The sun., 1890-01-05
THIS SAITH COL. SHEPARD.
,,s nyScOVERBD 4 NEW KU-KLU1-
BE h1 IN THE NEW SOUTH,
.,a These Are the solemn s, Ksn.oEs Es,sVns VIZ
&c a., Composed tho Piece Yet.


49,, rh,,e Are the Solemn Reasons WY
Ana .va.,. 20 write Mr., Grady's EpitaPh
n. Not Composed tho Piece Yet
n,o Mail and Express a few days ago
c.l ELLIOTT F. Shepard announced that he
.ould Give $500 toward monument 10 henry
w GRADY. the late editor oil the Atlanta Consh-
ssion II no were allowed 70 write tho lnscrlp-
IlaO,S "Shich should be carved upon the stone.
uVn S,,w wIs rsnorter asked Col Shepard the other
i,,s, what Inscription the Colonel would
,,. uE nnon Editor Grady's monument II he
~ allowed to do SO. 1t was New Years Day
va coI shepard was at his home. suffering
sIon, a slicht attack OF the grip. The Colonel
Ia ,bat he had made his offer In dead earnest.
81 haven't thought exactly what inscription
= -ould write" said Col. Shepard. e only
"a In mind some general ideas on the sub
~, The inscription that would writo would
:. "a remarkable for what It did not contain as
e., what II did contain. You see my idea is
;rst this think Mr.. Grady was man who
Al n much more comprehensive view OF the
sI,ustion Of things at tho South than almost
sny other man there. At heart ho wanted to
mako his people more generous and less re-
.ontful-an almost impossible task. He would
.ome no North here every now and then and
est n great breath OF our grand, free
ar and see our noble institutions. and
then he would make some such utter
.nce as that at the New England
dinner or in his speech in Boston Just before
IA died. Then what would happen? He would
m back to Atlanta and bo disciplined. sir.
Yes, sir, disciplined. He would be warned by
the Southerners-as he was warned, time and
sraln-that II he went on saying such things
And did not repent OF what lie had said, that
The doom OF Ustracism would be pronounced
against him. The consequence was that Mr..
Grady. noble ms he was at heart. yielded and
ftion which did not look much as II they were
written by the Grady who made the speeches
Gp here in the North.
despotism that urevails In the South. Through
cut every State-1 won't except single one
throughout every State and county and town
and village there prevails q local organization
i almost think sometimes that it isa formal
rganization-whereby one or two families In
mt OK not Iet man ues
Northern sentiments and his doom is scaled.
Ills doom is scaled irrevocably. He is under q
4 no "s escape from It, His former ironds shun
6im. Even his family are estranged from him,
and bis brothers and sisters. denopnce
Elm. Men will not do business with him. |
and It is hard sometimes for him to
get the necessaries OF life. Why, sir, he |
% our Christian civilization. and which is |
something terrible to contemplate Lot me give |
Tou an instance In point and could mention
jgho ran for Governor Of Virginia as Repub- |
lean against the Democratic Fitzhugh Lee. |
III WIses family have disowned him, and
|cnger The old friends OF his boyhood refuse
d speak to him. More than that. the people
ody who T Does treat Mr. Wso deeep Theye
8 Mr. Wise's old family physician in Rich
nond. who, merely because he attended Mr..
ana5le 1i to get IiSing 1T. Wise PROCESSES Sc not
. care for all this, but Of course he does. No
Or It. But II Mr.. Wise should go down on his
Znees and beg them to take him back they
Ioud not do It. They will never forgive him.
ae has committed the objectionable sin in
"A great many times. when some Of the
continent and influential Southerners were in
Inner. | INVITED them here, and was glad to
ave ave them en- here here; propose to invite more Of
hem here have asked them whY they Rse kent teT
% the old barbarism. why they did not give to
he negro the rights guaranteed him by tho
lainly why the negro was not admitted to pc1- po-
tcal equality in. the South. And then, then
nvariably. their faces would flush and they
"'I don't want any ID negro to marry my
Yoa see how strongly they felt about it. and
ensions. These misapprehensions endeav-
red. earnestly, TO remove. l talked to them.
nd told them how mistaken they were.
onted out to them what q great difference
here was between political equality and social
quality, Social lines and political lines are
nttrely distinct. because negro should VOTE
oes not mean that he should marry a white
,ans daughter Negroes have social lines
mong themselves lust as white people have
mong the $4,000 or more negroes in the city
here Is social -Four, Hundred SO to speak.
a upper and higher class that does not admit
elves.
So say. should like to write tho inscrip-
lon Oh Henry W. Gratys monument. / have
q my heart many things which l should like
expres: there. l would not write anything
hat would offend anybody. though might
eaye many things .unsaid. / would willingly
aye $500 for this privilege"
,, would like to write the Inscription on
euerson Daviss monument? Yes. l would
IHs to. bHt wouldn't pay for the privilege OF
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