The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-20

the negro realizes this dream how are ship?
 It is this side of the question that concerns the South. That people have preserved their race integrity under such conditions as to give the fact the nature of miracle. The South's great Carolina. Mississippi. and Louisiana from the fate of the West Indies. She did 1t under circumstances the most ad- verse and the most appalling, and des- pite the frown of the victorious North ana a hostile Government. What sne preserved in the days Of her travail, that will she maintain to the end Of time.
 The South understands the negro lnoroughly; the North knows nothing in the world about him. but made an imaginary. and impossible negro. and we saw the result of that mistake in the failure and the collapse of recon struction. The South was under a thousand obligations to the negro, and the conduct of the negro during the war was calculated to make the white man forever grateful, though 1t aston ished no Southern man. Had the ne gro who, If he be wanting in gratitude IS, happily, without malice, been Ieft to the gratitude and justice of his for mef master, and that master children, II would have been great deal better SOA oOLAA tA6 ENOELn anu lAlC SSO0bhs NAN whites and the blacks. That was not done. On the contrary. antagonisms were engendered, and chaos resulted And now we have the race question, that promises to remain with us until a Noses comes to lead the children of Ham back to Africa.
 Senator Deliver, of Iowa, also made speech on this occasion, and like all that sentleman's orations. 1t was ex- " n1 and n nlfr1- otic. That grim old scholar. David Turpie, once remarked, and insisted on 1t, that every utterance that came from Henry Cabot Lodge was an address, and we may say that everything Sen ator Deliver says is an "oration. One definition of an oration is that 1t is something you don't exactly under stand, as, for example. the following from MT. Delivers Lincoln dinner or- ation:
 He (Lincoln) contended not alone with an insurrection of the slave pow CT; he was hand to hand with rebel lion ancient as selfshness and greed which in all centuries had denied the rights of man, made of human govern ments a pestilent succession of despot- isms, and turned the history of our race into a dull recital of crimes and failures, and misfortunes.
 That sounds something like one or John A. Bingham's bloody shirt speech es. A man of ordinary understanding could easily construe that as an tn- dictment of George Washington, Pat rick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, John Marshall, and all the oth- CT shareholders of the United States. But the best thinS to do with it is to contrast 1t with this passage from Roosevelt, delivered few minutes be- fore;
 'sThe great Civil War. in which Lin coin lowered as the loftiest figure, left us not only a reunited country, but a country which has the proud right to claim as its own the glory won alike by those who wore the blue and by those who wore the gray. by those who followed Grant and by those who fol- lowed Lee; for both fought with equal bravery and with equal sincerity of conviction, each striving for the light as 1t was given him to see the light. :"