The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-15
Twenty-One New Colored
Doctors.
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| history and that the only way for you to
win the rights that you believe to be
yours is to show in yourselves the highest
! types OF manhood that can be found any
where, that your are virtuous, that you
are honest that you are industrious, that
you stand for the best there is in the
| community and to uphold these ideals and
these standards with your people at all
times. With character, with property,
with education, with culture. with the
ability to bear your Part and make your
selves indispensable. there is bound to
come a recognition such as always has
come to the highest types of citizens and
the noblest efforts.
1T is not surprising that there would
| be more. or less friction between two
| races living the same nation, in the same
States, in the same communities. one of
which only Il generation ago was the slave
and the other the master race. 1t is
| just what we should expect of weak, frail
| human nature. By the stroke of a pen,
| by the fiat Of a civil war four millions
| of slaves came out into freedom upon the
same blame, so far as civil rights and the
franchise are concerned a. the race that
had been free for generations. One race
was the slave race, the owned race; the
other was the master race, the owner race.
Now a revolution has come and almost in
the twinkling OF an eye. 1t was only na
tuIa that they who went out INTO freedom
should little understand the duties ana
obligations, the privileges and opportun-
ties, and even the rights OF freedom. II
was not within the limits of human nature
to suppose that a class of people who
believed themselves SO far superior as to
l.. ,gl,.. 4
who REGARDED the slave class as their
property, could look upon this change
with equaninty be expected to ac-
ccpt it in the spirit desired. The wonder
TO mo is that there has been no more fric-
ton than there has l have only the
strongest words Of denunciaton for lynch
ing, burning or crime of any sort IN the
North or in the South. l can only say
that friction was bound to come and
trust that you, young men as you go
out into life. will do your part by noble
example and constant restraint, no mat
ter what your provocatlon or desires may
be It will be utterly useless to resort
to violence or to encourage violence, Tor
it will surely result in the race that is
the less strong and the poorer equipped
, going to the wall, falling behind. Whore
ever you go. be peace makers. Hold high
the standards of honor, of virtue. of truth,
of morality and show the people where
ever you are that they can make progress
and win recognition only as they cherish
and develop these priceless traits of char.
actel."
After President Mescrve's address there
was another solo by Miss Bowman. who
was again cucorcd, and Rev. Samuel p.
| Merrill. d. d.. of Rochester, New YORK,
i pronounced the bcncdctlon.
! AT three O'Clock yesterday afternoon
there was a meeting OF the alumni asso-
cation and last night at O'Clock tho
opcning exercises of the North Carolina
| Medical Associat ton took place.
Yesterday afternoon also the industrial
work Of the institution was on exhibition.