Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-18

was conscious OF ability 10 vindicate
Southern rectltude. He asked patience.
He complained that there were those
North who urged immediate' settlement
of the race problem, utterly Incapable
TO understand that 1t means centuries
Of development to cousumatc 1t.
II matters not that wherever the
Anglo-Saxon had touched another race,
II had won supremacy by its superb
GRITTY.
The red man had stood in the way Of
American progress, and had been cut
down as Il weed; the Chinaman was
against the spirit Of our institutions
and Our gates we're closed to him; but
the negro--inierior vastly to us-but
placed on an equal, politically, by the
results of an unhappy war--preiudlced
by centuries ofslavery, and taught by
the demagogue at an evil hour 10 rely
upon IN executive force, incapable as
yet o comprehending the spirit OF
American freedom, susceptible 10 the
art Of the neutrality-suspicious. and
superstitious---isc to be made
master Of affairs In the South. They
send us that message'who know nothing
OF the negro and nothing OF our condi-
tons. They overlook the fact
that wherever we can we
pin him 10 the soil,
and teach him the lesson OF responsible
citizenship; that where he has In TWEEN
| ty-iive years accumulated in ono state
| SIS, 100000, his labor is not without re-
ward that in his humble cabin home at
nightiall he takes from the mouth Of
his children the message his state sends
him from the school house door.
All real development is gradual; es-
| pecially must this DO SO with this de-
pendent race.
Above all, they forget the love we
bear this kindly race. They cannot ex-
poet TO comprehend 1t who see only the
shiftless side OF the northern negro
doubted by all and loved by none, and
away from his native home and the ira
ditions of his people. 1t is true the
slave-ships OF this republic land
ed on New York shores: but
the negro by adoption became
settled in the huts on the hillsides and
the hollows Of the south, sang his song
to the accompaniment OF the banjo
Meth the southern skies; his laughter
rang out above the complaint Of work
in the southern cotton fields They
know nothing, who send MS that mes
sage, of the kindly love of their de-
pendent race through long years OF
weary war-"When the negro torch
could have disbanded every southern
army, and not one torch was lit; when
their idleness would have starved every
southern soldier into surrender and
still they logged the mule adowu the
furrow TO supply with food the army
that fought against their freedom.
And at night when strange feelings
came upon the household, of which the
father, brother or son were in the
days battle, and hauntings came that
death had sealed the soldiers eyes;
and when tire eyes and anxious faces
had turned at last to the valley OF sleep
il was The black man who placed himself
on pallet at our mothers door to pro-
tect "missusn till master come hame.
And In reverence for these memories
as in consideration OF our duty, we shall
till rule and lead them by our hand
melting out TO them that measure OF
justice the strong owe the weak-until
II possible they may see thelight as we
do. But we can never be led by Il race
too simple TO direct themselves.
Grady's conclusions werc to ask the
North Tor patience, for confidence, for
sympathy, for her sons rs hostages, or
for loyalty that embraced the South
as the North.
And though clouds gather and doubt
stalks abroad in the land, though the
question be without precedent In his
tory, perplexing, and its end impossi-
BILE TO foresee; yet he believed that
when the great clock OF this republic
shall strike tho noon-day stroke OF its
glory, the South, with her problems
solved, will lie beneath a smiling sun
| Lfv fV, h.. Il fall "a al
mission given her by his hand, whose
last help 10 man seems 10 be In the So
luton of the problem OF the govern
ment Of man by man.
Lastly-Henry Grady stood for Amer
lean fraternity.
Dir. Talmage said that Gradys speech
In New York was the greatest speech
in quarter Of century. Grady was
the guest OF the New England society.
He was not so widely known In those
days, and and his spurs were TO win.
He was the first southerner since the
war TO speak at that board. He was
conscious that one mistake meant fur
Their sectional estrangement. When
Dr. Talmage spoke he painted with a
masters hand, "a picture Of how in the
pomp and circumstance OF war the
northern soldiers had passed through
Washington enroute 10 their splendid
homes, bearing on their fore
heads the lofty look of victors,
as they looked forward TO
happy homes unhurt by cruel war; Of
how battalion after battalion
marched by in proud array in solid
phalsnx.
Then General Sherman, catching up
the strain, spoke 10 its echo.
Then came Grady. Ho too remem-
bered an army that came home from
Appomattox-no In victory, not in
plenty, but TO poverty-not to homes
happy, but desolate-but in hUnor
great as heroes ever bore.
Turning for the last time their
wearied faces TO the graves that dot
old Virginia hills, aud wringing in
silence the hands OF comrades who had
borne alike the trials Of priyation, suf-
fering and defeat, and buttonlng up in
his ragged jacket the parole that was
to be to him and his children pass
port OF honor forever, he turned his
face southwark, whore happy homes
had rested meath tranquil skies-tc End
desolation and death everywhere.
With this pathetic introduction be
spoke with wisdom and power and his
words caught the minds and hearts Of
the North.
He again spoke in Boston In lss9,and