The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-30
L.orER WASHINGTON
.,,rp CoLORED ORATOR
..nosTLE OF INDUSTRY
x.,, Friday Mt the Audit
\ W." some Magnificent
:" Inducements.

~ to speak mere !" ~. .,,,,,,,.
stated that he will make public
- :, no places other than at Prai-
~ md at Houston, although in
y. have been sent asking 4 series OF
!, galveston, Dallas, Tort Worth
!, Antonio. But the demand Ter his
Il so large that he has been
\ . limit the number TO keep his
eli intact
v,.sIug,on is one of the noted
~ today in Boston at the Decoration
,,.,cI.e, and from there he takes the
lnmsdiately for Texas, arriving in
,r these two addresses. Every as
j, ran be given that those who attend
s,nre will be fully repaid for the
"a means extended in doing so.
V,shIncton's powers of oratory can
..,dsd % BY Professor sutton, super
g,t Of Housion's city schools, and
M citizens of the State who have had
-n,,nity TO hear him. The best trib-
nscsh, perhaps to his genius as an
-, contributed by James Creolman.
I'D correspondent, who wrote to the
yvk World as follows, respecting
MT speech delivered by him at the
N, Of the Cotton States and Inter
ssll EXPOSITION, at Atlanta, Ga, Sep
Ia Il. 1885
Mn President Cleveland was waiting
nv Gables today to send the electric
bat started the machinery of the
In EXPOSITION, negro Moses stood |
IL geat audience of white people and |
had an Grafton that marks new |
4 IN the history OF the South, ard n
negro troops marched In pro-
Il, with the citizen soldiery of Geor-
ID louisiana. The whole city tonight
eiling with realization of the eN-
e,itEy significance of these two un-
s.saied events. Nothing has happened
Henry Grady's immortal speech be
be New England society In New York
,tlca'es so profoundly ,he spirit Of
Wv South. except. perhaps, the open
sMe Exposition itself
I'm Professor Booker +. Washington
ta Of an Industrial school for col
pCple in Tuskesec. Ala, stood on the
i-r o. the Auditorium. with the sun
is ever the heads of his hearers into
"a, and his whole face III, up with the
4 prophecy, Clark Howell. the sue
~ Henry w. Grady. said to me:
mas speech is the beginning of Il
nYoluton in America 1t is the first
'M' anegro mas made a speech in the {
o. any important occasion before
saelre composed OF white men and
10 II Electrified the audience and tho
siM va y
y Thompson had scarcely taken her
wen al eyes were turned on a rail.
Rm sitting IN the front row Of
aas'M' 1t was Professor Rocker r.
1Iaa, who must rank from this time
AE foremost man of his race in
~ Glnore's band played the star
na Banner and the audience +
ID tune changed to Dixie
y Esrce reared with shrill hi {
sMa n music changed 10 Yankee |
w ie clamor lessened. !
as .lae the eyes Of the thousands I
Masn' at the negro orator. a
y a'as was to happen, A black man
~, ~ w y Ter his people, with none to I
w MN. As Professor Washington {
Msara to the edge of fine stage
" descending sun shot f,erv ravs T.
q the windows into bis Taco i
a'H greeted him. He turned his
aivNd the blindmg lirht and moved n
~ Platform for relief Thon he :,
Us wonderful countananco In tho {
IN a blink of the cyelids and
sak. .
y vas remarkable figure; tall !;
, rata' as Sioux chief. high fore ;
a,,sal nose heavy Jaws and strong. 4,
~ mouth, With big white tceth
va and a commanding manner
sNod out on his hrouzod neck
saSuiar right arm swunp HIN in v
na lead pencil grasped in the u
Nvwt fist. His big feet were v
auarely, with The heels together
@s turned out. His voica rsns
Md true. and he nausea ~ ;,,,,' 'a"7
re made each poin, Wi,bIn va, ,s S
lae multitude was in an ,'n mnro mn
,ssssn-handkerchiefs " r,a al ,'.p,'na !,
d ~ T,'0uf1shed, hats were tossed In
!, -, -, fairest women of Georgia
ha sneered. II was as if the
M n * ssewitched them. u
N.Y., n, When he held his dnslv hand
NV, as mead. with fingers stretched
~ e., and said to the white nnnnla
sa'a on behalf of hi,. r races p''p Pm
s,. mat are purely social We can
sNs'e as the fingers O, vet M ouo can an
m all things essential ~ u n,u
Tho srea, wave Of sound So NJ , dashad
n. the walls, and the Whale Je'n au
%oa its feet in n de eir wnole au- te
4, thought at that ', ,nn,no Oh ap 81
"a, 'asn Henry GRADY !" stood ,,,oiHs s,nrG o.
,ae curling wrea,b s'9 or ,S stann, ju
|lsa seri@ asos banquet hall and
k.ss be.s,ds yalier among Roundheads.' NJ
but not even GI oh,ora OF h, many AZ
~ pleaded cause ~ Yvi,h ,, himself ca
.sFsr than did this 'a ar more cen te
'I la Ia nlmbus Of oT's IA, angular ne OF
w the men Who o nnosn NM sur,
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