Address Delivered by Dr. Joshua A. Jones, President of Wilberforce University Wilberforce, Ohio
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Excerpt from Address Delivered by Dr. Joshua A. Jones, President of Wilberforce University Wilberforce, Ohio: On the Occasion of the Anniversity Celebration of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, at Metropolitan Church, Washington, D. C., Tuesday Evening, March 31, 1908 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: "I thank you very much for the splendid audience which you have furnished me to-night. I thank you for the opportunity to appear in the city of Washington after a sojourn from this city of more than twenty years. I was a student at one time in my history at Howard University. It was while I was at that university that I imbibed from great men such as Dr. Patten and others, many of the inspirations that went with me through the more than twenty years of my meanderings and hard labors, and I come back to-night with precious memories of those great men to greet not only this audience, but, on to-morrow, to go back to that sacred spot. "It is true that I have not visited Washington very much, not because Washington was a place to me of no interest, but because my life has been so exceedingly busy and I have been so greatly ;taxed with the burdens that fell upon my shoulders that I could do nothing more than learn of you and read of you. So while I have not personally mingled with you in physical person, spiritually and intellectually, I have been with you. I have been with Howard University in all of her struggles, and I hope to God the time will never come that Howard University will change her history or ideals, but stand for the great things that she has always stood. (Great applause.) "I am glad to meet the boys of Howard, for I am one myself. I want to say also that I wish to apologize for my speech to-night with which I shall afflict you, and I want to say to you that my only reason for wandering in this great place and in this city of learning and culture for the purpose of making a speech is that I am one of the Negro race in this country who shared with you the benefits of this immortal amendment to the Constitution. I come not because of my learning and ability to make a speech; I have come of a patriotic response to the call of my people. Some two weeks ago I received a letter from my good friend, Mr. J. W. Cromwell, stating that I had been selected for the purpose of speaking on this occasion and that he wanted me to speak on the subject of ´Higher Education for the Negro.´ "I did not see the relationship between the anniversary of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution and the subject of ´Higher Education,´ but when I reflected upon the unity of knowledge and reflected also that those immortal amendments were intended to give to the Negro political and physical freedom and the freedom which education should bring to the intellect, I concluded to accept the task. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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