The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-01-12
HIS sa1sNsISSs3R STEAKS IN
GLoWTNG fARMs OF his I,
WORK ERXaIsTHE RACE.
Policies Enduring
Douglass called the Garrison OF tho
-. Reconstr1etiun by Bnchanan in:
Emancipation Day address ss a.
Montgomery. X - 49, T., Z +.
Especial to- The Advocate. J,

montgomery, Ala., -JaRuary---..t4s {
-Walters. Buchanan, president or
the Agricultural and {, ,Mechanical
College for Negroes, delivered ) a
lstrong and foa.cible address. before
a. large audiences of people Of HIS
own race here Monday night, com
memorating the. emancipation of the
slaves, The meeting was presided
over by Prof. w. B. Patterson,
white, principalsof the State Nor
NAL school for gegroes at Montgom-
cry, and with THE principal address
1being Delivered By, Prof. buchanan.
the Youngest of all Negro College
lpresidents.. extotfthg the virtues and
THE work OF 9grhe After Supporters
of Lincolu,% rsinarkable stage set
ting full of Significance and boding
much good for the. future Of the Ne
gro people was Beheld. =, ',5 .%.5
Without rntnisstfzing the work OF
Lincoln in any Baraieular, Mr.. Bach-
anan praised 4Ia detailed the work
and the TIfe q 5ahany Of his staunch1
supporters, botHEat the time, and
those who came after him as Faith
ful Aarons holAE up, the prophets
hands" Garrison, Sumner and
Brown and. coultIass others were de-
fclared-to have paYed the way for: the
Lincoln Emenetpation by moulding
The sentiment to, Which Lincoln gave
supreme expression ~. Il.
Douglass he. declared 10 have been:
the leader in ,,the aftermath Of Lin
coln,, whose ideals he proclaimed to
have. 'heen lofty land praiseworthy
and his doctrine sound and states
manlike. OF napglass, Mr. Buchan-
q nsaid, %'.1e WAs; this Garrison OF
Reeonstruction-. Die made. his plat
form and from it did not bulge a.
single. inch. Almost Utopian as. we
look back upon it through the hts-
tory Of past years. The worst we
can say of it, is it was generations
ahead of the time Continuing,
he paid high tribute to Langston,
Bruce, Elliot, Settle and many oth-'
er brilliant stars :'that shpne around
the feet Of the able Douglas to- light
his way while he attempted to wrest
from public sentiment a full and
complete recognition OF the freed
nien 3 rights -. ~. ~. - =, .... -
s"The two Senators and twenty
representatives which we sent to the
National Congress along with scores
of other brilliant orators who won
recognition in their respective states
startled the world with the accom-
plishments Of men fresh from the
yeke-of bondage. e.->--------- -,--
WHO knows how much Of that
sentiment which recognized our free
dom and citizenship Dy amendments
to the federal constitution was not
due to the unequivocal attitude Of
the mighty Douglas and his follow
ers? .....r..
-,%"What2if certain states have nulIi-
fled these amendments What If
the Negro is deprived of the full
privileges Of citizenship through no
fault Of his own? What ii he is
ruthlessly denied rights guaranteed
him by the supreme law of the land;
rights which he purchased with
priceless blood and untold suffering
on terrible battlefelds? What If
unjust men by unfain laws Iegtslate
these rights and privileges away?
That does not argve that the grant
ing of them in the first place was
vain and erroneous. Right trans
gressed in right nevertheless.
"In those early days while our
leaders were preaching politics they
| were preaching education, and as
they saw more clearly the futliity Of
the effort to establish q permanent
political system on an ignorant and
thelpless constituency, many Of them
fturned to the field Of education and
fgave their lives unselfshly to the
elevation Of the masses. Prominent
kamong these was William Hooper
ICouncill, a powerful educator and q
lsweet and convincing orator.
His policies we're broad and en-
lduring. lie advocated Industrial ed
ucation for the masses and higher
itraining for those who were pre-
pared for it, and the school which he
Established in Huntsville, Alabama,
In 1875, remains to this day the ex4
ponent of superiQr academic fitness
combined with Thorough Industrial
efficiency" -.!"@
In this connection. Mr.. Buchanan
paid also high tribute to Prof. w
B. Patterson, a white man, who
lgave up his position among his peo-
pie aud devoted flfs fife to the edu
cation and training Of his brethren
tof the black race. The various edu.
lcational agencies, church societies