The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-07-02

thetie love Of the beautiful have all pass.
ed away into history, leaving tbepostiye
and substantial evidence OF redemption
to unfoldings OF the Christian system
Applause, Sirs, can't you see the south
is the lest place forthe black? Applause.
We have passed through the harmony
period OF Pythagoras, sped through the
golden age of PericIes, abode with Plato
who never laughed, ADM ed Socrates
who took the hemlock, while he preach
ed the Immortality OF the soul; applaud
ed; Aristotle who created the science Of
logic and taught Alexander the Great;
mean while we have discovered that
neither pagan creeds nor heather phil
osophy could ever produce system OF
education suited to the wants Of the
Christian civilization and the ever in.
creasing needs Of the soul. Neither cal
there be any place on earth as good for
the black man as the south. Applause
No people has shown such capacity for
the exercise of this virtue as the southern
negro in America and 200e years hence
when another bible shall be written OF
an amendment to the present one shall
be considered necessary, then the advan
cement of the black man OF the south
shall be among the gems Of the new edi
ton commanding as muchinterest as the
story of Esther in the palace hall al
shushan. Great Applause.
Sirs the black man in the north says
he is educated Of which do not DENY.
But 1 fear it is like the Romans. You
will remember that the Romans type Of
mind brings to us quite a different con
trast with that of the Grecian Wake up
history and come on the stand and help
us out. The Greeks were philosophical,
and so is the southern black man. Tie
Romans eclectic, as the northern black
man. Their education WIS superficial,
at first aiming at the barely and later on
introducing Greek into schools Though
the Romans became the great or anizers
and law giyers of the world, yet elean
very little from their education Sir, we
have followed Quinhlian, Cicero Sene-
ca, Pliny and Plutarch all through Tie
Roman life which ended in the dark
ages. But in this bright and glorious
age, we have the aid OF the southern
black man to help us to see the right
way. And when the millennium dawn
shall come and the lion and the lamb
shall lie down together and shall cal
straw out Of one trough. (Right.) Then
Uncle gam and John Bull shall shake
hands over the bloody chasm bridged by
the gospel Of peace and then the nations
of the earth, followed by the southern
black mans example, shall beat their
swords into pillow shares, andtheir spears
into pruning hooks, and then Mahomet
and confucius, and Zoraster, compelled
by the enchantment Of the cross, shall
exchange the Koran the Veda and tie
Yenda Vesla for the Holy Bible and
these together with the whole earth re-
presented by every kindred, every tribe
and every race and tongue shall join in
the universal acclaim, 50 beautifully para
phrased by the poet
'Jesus the name high over all,
In hell or earth or sky,
Angels and men before it fall,
And devils fear and fly"
Great Applause.
At the end Of his speech, the president
rose and in an eloquent way styled tie
speaker as Cicero and the soath won.
A. J. PATTERSON.
I.eesburg, Ga. Adyt.