Resumen de Henry Grady's new south: a rebuttal from Charleston
Following the suggestion of historian George Brown Tindall, Waldo Braden and his students began in the early 1960's an examination of the role of myth in Southern oratory. This paper takes another look at mythmaking in the formative years of the New South movement. The subject of this study is Francis Warrington Dawson, editor of the influential Charleston News and Courier and a contemporary critic of Henry Grady. Dawson was neither an Old South romantic nor an agrarian firebrand. His importance as a critic of Grady lies in his reputation as a major architect of the New South creed. Dawson's attack on Henry Grady's “New South” speech offers the student of public address a chance to re‐examine the myths which underlay Grady's famous oration.
