The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-10

in the cotton-fields and corn-lanGs of
ALBANIA. Georgia and South Carolina?
| appeal to you equally in what l con-
ceive the true interest of the black peo-
pie along with the white people of the
South; nay, and of the North as well,
for all our interests are indissoluble, IN
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
have so much as Renaissance OF sec
tional 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 eX-
tremism involving a new irresponsible
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
loving forces of the North will need the
,aw-b breeding instincts of the South The
Americanism of the North will need the
Americanism of the South. Then, indeed,
homogeneity means and know for certain
that blood is thicker than water.
THE NATIONS DESTINY.
But, gentlemen, let us turn away from
the darker side of the page to the bright
er. on which is emblazoned that blessed
legend 1.-THE Constitution and the Union, |
one, eternal, indivisible." Behind the |
Negro Question, behind the Question of
Capital and Labor, stands the Govern |
ment of Washington and Franklin, which, |
like the old Ship of Zion, has carried |
many thousands and shall carry many
more;' which like the old Ship of Zion, |
has baffled every tempest has outriddan |
every hurricane; the struggle for exist |
ence; the foreign war, domestic discord !
and civil strife; the disputed succession
stronger to-day than ever before-in the |
-imbers that float her-in the hearts thar
sail her-in the admiration and conf |
ience of human kind the wide world over |
have seen too much of the past to take |
many fears for the future. l counsel NO |
nan to drop the oars and to go to sleep; |
urge upon each still to keep the watch |
still to sit steady in the boat; as for |
myself I long ago ceased to worry and |
to walk the floor. The mysteries Of
Providence are hidden from you and me;
why the negro was brought hither from
he wilds of Africa and sold into slavery. !
his redemption thence and all his re-
iemption cost u.s. but assured that behiIl!
-hese mysteries lay some vast design,
eel that God has been always with rs
and is with us now Why Washington,
he patriot, instead of Lee. the adven-
-urer? Why Lincoln, the seer. instead
Of Seward, the scholar? If it was not
he viii of Heaven that the Confederacy
should fall, that the Union should pre-
rail, why were all the accidents of the
var with the North and against the
south, the fall of Johnston at the criti-
al moment at Shiloh, the death of Jack
on at the critical moment in the Valley
# 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 Chris
ian's message of Freedom and Civiliza-
ion to the ends of the earth, why did not
he Lord send Dewey home? No, no,
as God was radiant in the
tars that shone overs Washington at
ALLEY Forge, over Lincoln at Gettysburg II
yer Grant in TIE Wilderness, over the
cets in Manila Bay and the DULLES" in
ront of Santiago, does His radiance
hine upon us, brothers in blood and
rts and arms, whether our knees go
Town amid the SHOWS or the flowers
4ong ago the South, forgivng all, ar
epted the verdict in perfect faith 1t is
or the North. forgetting all, to seal it
n perfect love.