The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-01-02

all the American people. That speech
was so important an event in Mr..
Grady's life, it is so full of eloquence,
that it is here appended verbatim. It Is
an iTnpaseioned grafton; one spoken
upon the spur Of the moment, and full
of that genius which comes with inspira-
ton. Before the dinner n correspond.
ent Of The Atlanta Constitution asked
him what he would sayt
The Lord only knows" he replied.
Il have thought OF thousand things to
say, five hundred OF which if say they
will murder me when get back home,
and if say the other five hundred they
will murder me at the banquet
Yet the result Of Grady's eloquenoe
was that the New Englanders gave him
an ovation at the conclusion OF his
speech, and the southerners stood in
crowds for hours in the rain to cheer
him OH his arrival in Atlanta
BILL ARP's COMMENTS.
After the speech 1885 Bill Arp wrote
in Mr.. Grady's paper:
One OF these Old ConfetIerates whom met in
Mississippi swung hes empty sleeve around as he
squeezed my hand and said: bin, where ts Grady,
Why didn't you bring Grady We want TO see
Grady. God bless him! Didn't he put a head on
old ralmages Didn't he ever,asttngfy clean I'D
Ta!rnaees'' Wen, it is Grady, Henry Grady, oil
along the line sec his speech in almost every
paper. saw it-in three papers today, and one Of
them was negro paper published in 0reslada and
the colored editor lavish in his compliments
wonder If Grady has captured tho natkonS He
has tho whites and tho negroes north and south
east and west and / expect has got the Indians
and the heather Chfnee These Mississippanns say
they want Lamar for tho next Vice president bIt
II they can't get him they want Grady.
Dir. Grady was often very poetic In
some OF his work for The Atlanta Con-
stitution. One year ago, almost one year
10 day before his death, he spoke thus
beautifully Of Christmas day:
No man OF woman now living viii $50 again
such aChristmas day ~ the one that closed yester
day when the dying SIN piled the western skies
with gold and purplel winter day II was, shot
30 the core with sunshine! 1t was enchanting 10
walk abroad in It's prodi9al beauty, b breathe MS
elixir, 30 reach out tho hands and plunge them
open fingered through It's piistng waves OF warmth
and freshness
The hun, OF bees underrode the whhxifns wings
OF wild geese flying southwark. The fires slept IN
doors, watched the soft winds WOO tho roses and
the lilies
Truly II was day Of days.
Gods benediction came down with the day
slow dropping from tho Skies Gods smile was
It's light and an through and through it, supernai
beeuty and Stiffness unspoken bat appealing 30
every heart and sanctifying every soul, WIGS his
fnvocatton and promise, Peace On Earth, Good
! Win 10 Men,
DIR. Charles Pinckney, the Georgia
poet-an admirer OF Grady-took fancy
to paraphrase this, putting it into verse.
1t is noticeable how little he was obliged
to change the original. Here is DR..
Pinckney's verse:
No man or woman living now VIII see
Again. IN raptured ecstasy behold
Tho day OF Chrtsts adored nativity
Which closed our glorious yesterday
When tho dying sun, about to yield it's sway,
BedecSed the western skies with purple gold
winter day it was, with sunshine shot;
Amid It's hrstrous lovelinesss TO move
And suck its lifeS elixir with the breath
Or reach out open fingered hands and plunge
Through It's puSing waves Of treshentnx glow
Could mortal hope for better things below,
Meath whistffng wings Of wild geese flying souon
Tho hum Of bees, whlo browsing ffrcs slept
Within tho CRATES and people out o. doors
Marveltn3, watched tho soft winds woo the rose
And lrlies. Dare one hope the nko agasns
day Of days it truly was!
Gods benediction with the day came down,
Slow dropping from hts own ethereal skies;
All through and through It's beam, supernol came
Gods smile, which was It's Light stiffness while
Unspoken, yet to every heart appealed.
And sancttfytng every soul his word
AvASN .i.~n n n -
Truly, If this man did not write poetic
prose who has ever done so?
NO TAKING THINGS BACK"
Grady established rule for The Con-
stitution that no errors should be cor
rected, or at least that no error should
be acknowledged. He was called upon
one day by a gentleman who boiled over
with indignation because The Constitu-
! ton had announced him as dead, and he
was very sure that he was not dead, and
wanted a correction made Immediately
The man was very much alive, as Grady
saw with half an eye, but what could be
done? To acknowledge the papers blum
der was against the one rule Of the Office
which must be kept above all others.
on tell you what I'll do" said Grady:
1--WE have put you in as dead, and yet
you come to us alive and ready to kick,
if not kicking; 30 I'll make it all right
by putting you among the births" and,
notwithstanding many protests, he did so.
Last January Sam Jones, the evan
| gelist, was preaching IN Augusta, Ga.
He touched vigorously upon the differ
emit roads to hell and was especially hard
upon baseball players, Mr.. Grady was
in the audience, and Mr.. Grady was the
president OF the Atlanta Baseball club.
He had come out in response to press
ing invitation of one of Mr.. Jones' most
| ardent admirers. When the sermon
was over, this apostle of Sam Jones said
to him: 81 am very sorry you preached
against baseball today" WHY" asked
the evangelist. Because Henry Grady
was in the congregation, who is an en-
tlfusiast ON baseball, and I am afraid
your sermon will drive him off from
coming to church again" "Well, am
sorry didn't know that; you tell Mr..
Grady that if had known he was pres