The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-03-30
GRADY AGAINST INGALLS,.
THE ELOQUENT SOUTHERNER RE
PLIES TO INGALLS, ATTACK.
Nv hen Greek Meets Greek. Then Comes |
the Tug OF War''.-SOmethiny More of |
the Kansas Halter.

-.When Greek Meets Greek. Then Comes
the Tug OF War''--Somethiny More of
the Kansas Halter.
The CHRONICLE is rather late in publish
ing he reply Of Mr.. Henry W. Grady to
the attack made upon him by Senator In
gals, but as it has not been published in
North Carolina, and as it bears directly
upon the Sectional and Bloody Shirt issue
rendered by Senator Ingalls, for his party
~ the Democrats. and by them accepted,
il is of sufficient interest to demand
space in the CHRONICLE. We desire to
show to the voters of North Carolina
the malignant hate of the Radical party
toward the South, as voiced by Sen
ator Ingalls,, the official head of that
party. Not content with imposing heavy
taxes TO pension Federal soldiers, Senator
Ingalls, and his party continue to charge
Southern men with lack of loyalty to the
Union and with making false professions.
In his recent speech, most of which was
published in the CHRONICLE, Senator In
gals undertook to prove his charge that
Southern men have two faces by quoting
from two speeches made by the eloquent
Henry Grady, editor of the Atlanta Con-
stituton. Mr. Grady has replied to Sena
tor ingalls,. The charge contains some
choice extracts of eloquent words from
Mr.. Gradys speeches, and his reply is so
excellent, that we give our readers the
charge and the reply in full:
Senator Ingalls, VS.. Grady.
But am not quite through with this as
pect Of the question yet. [Insincerity of
the professions of loyalty by ex-Confeder-
ates In 1886, on the first day of May of
that year, less than two years ago, there
was in the city OF Atlanta, in Georgia, a
great historic occasion. A statue to one of
our former associates in this body was to
be unveiled. man whom | honored, and
whom we all respected. Upon that occa-
sion the venerable ex-President of the
Confederacy was invited to be present. 1t
was day that never will be forgotten in
the annals of the South. They flocked to
that city as men go to banquet or as
doves flock to their widows. They
Came as the winds come, when
Forests are rended;
Came as the waves come, when
NavleS are stranded.
The city was decorated with the Con
federate emblem brought out to make a
Confederate holiday, and an orator was
selected to give voice to the sentiments of
the inhabitants of the lost Confederacy
not in 1866, but in 1886, twenty years
after the surrender at Appomattox. and
twenty years after we had been told that
the South in good faith had accepted the
results of the war, and desired to come in
under the old flag and obtain the neces-
sary appropriations.
have the oration delivered by the
speaker upon that occasion, not garbled
and mutilated extract printed in North
ern paper. but the corrected copy printed
ia the paper that the orator himself edits,
believe. Henry W Grady was the Speak
er.-ED Therefore it is entitled to cred
euce. it is authentic and authoritative.
II may be, perhaps, instructive and enter
tanning, in view of what we hear about
the reconstruction of the South, their re
pentance, their destre TO cooperate with
the North in accomplishing the great re-
suits of our destiny under the Constitu
ton of the Union, to hear what he says;
and at the risk of trespassing upon your
patience | will, with as little abbreviation
as | can, repeat the GRAFTON delivered on
that occasion. As | said, it was to unveil
monument TO Benjamin Harvey Hill.
The orator said
Had the great man whose memory is
perpetuated in this marble, chosen Of all
men who witness to his constanCy and his
courage, he would have chosen the honor
able statesman whose presence hOnOrs
this platform to-day. Had the people of
Georgia chosen of all men one man to-day
to aid in this sacred duty, and, by the
memories that invest him about, to give
deeper sanctity to their work, they would
have chosen jefferson Davis first and last
President of the Confederate States"
| DO not blame him for that, Mr.. Presi-
dent | can understand it; in certain
L 49, h0 -h.,t
| believe were the honest, truthful and
courageous sentiments of his heart, as |
believe the Senator from Kentucky and
the Senator from Missouri have done in
this debate
1T is good, sir
He continued
turning to Mr.. Davis for you to be here
Other leaders have had their triumphs
Conquerors have won crowns, and honors
have been piled on the victors of earth S
great battles; but never yet, sir, came
man TO more loving people Never con-
q1erOr wore prouder dladem than the
deathless love that crowns your gray hairs
to-day. Never king inhabited more splendid
palace than the millions of brave hearts to
which your dear name and fame are for
ever enshrined. Speaking to you, sir, as
the son of a Confederate soldier who
sealed his devotion with his life-noldlng
hluahlp through the priceless heritage OF
his blood to you and yours standing
midway between the thinning ranks of his
old comrades, whose falterlng footsteps
are turned toward the grave, and the new
generation thronging eagerly to take the
work that falls unfinished from their
hands here in the auspicious present, across
which the historic past salutes glorious
future, let me pledge you that the love we
bear you shall be transmitted to our chill
dren and our childrens children, and that
generations yet unborn shall in this fair
and hold your memory sacred and point
With pride to your lofty and stainless life
My countryfnen-
He continued
turning to the crowd let us US teach the
lesson in this old mans life, that defeat
aath its glories nc less than victory. Let
as declare that this Outcast from the
privileges Of this great government IS the
uncrowned king Of our people, and that
no Southern man, high or humble, asks
greater glory than to bear with him heart
70 heart the blame and the burden of the
cause for which he stands unpardoned
IA dignity and honor he met the response
f,tlit of- INIT