The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-12
THE sorrHxnS STATES.



ArsrsrA. Ca. Nor. aa.-Grady. tbs
editor Of the Atlanta laAgifafiea, asi
dressed large audience to-day, In
ending Governor Richardson 81 South
| Carolina. Senators Butler, Rarsonl
and CoI4uitf. and many other pToult
nent people Of Georgia and south
Carolina He spoke Of how the peo
ole 81 these tao states had fought
through tao revolutions side by side
and then said that the South Is nox
confronted By tEo dangers. By re
mzining solid il viii force 8 peFrna
\ nent sectional alignment in which i
has everything TO iose and nothing C
gain: ~ dividing i viii tsebaueh u:
political system. destroy the defense
a. its social integrity. and put the bal
anee OF power IN the hands OF an ~
noTant and dangerous class. Grady
discussed these propositions atlength.
He said that solid South makes s
sold North. from which the Soush
being in the minority. has little q
hope The South had $ per cent Of
the electoral vote in lsSo, and II 1
doubtful II she ~iil hare over . pc,
cent in 1850. To remain solid, there
fore. Is to incur the danger OF being IN
a perpetual minority. and practically
shut out from participation IN the
government: but the South cannot
afford to risk the other danger 20
avoid the first. The very worst thing
that could happen to the south Is TO
have her white vote divided into fac
tons. and each faction bidding for
the negro vote. which vote isignorant,
impulsiye, alien. purchasable. and
cannot be got rid OF. The national
parties. finding here their cheapest
market and widest field. viii pour in
millions, adding 10 the corruption
fund OF municipal and State factions
until the ballot-box will be hopelessly
debanched, all approaches thereto cor
rupted. and al results therefrom
tainted. When the negro was en-
franchised the South was condemned
TO solidity as surely as self-preserya-
ton is the first law of nature.
This problem j. not one OF our seek
ing. 1t was thrust upon US. not in the
ORDERLY unfolding of plan, but in hot
impulse and passion. against the judg-
rneut of the world and the lessons OF
history. and 10 the peril OF public gov
eminent. which rests. at last, on pure
and uDsuliied suffrage. If II be urged
that il was the memorable result OF our
course in 1859, we reply that we took
that course in deliberation. maintain
ed 1t in sincerity. sealed II with the
blood of our brayest and best. and we
accept without complaint and abide in
dignity its direct and ultimate results,
and shall hold ii to be, in spite OF de-
feat, forever honorable and sacred.
This is our problem. Ii will dominate
all other issues. Political spoils are
not to be considered. The admins
trarion OF our affairs is secondary, and
patronage is less. Economic. issues
are a. naught, and even great moral
reforms must wait on the settlement
OF this great question.
What, then. i the duty of the South
1t j. To maintain the political as well
as the social integrity of her white
race, and to appeal 10 the world for
patience and justice. Let Us show
that il i not sectional prejudice, but q
sectional problem that keeps us com
pact: that it is not the hope OF do
minion, but an abiding necessity; not
the spoils OF patronage, but plain self
preservation. holds the white race to-
gether in the South. Let Us make this
50 plain that any community search
ing its own heart would say, The
necessity that binds our brothers in
the South would hold us as closely
bound were the necessity here"
THE WHITES AND NEGROES.
Speaking of the relations between
the whites and negroes, Grady con
tended that they are friendly. Let us
send few words to the fair-minded
Republicans OF the North. Here is a
fundamental assertion: The negroes
OF the South can never be kept in an
tagonism with their white neighbors.
for the intimacy and friendliness OF
the relation forbids- That friendli-
ness i a most important factor of the
problem that the North has never
taken account OF, and il seems never
will. 1t explains the otherwise mex
plicable thing. the fidelity and loyalty
of the negro during the war TO the
women and children left in his care.
Though inexpicable in slavery, it ex-
plains the miracle OF 1864. Though
not confessed, it must explain the
miracle of iSSS.