Speech #640028117

There is not a home in that country where there is a bite to cat or a bed in which people can sleep where those who are in distress can not come as freely as you can in your own home. I know that to be the fact. I have seen my own town caring for as many refugees from overflowed districts as there were white people living in the town. I never saw anybody go hungry at any time. I have seen them do more than give of their means. The acid test of a nians charity is whether lie is willing to open his home and take people within its portals when those people do not move in his exact stratum of society. regardless of race or color. I have seen every home in my town open to refugees. and the tables were never cleared away. There was food day and night. I have seen women who never went into their kitchens on ordinary occasions to cook a meal stand from morning until night tanding out cups of coffee and loaves of bread to people of opposite color who had been driven out of their homes by floods.