The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-24

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L Gated and misrepresentation Ianswer that
in the opportunity the newspaper press of
| this country aud other countries has
| given me week by week to preach the Cos
/ pei o the nations, am put under SO much
obligation that | defy all editors
aud reporters, the world over, to
write anything that shall call forth
from me one word Of bitter retort from now
till the day OF my death. My opinion is
that all reformers and religious teachers.
instead Of spending so much ii ne and energy
| in denouncing the press, had better spend
m 1re time in thanking them for what they
have done for the worlds intelligence and
declaring their magnificent opportunity and
urging their employment Of il all for beneh-
cent and righie lus purposes.
Again, 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 senator Of the United States, but de-
clined 1t. He remained plain Mr.. Grady
| Nearly all the other orators of the political
arena, as soon as the elections are over, go
| to Washington, or Albany, 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 tnat adminstrat on in pouting
about the management Of public affairs or
cursing Harrison or Cleveland. When the
| greas political campaigns were over Mr..
| Grady went home to his newspaper. He
| demonstrated that it is possible t. toll for
| princip es whicl be thought to be right,
simply because they were right. Christian
| patriotism is too rare a commodity in this
country. Surely the Joy of living under
such free institutions as those estab-
lished here ought to be enough reward for
| political fidelity. Among AL the great
| vFrff fapC khof CT nj hn Inst do. gfal
election on democratic aud republican plat
forms, you cannot recall in your mind ten
| who were not themselves looking for re-
| munerative appointments. Aye, you can
| count them all on the fingers Of one band.
| The most illustrous specimen II that style
OF mau for the last ten years was Henry w.
| Grady
Again, Mr. Grady stood for tho new
so lth, and just what we want is to meet
| three other mon, one to speak for the now
| north, another for the new east and another
| for the new west. The bravest speech made
| for the last quarter Of century was that
made by Mr. Grady at the New E gland
dinnef in New York about two or three
| years ago. / sat with him that evening and
know something of his anxeties, for he
| was to tread on dangerous ground, and
| might by one misspoken word have
antagonized forever b tn sections. His
speech was a victory that thrilled all Of us
who heard him and all who read him. That
speech, great for WISDOM great for kind
| ness, great for pacification, great for brav-
| cry, 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 viudication.
Who will in conspicuous acton represent
the new north as he did the new south9
| hn ba1 fOrth f,T thn
and who for the new west2 Let old politi-
cal issues be buried. let old grudges die.
| Let uew theories be launched. With the
| ing in Of new nation at the gates Of
| Castle Garden every year, and the wheat
bin and corn crib Of our land enlarged
wit every harvest, and a vast multi
| tude or our population still plunged in
illiteracy to be educated, and moral ques-
tions abroad involving the very existence
| of our repu lie, let the old political
| platforms that are wormeaten be dropped
| and platforms that shall be made of two
| panks, the one the ten commandments and
| the other the sermon on the mount, lifted
| for all Of us to stand on. But there Is a lot
| of old politicians grumblng all around the
sky who don't want a new south, now
north, new east or a new west. They
| have some old war speeches that
they prepared In 1861, that In all
our eutumnal elections they feel called
| upon to infict upon the country. They
| growl louder and louder in proportion as
| they are pushed back further and further
| and the Henry W. Gradys come 10 the front.
| But the mandate, think, has gone forth
| from the throne of God that ne " Aneri-
can nation shall take the place of the old,
and the new has been baptized for God and
| liberty, and justice and peace, and moral
| ity and religion.
| And no " our much lamentei friend has
| 60 TO give account. Suddenly the facile
and potent pen is laid down and the elo-
| quent ingus is silent What Is there no
safeguard against fatal diseasea The i'm
| personation Of stout health was M. Grady.
| What compsctness Of muscle What ruddy
| complexionl What flashing eye2 Standing
with hun in group Of twenty or thirty
| persons at Piedmont, ne looked the health
| lest, as his spirits were tho blithesu Snall
never feel again the hearty grasp of
his hand or be magnetizst with his elo-
quencea Men Of the great roll, men Of the
pen, men Of wit, men of power, IL our friend
had 10 go when the call came, 80 must you
when your call comes When Go asks you
what have you done with your pom or your
eloquence, or your weaitl or your social
position, will yol he able to give sa isfac-
tory answer7 What have we been writing
all these yearsl II mirth, has it been inno-
cent mirth, or that which tears and stings
and laceratesl From our pen have there
ous2 In tue last great day when the war
rior must give account OF what he has done
with his sword, ald the merchant what
he has done with his yard-stick, and
tie mason what he has done with
his trowel and the artist what be has done
with his pencil, we shall have to give ac-
count Of what we have done with our pen.
There are gold pens and diamond pens aud
pens Of exquisite manufacture, aud every
few weeks / see some new kind Of pom, each
said 10 be better than the other; but in the
gr at day of our arraignment before the
judge Of quick and de al that will be the
m st beautiful pen, whether gold or steel or
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 en-
couragement and help and gratitude to God
and benediction for 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 Deep
oned sometimes into pneumonia and some
I'll mes into typhus, and the victims of which
are counted by the ten thousandl Satan,
who is the "Prince Of the Power OF the
Air" has been pois oning the atmosphere in
all nations, Though it is the first time In
our remembra1ce, he has done the same
thing before. In 1895 the unwbolesome air