how
feeble is single voice amid this din
| and tempest. this deiiriIn of empire.
Il may be that the battle Tor tbs day
IS lost. But I have an assured faith
j u the fHture. I have an assured faith
III Justice and the love OF liberty CT
| The American people. The stars in
their courses fight for freedom. The
ruler CT the heavens is on that side.
II the battle # today so against it, /
| appeal to another day, not distant and
! sure to come. Z appeal from the clap
ping Of hands and the stamping OF
feet and The bra.!ing and the shout
| ing to the quiet chamber where the
| Fathers gathered In Philadelphia. I
! aplo:' froua the spirit OF trade to the
1 split q liberty. / appeal trc.a the
empire &, tie reor big. Isa7e S',n
si,e pailiionaire and the boss and the
| wire-puIler and the manager to the
statesman OF the elder time, in whose
eyes a guinea never glistened, who
lived and died poor and who left to his
children and to his countrymen good
1ame far better than riches. I appeal
from the present, bloated with material
prosperity, drunk with the lust OF en-
plre, to another and better age. ap-
peal from the Present to the Future
and to the Past"
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner, presi-
Dent of the Social Science Association,
which was in session IN Washington
last week, and whom the Norfolk
Landmark regards as one of the most
gifted American ren OF letters, said
OF the race conditions:
eve face a grave pational situation.
1t cannot be successfully dealt with
santirnentaiIy. It should be faced
with knowledge and candor. We must
admit our mistakes, both social and
nO,itical. and set about the solution OF
our problem with intelligent reso!u-
ton aud a large charity. 1t is not
nply Southern question. 1t Is
Northern question as we'll. For the
truth of this / have only to appeal to
the Northern communities in any
considerable numbers"
With regard to the effect OF the
franchise upon the colored population,
the distinguished speaker was no less
reasonable in his opinions. Touching
unon the conditions that followed the
Gilt CT the ballot to the negro aS the
close OF the Civil War, Mr.. Warner
said
"ibis sudden transition and shifting
of power was resented at the South,
resisted at first, and finally it has been
generally eyaded. This was duo to
variety of reasons OF prejudices, not
all Of them creditable to generous
desire for the universal elevation OF
mankind, but one of them the histor-
lan will judge adquate toa produce the
result. Indeed it might have been
foraseen from the beginning. This
reconstruction measure was an al
tempt to put the superior part OF the
co1ur1rnity under the control OF the
inferior, parts separated by all
the prejudices of race, and by traditions
Of nastership on one side and OF SER
r,tude on the other. 1 venture to say
that it was an experiment that would
nave failed in any community IN the
Tinted States, whether it was presented
IS a piece of philanthropy or OF pun
| ishment."
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