St. Paul daily globe., 1891-10-22

mental usui patton.
Coming to the famous New South speech
delivered by Mr.. Grady at the New England
dinner Gov. Hill SAID: Mr.. Grady carried
to the North with him the burden of pup
lie care. and by his Inspired eloquence con-
vinced us Of the earnestness of his message
touched the chord of human sympathy and
true patriotism. and bound again the loosened
ties o. aelional friendship.
q avn of the New Era.
r ,judices fell on deaf ears from that mo-
ment attem pts to array section against Sec
ton were vain. The North put away its
vague fears and its animosities engendered
ened sympathies, which the South, perceiv-
ing and feeling, met with prompt response
and frank trust. From that moment began
new era of fellowship and fraternity.
But his speech at the Boston banquet in
1889 was the ablest and grandest preseptation
OF the position OF the South on the race prob
lem that has ever been put forth. With this
speech Grady's mission OF peace was
ended. For the last time that eloquent
voice had sounded the noA of reconciliation,
and in the very home OF Puritanism. True
are the words of the inscription upon this
monument that when he died he was liter
ally loving a nation into peace
"A nation in peace broad land dis
turbed by no civil dissensions. threatened by
no foreign enemy people united and
homogeneous, prosperous and happy. NO
trace OI cO0IlCI 10 DltleI ueMOry. uO qucS-
toned LOYALTY. That people rejoicing III the
universal spirit of fraternity retaining only
re pleasant recollections of the past, harmo-
ously solving the problem of civilization,
worki' 'ut together the grand destiny OF ,s
comm sountry-that people VIII ever hold
in grs i remembrance the life and public
seryi' of Henry W. Grady
The oration was well received
throughout. Tonight Gov. Hill and
party were entertained at banquet by
the Young Mems Democratic League OF
Atlanta. The governor leaves here for
New York tomorrow.
The monument was designed by Alex
ander Doyle, and the statue is of heroic
size. 1t represents Mr.. Grady with un-
covered head standing in an easy atti-
tude, with the left foot somewhat ad-
vanced. The pose is that Of an orator
engaged in delivering speech. the left
arm hanging by the side, and the right
crossing the breast and clasping be-
tween the forefnger and the thumb the
lapel of a full frock coat. On the right
and left of the statue are allegorical fig
ures of Memory and History, and the
figures surmount great stone pedestal,
the polished sides of which bear inScrip-
tions.
On one side is this quotation from Mr..
Grady's last speech at Boston: This
hour little needs the loyalty that is
loyal to one section and holds the other
in enduring suspicion and estrange-
ment. Give us broad and perfect
loyalty that loves and trusts Georgia
alike with Massachusetts-that knows
no North. no South, no East, DO West,
but endears with equal and patriotic
love every foot of our soil, every state
in our Union."
Watterson,s Eulogy.
A touching letter from Henry Waiter
son was read. In it he says or Mr..
Grady:
While he lived he was young colleague
of whom l was very proud. And when he
died lamented him as patriot prematurely
snatched from great and noble work which
he had made his own. If preceded him in
| that work it was but the accident of senior
ity, for in single bound he measured the
entire distance; achieved by one brief speech
what l hadn been able to compass by six
teen years ofSonstant speaking and writing.
From that day, Dec. 81, 1885, to the day of his
death, Dec. 23. 1889, he stood upon
the signal heights. Of American man
hood and brotherhood self-poised and
peerless. He was prose poet aud an orator
of commanding power, of irresistible per-
sonality; and his death, which brought so
much sorrow to many hearts that knew and
loved him, became public and national
bereavement. The conveyance of God s
message of peace to America was fittingly re-
served for the coming of one SO young in
feeling. yet so old in wisdom; so gentle, vet
brave; SO like child, yet so truly man."
Among the decorations on the stand
about the Grady monument this morn
ing were pictures of Jefferson Davis,
Lee and Stonewall Jackson. They were
ordered by the committee to be taken
down before the exercises took place.
The only decorations on the stand were
the national cOlOrS,