New York Times Owners Descended from Slave-Holding Family, Published Pro-Lynching Articles Claiming ‘Republican Party Committed Great Public Crime’ When Giving Blacks The Right to Vote
The family who owns the New York Times were pro-Confederacy slave owners, and The National Pulse can today reveal the Times‘ fawning coverage of an anti-black vote conference with pro-lynching advocates in attendance. The paper’s headlines from the time declared: “NEGRO SUFFRAGE A FAILURE.”
Writing in the New York Post this weekend, columnist Michael Goodwin explained The New York Times, under the leadership of Arthur Ochs, published an editorial in 1900 saying the Democratic Party “may justly insist that the evils of negro suffrage were wantonly inflicted on them.” The Ochs-Sulzberger family still owns the paper, with Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr serving as its Chairman, and his son, A.G. Sulzberger serving as Publisher.
NEW REVELATIONS. Further investigation by The National Pulse reveals a far more horrific history of anti-black sentiment from the pages of the New York Times – the rag which maintains the original Ochs’s established strap line: “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” “The Political Future of the South,” lamented the “negro vote,” referring to the “horrors of negro rule,” and blasted Republicans for promoting and passing legislation that went onto become the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which states that “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” cannot be used to stop someone voting. “The Republican Party committed a great public crime when it gave the right of suffrage to the blacks,” the Times roared on page six, calling “barriers against negro suffrage” a consequence of “wiser counsel.”
One day prior, on May 9th 1900, the paper gave fawning coverage to the former Secretary of the Navy Hillary A. Herbert, who had convened a conference titled “The Race Problem.” Herbert, a Democrat who served under President Grover Cleveland, said at the time that the black vote had “brought weakness instead of strength,” and the New York Times cribbed his speech for the headline which blasted: “NEGRO SUFFRAGE A FAILURE.” “White men in every State have obtained control and they must keep it,” Herbert declared, adding: “Idleness amongst the negros is undoubtedly growing, and crime appears to be increasing.” Herbert went on, published in full and without criticism or context added by the Times.
CELEBRATION OF CONFEDERATES. In addition to this slew of anti-“negro” coverage, the Times published a profile of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on the 100th anniversary of his birth, defining him as the “the great Southern leader.” According to Goodwin, Adolph Ochs went further in his support for Confederate leaders by making large contributions to memorials such as the Stone Mountain Memorial in Georgia that celebrates Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson. The donation was particularly noteworthy as at a cost of $1000 (around $31,000 today), he could include his late mother’s name on the founders’ role of the memorial, along with a letter that stated “Robert E. Lee was her idol.” The letter was noted by historians in 2015, when Confederate flag tiles were spotted in the Subway station beneath Times Square. Ochs made clear his support for the South was not euphemistic. He said in an editorial, according to Civil War Times magazine: “I concede to no newspaper publisher in the South a more loyal, sincere, enthusiastic and industrious advocacy of the best interests, welfare and prosperity of the South than I have shown in the Chattanooga Times and The New York Times. I am confident that all to whom I am known will attest that the South, its interests and its welfare have been and are part of my religion and profession and hobby.” His mother, Bertha Levy Ochs, actively assisted the Confederacy throughout the civil war. She was caught smuggling medicine to citizens of the Confederacy by concealing them in a baby carriage. The commitment she had to the South was something she had gained from her uncle, John Mayer. Prior to the Civil War, it is believed Bertha lived with Mayer in Natchez until 1853.
ENRICHED BY SLAVERY.
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