The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-01-10
COL. t) BLATHERsKITE SHEPARD
Wants to Write Grady's Epitaph.

= Wants to Write Grady's Epitaph,
lS What he would not say if he
only had a chance tosay anything:
: In the N Y. Mail Dc Erpress, a few
days ago, Col. Elliott +. Shepard
announced that he would give $500
:. toward a monument tn Henry w.
Grady, the late editor of the At.
lanta Constitution, which should be
al carved ur0n the stone.
A Sun reporter asked Col. Shep.
ard The other day just what in
- scrlptlon The Colonel would write
upon Editor Grady'S monument If
ne were allowed to do so. 1t was
New Years Day, and Col. Shep.
ard was at home, suffering from a
slight attack of the grip.
The Colonel stated that he had
made his offer in dead n &"
have not thought exactly what in {
scrIpllon would write" said Col. |
Shepard. 81 only had in mind ,
some general ideas on the subject. !,
The inscription that | would write |
would be as remarkable for what
1t did not contain as for what did Il
contain. You see my idea Is INST h
thls think Mr.. Grady was a man a
who had a much more c~omprehen- =
slve view of the situation ofthiucs
at the South than almost n 9th :,
er man there. AT heart he wanted q,
to make his people more generous ~
and less resentful-an almost i'm CT
possible task. lie would come up w W
North here every now and chem 70
and get a great breath of our grand d.
Tree air and see our noble institn- sr
TONS, and would make some such 81
~utterances as that at the New Eng ~,
land or in his speech in Boston pai'
Just before he died. Then what e;
would happen He would 90 back W. W,
to Atlanta and be disciplined, sir. Pn
Yes, sir, disciplined. He would Dl
be would be warned by the South.
erners-as he was warned time and
agaln-that ii he went on saving in
such things, and did not repent Of III,
what he bad said, that the doom
oStraclSm would be pronounced we
him. The consequences sui
vas that Mr.. Grady, noble as he wo
al heart, yielded, and he wrote -
many editorials in the Atlanta aV
constitution which did not look chi
much as if they were written by beo
Grady who made the speeches ~.
~ here IN the North. So / say ms
would like to write the Inscription thre
n Henry w. Grady's monument. side
nave IN my heart many things Dem
'hlch | should like to express ~
lere. would not write ANYTHING to p
lai would offend anybody, though the
might leave many things unsaid. for
would willingly pay $500 for this 'oi'
1viIege. Would like TO write new
e inscription on Jefferson DAVIS plen
onument. Yes, | would like to, ask
II l W9uId not pay for the prlvil- s;5o,
e OF doing sou. Y. San. SIDES
introduced Col. Shepard, of a lit
New York Mail and Erpress. the c
netlme ago TO our readers in the the "
e OF a villitier of the South in
address to The National Press is %
ISOLATION in Detroit, and we are persc
Fy to say that the Colonel has moth
improved either in manners or and
rails since that time. OF ms
As a perennial crank he is a tion =
nc and lasting success, as is IT,
ven by his offer of $500 for the
'llege OF writing an inscription
The monument of Henry w. nave
DIV. The money bo og.n, and Sc
badly some of tn crumbs which IL seel
as %Son-in-law to Vanderbilt, has IN mu.
ed up under the rich MANS phere
and The brain he proposes to the co
is the special hereditary gettin!
cy left by the illustrious fami.
ohepards TO this degenerate NEAl
of a-cun. packin
d. Shepard can keep his money balIim
his brains for other uses, as he Biloxi,
not be allowed IN o.soa;an them
r with the name of Henry w. nave re
y, and thus gain fame by the IN thos
which is impossible crease
'ut 1t, for Col. Shepard is am the wat
small porato ond WOO defectl,
lad to believe there arc vorv the paC
f his sort in the hill ho canao where t
and pro
ei'oh DAVIS n Hen The C
. lazy are forgotten, Col. in New
1p"iu VIII De remem- ruary II
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