Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-14
THE SOUTHERN ORATOR.
Henry Grady Talks of the Race Problem
in the South.

Henry Grady Talks of the Race Problem
in the South.
Mr.. Grady said he was invited to discuss
the race problem. He said the South, the
fairest and richest domain on the EARTH is
so scantily peopled that but Is per
cent. OF it's lands are cultivated. The
sons OF New England seek with troubled
eyes some Eldorado, yet since 1860 the
immigration of the Northerners to the
South has been decreasing. because of the
race problem and the suspicion it breeds.
The Southerners are so beset with this
problem that their very existence depends
on it's right solution. Replying to the i'm
putation that the South treated the ne.
groes uniustly, the speaker said this year
the South raised 100000 bales OF
cotton, and snch an enormous
crop could not have come
from the hands OF disconte nted
labor. The negroes OF Georgia, who, twenty
five years ago. we're slaves, now possess $50.
100000 worth OF property. For every
Afru-American stirring STRIFE he could
show Thousand negroes happy in their cab
in homes and with their children in schools.
1t is admitted that there is disorder and
violence; but it is misjudged. The Iawless.
ness in Iowa is accepted as an accident
while that in the South is ascribed to race
causes. The blacks will cast a free ballot
when ignorance is not dominate d by the
will of the intelligent. Whites are banded,
not in preiudic ;, but OF necessity. The
negro vote remains an ignorant and credu.
lous faction the prey OF funscrupulousDess OF
o,I v11n ,ort in q
campaign in " hich every interest OF society
is jeopardized and every approach TO the
ballot box is debauched. In reply to the
challenge as to tn alleged smallness OF the
Southern vote, Mr.. Grady said the sixteen
Southern states in 1888, cast 81
Der cent. of their total vote, the New Eng
land states but SO per cent.
theirs. The negro has learned that the bal
lot box, which promised him the most,
has yielded him the least, and at last as
realized that his best frien Is are his neigh
bors, will. whose prosperity his own is
bound up. 1t would be well II the Northern
partisans would understand that the ne.
vro vote can never control the
South. II there be any human
force which cannot be withstood, it is that
OF the banded intelligence and RESPONSE
bility of q free community. Upon that the
South relies; not upon the cowardly men.
ace OF the mask OF shotgun, ana Iorce VIII
not avail The North may surrender ite
liberties to q federal election law, but never
again will q single state, North or South,
be delivered to the control OF an ignorant
and inferior race. Time alone can tell how
the problem presented will he solved.
The speaker believed it would be solved by |
the people most bound in nonor to
it's solution. Heasked: "First-Patience;
out OF this alone can come perfect work.
second-Co Confidence; IN this alone can you |
Judge fairly. Third-Sympathy; in this you
can help us best. Fourtt-Give us your
sons as hostages that they may help to |
swell the Anglo-Saxon current until 1t can
carry without danger this black infusion. |
Fifth-Loyalty to the republic; forlthere is
sectionalism in loyalty as in estrangement.
Give us broad and perfect loyalty that
loves and trusts Georgia, alike with MAS
sachusetts, that knows no south, no north,
no east, no west, but endears with equal
and patriotic love every foot OF our soil,
every state Of our union"