Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-16
SOUTH HAS LONG ACCEPTED
VERDICT OF WAR.
SAYS HENRY WATTERS0N
Distinguished Southerner Makes Not
able Speech at Banquet of Hamil.
ton Club-Negro Problem Under
Discussion-Othcr Speakers on
Themes of War.


Henry Watterson. in responding to
the toast, Peace Between the Sections,
referred to the dual responsibility of
the north and south for African slav-
cry and the war of secession and to
"a racial problem to be solved by the
the process of evolution, not by politi-
cal agitation"
81 appeal to you as republicans" he
said, land through you, | appeal to
the republicans of the United States,
to have done with the conceit that, UNI
less you stand by the black man, that
unless you continue him as an issue
done him. In the lettering of his
condition, and in the acquisition of
property with nothing, he has made
wondrous progress the last five and
thirty years; and, relatively greater
progress at the south than in the
north He could not have done this
without the sympathy and cooperation
of the southern whites. He has made
| little progress in the arts of self
government either north or south, be-
cause of the agitation which has kept
him in a state of perpetual excitement,
with no helpful public opinion to
moderate it, and has been made the
sport and prey of political exigency,
always selfish, and with respect to him
more or less visionary and needless.
THE negro can never become in any
beneficient, or genuine sence. an in
tegral and recognized part of the body
polite except through the forces of
work, but which in the nature of the
case must needs go exceedingly slow
Where there is one negro fit for cit
izenship. there are millions of negroes
wholly unfit. The dollhouse process
has been tried and it has failed. IL,
| invested with every right enjoyed by
the whites, the blacks, gaining in all
things else have brought corruption
into the suffrage and discredit upon
themselves, is it not a kind of mad
ness further to press, artificial
methods, which, however justified
theoretically from educational look
outs in Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin,
fall helpless to the ground in their
practical application to the semi
barbarous toilers in the cotton fields
and corn lands of Alabama, Georgia
and South Carolina?
q appeal to you equally in what I
conceive the true interest of the
black people along with the white
people of the south; nay, and of the
north as well, for all our interests
are indessoluble, interchangeable and
that can never be good or bad for one
section which is not good or bad for
the other section. Modern invention,
which has already annihilated time
and space is surely erasing sectional
lines. 1t ought not to leave so much
as Renaissance of sectional strife.
| If that dread spirit should come again,
| it's evil winds will not blow between
the north and the south, but between
the east and the west; the horns of
the dilemma presented by extremism
involving new irrepressible conflict
between capital and labor May that
day never come, but in case it does,
the conservatism of the north will
need the conservatism of the south.
The law-loviHg forces of the north
will need the law-breeding instincts
of the south. The Americanism of the
north will need the Americanism of
. han 4,
sections learn what racial homo
geneuity means and know for certain
that blood is thicker than water.
"The mysteries OF Providence are
hidden from you and me; why the
negro was brought hither from the
wilds of Africa and sold into slavery,
his redemption thence, and all his
redemption cost us; but, assured that
behind these mysteries lay some vast
deign. feel that God has always been
with us and is with us now. Why
Washington, the patriot, instead of
Lee, the adventurer, Why Lincoln. the
seer. instead of Seward, the scholar?
If it vas not the will of heaven that
the confederacy should fall, that the
union should prevail, why were all
the accidents of the war with the
north and against the south? the death
Of Jackson, az the critical moment IN
the valley of Virginia, the arrival at
the critical moment of the Monitor in |
the waters of Hampton roads? If it be |
not the will Of heaven that we shall !
carry the Christian message of free |
dom and civilization to the end Of the |
earth, why did not the Lord send |
Dewey home? No, no, gentleman, as
God was radiant in the stars that |
shone over Washington at Valley /
Forge, over Lincoln at Gettysburg, J
over Grant in the Wilderness, over |
the fleets in Manila bay ana the bull |
lies in front of Santiago, does his (
radiance shine apon US, brothers in |
blood and arts and arms, whether |
our knees go down amid the SHOWS |
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