Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-11-24
siass sssao S,s IsjIJasIS9 nss,l,Ys
TO Mrs. Granniss vile Ssiasdsr OF the
yyOmen OF tile SoNtll. sSEEs gag

s..EE ,sss,S.R, Ga, N3Ys5D, oar ID. -
| 10 tho $cditor of the Journal: /: "a friend
has sent mo b clipping from the Now
| York Herald, of late date, In which ap.
| pears g report Of an address made by
Mrs. Elizaoeth Graunis, of New, York
In Cooper Union, which took plaok one
night Of las tiveek. This woman ,,set the
audience wild'1 when she said ~: tsS. 81
| "1a am onl' nero tonight to represent
wOmanhood. Now we all know that the
white women and whito girls Of the
South nro full of colored blood - y "A
AT ibis q wild Gproar ensued. The
colored men and women jumped up IN
the aisles TO cheor. Many laughed and
Others mounted their seats and waved
their hats. Mrs. Grannis added "that In
her, opinion the churches should DO in
| saokcloth and ashes ovor the effects of
the raco war in the Southern States.n y
DR.. Parkhurst sent q letter of profound
sympathy with the meeting. Other let
tsT5 wore received from benjamin b.
Odell, Jr., candidate for United Statos
Senator, as | am informed,) Judge VIII
liam Oicott and E. NJ. Grant, president
of Brooklyn borough, to similar offeot.
Ihe colored oitizens' meeting was
called to protest against attacks on their
race In tho Carolinas, and it was loft to q
white woman of tho North to rise on this
platform and utter contumacious false
hood to arouse the Negroes TO the heigh {
Of demoniaoal fury. This woman knew
she was telling q wilful and vonomous
uatruth. She was there to play on tho
enco. She indirectly excused tho orime
that .precodos lynohing in tho South, on
the plea that "whito women and girls in
tho South are full of colored blood.", =.
The Now York Journal tlatly calls her
"liar." Sho aimed to rouso Violent
impulses in tho minds of the, Ignorant,
and wearing a white skin herself, she
was ready to send her own race down to
degradation to awaken tho vilost revenge
and violence in tho minds of tho black
mon aud women in that audience towards
tho white womon of tho South. It would
appear from hor presence at such timo
and place that sho has boon outlawed
from hor own race Qor somo reason yot
unexplaincd,) and took tho opportunity
afforded her in n negro assembly to OK
poso tho exceeding filth and falsohood of
hor own mental and moral anatomy.
The colored citizons of Now York arc
welcome to her, and tho whito womon OF
that city arc we'll rid of hor. Water
socks its Lowell and Mrs. elizabeth Gran
mis- has turned up in such company as
she should DO obliged to stay in, for tho
roliof of tho community ut largo.
She would not be tolerated in q col
ored citizens meeting in Georgia, with
such baso falsohood on her lips, and
to similar counsel rs that givon by Mrs.
GT"miiiS and company does the negro
owe much of his wOcs-both North and
South.
1t is discovered also, much to my sur
prise, that such mon as those mentioned
in Tho Herald's report, namely, Odell,
Parkhurst, Grant and WOlcott, arc hord-
ing with flock that should all wear the
samo badge of notoricty, without regard
to soX or color. 1t is moro than likoly
that these politicians and race 6isturbers
did not know that Mrs. Grannis would
DO thoro in the unblushing nudity of her
mind and mannors, and they arc probably
congratulating themselves that thoy
used postage stamp to communicate
with tho colorod citizens' meeting rather
than to risk handshake and an encore
for tho Grannis woman when she ever
lastingly dofilod her namo and family by
uttering what shO knew to be false, and
used tho lio for so base purpose.
IL is just such persons in our Northern
churches who arc "troublcrs in Israel"
If sho cannot DO promptly dismissed from
association with white people in any
other way, charges should bo proforrod
before tho Courts of Justice arraigning
hor as common falsificr and dangerous
to tho public peace. Perhaps she OBJ
tanned all she sought for in tho public
meeting, and l ask you to pass hcr
around i'll Southern newspapers, that sho
may obtain little moro of this notori-
GUS advertising. Mrs. w. II. FELTON.