Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-02-24


ment of it all for beneticent and right
eOus purposes.
Again, l remark that Henry w.
Grady stood for Christian patriotism
irrespective of political spoils. He
declined all official reward. He could
have been governor of Georgia, but
refused it. He could have been sena-
tor of the United States, but declined
it. He remained plain Mr.. Grady.
Nearly all the other orators of the pc
Itical arena, as soon as the elections
are over, 90 to Washington, or AL
bany, or Harrisburg, or Atlanta, to
get in city or state or national office
reward for their services, and not get
ting what they want spend the rest of
the time of that administration IN
pouting about the management of pub
lie affairs or cursing Harrison or Cleve-
land. When the great political cam
paigns were over Mr. Grady went
strated that it is possible to
toll for principles which he
thought to be right, simply because
they were right. Christian patriotism
is too rare a commodity in this coun-
try. Surely the joy of living under
such free institutions as those estab-
lished here ought to be enough reward
for political fidelity. Among all the
great writer's that stood at the last
presidential election on Democratic
and Repu blican platforms, you cannot
recall III your mind ten VINO were not
themselves looking for remunerative
appointments. Aye, you can count
them all on the fingers of one hand.
The most illustrious specimen of that
style of man for the last ten years was
Henry w. Grady.
Again, Mr.. Grady stood for the new
south and was just what we want to
meet three other men, one to speak for
the new north, another for the new
east and another for the new west.
The bravest speech made for the last
quarter of a century was that made by
Mr.. Grady at the New England dinner
in New York about two or three years
ago. / sat with him that evening and
know something of his anxieties, for he
was to tread on dangerous ground and
might by one misspoken word have
antagonized forever both sections. His
speech was victory that thrilled all
of us who heard him and all who read
him. That speech, great for wisdom,
great for kindness, great for pacifica-
ton, great for bravery, will go down
to the generations with Webster's
speech at Bunker Hill. William Wirt's
speech at the arraignment of Aaron
Burr, Edmund Burke's speech on
Warren Hastings, Robert Emmet's
speech for his own vindication.
LET US BURY SECTIONALISM
Who will in conspicuous action rep
resent the new north as he did the new
south? Who shall come forth for the
new east and who for the new west9
Let old political issues be buried, let
old grudges die. Let new theories be
launched With the coming in of a
new nation at the gates at Castle Gar
den every year, and the wheat bin and
every harvest, and vast multitude of
acy to be educated, and moral ques-
tons abroad involving the very exist
ence of our republic, let the old politi-
cal platforms that are worm eaten be
dropped and platforms that shall be
made of two planks, the one the Ten
Commandments and the other the Ser
mon on the Mount, lifted for all of US
to stand on. But there is a lot of old
politicians grumbling all around the
sky who don't want new south, a
new north, a new east or a new west.
They have some old war speeches
that they prepared in 1861, that in all
our autumnal elections they feel called
upon to infiict upon the country.
They growl louder and louder in pro
portion as they are pushed back fur
Their and further and the Henry w. !
Gradys come to the front. But the !
mandate, l think, has gone forth from |
the throne of God that a new Ameri- |
can nation shall take the place of the |
old and the new has been baptized for
God and liberty and justice and peace |
and morality and religion.
And now our much lamented friend |
has gone to give account. Suddenly |
the-facile and potent pen is laid down !
and the eloquent tongue is silent. |
What? Is there no safeguard against /
fatal diseasel The impersonation of /
stout health was Mr. Grady What /
cOmpactness of muscle! What ruddy |
complexion! What flashing eye! |
Standing with him in a group of |
twenty or thirty persons at Piedmont, |
he looked the healthiest, as his spirits /
were the blithest. Shall we never
feel again the hearty grasp of his |
hand or be magnetized with his elo-
quence? Men of the great roll, men
of the pen, men of wit, men of power
if our friend had to go when the call
came, SO must you when your call
comes. When God asks you what
have you done with your pen or yOur
elOquence or your wealth or your
social position, will you be able to give
satisfactory answer? What have we
been writing all these years? If mirth,
has it been innocent mirth, or that
which tears and stings and lacerates9
From our pen have there come forth
productions healthy or poisonous? In
the last great day when the warrior
must give account of what he has done
with his sword, and the merchant
what he has done with his yard stick,
and the mason what he has done with
his trowel, and the artist what he has
done with his pencil, we shall have to
give account of what we have done
with our pen. There are gold pens
and diamond pens and pens of eXqui-
site manufacture, and every few weeks
| see some new kind of pen, each said
to be better than the other; but In the
great day of our arraignment before
the Judge of quick and dead that will
be the most beautiful pen, whether
gold or steel or quill which never
wrote a prOfane or unclean or cruel
word, or which from the day it was
carved, or split at the nib, dropped
from its point kindness and encourage
ment and help and gratitude to God
-, :, -.-I;;c;:;, elton Tor man.
May God comfort that torn up
southern home and all the homes of
this country and of all the world
which have been swept by this plague
of influenza, which has deepened some
times into pneumonia and sometimes
into typhus and the victims of which
are counted by the ten thousand! Sa-
tan, who is the 'Prince of the Power
of the Air." has been poisoning the at
in all nations. Though it is
the first time in our remembrance, he
has done the same thing before. In
1896 the unwholesome air of Cairo,
Egypt, destroyed the life of ten thou
sand in one day, and in Constantine
pie in IVA three hundred thousand
people died of it. I am glad that by
the better sanitation of our cities and
wider understanding of hygienic laws
and the greater skill of physicians
these Apollyonic assaults upon the
human race are being resisted, but
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