The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-06-19
MASTERFUL EL0QUENCE OF BISHOP CHAS B GALLOWAY,
At THE DEDICATION OF MSSSSPprS new STATE HOUSE,

| the world. presented here in a form
of peculiar difficulty. The present
difference between the African and
the European are the product of a
thousand years which one race was
advancing in the temperate zone, and
the other remaining stationary in the
torrid zone, and centuries must pass
before their relations as fellow citizens
and neighbors Gu be properly adjusted
in America. That. / honestly be-
lieve, Is too sombre a view. 1t DIS
counts those great redemptive ana
elevating forces that give meaning and
Inspiration to our Christian civIliza-
alton.
"But it is a momentous fact that
| the full force of that perplexlng prob
sippi, where the races are so evenly
divided. l make no apology for any
failure or neglect on our part, but L
believe the dominant desire Of our
people has been to deal justly and do
right. Ana wherein we have failed
the fault has not been all our own.
while gratefully according the
purest motives and largest benevolence
to many friends in the North, am
constrained to say the problem OF the
negro has often been dangerously ac-
centuated and made perilously per-
picking by policy of intrusion and
hasty criticism. And although IN
many instances the criticisms were
kindly meant and even we'll deserved,
yet their necessary effect has been to
hinder rather than to help-to hurt
and not to heal Every effort from the
outside-especially every legislative
and political effort-based on mistrust
and censure OF the resident white
people, has tended to put ruthlessly
asunder that which providence has
Joined together.
That Unwise Champion.
THAT man was an unwise champion
of the negroes who allowed his indig-
nation at their real or supposed wrongs
to permit the statement that In con-
fiict of races the black man will be no
unequal antagonist, because box of
matches will be equal to an hundred
Winchester rifles. The very sugges-
ton must strike every human person
with horror.
II give it, fellow MissIssippians. as
my deliberate judgment that there can
never be any just and permanent
adjustment of this stupendous problem
that does not enlist the cordial and
enlightened cooperation OF the white
people with whom the negro rust
forever dwell. And any policy which
tends to intiame prejudice and widen
the racial chasm, postpones indefinitely
the final triumph of the Son of Man
among the SOUS of men. If the poor
black man is never to have brother
and friend IN his Southern white
neighbor, one or the other must move
out. Enemies cannot live on adjoin-
ing lots without perpetual conflict.
"And now that the matured and
best sentiment of the North has
reached the conclusion that past poll
cies having failed, this grave problem
should be left to the Southern people
for solution, our honor. ability and
magnanimity are put to crucial test.
That we will disappolnt the confidence
and hope Of the nation. we must not
indulge fear. What the future OF
the American negro is to be | do not
presume to predict. believe in doing
immediate duty and leaving results to
Him who knows the end from the
beginning. But | do Insist that the
negro should have equal opportunity
with every American citizen to fulfill
in himself the highest purposes of an
all wise and benehcent providence.
The National Brotherhood.
The speaker then referred to the
vanishing of sectional feeling, and
the patriotlsm OF the South, anC con-
tinued;
THE time has come, therefore, for
us to claim and demand the full fel-
iowship and absolute confidence OF our
great rational brotherhood. The hdeh-
ty of our people to their political Gov
enant and their loyalty to the flag that
floats over them, have been attested by
the yalor they have displayed and the
blood they have freely split. The ex-
plosion of the Maine IN Havana har-
bor was first heard in our Southern
shcres and its awful echoes, louder
than any blast of trumpet, was call to
arms. And the first valiant American
to respond to that call OF country was
a son of the South. And the largest
volunteer enlistment for that spanish
war, among all the States OF this
Union, was ITOln d OOuthclh Sohiihoh
| wealth.
1--WE have a right, therefore, to pro-
test against Deing kept on perpetual
probation. II the South contains a
statesman with eminent qualifications
for the presidency of this great nation,
there should be no hesltancy in urging
his nomination and election.
'Tn England, the White and Red
Roses of York and Lancaster bloom
on the same stem, and In patriotic
seryi ce to country there is no distinc-
ton between Roundheaa and Cavalier.
On the sides of the same monument ~
Citadel Square, Quebeck, are the
names of Wolfe and Montcalm, oppos-
ing generals who were killed In the
same battle on the heights OF Abra
ham. Aud To-Day England Is apprecia-
tive, even to profuseness, OF the Beers
her late stubborn enemies in South
Africa. Boer generals have been re.
ceiyed in London with almost royal
honors, have dined at the kings table,
and the colonial secretary, recently
returned from South Africa, is elo-
ouent to extravaganza in praise OF the
sustained courage and splendid leader
ship of Kruger's stern battalions
England's effort now is TO MAKE loyal
sub1ects out OF honest and determined
| soas Che bas learnad in the school OF