The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1890-11-22
A NEW SOUTH INDEED.
A REVIEW OF HEN3Y w. G8AOY'5
REMARKAB PAPERS IN
THE LEDGER"
tNeu York worid.)

No truer man or nobler gentleman ever
lived than Henry W. Grady, Of Atlanta,
Ga, and when he diod a year ago it was
whole country that mourned. His was the
large, generous, manly nature of one VINO
loved his country and his fellow-man.
His life is the record of a typical Ameri-
can man, fully rounded and filled with
the perfume of noble words and manly
deeds. 1t is but a short time since his
name became household word, and now
the eloquent tongue is husned and the
tacile pen laid by forever. But he will
always be remembered for what he did
find time to do.
He became intensely interested in the
development of the South and in the
eradication of the lingering sentiments OF
hostility between the South and the
North, in order that the two sections
might harmomously coalesce aud become
blended in a perfectly unified nation
His magnificent efforts in this noble and
patriotic mission brought him conspicu-
ously before his countrymen. Cne of the
crowning portions o that work was done
in the New York Ledger. 1t consisted OF
series of articles, under the title OF
'sThe New South, on the subjects near
est Mr., Grady's heart. These articles
were among the latest productions tha'
came from his fluent pen, the last OF the
series being published in the Ledger only
two days before Mr.. Grady died. Those
remarkable productions excited such deeI
and general interest when they were
issued in the Ledger that there has beer
constant pressure for their publication il
book form. This has now heen done ano
the Bonners have published these paper
together with critical estimate of Mr.
Grady by Oliver Dyer, in neat volume
of some 27O pages.
The papers on the ''New South, "ieiieei
ilg as they do the kindliness, the sinceri
ty and the loyalty of one of the South
own sons, are worth reading by every
patriotic American, whether his father
fought at Bunker Hill or at Culpepe
Court-House. What patriot from tn
rock-bound coast of Massachusetts conl'
utter braver or more loyal words THAI
these:
nndar ney conditions. 1t rejoices tina
slavery has been swept forever frol
American soil. 1t reioices that the Amer
lean Union was saved from the storm 0
war. Not one in thousand OF It's son
vonld reverse. if they could, the result
Of the war into which they threw with
ont stint their lives and their property
They are thankful that the issues at stali
in the great civil war We're anludged y
higher wisdom than their own. And III
Republic has no better citizens IN peae
ana would haveno Drawer soldiers III wa
than the men who twenty-five years az
wore the gray and followed the toniene
ate flag. IL Is from tl,e leot
of her dead. that She makes her tullc
renunciation of the past and her PC
pledge for the future. Always she w
honor above all the men who sleep D
meath those towering shafts. The sign
nobility in her families for generations
come will be the gray CAP or the staih'
coat, on which III the ebb OF losing eatt
God laid the sword of his imperisiiah
knirbthood. Those who ask her to tul
away from the memory Of her heroes wi
died hopeless but untcaring IN defeat ~
heT to sacrifice that without whieh
people can be steadtast or great
Here is what be hiss to say Of the tde
ty of slave to master in the dark days
1876:
The world was amazed at the tideli
with which these slaves guarded ir'
1861 to 1865 the homes and families Of I
masters who were fighting with the an
that barred their way TO freedom.
Uncle Toms Cabin had portrayed |
rule of slavery rather than the rarest
ception. not all the armies that went
the field conld have stayed the fiood-
Iapine ans arson and piilage that wo'
nave started with the first gun ot
civil war. History has
parallel to the faith'kept by the negro
lhe South during the wari Often