HENRY W. GRADY

Grady, a Georgian, prompted himself as a spokesman for the “New South” and while he did no advocate slavery and the brutality that had been inflicted on Southern Negroes, he was a strong white supremacist as this quotation demonstrates. He was only “liberal” compared with the total revanchist racists. However, when in the North he spoke kindly about the Negro. See Quotation 643652.

The South had been economically corrupted by slavery as there was very little industry ever developed in the South because there were few investments a man with capital might make that returned as much as a Plantation and slaves. Grady tried to raise the consciousness of Southernors with this brilliant piece of oratory. Despite his efforts, industrial progress in the South was very slow to develop. It would take two more generations to shake off the slavery mentality in the South and begin to develop industry.

This was part of his presentation to Northern influential business men showing them what he claimed was the New South. He was particularly complimentary about the negro Christian viewpoint that inhibited revenge or retaliation for their terrible treatment. The favorable lines about Negroes were well received by Northerners. However, they were mostly unaware of his racist views he expressed when in the South. See Quotation 643649.

He often spoke in the North to try and explain the virtues of the “New South” with an idea of diminishing the stigma the South has borne every since the founding of the nation. In this particular speech, His audience included J. P. Morgan and H. M. Flagler at New York’s Delmonico's Restaurant at a meeting of the New England Society of New York. He gave a picture of a middle class society, but the reality was there was a very small middle class in the South at that time. Most farmers were tenant farmers and didn’t even own their own land. And the 50 homes for every palace were far below the standard with which the North had become familiar.

Grady, representing what he called the New South pole kindly of Blacks in the North (See Quotation 643652), but gave his highly racist views to his Southern brethren—see Quotation 643649. He overtly in the North advocated liberty and the right to vote for Blacks (more than most Southerners at the time, but wanted the Federal role limited so that the enforcement of Black liberty and the voting franchise to be left to the States. And that is what occurred for the next half century. However, the state governments not only did not provide liberty and the voting franchise, the Southern States passed legislation and opted policies allowing KKK and other terror and intimidation so that Blacks would not exercise their rights to vote and be free. It is had to tell whether he was naive enough to believe that the Souther States would do what he claimed in the North or whether he not only realized what was likely to happen with the states in charge, but presented a moderate picture deliberately to keep the Federal government from interfering with the prerogative of the states to discriminate against Blacks. His racist views in his Southern speeches (for example, see quotation 643649) lead many to believe the latter view.

Grady, a Georgian, prompted himself as a spokesman for the “New South” and while he did no advocate slavery and the brutality that had been inflicted on Southern Negroes, he was a strong white supremacist as this quotation demonstrates. He was only “liberal” compared with the total revanchist racists. However, when in the North he spoke kindly about the Negro. See Quotation 643652.

The South had been economically corrupted by slavery as there was very little industry ever developed in the South because there were few investments a man with capital might make that returned as much as a Plantation and slaves. Grady tried to raise the consciousness of Southernors with this brilliant piece of oratory. Despite his efforts, industrial progress in the South was very slow to develop. It would take two more generations to shake off the slavery mentality in the South and begin to develop industry.

He often spoke in the North to try and explain the virtues of the “New South” with an idea of diminishing the stigma the South has borne every since the founding of the nation. In this particular speech, His audience included J. P. Morgan and H. M. Flagler at New York’s Delmonico's Restaurant at a meeting of the New England Society of New York. He gave a picture of a middle class society, but the reality was there was a very small middle class in the South at that time. Most farmers were tenant farmers and didn’t even own their own land. And the 50 homes for every palace were far below the standard with which the North had become familiar.

This was part of his presentation to Northern influential business men showing them what he claimed was the New South. He was particularly complimentary about the negro Christian viewpoint that inhibited revenge or retaliation for their terrible treatment. The favorable lines about Negroes were well received by Northerners. However, they were mostly unaware of his racist views he expressed when in the South. See Quotation 643649.

Grady, representing what he called the New South pole kindly of Blacks in the North (See Quotation 643652), but gave his highly racist views to his Southern brethren—see Quotation 643649. He overtly in the North advocated liberty and the right to vote for Blacks (more than most Southerners at the time, but wanted the Federal role limited so that the enforcement of Black liberty and the voting franchise to be left to the States. And that is what occurred for the next half century. However, the state governments not only did not provide liberty and the voting franchise, the Southern States passed legislation and opted policies allowing KKK and other terror and intimidation so that Blacks would not exercise their rights to vote and be free. It is had to tell whether he was naive enough to believe that the Souther States would do what he claimed in the North or whether he not only realized what was likely to happen with the states in charge, but presented a moderate picture deliberately to keep the Federal government from interfering with the prerogative of the states to discriminate against Blacks. His racist views in his Southern speeches (for example, see quotation 643649) lead many to believe the latter view.