The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1889-08-03

GRENADA. MISS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1889.
our people had dealt with the endless

our peopl0 uHU ucdlG Will tuc euulcSs
race problem which the war left us to
solve and which now hangs like black
cloud over the hopes and prospect OF
the south. This problem is full of DIFF
ficuties and dangers, but the courage
and the care, the patience and the con-
stancy of the southern people have made
the best Of their trying situation Of which
it is susceptible. The same lofty at
tributes of southern character which
sustained our people through the recon
struction period, as they had done amid
the dangers Of the field, saved them while
they contanded with the grave problem
of the races. That the white man main
tains his proud position Of sociui and
intellectual superiority which Mr..
Lincoln said belonged to him is due to
that self-respecting quality in southern
men which chooses death before the dis
honor OF negro equality; and that the
black man Is secure and respected in his
sphere, and all but few restless politi--
clan OF his race contented also, ID cue to
the southern white mans fidelity to his
pledges, his respect for the law ard his
sense ofjustice to an ignorant aN1 de-
pendent population amongrs belonging
to an inferior race.
Passing from this subject he said, some
speakers and writer's, Understanding
our people and allowing nothing tor the
adverse fortunes with which they had to
contend, point rs to our northern neigh>
bors as patterns for our imitation; they
make better use of their opportunities
than we do, we are told; they ar prace
tical in all thing and we are sentimental,
and we are exhorted to put the past be-
hind us and keep abreast of the p,ogrcs-
slve spirit of the age. He 1iscu:osl the
draw backs and the disadvan.agca that
had held the southern people down,
none of which he said was due to any
fault of infrmity of their own. Some Of
them wero political, some resulted from a
revolution in the southern labor system,
some from the extreme poverty Of the
people Just after the war, which made it
impossible for them to utilize advan>
tages which seemed to others to be in
their reach.
He said the southern people suited
him just as they are and just as they
always have been, and he challenged
those who find fault with them to point
to any other community in America, or
in the world, who in the face CT such
difficulties and in the same time, by hard
work and economy and good manage.
ment. have brought as much prosperity
out Of as much poverty as these people
have done in the last twelve years
He defended the southern people
warmly against the charge so often
brought against them that they were not
practical. He said they did not sink.
all sentiment in more practically, and
he hoped they never would; that senti-
mens had been theil streagth in the
past, and on it their prosnerity and safe ~
mus depend. There is nothing disloyal
in it, for it is the very essence Of pat,
riotism; there is nothing impracticAlle
or non progressive in it, and it must be
the handmade Of all progress and i'm.
proyement here among US
He referred to the peculiar sur
roundings of the people in these southern
states and closed with an appeal to the
men and women of Mississippi to stimu'
late and intensity, to foster and cherish
that elevation of thought, that spirit of
pride, that instinct of honor which have
hitherto sustained them in all their
struggles and trials and which it would
be crime to stlfe or repress.
The above is barely on outline Of the
subjects discussed in speech which oc'
cupied more than an hour in It's de-
livery without undertaking to give
| the substance Of all that was said on any
OF the points referred to.
Congressman Anderson, State Treas
ur2r Hemingway, Auditor Stone anC
many Other promipet citizens were pres
ent to-day. This is the eleyenth yca'
of the eucampment Of the union, whlcl
is in fact rendezvous for the rep:ascu-
tatiye farmers to assemble annually ate
they have finished thei crops and dis
cvss methods and interchange ideas gen
orally. It's good word is apparent o.
every hand and il is gratifying 70 kao,
thai It is improving fpanciluy ro
broadening its good work and scope /
/ in every way.
President Ba y and his able coadjr
tors deserve the thanks of the state iC
building up one Of the greatest instlty
: tiona in it,
During the afternoon Senator Wa
thall was called upon and escorted
, The platform, where hundreds Of peop!
, men, ladies and children, came an
shock hauds with him and expresse
r their appreciation Of the sentiments e.
t pressed in his speech.