The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-02-16
President Roosevelt Gives
People of the South
Some Advice
ATLINCOLN CLUB BANQUET
Pays Glowing Tribute 10 This Section
and Commends Ant!-Ly7ching Cru
sade - Exact Justice for All
Is His Soiution.

AS the guest of honor at the Lincoln
dinner Of the Republican CLUB in New
York city Monday night, President
Roosevelt made speech on the race
problem. He appealed to the north
to make its friendship for the south
all the greater because 0; the "em-
barrassment 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 newspapers in the south WHO
have recently done such effective work
in leading the crusade against lynch,
ing" and said that the problem was
to so adjust the relations between
two races of different ethnic type,
that the backward race be trained so
that it may enter into the possession
of true freedom, while the forward
race is enabled to preserve unnarmed
the high civilization wrought out by
it's forefatherS."
The guests numbere more than
1900, including 275 women, wao dined
in the Astor gallery.
The president said in part:
I'm his second inaugural, in speech
which will be read as long as the
memory Of this nation endures, Abra-
ham Lincoln closed by saying:
with malice toward none; with
charity for all; with firmness in the
right, as God gives us TO see the
right, let US strive on to finish the
work we are in; to do al
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 it's soul was yet seeth-
ing with fierce hatreds, with wrath,
with rancor, with all the evil and
dreadful passions provoked by civil
ar. Surely this is the spirit which all
American should show now, when
there is so little excuse for malice or
rancor or hatred, when there is so
little Of vital consequence 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.
Friendship for South.
"All good Americans who dwell in
the north must, because they are good
Americans, feel the most earnest
friendship for their fellow-countrymen
who dwell in the south, friendship
all the greater because it is in the
south that We find in its rlost acute
phase one of the gravest problems be-
fore our people: the problem OF so
dealing with the man Of one color as
to secure him the rights that no one
would grudge him if he were OF an
other color. To solve this problem j.
is, of course, necessary to educate him
to perform the duties, failure to
perform which will render him curse
to himself and to all around him.
Difficulty Of Negro Problem.
Most certainly all clear-sighted and
generous men in the north appreciate
the difficulty and perplexity Of this
problem, sympathize with the south in
the embarrassment Of conditions for
which she is not alone responsible,
feel an honest wish to- help her where
help is practicable, and have the heart
lest respect for those brave and earn
est men of the south who, in the face
of fearful difficulties, are doing all
that men can do for the betterment
alike of white and Of black. The at
titude of the north toward the negro
SMOoT Will LOSE ToGA.