Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-08-11
OF DR.. STOWE
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Mrs. Shelby, Eliza, Uncle Tom, st.
Clare, and little Eva, were all the
offspring of the institution of slavery
and nourished on it's breast, and GER
tainly an institution that in itself
was essentially wicked and diaboll-
cal could not have produced such
noble characters. So we should not
look back upon the slavery as
reign of unalleviated wickedness and
horror, but remember that it had
within itself, in spite of its many
abuses and intolerable horrors, much
that was good.
ct is an unfortunate thing, to my
mind, that the color line has been so
drawn rs it has been drawn, and
that the attention of both the races
is of necessity so concentrated upon
the fact of color. But that Is in
evitable. 1t cannot be otherwise.
To my mind the only solution Is that
your people should develop their
own peculiar culture, their own Pc
culiar race pride, and remove pre-
JUDGE, not by protest. but by doing
away with all worthy cause for such
prejudice, That comes through
thrift, economy, education, intelli-
gence, and work of character. II
is difficult problem that is before
you for solution. believe YOU are
solving it, and upon you educated
young men and women who so forth
as teachers, leaders, and inspirers OF
your own people rests a great re-
sponsibility, but with that RESPONSE
oility a mighty opportunity for
good"
DR.. Stowe read a letter from
Roosevelt in which he stated:
''New York, May 24,1911.
81 am genuinely concerned to hear
that Fisk University is in real need
of assistance. The General Educa-
ton Board has heartily Endorsed
Fisk, and, as I am informed, will do
all it can in helping lift the burden
of debt and improving the property.
Its proposal is to give 100000, pro-
vided 100000 is raised. OF this,
nearly $185,000 remains to be rails
ed.
81 earnestly commend your work.
You do not need to be told how en-
phatically I favor Industrial educa-
ton for colored men no less than
for the white; but 1 cordially agree
with Booker Washington in his sup
port of Fisk, because it is eminently
undesirable that the negro should
have only a chance to get technical
education in industry and agricul-
ture. Fisk has behind it long re-
cord of proved efficiency, and its
present work is of high merit, not
only from the standpoint of the col
ored man, but from that of the good
citizen generally"
A letter from President Taft was
also read by DR.. Stowe:
1.-THE White House, Washington, DC.
Il am not one of those who be-
lieve that it is well to educate the
mass of negroes with academic or
university education. On the con-
trary, l am convinced that the hope
of the negro is in his industrial
education throughout the South and
in teaching him to be better farm
er, better blacksmith than he is
now, and to make more blacksmiths
and more good farmers than there
now are among the negroes.
But l have studied the matter con-
siderably, and have also become con-
WINGED that it is necessary to have a
few high-class negro universities for
those who are to be the leaders of
race and who are to figure promi-
nently in professional way-their
ministers, their physicians, their law
yers, and their teachers-because we
have got to treat the race as dis
tinct from the whites. / believe that
nothing can do so much toward es-
tablishing real nucleus for leader
ship among them as the maintain
ance of such a university as Fisk.
at has the largest number of
negro college students of any school
of the standard which it sets; and of
any university of the kind is to be
encouraged, it is Fisk. This is prov
ed not only by an examination of it's
college statistics, but by the testimony
of the best white men in the COM
munity where it exercises it's in
fluence."
Words of commentator were
spoken by R. Lin Cave, Chaplain
General U. C. ", who also pronounc-
ed the benediction.
Many people will be surprised
to see in the Veteran an address by
a son of the author Of "Uncle Toms
Cabin" Its assuming that
the reader has just read it-must
crafty the Southern people. DR..
Stowe has told what we know to
be the truth, and the pleasing fea-
ture that he declares it to the ne
groes is certain to bring forth good