The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-02-18
PRESIDENT EXPRESSES FRIENDSHIP
FOR THE SOUTH.

Tn a speech before the Republican
Club in New York City on the even
ing of the 14th, the President express
ed great friendship forthe South and a.
sympathy for us in the problems with
which we have to deal, the occasion
being the celebration of LincOln'S
birthday. Among other things he
said:
THE great civil war, in which Lin
coin lowered as the loftiest figure, left
us not only reunited country, but a.
country which has the proud right to
claim as it's 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.
We are now one people, a people
with failiDgS which we must not
blink, but people with great quail
ties in which we have the right to.
feel just pride.
'All good Americans who dwell in
the North muSt because they are
good Americans, feel the most earnest
friendship for their fellow-cOuntry-
men who dwell in the South, a friend
ship all the greater because it is in the
South, that we find in its most acute
phase one of the graveSt problems be-
fore our people; the problem of SO deal
ing with the man of one color as to
secure him the rights that no one
would grudge him if he were of anoth-
er color. To solve this problem it is,
OF course, necessary to educate him to-
perform the duties, failure to per-
form, which will render him curse
to himself and all around him.
1T is true of the colOred man, as it
is true of the white man, that in the
long run his fate must depend far
more upon his own effort than upon
the efforts of any outside friend.
Every vicious, venal or ignorant color
ed man is an even greater foe to his
own race than to the community as a
whole. The colored mans self-reSpect
entities him to do that share in the
political work of the country which is
warranted by his individual ability
and integrity and the position he has,
won for himself. But the prime re-
quSite of the race is moral and indus
trial uplifting.
Il believe in this country with all
my heart and soul. believe that our
people viii, in the end, rise level to
every need, will IN the end triumph
over every difficulty that rises before
them.
Il believe in the SOutherner as
believe in the Northerner. l claim
the right to feel pride in his great
qualities and in his great deeds ex-
actly as Eel pride in the great quail
ties and deeds of every other Ameri-
can. For veal or for woe we are knit
together, and we shall go up or go
down together.
''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
Uile cIfu UIiCy Will dlI US SOtt0u, lOT
fundamentally our people are the
same throughout this land; the same
in the 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. | admire
and respect and believe in and have
faith in the men and women of the
South as l admire and respect and be-
leve in and have faith in the men
and women of the North. All of us
alike, NorthernerS and SouthernerS,
Fasteners and WeSterners, can best
prove our fealty to the nations work
by the way in which we do the ma
tion'S work in the present: for only
thus can we be sure that our chldren'S
children shall inherit Abraham Lin
coin IS single-hearted devotion to the
great unchanging creed that right
eousneSS exalteth nation.''