Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-30
1.-TWO DANGERS.
Editor Grady Discusses the Solid South
and Its Dangers.

and Its Dangers.
AUGUSTA (Ga.), November 29th.-Grady, editor
of the Atlanta Constitution, addressed large
dience day, IL Guiding Governor Richardson,
of south Carolina, Senators Butler, Ransom and
Colquitt, and many other prominent people of
Georgia and South Carolina. He spoke of how
the people of these two States had fought
through two reyo utions side by side. He then
said that the south is now confronted by two
dangers. By remaining solid it will force per-
manent sectional alignment, in which II has
everything TO lose and nothing to gain. By di-
viding it will debauch its political system, de-
stroY the defenses of its social integrity and put
the balance of power in the hands of an ignor-
ant and dangerous class. Grady discussed these
propositions at length. He said that the solid
South invites the solid North from which the
South-being in the minoritv-has little to hone
The South had thirty eight per cent. of the elect
oral vote in 1880, but 1t is doubtful if she Will
have over twenty-five per cent. in 1890.
To remain silent, therefore, is TO incur the
danger OF being III perpetual minority ana
practically shut out from participation in the
Government. But the South cannot afford 10
risk the other danger TO avoid the first The
very WORST thing that could happen TO the South
is TO have her whole vote divided into factions
and each faction bidding for the negro vote,
which vote is ignorant, impulsive, alien, pur-
chasable and cannot be got rid of. National
parties, finding here their cheapest market and
widest field, viii pour IN their millions, adding
to the corruption funds OF municipal and State
factions. and the entire ballot-bOx will be hope
lessly deoauched, al approaches thereto made
corrupt and all results therefrom tainted.
When the negro was enfranchised the South
was condemned TO solidity surely as self
preservation is the first law OF nature. This
problem Is not of our seeking. II was thrust
upon us-not in the orderly unfolding o. plan,
but in hot impulse and passion, against the
judgment of the world and the lessons of his
tory, and to the peril of public government,
which rests at last on pure and unsulled suf-
frage. If it be urged thatit was the memorable
result of our course in 1860 we reply that we
took that course in dplibprafiOp maintained IL
in sincerity, sealed it with the blood of our
bravest and best, and we accept il without COM
plant, and abide in the dignity of its direct and
ultimate results, and shall hold il TO bein spite
of defeat-forever honorable and sacred. This
is our problem, and it will dominate all other
issues Political spoils are not to be considered.
The administration of our affairs is secondary,
and the patronage is less. Economic issues are as
naught, and even great moral reforms must wait
on the settlement of this great question. What,
then is the duty of the south? 1t is to main
tain The political well social integrity her
white race, and appeal to the world for patience
and justice. Let us show that il is not &C.
tionai prejudice, but sectional problem, that
Keeps us compact; that IL is not hope of do
minion, but an abiding necessity-not spuils
nor patronage, but plain selfpreservation that
holds the white race together in the South. Let
us make this so plain that any community
searching its own heart would say, The neces-
slty that binds our brothers in the South would
hold us as closely bound were the necessity
here"
GpSaAihS vi tlie IcihliOhS otkNetH tue Whites
and negroes, Grady contended that they were
friendly. " Let us send a few words to the fair
minded Republicans of the North. Here is the
fundamental assertion-the negroes of the
south can not be kept in antagonism with their
white nelghbors, for the intimacy and friendli-
ness of the relation forbids. This friendliness
is most important factor of the problem-one
that the North has never taken account of, and
it seems never will. 1t explains an otherwise
1nexplicable thing-the fidelity and loyalty of
the negro during the war TO the woman and
children left in his care. Though unexpected
in slavery, it explains the miracle of 1864.
Though not confessed, it must explain the mir
acle of 1855