Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-02-22

sthnic type, that the backward race
be trained so that it may enter into
:he possession OF true freedom, while
the forward race is enabled to pre-
serve unharmed the high civilization
wrought out by its forefathers."
Among other things the President
said:
The Presidents Address.
In his second inaugural, in speech
which will be read as long as the mem.
ory of this nation endures, Abraham
Lincoln closed by saying:
with malice toward none; with
charity for all; with firmness in the
right, as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work
we are in; to do all which may
achieve and cherish a just and lasting
peace among ourselves, and with all
nations
Immediately after his reelection he
had already spoken thus:
"The strife of the election is but
human nature practically applied to
the facts of the case. What mas oc-
CURED in this case must ever recur in
similar cases. Human nature will not
change. In any future great national
trial, compared with the men Of this,
We shall have as weak and as strong,
as silly and as wise, as bad and as
good. Let US, therefore, study the in
cidents of this as philosophy to learn
wisdom from, and none Of them as
wrongs to be revenged. May
rot all having common interest re-
unite in a common effort to (serye)
our common country? For my own
Part have strivcn and shall strive to
avoid placing any obstacle in the
way. So long as I have been here l
Fave not willingly planted thorn in
any mans BOSOM. While I am deeply
sensible to the high compliment of
8 reelection, and duly grateful, as |
trust, to Almighty God for having di-
rected my countrymen to a right con-
clusion, ds think, for their own good,
it adds nothing TO my satisfaction that
any other man may be disappointed
or panied by the result. ~
"May ask those who have not diff
fercd with me to join me In this same
spirit toward those who nave?"
VICE NEGRo's ARCH ENEMY.
Laziness and shiftlessness, these. and
above all, vice and criminality OF
every kind, are evils more potent for
harm to the black race than all acts
of oppression Of white men put to-
gether. The colored man who fails to
condemn crime in another colored man,
who fails to cooperate in all lawful
ways to bringing colored criminals to
Justice, is the worst enemy of his own
people, as well as an enemy to all the
people. Law-abiding men should, fo-
the sake Of their race, be foremost in
relentless and unceasing warfare
against law-breaking black men. II
the standards of private morality and
industrial efficiency can be raised high
enough among the black race, then its
future on this continent is secure. The
stability and purity Of the home is
vital to the welfare of the black race,
as it is to the welfare of every race.
NEIGHBORs CAN HELP MOST.
In the next place, the white man,
who, If only he is willing. can help the
colored man more than all other white
men put together, is the white man
who is his neighbor, North OF South.
Each of us must do his whole duty
without finching, and if that duty is
national it must be done In accord
ance with the principles above laid
down. But in endeavoring each to be
his brothers keeper it is wise to re-
member that each can normally do
most for the brother who is his i'm
mediate neighbor. If we are sincere
friends Of the negro let each IN his
own locality show it by his action
therein, and let us each show it also
by upholding the hands Of the white
man, in whatever locality who is striv-
ing to do justice to the poor and the
helpless, to be shield to those whose
need for such shield is great.
CRUSADE AGAINST LYNCHING.
The heartiest acknowledgements are
due 10 the ministers, the judges and
law officers, the grand jurors, the pub
lie men and the great daily news
papers in the South, who have recent
ly done such effective work in leading
the crusade against lynching in the
South; and.I am glad to say that dur
ing the last three months the returns
as far as they can be gathered, show
smaller number of lynchings than for
any other two months dur!ng~tse last
twenty years. Let us uphold in every
way the hands of the men who have
led in this work, who are striving to do
all their work in this spirit. I am
about to quote from the address Of the
Right Reverend Robert Strange, bish-
on coadjutor of North Carolina, as
given in the Southern Churchman of
October s, 1904:
MUST MAINTAIN RACE PURITY.
The bishop first enters an emphatic
plea against any social intermlngllng
Of the races: a question which must, Of
course, be left to the people of each
community to settle for themselves, as
in such q matter no one community
and indeed no one individual-can die
tate to any other; always provided that
in each locality men keep in mind the
fact that there must be no confusing
of civil privileges with social inter-
course. Civil law must not regulate So
cial practices. Society. as such, is law
unto itself, and will always regulate
its own practices and habits. Full
recognition of the fundamental fact
that all men should stand on an equal
footing, as regards civil privileges, in
no way interferes with recognition OF
the further fact that all rejecting
men Of both races are united in feeling
that race purity must be maintained.
NATIONAL DESTINY SAFE.
Let us be steadfact for tie right; but
let us err on the side generosity
rather than on the side vindictive-
ness toward those who q IT from us
as to the method Of attain tho right.
let us never forget our dl Q help in
uplifting the lowly, to I'd ffnm
wrong the humble: and Ie- Z ukeW}se