Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02

Question: What could De 1uc,s" /:
quotes the Introductory reference to
New England in his frank. feryid and
eloquent Grafton here, and says the
South has lost its most eloquent orator
and one of its most promising sons. The
quotation mentioned as follows:
The stoutest apostle of the church. they
say, is the missionary, and the missionary
wherever he unfurls his flag. will never find
himself in deeper need of JUNCTION and ad
dress than l, hidden to night to plant the
standard of Il Southern Democrat in Boston's
banquet hall, and to discuss the problem OF
the races in the home of Phillips and of sum
ner. Buts Mr.. President, if a purpose to
speak in perfect frankness and sincerity; If
earnest understanding of the vast interests
involved; if a consecrating sense of what
disaster must follow further misunderstood.
ing and estrangement; if these may be
counted to steady undisciplined speech an.
to strengthen an untried arm-then, sir,
shall find the courage to proceed.
Happy am that this mission has brought
my feet, at last, to press New Englands his
torlc SOIL and my eyes to the knowledge of
her beauty and her thrift Here within touch
of Plymouth RO OK, and Bunker Hill-where
Webster Numbered and Longfellow sung,
Emerson thought and Claiming preached
here in the cradle of American letters and
almost of American liberty, hasten to make
the obeisance that every American owes New
England when first he stands unco vered in
her mighty presence. Strange apparition!
This stern and unique fgure-carved
from the ocean and the wilder
ness-its majesty kindling and growing
amid the storms of winters and of wars
until at last the gloom was broken its
beauty disclosed in the tranquil sunshine,
and the heroic workers rested at its base
while startled Kings and Emperors gazed
and marveled that from the rude touch of
handful q hlnaE and nl-r 1t-r,
shore, should have come the embodied
genius of human government and the per-
fected model of human liberty! God bless
the memory of those immortal wOrkers-and
prosper the fortunes of their living sons
and perpetuate the inspiration of their
handiwOrk.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Mr.. Grady was born in Athens. Ga, i'll 1851,
and will probably be buried here beside his
father, who was killed while calamity lead :
ing the Twenty fifth North Carolina regi-
ment at Petersburg. Mr.. Grady leaves a
widow and two children.
With perhaps single exception Henry
Wooden Grady was the best known editor
in all the Southern states. He stood in the
front rank of American journalists, and the
prospects of none were brighter His father
was Colonel in the Confederate army and
lost his life in battle when his son was ONLY
fourteen years old. Young Grady was edu-
Gated at the University of Georgia, in his ma
tive city, where he graduated at the head of
his class, and his studies were afterwards
continued at the University of Virginia.
From the first, Mr.. Grady was strongly at
tachcd to journalism, and on leaving col
le%e, lad of nineteen, he started a daily
paper on his own account at Rome, Ca,
which failed of support. He moved to At
lanta and issued the Atlanta Herald and aft
crwards the Atlanta Courier, both of which
ventures proved unsuccessful. His ready
pen, however, found plenty of employment.
He wrote for the Atlanta Constitution, the
Louisville Courier journal, and other
papers; and James Gordon Bennett the
elder appointed him Georgia correspondent
of the New York Herald, post which he
held for six years. \ fortunate speculation,
it * said, in railroad stock yielded him 500
OOO, which he very wisely Invested in a
quarter interest in the Atlanta Constitution.
This interest, now enormously enhanced he
still owned when he died. In the December
following the Charleston catastrophe Mr..
Grady delivered an address in New York at
the annual dinner of the New England So
cicty on the New SOUTH That speech
was, and still is, applaudcd all over the
country, South as well us North. and helped
to make its author famous in remote locali-
ties where his name had not hitherto been
known. Mr.. Grady'S last public appearance
was ut the recent dinner of the Boston Mer-
chants Club where he and EX-President
Cleveland were conspicuous figures. His
theme then was the status of the negro in
the South. and newspapers throughout the
country are still quoting from its ringing
sentences and commenting upon the stir
ring utteranccS on that occasion.