The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-23

was large crowd and here Governor
Hill made brief speech.
The limited was stopped just out of
Atlanta and the local escort took charge
of Governor Hill. At the station there
was large crowd in waiting. Gov
ernor Northen stood at the car steps and
welcomed Governor Hill. He escorted
him through the station to carriage
drawn by four white horses. The gov
enor was driven to the Kimball house,
only two squares away. Immediately
after their arrival the COVER nor and his
party retired to their rooms. Arrange
ments fog the welcome of the party
had been made by the local committee.
The members of this committee went
out at B o'clock in a special train, taking
with them brass band and cannon.
The cannon was mounted on flat car
and as the governors train approached,
coming down the track, it roared sa-
Lutte which echoed from the hillsides.
Governor Hill dined quietly in the
hotel ct $50 .. NJ, and at 8 o'clock
went under the escort Of local COM
mittee to the executive mansion, where
a public reception had been rendered
him by Governor Northen. The execu-
tive mansion was beautifully decorated
for the occasion. Governor Northen
presented his guests to Governor Hill.
They included the leading citizens Of
AtlaEta and members of their families.
The reception continued until II o'clock,
turned to the hotel and retired.
The procession, formed at 10 a. NJ,
rested for a moment at the old state cap
itol ct ~ o'clock. Directly in front of
the capitol in the middle of Marietta
street. in the very heart of the city, the
monument stands
The monument proper is made Of
granite and stands on terrace with
nodded edges, 16 feet square by feet
high. The terrace is surrounded by
four corner posts and brass railing
The pedestal proper stands on terrace
and is about eleven feet high. It con-
sists of three bases, the top one of which
is nodded and supports a polished die
with nodded cornice. on which stands
the bronze statue of Mr.. Grady. The
statue is between nine and half and
ten feet high. On either side of the
pedestal is projecting buttress, on
which are seated two bronze statues
representing memory and history. On
the front Of the bases is large palm
branch and wreath in bronze.
The inscriptions are as follows:
) 1tdENhY w. GkADY,
JOURNALIST, ORATOR, PATRIOT.
Born in Athens, Ga May "a. 1850. Died at At.
lanta December %, 1889. Graduated at the
State University in the year 1868. Was
Editor of The Atlanta Constitution.
he NEVER HELD OR SOUGHT PUBLIC OFFICE.
when He died, He was Literally Loving
a Nation into Peace.'
This hour little needs the loyalty that is
loyal to one section and yet holds the other in
enduring suspicion and estrangement. Give
us the broad and perfect loyalty that loves and
trusts Georgia alike with Massachusetts-tha
knows no south, no north, no east, no west;
but endears with equal and patriotic love every
foot ct our soil, every state in our Union
From Mr.. Grady speech at the annual ban
quest Of the Boston Merchants association in
December, 1859.
The citizen standing in the doorway of his
home-contented on his threshold-his family
gathered about his hearthstone-wh the
evening of well spent. day closes in scenes
and sounds that are dearest-he shall save the
republic when tho drum tap is futile and the
barracks are exhausted. From the address of
Mr. Grady, delivered before the societies Of
the University of Virginia, June rs, 1889.
Alarge platform had been erected, cap
able of seating more than thousand per-
sons. Thiswas soon filed by the notables
invited to take part or witness the unveil-
ing ceremonies. Governor PattlSOn OF
Pennsylvania, Governor Albeit of New
Jersey, Governor Russell of Massachu-
sets, General Patrick Collins of Boston,
Senator Palmer of Illinois, Senator Vest
of Missouri. Senator Wolcott of Color
ado and Senator German of Maryland
were amsng the distinguished gentle
men on the platform. @
President Northen of the monument
association presided, and the Rev.
j. w. Lee, Of Park Street Methodist
church, invoked the divine blessing,
Hon. Clark Howell, who succeeded to
the editorship Of The Constitution Upon
The death of NJ. Grady, after paying a
warm tribute to the memory of his late
friend and patron, introduced Governor
Hill as the orator Of the daY..
THE MAN VERSUS THE DOLLAR.
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