The Augusta Courier

Man Who Breathed Life Into Atlanta Constitution Warned Against Mixing Races

Henry W. Grady, one of the founders and builders of the Atlanta Constitution, and the apostle of the new South in the period following the Civil War, spoke the sentiments and the determination of the white people of the South when he said,

"The white race must dominate forever in the South."

That was the sentiment and the determination of the white people of the South then and it is the sentiment and the determination of the white people of the South now.

Grady made this statement in a speech delivered at the Dallas, Texas, State Fair on October 26, 1887 and this paper's authority for the statement is taken from the book written by Joel Chandler Harris entitled "Henry W. Grady-His Life, Writings and Speeches".

In this speech, Grady declared "The races' and tribes of the earth are of Divine origin. Behind the laws of man and the decrees of war, stands the law of God."

And with thundering eloquence, Grady said:

"Let not man tinker with the work of the Almighty".

In this connection and in this speech, Grady said:

"One thing further should be said in perfect frankness. Up to this point we have dealt with ignorance and corruption-but behind this point a deeper issue confronts us. Ignorance may struggle to enlightenment, out of corruption may come the incorruptible. God speed the day when-every true man will work and pray for its coming-the negro must be led to know through sympathy to confess that his interests and the interests of the people of the South are identical. The men who, from afar off, view this subject through the cold eye of speculation or see it distorted through partisan glasses, insist that, directly or indirectly, the negro race shall be in control of the affairs of the South. We have no fears of this; already we are attaching to us the best elements of that race, and as we proceed our alliance will broaden; external pressure but irritates and impedes. Those who would put the negro race in supremacy would work against infallible decree, for THE WHITE RACE CAN NEVER SUBMIT TO ITS DOMINATION, BECAUSE THE WHITE RACE IS THE SUPERIOR RACE. BUT THE SUPREMACY OF THE WHITE RACE OF THE SOUTH MUST BE MAINTAINED FOREVER, AND THE DOMINATION OF THE NEGRO RACE RESISTED AT ALL POINTS AND AT ALL HAZARDS-BECAUSE THE WHITE RACE IS THE SU-

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PERIOR RACE. THIS IS THE DECLARATION OF NO NEW TRUTH. IT HAS ABIDED FOREVER IN THE MARROW OF OUR BONES, AND SHALL RUN FOREVER WITH THE BLOOD THAT FEEDS ANGLO-SAXON HEARTS.

"In political compliance the South has evaded the truth, and men have drifted from their convictions. But we cannot escape this issue. It faces us wherever we turn. It is an issue that has been, and will be. THE RACES AND TRIBES OF EARTH ARE OF DIVINE ORIGIN. BEHIND THE LAWS OF MAN AND THE DECREES OF WAR, STANDS THE LAW OF GOD. WHAT GOD HATH SEPARATED LET NO MAN JOIN TOGETHER.

The Indian, the Malay, the Negro, the Caucasian, these types stand as markers of God's Will. LET NO MAN TINKER WITH THE WORK OF THE ALMIGHTY.

Unity of civilization, no more than unity of faith, will ever be witnessed on earth. NO RACE HAS RISEN, OR WILL RISE, ABOVE ITS ORDAINED PLACE. Here is the pivotal fact of this great matter-two races are made equal in law, and in political rights, between whom the caste of race has set an impassable gulf. This gulf is bridged by a statute, and the races are urged to cross thereon. THIS CANNOT BE. The fiat of the Almighty has gone forth, and in 18 centuries of history it is written. We would escape this issue if we could. From the depths of its soul the South invokes from heaven 'peace on earth, and good will to man.' She would not, if she could, cast this race back into the condition from which it was righteously raised. She would not deny its smallest or abridge its fullest privilege. Not to lift this burden forever from her people, would she do the least of these things. She must walk through the valley of the shadow, for God has so ordained. But He has ordained that she shall walk in that integrity of race, that created in His wisdom has been perpetuated in His strength. STANDING IN THE PRESENCE OF THIS MULTITUDE, SOBERED WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MESSAGE I DELIVER TO THE YOUNG MEN OF THE SOUTH, I DECLARE THAT THE TRUTH ABOVE ALL OTHERS TO BE WORK UNSULLIED AND SACRED IN YOUR HEARTS, TO BE SURRENDERED TO NO FORCE, SOLD FOR NO PRICE, COMPRISED IN NO NECESSITY, BUT CHERISHED AND DEFENDED AS THE COVENANT OF YOUR PROSPERITY, AND THE PLEDGE OF PEACE TO YOUR CHILDREN, IS THAT THE WHITE RACE MUST DOMINATE FOREVER IN THE SOUTH, BECAUSE IT IS THE WHITE RACE, AND SUPERIOR TO THAT RACE BY WHICH ITS SUPREMACY IS THREATENED.

"It is a race issue. Let us come to this point, and stand here. Here the air is pure and the light is clear, and here honor and peace abide. Juggling and evasion deceives not a man. Compromise and subservience has carried not a point. There is not a white man North or South who does not feel it stir in the gray matter of his brain and throb in his heart. Not a Negro who does not feel its power. It is not a sectional issue. It speaks in Ohio and in Georgia. It speaks wherever the Anglo-Saxon touches an alien race. It has just spoken in universally approved legislation in excluding the Chinaman from our gates, not for his ignorance, vice or corruption, but because he sought to establish an inferior race in a republic fashioned in the wisdom and defended by the glory of a homogeneous people.

"The Anglo-Saxon blood has dominated always and everywhere. It fed Alfred when he wrote the charter of English liberty: it gathered about Hampden as he stood beneath the oak; it thundered in Cromwell's veins as he fought his king; it humbled Napoleon at Waterloo; it has touched the desert and jungle with undying glory; it carried the drumbeat of England around the world and spread on every continent the gospel of liberty and of God; it established this republic, carved it from the wilderness, conquered it from the Indians, wrested it from England, and at last, stilling its own tumult, consecrated it forever as the home of the Anglo-Saxon, and the theater of his transcending achievement. Never one foot of it can be surrendered while that blood lives in American veins, and feeds American hearts, to the domination of an alien and inferior race."