And
there is another thing--covetousness, corruption, the low
temptation of money has not yet found any place in our Southern
politics.
"Now, my friends, we cannot afford to live, we don't wish
to live, and we will not live, in a state of estrangement from
a people who possess these qualities. They are our kindred;
bone of our bone; flesh of our flesh; blood of our blood,
and whatever may be the temporary error of any Southern State
I, for one, if I have a right to speak for Massachusetts,
say to her, 'Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to return from
following after thee. For where thou goest I will go, and
where thou stayest, I will stay also. And they people shall
be my people, and thy God my God.'"
In July, 1898, I was invited to deliver an address before
the Virginia Bar Association. I was received by that company
of distinguished gentlemen with a hospitality like that I
had found in Charleston the year before. Certainly the old
estrangements are gone. I took occasion in my address to
appeal to the Virginia bar to give the weight of their great
influence in sustaining the dignity and authority of the Supreme
Court, in spite of their disappointment at some of its decisions
of Constitutional questions.
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