The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-04-22
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at the conclusion of his address Mr..
Cleveland introduced Edgar G. Muir
ply, who said: r think that wise
men everywhere are recognizing In The
principal Of Tuskegee one Of the great
est moral assets in the life Of our
country today. The south mas not ap-
plauded him with undiscrimi mating
agreement or with monotonous,
th1ughtlesS, proftIess acclaim. The
south has sometimes blamed him. But
the south is too fair to him and to his
race to ALLOW these occasions OF dis
agreement to distort the broad per-
scectire il which she has viewed and
appreciated that arduous public ser
vice through which, for 20 years, in
cheerful patience and unaffected
modessy, he has labored for tue up
building OF his humble and untutored
fellows. He has greatly done great
work in response to a great need.
North and south there have been
those who have seen pecial in the ne
gro's progress. But if the progress OF
the negro bring peril with II that
peril is nothing q comparison with the
periis attendant on the negro'S
failure
DR.. Lyman Abbott, who followed.
said that the south deserved great
credit for taking up as it had an un-
tried problem, In helping the negro to
help himself. And the norgh," he
said, has given her scant credit.
She has given him schools that the
north has refused him and done many
other things towards his future that
the north never thought Of"
DR.. Abbott next spoke Of the great
work Of Booker T. Washington and
praised him in the highest terms, de-
claring he had done as mach for the
white race as for the colored race. His
work had really brought about the
union Of north and south in the work
that he had taken up as his LIFE task.
Quoting remark made b,v Henry
Ward Beecher, to the effect that we
should make the negro worthy first
and then give him suffrage DR.. Ao-
bott said: I'VE made tie mistake OF
giving him suffrage first and the un-
fortunate negro has had 10 suffer ever
since. What the negro wants is edu-
cation. It all depends upon education
whether the negro will be- snackle tc
our feet or wings to our BODY.
BOOKER WASHINGTON SPEAKS.
Mr.. Cleveland, iu introducing
Booker T. Washington, the last
speaker Of the evening, said: i have
to introduce to you a man too well
known by every man in the United
States; man who has te5n spoken OF
too frequently and too favorably for it
to be necessary for me to say more
than-here is Booker I. Washington"
Booker Washinton tlen spoke as
follows: The TuSkegee Normal and
Industrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala.
is the outgrowth of the efforts of Gen.
S. c. Armstrong Of the Hampton in
sUitute in Virginia. Gen. Armstrong
was one of the great seers and pro-
pheUs who realized that the task Of the
nation was not fulfilled when the
shackles OF physical slavery were
struck from the limbs Of the millions
Of slaves Of the south, He realized
that nlne millions Of human beings
stepped in ignorance, minus experl'
ence could be but free. He foresa"
that the nation must havea new brit
and a new freedom and that this re
generation must include the indus
trial, intellectual and moral and rc
ligious freedom Of the ex-slaTes.
In this connection ), am glad that
We have another great American acc
Christian statesman In the person o
Hon. Grover-Cleyeland, who is mail
Testing by his presence and words here
this evening that he too is conscious
of the fact that the lifting up of th'
negro Is not alone Tuskegee's problem
not alone the south'sduty, but is tht
problem Of the nation, because thu
whole people were responsible for ths
introduction and perpeluation 0
American slavery. In behalf OF ou
struggling race I want to thank you
Mr. Cleveland for yOur deep interest