The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-11-10

SDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1915.
dividual who is free to speak his OWL
!. thoughts and to risk his own opinion:
in this matter.
eve are here dealing with things
that are vital to the life Of America
itself. In doing this I have tried tc
purge my heart Of all personal and
selfish motives. For the time being
I speak as the trustee and guardian
OF a nations rights, charged with the
dIity Of speaking for that nation in
matters involving her sovereignty
a nation too big and generous to be
exacting and yet courageous enough
to defend it's rights and the liber Ties
of its people wherever assailed CT in
vaded.
Il would not feel that I was dis
charging the solemn obligation I owe
the country were / not to speak in
terms Of the deepest solemnity of the
urgency and necessity Of preparing
ourselves to guard and protect the
rights and privileges Of our people,
our sacred heritage Of the fathers
who struggled to make us an indie
pendent nation.
''The only thing within our bor-
ders that has given us grave con-
Germ in recent months has been
that voices have been raised in
America processing to be the voices
of Americans which were not in
deed and in truth American, but
which spoke alien sympathies,
which came from men who loved
other countries better than they
loved America, men who were par
America and had forgotten that
their chief and only allegiance was
to the great government under
which they live. These voices have
not been many, but they have been
very loud and very clamorous.
'tThey have proceeded from few
| who were bitter and who were griev-
iously misled. America has not open
ed it's doors in vain to men and wo-
men out of other nations. The vast
majority Of those who have come to
take advantage Of her hospitality
have united their spirits with hers as
well as their fortunes. These men
who speak alien sympathies are not
their spokesmen but are the spokes-
men of small groups whom it is high
time that the nation should call to
reckoning.
''The chief thing necessary in
America in order that she should let
all the world know that she is pre-
pared to maintain her own great po-
sition is that the real voice Of the ma
tion should sound forth unmistaka
bly, and in majesty volume, in the
deep unison of a common, unhesitat-
ing national feeling. do not doubt
that-upon the first occasion, upon the
first opportunity, upon the first def
rite challenge, that voice will speak
forth in tones which no man can
doubt and with commands which no
man dare gainsay or resist.
MAY I not say, while am speak
ing of this, that there is another dan
ger that We should guard against?
We should rebuke not only manifes-
tations of racial feeling here
in America where there should be
none, but also every manifestation Of
religious and sectarian antagonism.
It does not become America that
within her borders, where every man
is free to follow the dictates Of his
conscience and worship God as he
pleases, men should raise the cry OF
church against church.
"To do that is to strike at the very
+spirit and heart Of America. We are
a God-fearing people. We agree to
differ about methods of worship, but
we are united in believing in Divine
Providence and in worshipping the
God of Nations. We are the cham
pions Of religious right here and
everywhere that it may be our privi-
iege to give it our countenance and
support. The government Is con-
scious Of the obligation and the ma
ton is conscious Of the obligation.
Let no. man create divisions where
there are none.
Here is the nation God has build
ed by our hands. What shall we do
with it? Who is there who does not
stand ready at all times to act in her
behalf in a spirit of devoted and dis
interested patriotism? We ara yet
only in youth and first consciousness
of our power. The day Of our coun-
try's life is still but in its fresh morn
ing. Let us lift our eyes to the great
tracts of life yet to be conquered in
the interests Of righteous peace.
Come, let us renew our allegiance to
America, conserve her strength in its
purity, make her chief among those
who serve mankind, self-reVerenced,
self-commanded, mistress Of all
forces of quiet counsel, strong above
all others in good will and the might
of invincible justice and right