The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-02-14


with the principles thus laid down By
this North Carolina bishop, this rel
resentatiye Of the Christian thought
of the South.
Most Fitting Homage.
/ am speaking on she occasion o.
the celebration OF the birthday oil
Abraham Lincoln, and to men who
count il their peculiar privilege that
they have the right to hold Lincoln
memory dear, and the duty to strive
to work along the lines that ne lald
down. We can pay most fitting hom-
age to his memory by doing the task
allotted to us in the spirit in which
he did the infinitely greater and more
terrible tasks allotted to him.
Let us be steadfast for the right;
but let us err on the side OF generosl-
ty rather than on the side OF vindic-
tiveness toward those who differ from
us as to the method OF attaining the
right. Let us never forget our duty
to help in uplifting the lowly, to
shield from wrong the humble; and
let as likewise act in a spirit Of tho
broadest and frankest generosity TO-
ward all our brothers, all our fellow
countrymen; in a spirit proceeding not
from weakness but from strength. d
spirit which takes no more account Of
locality than it ,dOes OF class or OF
creed: spirit that the Union which
Washington founded and which Lin
coin saved from destruction shall grow
robler and greater throughout the
ages.
Pride in North and South.
l believe in this country with all
my heart and soul. | believe that our
people will in the end rise level 10
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 if | had it merely as regards
one portion of that people. Through
out our land things on the whole have
grown better and not worse. and this
is as true of one part of the country
as 1t Is of another. believe in the
southerner as l believe in the north
ener. | claim the right to feel pride
in his great qualities and in his great
deeds exactly as | feel pride in the
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other American For veal or for woe
we are knit together. and We shall
90 up or go down together; and | be.
lieve that we shall go up and no.
down, that we shall go forward in
stead of hating and falling back, be-
cause | have an abiding faith in the
generosity. the courage, the resoIu-
ton, and the common sense of all my
countrymen.
Difficult Problems.
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
ton; and yet others exist in greater
intensity in another section. But in
the end they will all he solved: for
fundamentally our people arc the same
this land; the same in the
qualities of heart and brain and hand
which have made this Republic wha.
1t is in the great today; which Will
make it what II is@tO be in the infinite
ly, greater tomorrow. | admire and re.
spect and believe in and have fa1t,:
IN the mel and women of the South
as | admire and respect and believe
in and have faith in the men and wo.
men of the North. All of us alike.
Northerners and Southerners. East
erners and WesteTneTs, can best prove
our fealty to the Nations past by the
way in which we do the Nations work
in the present for only thus can
we be sure that our children's chi.-
dren shall inherit Abraham LincoIn,s
devotion to the great
unchanging creed that righteousness
exalteth a nation"