The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-11-22
THE NEGRO.
THE WHITE RACE MUST AND WILL
CONTROL THE SOUTH"
An Extract from Henry Grady's
Great Speech at Dallas.

One thing further should be said in
perfect frankness. Up to this point
we have dealt with ignorance and
corruption but beyond this point a
deeper issue confronts us. Ignorance
may struggle to enlightenment; out OF
corruption may come the incorruptible.
God speed that day. Every true man
in the South will pray for it and work
for it. Through education the negro
must be led to know, and through
sympathy to CONFESS, that
his interests and the interests of the
people of the South are identical.
The men who fIom afar off view this
subject through the cold eye of
speculation, or see it distorted
through partisan glasses, insist that.
directly or indirectly, the negro race
will be put in control of the affairs of
the South. We have no fear of this.
Already we are attaching to us the
best element of that race. AS we
proceed our alliance will broaden.
External pressure but irritates and
impedes. Those who would put the
negro race in supremacy would work
against divine and infallible decree;
for the white race can never submit
to its domination because the white
race is the superior race.
This is the declaration of no new
truth; it has abided forever i'll the
marrow of our bones and shall run
forever with the blood that feeds An
glo-Saxon hearts. In political COM
pliance the South has evaded the
truth and men have drifrcd from their
convictions. But we cannot escape
this issue; it faces us wherever we
turn. 1t is an issue that has been and
will be. The races and tribes of
earth are of divine origin. Behind
the laws of man and the DEGREES of
war stands the law of God. What
God hath separated let no man join
together. The Indian, the Malay,
the Negro, the Caucasian, these types
stand as markers of Gods will. Let
not any man tinker with the work of
the Almighty. Unity of civilization,
no more than unity of faith, will never
be witnessed on earth. No race has
risen or will rise above its ordained
place. Here is the pivotal fact of this
great matter. Two races are made
equal in law and in political rights,
between whom the caste of race has
set an impossible gulf. This gulf is
bridged by statute and the races
are urged to cross thereon. This
cannot be. The fiat of the Almighty
has gone forth, and III eighteen CEN
turtles of history it is written. We
would escape this issue if we could.
From the depth of its soul the South
invokes from heaven "peace on earth
and good will to man" She would
not, if she could, cast this race into
the condition from which we daily
thank God it was raised. She would
not deny its smallest or abridge it's
fullest privilege. Not to lift this bur
den forever from her people would
she do the least of these things. She
must walk through the valley of the
shadow, for God has so ordained.
But he has ordained that she shall
walk in that integrity of race that,
created i'll his wisdom, has been per-
petuated in his strength. Standing
in the presence of this multitude, So
bered with the responsibility of the
message | deliver to the young men
of the South, declare that the truth
above all others to be worn unsullied
and sacred in your hearts, to be- sur
rendered to no force, sold at no price,
compromised in no necessity, but
cherished and defended as the cove
nant of your prosperity, and the
pledge of peace to your children, is
that the white race can never submit
to the direct or indirect domination
of the race that insOlent thinkers with
divine decree would but above us,
but that the white race must and will
control the South.
1t is race issue at last. Let us
come to this point and stand here.
Here the air is pure and the light is
clear, and here hODOr and peace abide.
Juggling and evasion deceive not a
man. Compromise and subservience
has carried not point. There is not
"a white man North or South who does
not feel it stir in the gray matter of
his brain and thrOb in his heart. Not
a negro who does not feel its power.
1t is not sectional issue. 1t speaks
in Ohio and in Georgia. 1t speaks
wherever the Anglo-SaxOn touches an
alien race. 1t has just spoken in uni
versally approved legislation in ex-
Guiding the Cinnamon from our gates,
not for his ignorance, vice or cOrrup-
ton, but because he sought to estab-
lish an Interference in republic fash
Toned in the wisdom and defended by
the blood of a homogeneous people.
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