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There can be no healthy
growth in life of
or a nation ithout
re . ant spirit animatin the
ho e body; if it amounts
to optimism, devoid of
egotism and vanity, so
much the better. This spirit
necessarily carri . th it
intense pride of r ,or of
nation, as the case may be,
and ramifies the whole
mass, inspirina and shaping
its thought and effort,
ho ever humble or exalted
th may be -as it takes
"all sorts and conditio of
men" to make up a social
order, instinct with the am­
bition and the activity
hich or for "high
thinkina and right living,'
of hidl modem evolution
inalldirectionsistbem
po erful illustration in
. ory. If pride of ancestry
can, happily, be ..dded to
pride of race and nation,
re­
quirements so finely
life and
is
American life
Dl"e!1ieIll day?
answer � cn­
of
Ortlma1le1Y for the
erican people,
no pride of
,ancaltrv:, in the ., f
than trace
e bac four
nd t e
hundred
., of there
bly many, . un-
COIllSOOUS of desceri ,
profit nothin
by it if this not true.
The blood of aU ethnic
types that to make up
--"- .... citizenship flo s
in the veins of fro­
American peo , so th of
the ten million of them in
this country, accounted for
by the Federal census, not
more than four million are
of pure negroid descent,
bile so four million of
. them, n accounted fo by
the Federal census, have
escaped into the ran of
the white race, and are re­
enforced very largely by
such escapements every
year. The vitiation of blood
h operated irresistibly to
ea en that pride of
anc try, hich is the
foundalion- one of pride
of race; so that the Afro­
American people have been
held together rather by the
segregation decreed by law
and public opinion than by
ties of consanguinity since
their manumission and en­
franchisement. It is not
because they are poor and
ignorant and oppressed, as
a mass, that there is no such
sympathy of thought and
unity of effort among them
as amon Irishmen and
J the orId over, but
because the vitiation of
blood, beyond the
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hildren under 1
door.
inform ti n
Pre ho I Story time i
t 10: 15. 0 pre .. r istr ti n i n
All 3-5 ye r old re lcorne.
and p rti ip te in the fun .
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pril 30 t 3:00. The rno .
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help
honorable restrictions of
law, has destroyed, in lar8
measure, that pride of
ancestry upon ruth pride
of race must be builded .. In
no other loaical y can we
account for the failure of
the Afro-American people
to stand together, as other
oppressed races do, and
have done, for the righting
of wrongs against them
authorized by the la of
the several states, if no by
the Federal Constitution,
and sanctioned 0 tolerated
by public opinion. In
nothing has this r dical
defect been more noticeable
since the War of the
ebellion than in, the
uniform failure of the peo-
pie to sustain such ci '
organizations as e ' t and
have exi ted, to t t in th
courts of 1a and in th
forum of public opinion th
validity of organic la of
States intended to depri
them of t civil d
political rights guaranteed
to them b the Federal
Constitution. The t 0 h
organiz tion of thi
char cter hich ha p-
pealed to them are th
tional fro- meri
Le ue, or ani zed in
GhlicaJto, in 1890, and th
tiona! Afro-American
Council, organized in
Rochester , York, out
of the Lea&ue, in 1898. The
or� still ex-
f iry-t le here
prin e h b en turned into fr nd
ho he be orne hum
and Erne
Vincent.