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Henry W. Grady's speech "The New South," Harry Humphrey recites on Edison Blue Amberol 1656 (1912)

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Despite such achievements, Grady's New South was not universally accepted. Agrarian pundit Thomas E. Watson criticized Grady for allegedly submitting Georgia to northern interests and oppressing farmers. 
With his New South platform, Henry W. Grady advocated unity and trust between the North and South and helped to spur northern investment in Atlanta industries.
Henry W. Grady
Farmers likewise ignored Grady's advice to raise other crops alongside cotton for additional revenue and higher cotton prices. Grady also struggled to portray a benign racial climate for northerners interested in southern industrial investment but troubled by the region's oppressive racial order. In numerous Constitution editorials Grady claimed that African Americans enjoyed "fair treatment" in Georgia and throughout the South. Though such rhetoric pleased white southern readers, few northern reformers looked past the region's record of black disenfranchisement, exploitation, and violence.

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With the Atlanta Ring's influence in Georgia politics firmly established, Grady turned his attention toward promoting the city's economic development. Invited to speak at the 1886 meeting of the New England Society in New York City, Grady preached the promises of a New South. Though the idea was not original with Grady, his advocacy of unity and trust between the North and South helped to spur northern investment in Atlanta industries.

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As managing editor Grady quickly turned the Constitution into a platform for endorsing his own political views. He wrote in support of antiliquor laws, the construction of a new library, and care for Confederate veterans. Between 1880 and 1886 the Constitution also became the primary instrument of the Atlanta Ring, a loosely connected group of urban, proindustry Democrats that included Howell and Grady. Grady became the group's leader and dominant political force, helping to arrange the legislature's election of a fellow Ring member, Joseph E. Brown, to the U.S. Senate in 1880.

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Early Life and Career
Henry Woodfin Grady was born on May 24, 1850, in Athens. His father, William S. Grady, 
Atlantan Henry Grady, a prominent orator and editor of the Atlanta Constitution, heralded the coming of the New South after the end of the Civil War.
Henry W. Grady
a successful merchant who served as a major in the Confederate army during the Civil War (1861-65), died in the fall of 1864 from wounds received at the siege of Petersburg, Virginia. Brought up after his father's death by his mother, Anne Gartrell Grady, young Grady showed talent as a writer and debater. After graduating from the University of Georgia, he briefly studied literature and history at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville before returning to Georgia in 1869 to pursue a career in journalism.

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Henry W. Grady, the "Spokesman of the New South," served as managing editor for the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s. A member of the Atlanta Ring of Democratic political leaders, Grady used his office and influence to promote a New South program of northern investment, southern industrial growth, diversified farming, and white supremacy. Grady County, created in 1905, is named in his honor, as is Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.