The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-22

nveIIed Yesterday, was an excellent rep
& eenfafive 81 Nhat might be called the
E 1aoouencs 81 insincerity or professional
.rrtoyv M. Grdy was Of Irish lineage,
Z "a his eeuiusvs marked BY the strength
= S1,fI weaknes, Il bis gifted race; he was a
rnSn n drnmstzc, picturesque, emotional
4awer Of exprsssion, rather than OF inn
8 esrive. incIsive thought; he was fluent,
Scils. fervid; everything by turns, and
S nothine Ione He was the slave rather
11,on the nss1er o. his speech; he always
5 nru,1e Nth III audience; never against it,
~fether he spoks IN Boston or at Atlanta.
4ia mind had tbe quality Of q chameleon; it
adopted Instantly the color of his locality.
IA Mss : jury advocate rather than
Srest orator: fof no man can be great
orator Who always sinks the truth, evades
Il o. clips Il 70 capture his audience. Mr..
0radyss frt business was not to extort
assent Of forcs admiration by his power,
hi win applause he invariably won APP
nlnuse whethsr be spoke in Boston or At
1anta. no matter what he talked about, for
hs always led bis audience unlimited
!. rhetorical taiFy. 81 article for which the
American psopls, North, South, East or
Wet; havs always most unappeasable
nppetite.
M. Grady unquestionably had kissed
lie bIarnsy stone; indeed the barney
stone was aIWays his lodestone by which
hs drew IFS audience to himself. Of
course such : man can never rise
above the tns 4 great jury advocate.
1or he Il constsutly obliged to sacrifice
sincerity % sensational success. Mr..
Gfady. when ~ spoke in Boston or New
York before tie New England Society, was
wont to whistle the negro problem down
NE wind " drawing an eloquent picture of
~ ssold bIsok nanny" who had nursed
him; 81 The faithful negro body servant
Who had followed his master, Grady's
1kther, into battle and nursed him when
wounded, and then would triumphantly
~, no yon suppose that with such men,
ories bsAind us Of the sympathetic kindness
nnd devoted fidelity of the negro nature,
6hat w men Of the South cannot be
hosked q protect the colored man and
help him % rise above his present sur
xoendinufv These speeches of Grady
WeFe very effective until his audience be-.
- 70 rid bis speeches which he deliv-
~ n Atlanta and his editorial opinions.
= contrast between Grady, the Georgia
lsical orator and editor, and Grady, the
mist orator. talking eloquent taify in
npassioned accents to the New England
ociety q Boston or New York, was too
Violent for consistency, and Grady died
with : Justly won reputation as the type
erstor Of eloquent insincerity.
The man had . moral nature like a
amusic box; he tuned himself to the occa-
sion. When be went North his music box
always played "The Star Spangled Ban
nsr" and the fred. White and Blue;
but when Grady got back to Georgia his
music boz vas certain to play the Bonnie
Bins Flag" or "My Maryland" without
cessation until Grady got ready 10 be wined
and dined again at the North. and then
She music box was carefully wound up to
play nothing but national airs. Mr..
Grady was successful, sensational
man, who carried the brilliant Bo-
hsmian philosophy of his journalism
into life and politics everywhere. or
course when such man tried to pose for
= statesman be utterly failed; he was only
= brilliant oratorical Bohemian, mouthing
ehs mere rhetoric OF statesmen; posing as
opatriot ~ the North and as an unflinch-
ms. INSCRIPTIONS partisan at the South.
After his Northern audience had recov-
ered from the charm Of Grady's speech
and began to inquire whether his speech
Vas verified by the facts of the situation
- the South. they were not long in dis
covering that Mr. Grady had only been
hanging the Southern sky full of rhetor
Scal rainbows and stage moonlight: had
oeen Illuminating the black forest of
southern political barharism by liberal
NE Of Grady Chinese lanterns. The North.
turning from Grady's picture of his ''black
mammy"and his fathers faithful BODY
servant to look at the South, discovered
that .ths Grady party" did not hesitate to
burn the negro's cabin over his head or
shoot him at the polls II he voted the Re
publican ticket. did not hesitate to elect
IT. candidate by system of night raids
through the country and drumhead court
martiais in the woods. so that by judicious
murders OF scourgings, the rank and file of
the literally black Republicans were terri
fied into abject political silence and sub
mission.
In many states of the South il Is no
crime to shoot q colored man; in others
they have been hanged and shot pending
elections with impuni,y, and today, not
content with forbidding the negro under
pain of death to vote as he pleases. he is
forbidden in Arkansas to strike for higher
wages under pain Of being lynched for
such industrial arrogance and impudence.
Time and again men proved in the United
etstes court to be guilty of murder and
outrage Of eolored men have been &C.
quilted. so bsrbarous is the popular senti
ment regarding the commission of such
crimes.
The Confederate monument at Augusta
Ga, bears the inscription:
No nation rose so white ana fair,
None fell 30 free of crime.
The so-called nation "rose white and
fair from foundation whose constitu.
tonal cornerstone was human slavery
among whose victims would have been in,
Guided the Grady black nanny and fine
old male body servant and their children:
children.
Despite Grady's eloquent taffy concern