Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-02-22
ROOSEVELT 0NRACE PROBLEM
PRESIDENT DISCUSSES THE NEGRO QUEs,
Tl0N AND GIVES THE SOUTH ADVICE.
SOLUTION IS EXACT JUSTICE FORALL
Pays Tribute 10 The South and Commends
Anti.Lynching Crusade.


Republican Club in this city tonight,
President Roosevelt made speech on
the race problem. he appealed to the
North to make its friendship for the
South all the greater because of the
Embarrassment of conditions for which
she is not alone responsible" declared
that the heartiest Acknowledgements are
due to the ministers. law officers, grand
juries, public men and "great daily news.
papers in the South who have recently
done such effective work in leading the
crusade against lynching," and said that
the problem was to $50 adjust the rela-
tions between two races of different
ethnic type, that the backward race be
trained so that it may enter into the pos
session of true freedom, while the for
ward race is enabled to preserve un-
harmed the high civilization wrought
out by its forefathers."
Following the President, Senator Dol
liver, of Iowa, responded to the toast:
abraham Lincoln" George A. Knight,
of California, spoke on 1.-THE Republican
Party" and James M. Beck, former AS.
sistant Attorney General of the United
). stes, on "The Unity of the Republic"
tiia diuneT WAS held in the main ban
quet III of the Waldorf Astoria, and in
the nun. yer of guests and elaborateness
of decora 'ons is beloved to have ex-
ceeded any 'uction of It's character ever
held in New J ork.
The guests numbered more than !, 300,
including 275 women, who dined in the
Astor gallery.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
The President said in part:
''In his second inaugural, in speech
which will be read as long as the memory
of this nation endures, Abraham Lincoln
closed by saying:
with malice toward none; with
charity for all; with firmness in tho
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
LINCOLN OF SOUTHERN BIRTH.
'This is the spirit in which mighty
Lincoln sought to bind up the nations
wounds when its Soul was yet seething
with fierce hatreds, with wrath, with
rancor, with all the evil and dreadful
passions provoked by civil war. Surely
this is the spirit which all Americans
should show now, when there is so little
excuse for malice or rancor or hatred,
when there is so little of vital conse-
quence to divide brother from brother.
Lincoln, himself man of Southern
birth, did not hesitate to appeal to the
sword when he became satisfied that in
no other way could the Union be saved,
for high though he put peace he put
righteousness still higher. He warred
for the Union; he warred to free the
slave; and when he warred he warred in
earnest, for it is sign of weakness to be
halfhearted when blows must be struck
But he felt only love, a love as deep as
the tenderness of his great and sad heart,
for all his countrymen alike in the North
and in the South, and he longed above
everything for the day when they should
once more be knit together in the un-
breakable bonds of eternal friendship.
SPIRIT OF LINCOLN Commended.
eve of to-day, in dealing with all our
fellow citizens, white or colored, North
or South, should strive to show just the
qualities that Lincoln showed: His
steadfastness in striving after the right,
and his infinite patience and forbearance
with those who saw that right less
clearly than he did; his earnest endeavor
to do what was best, and yet his readi-
ness to accept the best that was prac-
ticable when the ideal best was unattain-
able; his unceasing effort to cure what
was evil, coupled with his refusal to
make bad situation worse by any ill
judged or i'll timed effort to make it
better.
"The great civil war in which Lincoln
lowered as the loftiest figure left us not
only a reunited country, but 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 followed Lee; for both
fought with equal bravery and with equal
sincerity of conviction, each striving for
the light as it was given him to see the
light; though it is now clear to all that
the triumph of the cause of freedom and
OF the Union was essential to tho welfare
OF mankind. We are now one people,
people with failings which we must
not blink, but people with great quail
ties in which we have the right to feel
just pride.
FRIENDSHIP FOR THE SOUTH.
"All good Americans who dwell in the
North must, because they are good
Americans, feel the most earnest friend
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