The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-21
DIV W. L. BOST.)

DIV W. T. BOST.)
Durham. n. G. June 1S.-The COM
pietion OF q lecture tour through New
Epgland by Governor Glenn, made in
Abe interest of Durham's religious
training schools, has changed the is
sues until the matter Of its success
has eqven way to q discussion of what
he said.
It was very much desired that the
addresses might be made with as little
reference to dead pasts as possible.
Governor Glenn had said in the outset
that he did not intend to make any
apology for the stand that the South
took since the war, nor did he mean
10 admit that in the treatment of the
rOiored man, the North a anything
to its credit hat mightn't be claimed
equally by the South. the freeing Of
the negroes alone excepted. uch
as the burden CT the visit North was
the raising Of money for this coloTed
religious training school and cha
tauQua. founded by Or, James E.
Sheard, of Durham, one might not
understand why any reference to past
issues need be raised.
The Unique Undertaking.
The invasion of the North by a
Democratic ex-governor Of the South
III the interest of the colored man, was
itself an a~bnormality. Such q course
ives likely to be construed by the
North as a kind of expatriation, a re-
ANNEXATION of this section, a conversion
40 the New England idea OF racial as
ISOLATION. Governor Glenn did not al
low his audience to think this long. He
did not begin by the confession of his
own sins, but by the confession of the
other fellows. And the other fellow
shortcomings all through the dis
courses, received that ~tactfuI, yet can
did treatment, that must mark Mr..
Glenn one of the best men who has
carried a message from the South to
the North.
There were seven appointments for
the governor. two in Newark, N. j.,
one in Sringfield, Mass. one in Rock
Vile Centre, Long Island, one at
Springfield, Ohio, the HON of race
wars, one each in Cleveland and
Steubenville, Ohio. And at no place
on the map could there awe been bet
ter place for evangelization than in
Sringfield. the place where colored
men were treated with the most sense
3ess cruelty, the guilty and the quilt
less alike
Until Cleveland and S~teubenvi1le
were reached, your CORRESPONDENT had
Kept up With the governor, haVlng now
his Sringfield speech taken as deliver
ed. The first five OF his addresses
were as nearly the same as any mar
who does not write his speeches couid
have made them. And until that time,
Aiete was not a NOIC % "dfIdht htS
criticism offered by any of the papers
that have written of the dispatch sent
out.
Absolutely No Grounds for
able Criticism.
There could have been nothing more
harmonious than such an utterance
There was DR.. Shepard, the founde
OF the school, who generally was first
introduced to tell briefly his plans
and needs, whose every sentence was
a tribute to the South. DR.. Shepard
told the Northern audiences that the
Two races in the South are happily
situated, get along well and are
Friends. AS evidence OF that, he said
ihat the white people had given the
site and other things which Governor
Glenn declared to be worth $40, OOd
and the very liberality which the
Southern whites have shown, rebound
ed to hurt Of the project, for many
took the ground that if the Southern
whites had done SO much, il was nc
school would be built AWAY DR.
Shepard referred to the oft-nade ar
Rument that the old slave darkey Is
more dependable than his son and
grandson. It was explained we'll and
made a capital argument for the re-
tlgious school. IF it be so, n per
haps it is," he said, ut can be explain
ed by the fact that the old slave be
neved in God, and wah laugh re-
ilgion by his master. He was brough'
TO reverence God, while the young
nes1o's religious education has beef
neglected in the secular curriculum O.
the schools"
Now, the Northern people wh<