The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-01-09
GRADY,s BRILLIANT WORKS.
somo Sections From his Most Famous
Speeches.
From his New England banquet

From his New England banquet
speech:
'This is said in no spirit of time serving
OF apology. The South has nothing for
which to apologize. She believes that
the late struggle betusen the States was
war and not rebellion, revolution and not
conspiracy, and thather convictions were
as honest as yours. Ishould be unjust to
the dauntless spirit Of the South and to
my own convictions if I did not make
this plain in this presence. Tho South
has nothing to take back. In my native
town Of Athens is q monument that
crowns its central hifls-a plain, white
shaft Deep cut into it's shining side is
a name dear to me above the names of
men, that of brave and simple man
who died in brave and simple faith.
Not for all the glories Of New England
from Plymouth Rock all the way-would
I exchange the heritage he left me- in his
soldiers death. To the foot of that shaft
I shall send my children's children to
reverence him who ennobled their name
with his heroic blood. But, sir, speaking
from the shadow of that memory, which
I honor as do nothing else on earth, I
say that the cause in which he suffered
and for which he gave his life, was
adjudged by higher and fuller wisdom
than his or mine, and I am glad that the
omniscient God held the balance Of
battle in His Almighty hand, and that
human slavery was swept forever from
American soil-the American Union
saved from the wreck of war" Loud
applause.
"Now, what answer has New England
to this message? Will she permit the
prejudice Of var to remain in the hearts
of the conquerers, when it has died in
the hearts of the conquered2 Cries of
No Nor Will she transmit this
prejudice to the next generation, that in
their hearts, which have never felt the
generous arder of conflict, it may perpet.
uate itself? MOI No! Will she
withhold, save in strained courtesy, the
hand which, straight from his soldiers
heart, Grant offered to Lee at Appomat.
tox? Will she make the vision of a
restored and happy people which gather
ed above the couch ofyour dying captain,
filing his heart with grace, touching his
lips with praise and glorifying his path
to the grave; will she make this vision
on which the last sign of his expiring
soul breathed q benediction, a cheat and
a delusion? [Tumultuous cheering and
shouts of'Nol Nopl If she does the
South, never abject in asking for COM
radeship, must accept with dignity its
refusal; but if she does not; if she &C.
cepts in frankness and sincerity this
message of good will and friendship. then
will the prophecy of Webster, delivered
in this very society forty years ago amid
tremendous applause, be verified in its
fullest and final sense, when he said:
Standing hand to hand and clasping
hands, ne should remain united as ne
have been for sixty years, citizens of the
same country, members Of the same
government, united, all united now and
united forever. There have been diff.
culties, contentious, and controversies,
but I tell you that in my judgment,
Those opposed eyes
Which like the meteors of troubled heaven,
AL Of one nature, Of one substance bred,
Did lately meet In the intestine shock,
Shnll now, in mutual well beseeming ranks,
March all one way"
Prolonged applause.
An Arraignment OF Liquor.
Here is the way he arraigned liquor
at one of the prohibition meetings in
Atlanta in 1887:
"My friends, hesitate before you vote
liquor back into Atlanta, now that it is
shut out. Don't trust it. It is powerful,
aggressive and universal in its attacks.
To. night it enters an humble home to
strike the roses from woman's cheek, and
tomorrow it challenges this republic in
the halls of Congress. To day it strikes
crust from the lips of a starving child,
and tomorrow levies tribute from the
government itself There is no cottage
in this city humble enough to escape it.
no palace strong enough to shut it out.
1t deGes the law when it cannot coerce
suffrage. 1t is aexi:5!e to cajole, but
merciless in victory. 1t is the mortal
enemy of peace and order. The despoiler
of men, the terror Of women, the cloud
that shadows the face Of children, the
demon that has dug more graves and sent
more souls unshrined to judgment than
all the pestilences that have wasted life
since God sent the plaques to Egypt, and
all the wars that have defeated since
Joshua stood beyond Jericho. Oh, my
countrymen, loving God and humanity,
do not bring this grand old city again
under the dominion of that power. 1t
can profit no man by its return. 1t eau
uplift no industry, revive no interest,
remedy no wrong. You knew; you
know thatit cannot. 1t comes to destroy,
and it shall profit mainly by the ruin Of
your SONS or mine. 1t comes to mislead
human souls and to crush human hearts
under its rumbling wheels. 1t comes to
bring grey haired mothers down in shame
and sorrow to their graves. 1t comes to
destroy the wife's love into despair and
her pride into shame. 1t comes to still
the laughter on the lips of little children
It comes to stiAe all the music of the
home and fill it with silence and deBola.