Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-01-02

saw only evil in the system. Grady
may not have advanced to that position
where he was willing to concede to the
colored man the same rights that the
white man enjoyed, yet he rejoiced in
the prosperity of the colored man and
was willing to do all in his power to help
educate and make worthy citizen of
him. Had suffrage coined to the negro
under certain property or educational
qualifications, we presume his attitude
towards the scheme would have been
much more compliant. He held to the
idea thai the South must be governed
by white men and that the negro must
be content to submit. Davis was
statesman of the old Southern type. 1t
was hard for him, however, to see any
good in any legislation that was not
tinctured with Southern ideas. He
had a strong will, was man of cour-
age. and as we look back upon the re-
bellion, he appears to have been the
most fihing man to have placed at the
head of it. Grady lived too late to
come under the worst influences of the
old slavery system. He saw the devas-
tation wrought by it in its dying strug-
giles, and set himself to repair the mis-
chief done. Grady was not looking
behind him and mourning over the past
but looking ahead full Of enthusiasm,
and confident in the idea that there was
a magnificent future for the South and
he was anxious 10 have share in that
future. For nearly generation Davis
has seemed lonely figure, left behind
more and more each year, unable to
bring himself into accord with the new
ideas that were working themselves out
around him, and powerless to interpose
ANY check, the center of much OF the
rebellious spirit that has fingered since
the war, he had ended his career, glo-
rious or inglorious as men look at the
great event of his life, but ignominious
in its failure. There is a sense in which
we may say it was time for Davis to
die. He could have done the country
no more good, and in fact his presence
was a menace. Grady was in the full
vigor OF manhood, in close sympathy
with the new times upon the South, a
bic, resolute, patriotic, man of influ-
ence, with strong following of the
best elements among the young men of
the South. Davis found union with
the North irksome. He never seemed
to take kindly to our people. lie did
not often sit at our feasts or talk in our
assemblies. Grady seemed to take
kindly to the New Englander. He won
his way to Northern hearts through his
eulogy of Lincoln at the New England
dinner in New York three years ago.
At each visit he has made his eloquence
has charmed us. We loved to hear
him talk of the hopes and prospects of
the South, though we might not en-
dorse his position towards the colored
race. He believed in one country. all
sections bound together by the closest
ties. He welcomed the North into the
South. He was glad to see Northern
enterprise, industry and capital build
ing up Southern institutions, waking
up the energies Of the Southern people.
From the stand point of his admirers
Davis was statesman, an able, sound |
writer and thinker on political topics.
He was not brilliant man, he could |
not over-awe senates by his eloquence.
Grady was magnificent in his after-din-
ner speeches. There are not many fin
er passages in the collections Of the
speeches Of great orators than can be
found in the perorations Of Mr.. Grady.
Whatever may be said of his logic his
rhetoric was brilliant. Whatever NAV
be said of the magnitude of his thought
be could give turn to his periods that
,aptivated every listener. The North ,
was Indifferent to the death Of Mr.. Da-
us. 1t can but regret that Mr.. Grady s
Ihould have fallen in the midst of his s
lsefulness. The former was wholly of
he past. The latter, to say the least, {
vas an important figure of that transit
ion period through which the South Is ..