The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-29

alienated.
And it was then that this young
Southron whom we sll for that pub
lc virtue now praise, came 10 the
metropolis of our Union, where his
voice could be heard sfar, and in q
single speech, for you 80 representa-
tive, for us so moving. sounded 8
note and called forth such unison
from accordant hearts as heralded
oar better day.
/. was no miracle, no magic. But
it was the hour and the man.
1t was the victory of youth and
genius 1t was the perception that
the old order chaDgeth, giving, place
to the new-and that the old order
had changed, and that the new order
had taken its place.
Twenty years after your great
statesman, Benz amin H. Hill, came
and spoke those memorable words
before the Tammany Society OF New
York, and carried conviction to every
Democratic heart-twenty years,
twenty years later, your ardent
young Grady came and spoke the
same memorable words before the
New England Society of New York,
and carried conviction to Republic
can hearts.
"There was a South of slavery and
secession. There is q South Of I'm
ion and Freedom. That South,
thank God is living, breathing,
growing every hour"
| Other appeals had never touched
the same chords of sympathy and
charity. He told US only what we
knew, but before we had never
so fully appreciated. For a genera
ton we had looked at the misery Of
only one side in that terrible conflict
--our sympathles and our charities
were selfishly confined to the suffer
ings of our own section. Grady
lifted the scales from our eyes aod
gave US new sight. He burst the
narrow bounds Of our sympathy and
gave it broader scope. He uncons-
ciously and unobtrusively rebuked
our sectional selfishness brushed
away our jealousies, scattered our
prejudioes and almost in an instant
made Of us all better patriots and
truer Americans.
1t was the appeal of eloquence
and patriotism. It was the cary OF
rnestnpss and truth.
| In his pathetic picture of the gray
coated soldier wondering homeward
from Appomattox in 1865, halfstarv-
ed, ragged, wounded, finding home
gone, friends killed families divid-
ed, property destroyed, old institu-
tons shattered, seeing not one ray
Of hope for the future, broken In
spirit and in health, yet bravely
meeting these grim realities as he
had met Federal bullets and bayo-
netsand setting himself to work to
build new structure of society un-
der strange conditions, to stimulate
industry, to restore lost fortunes
in this eloquent re alism, Grady stir
red the Northern heart as it had not
been stirred before.
To you of Georgia this occasion
has double significance. These
exercises to you are not merely com
memorative OF national service OF
evidence of a nations respect. They
remind you of your personal loss
they recall to you that affectionstt
interest which Grady had in your
individual and public welfare-tha'
intense sympathy in your sorrows
and tina rejoicing in your successes
that loyalty to the fame and pros
perlty of your State. He knew you
trials and shared them. He knew
your poverty and tasted it. HI
knew your spirit and fred it. II
| lived, thank heaven, to see you'
prosperity and honor It. GAS fol
. me,' he said, long before the ravages
: of war had been effaced from your
, proud State. GAS for ne, my ambl
ton is simple one. I shall be sat
isied with the labors of my life, If
z when those labors are over. my son
. looking abroad upon a better ant
srsDder Georgis-s Georgia thu
q So .-e 2e~a3s Uui i..te" (,
| her for-when her towns and cities
are hives Of industry, and her coun
, try-side the exhaustless fields from
: which their stores are drawn-wher
every stream dances on its way Il
} the music of the spindies, and ever,
forest echoes back the roar of tn
: passing trisn-when the valley