The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-13
MRS. GRANNlS DENIES IT,
SAYS Tl1NT SHE DID NOT SI.ANDIK
lliE WOMEN OT TIE SOUTH
IL Was tha Work OF Mnlicloun Reporters
On tn" New York H"rnld ana World
Card From Mrs. tlrnmu7s.

Editor Of Columbia Record II un-
dorstand that Mrs. Folton's paper on
the undersigned Was published in
your paper, among many othors in
tho South. Kindly do mo the justice
to publish my reply:
have experienced real distress
over tho success of "smart" report
or in getting INTO the World end
Herald Of Now York his squib re-
tlcctng upon the white women of
tho South, using mo as scape goat.
1t is really m 81 distressing fact
that AIoorican journalism is 80 ready
to shake tho rod flag in the face of
o,ity already excited, and to fan
tho flame when OWL public passions
aro ut their hcight. | send you q
paragraph from tho Now York -Hes-.
aid, which | should bo glad to have
you copy:
"Elizubeth B. GruDnis says sho
was misquotod in tho newspaper ac-
{ ,nnts of hor address at tho co!ored
mass meeting in Cooper Union. Her
uttorances, sho says, after having
boon perverted, have caused wdo
commont in tho South. Mrs. Gran
mis- says she has mover soen Il white
woman in the South with n tinge of
negro blood in her veins. Out Of the
5000 persons present in Cooper
Union, she says, sho doubts whether
any unprcjudicod one could be found
who could construe q sentiment she
uttered M agrooing with tho pub
lishcd account. Mrs. Grunnis says:
4 have mover heard Of white womon
being full of negro blood.'"
Right minded pooplo Of tho South
aro SO very near kin to tho right
minded editors Of tho North, that |
have faith to bollove that you will be
glad of an opportunity to free tho
minds of your readers from any fu-
riOus fcrociOusncss toward an earnest,
sincere Northern woman. My record
will provo that L have served the
prosecuted, whether Hebrow, Irish,
, Chinese or any other nationality op-
pressed by tho stronger or moro pow
, erfnl. lnasmuch, my dear sir, as I
believe myself to have received from
no lesser one than tho Rodeemer of
: tho world tho con nission to go out
f with every othcr lowly Christian
seeking and trying to save tho lost,
| can truthfuIly say that have not
felt ono angry sentiment ut any Of
tho anonymous ]ottors or those from
/. the chivalrous gontry OF tho South,
r toominG with obsceI.e opithcts heapod
:, upon mo for tho reckless statement Of
n young malo reporter, who only cx-
hibited tho hoinons race prejudice in
: writing tho paragraph to which [ re-
n fer, and which he in all probability
It handed to two other reporters. Pos
|, sIbly the Young man feels salts
faction similar to that Of any assassin
led by prejudice to commit so das-
@ tardly Il decd.
y Tho white women Of the South who
"a arc my friends and know mo person
ally would no sooner credit mo with
- such Il statement than would the
members Of my own church, home
NJ or Of my family. | was shocked a
ic the paragraph in tho daily papers O
9. my own city, lest some strangers an,
ST somo who know me personally shoult
believe mo to have been go unjust t
y innocent and cha3to wOmanhOod
III Poor Mrs. FELTON,, should be just a
is glad to moot and strive to convnc
20 her of my Christlike spirit toward
- - her and her sisters in tho South as
y she felt kindly towards me.
o. Faithfully yours,
t- ELIZABE I'll Nj. GRANNIs.
gs Now York, Nov. %.