The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-02-16

I aight Reverend Robert Strange hixh-
op eoadjutor OF North Carolina. as
gwen IN the Southern Churchman q,
October 8. 1904:
list MAINTAIN RACE PURITY
me bfshop first enters an emphatic
peh against any social ittrfmin1iIng
"i the races Qdestion which must az
tohFec, De left to the people OF each
Immunity TO settle for themssi~c- a.
III SUCH matter ro Ule community
and indeed 40 one individual-can die
tate 10 any other: always provided ,hs,
IN each locality men keep In mind the
tact that there must TO ne ron fliainy
Of civil privileges r;th social inter
course Civ'i law must Eot regulate so-
''ai pfatnces. Society. as such. Is Law
unto Itself, and will always regulate
its own practices and habits. Full
recognition OF the fundamental fact
mat all men shs,uid stand on an equal
Iootihs. as regards civil privileges. in
-" way 1nterferes with recognition OF
'he iurther fact that ell rejecting
men OF both races are united In feeling
that race purity must be maintaihed.
NATIONAL DEstINY SAFE.
Let liz he tteadfact for the right: but
let GS err on the side of generosity
ness toward those who differ from us
as to the method af attaining the right.
let us never forget our duty TO help in
ppifting the lOwly, to shield from
wrong the humble; and let us likewise
act in spirit OF the broadest and
frankest generosity toward our broth
ers, all our fellow-countrymen: in a
spirit proceeding not from weakness
but from strength, a spirit which takes
no more account of locality than it
does OF class or of creed; spirit which
ss resolutely bent on seeing that the
Union which Washington founded and
which 1iatoln saved from destruction
shall grow nObler and greater through
out the ages.
/ believe in this country with all my
heart and soul. believe that our peo-
pie will In the end risa level to every
need, will In The end triumph over
every difficulty that rises before them. !
could not have such confident faith in
the destiny of this mighty people il | |
had it merely as regards one portion Of |
that reon'e. Throughout our land |
things On the whole have grown better |
and not worse, and this is as true of |
one part of the country as it is of |
another. I believe in the Southerner as |
L J.
right to feel pride in his great qualities |
and in his great deeds exactly as l feel |
pride in the great qualities and deeds of |
every other American. For veal or for |
Woe we are knit together, and we shall |
go up Or go down together; and | be-
lieve that we shall GO up and not down.
that we shall go forward insted of halt
ing and falling back, because | have |
az abiding faith in the generosity, the
courage, the resolution, and the COM
mon sense of all my countrymen.
PROBLEMS WILL VANISH.
The Southern States face difficult
problems; and so do the Northern
States. Some Of the problems are the
same for the entire country. Others
exist in greater intensity in one sec
tion; and yet others exist in greater
intensity in another section. But in the
end they will all be solved; for funda
mantally our people are the same
throughout this land; the same in
qualities of heart and brain and hand |
which have made this republic what it
is in the great today: which will make |
it what it is to be in the infinitely
greater tomorrow. l admire and re-
spect and believe in and have faith in
the men and women of the South as
admire and respect and believe in
and have faith in the men and women
of the North. All of US alike, North
erners and Southerners, Fasteners and
Westerners, can best prove our fealty
to the nations past by the way IN
which we do the nation work in the
present; for only thus can we be sure
that our childrens children shall in
herit Abraham Lincoln's single-heart-
ed devotion to the great uncharsfng
creed that righteousness eyaiteth
nation