Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-02-15

Right Reverend Robert Strange, bish-
Cd coadjutor of North Carolina, as
given in the Southern Churchman of
October 8, 1904:
MUST MAINTAIN RACE PURITY.
The bishop first enters an emphatic
plea against any social intermingling
of the races; a question which must, Of
course, be left to the people of each
community to settle for themselves, as
in such a matter no one community
and indeed no one individual-can die
tate to any other; always provided that
in each locality men keep in mind the
fact that there must be no confusing
Of civil privileges with social inter-
course. Civil law must not regulate So
unto itself, and will always regulate
its own practices and habits. Full
recognition of the fundamental fact
that all men should stand on an equal
footing, as regards civil privileges, in
no way ~interferes with recognition of
the further fact that all rejecting
men of both races are united in feeling
that race purity must be maintained.
NATIONAL DESTINY SAFE.
Let us be steadfact for the right; but
let us err on the side of generosity
rather than on the side of vindictive-
ness 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 us likewise
act in a spirit of the broadcast 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; a spirit which
is resolutely bent on seeing that the
Union which Washington founded and
which Lincoln saved from destruction
shall grow nobler and greater through
out the ages.
I believe in this country with all my
heart and soul. I believe that our peo-
pie will in the end rise level to every
need, will in the end triumph over
every difficulty that rises before them.
l could not have such confident faith in
the destiny of this mighty people if l
had it merely as regards one portion Of
that people. Throughout Jul 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
1 believe in the Northerner. 1 claim the
right to feel pride in his great qualities
and in his great deeds exactly as I feel
pride in the great qualities n deeds OF
every other American. For veal Or for
woe we are knit together, and we shall
go up or go down together; and l be-
lieve that we shall go up and not down,
that we shall go forward insted of halt
ing and falling back, because l have
an 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 n sec
ton; 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 nave 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
I 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 u 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
hat our children's children shall in
herit Abraham Lincoln's single-heart-
ed devotion to the great unchanging
creed that righteousness exalteth g
nation"