The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-21
Notable Speeches
Last Week.
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the South may be called to bear. when
lit comes to business. pure and simple.
ii is in the South that the negro is given
q mans chance in the commercial world.
"As friends OF the negro, fully be-
ucving in the possibility OF his improve
nent and advancement. enl sincerely and
confidently laboring 10 that end, II IS
folly for Us to ignore the Importance OF
the ungrudging cooperation on the part
NJ the white people of the South in this
work. Labor as We will, those who do
ttc lining OF the weight must be those
who stand next TO II. This cooperation
cannot be forced; nor can it be gained
bv gratuitously running counter TO
firmly fixed and tenaciously held southern
IDEAS. or even prejudices.'
II have faith in the honor and sinceri-
t. OF the respectable white people OF the
South in their relations with the negro
and his Improvement and well being
Senator Hoar's tribute to Jefferson was
glowing, generous, apprcciative. Though
schooled in the narrower and harder and
more aristocratic school OF Hamilton.
the venerable Massachusetts senator has
twice in his life been forced to rely upon
Jefferson's teaching, in the two most
momentous questions he has discussed
slavery and colonialism. Both times he
has drawn his inspiration from Jefferson
and he Acknowledges it. He is quoted az
saying in his speech at the Jefferson
birthday dinner that he could think
Of no nan in history like Jefferson, who
was the leader of two revolutions and
founder of a political party; one Of the
revolutions accomplishing the independ-
ence Of his country from a foreign yoke,
and the other overthroWing by peaceful
means the party at home, which was
founded by Washington and his great
counselors.'
After naming as two Of Jefferson's
greatest acts-writing the Declaration OF
France, speaking of the latter achieve
ment, Senator Hoar said:
yet in the estimate of mankind I be
| lieve tina achievement is insignificant
compared with the other. The author Of
the Declaration of Independence stands
in human history as the foremost man
who ever lived, whose influence has
led men to govern themselves in the
conduct of states by spiritual laws, not
formulas to be assented to. but rules Of
life to be governed by. 1t was due 10
Jefferson that our fathers laid deep the
foundation of the State in the moral law
They first set to mankind the great e.
| ample and exhibited the mighty specta-
cle-the sublimest spectacle in the uni
arc n n rroof on1 Froa nnnnla I-oJ,y,
tarily governing itself by a law higher
than its own DESIRE
More and more as men come to regard
power and money as the chief things
worth contending for do they discount
Jefferson and his teachings. More and
more as men come to regard equality,
freedom Of opportunity, a fair chance,
and justice as the only realities worth
contending for do they honor Jefferson
and his teachings. No trust magnate,
planning and scheming to enrich himself
at the expense OF others, ever dared to
let the just eyes from a portrait Of JEFF
ferson look down upon him. No colonial
ruler, seeking to govern men without
their consent, dares allow a picture Of
Jefferson to hang in his portrait gallery.
No religious bigot, stepped in the mar
roWness of a dWarfing creed, can bear
to look into the benign countenance Of
the man who regarded as one of his three
| greatest achievements writing and pass
ing the Virginia statute Of religious lib
erty. Jefferson is the patron saint only
of men who adopt this creed, enunciated
by Jefferson in his inaugural, March 4th,
1901.
Equal and exact justice to men OF
whatever state or persuasion, religious or
political, peace, and ho~aot
friendship with all nations. e%ntangling
alliances with none; the support Of the
State Governments In all their rights,
as the most competent administration for
our domestic concerns, and the surest
bulwarks against anti-republican tenden-
cies; the preservation Of the general gov
eminent IN it's whole constitutional yigor
as the sheet anchor of our peace at hone,
and safety abroad; a jealous care Of the
election by the people-a mild and safe
corrective OF abuses, which are Topped
by the sword of revolution, when peace
able remedies are unprovided: absolute
acQulescence is the decision Of the ma
jority, the vital principle OF Republics
from which there is no appeal but to
force. the vital principle and immediate
source of ~despotism; a we'll Disciplined
militia. our best reliance in peace and
for the first moments of war, till regu-
lars may relieve them; the supremacy
of the civil over the military authority:
economy in the public expense that labor
may be lightly ~burdened; the honest paw
ment OF our debts and sacred preservation
of the public faith; encouragement Of
agriculture, and Of commerce as its
handmade; the diffusing information and
the ar~raignment of all abuses at the bar
OF public reason; freedom of religion.
freedom Of the press; freedom Of persons
under the protection Of the habeas cor
pus, and trial by jurics impartially select
| ed"
This creed is to true political action
what the Ten Commandments were 10 tho
followers of Moses.