The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-15
DURHAM RECORDER
Z. G. HACKNEY, Editor. Pro.
WEDNESDAY, April is, 1891,
rHE TIN-PLAT BANQUET.

w EDNElODAl hpAb ~,
THE TIN-PLAT BANQUET.
The Chamber of Commerce
Of Chattanooga, Tenn, recently
celebrated, by a magnihcent
banquet, the successful man
ufacture Of tin-plate from Chat
tanooga basic steel The crude
material from which the sheet
steel is manufactured, comes
from North Carolina, being
furnished by the Cranberry
Iron Works Of this State.
Mr.. Frederick Taylor, of New
York, responded to the toast
.Our Country. and answered
most happily the lamented
Grady's question propounded to
the North at the Boston ban
quet: "Shall sectional hatred
survive in the breasts Of the
conquerors still, after it has
died out of the hearts OF the
conquered" That one speech Of
Grady's made him an enduring
national reputation, and was
read all over the North.
We are much pleased with
Mr.. Taylor's speech at the tim
plate banquet; but he will find
all over the South, just whathe
found at Chattanooga, that
among sensible business men
in the South there is no section
alism. There is no sectional
ism in the manufacture of iron,
steel, wool, cotton and tobacco,
any more than in that new in
dustry that has just sprung up
with perfect success, the man.
ufacture of tin-plate from South.
ern steel.
We make the following ex.
tract from Mr.. Taylor's speech
GRADy's QUESTION.
"And yet, after I had accept.
ed the invitation to be with you
tonight. / was for a while at q
loss as to what / could say K
you that would be of interest
and, while turning the matter
over in my mind, / remembered
that when your silver-tongued
and matches Grady delivered
that address before our New
England Society which made
him famous in anight, he asked
us of the North whether WI
meant to let the prejudice Of
war live in the hearts of tn,
conquerors after it had died on
Of the hearts of the conquered
sour answer to that question
Well, gentlemen, it has coyere'
more than a quarter of a cen
tury!
"fou heard il when dealt
stalked through the streets o
your city of Memphis. Yol
heard il when the earthquake,
shattered Charleston, and a CT.
If despair went up from its CIV
cry household. [Great applause
''You have long seen it al
about you, in your almost ever,
enterprise-your railroads, you
booming towns, your humminI
factories, roaring furnaces an
newly opened mines. Applause
1.-THE guns were ranged a
round Charleston harbor, bu
glorious old Virginia, mother Q
States and of Presidents, ha
not yet declared for war. On
Of her sons, more hot heade
and rash than the rest, impat
ent at her delay hurried
Charleston, an 1 there, from til
balcony of the Mills Hous,
urged the immediate sheddin
Of blood as necessary 70 Ietc
Virginia into the strife. III
speech was the signal-ths
night the guns opened fire. A
his word the flames Of civil wa
burst forth 10 rage and consum
for four long years. That-b0
then, old man now-sits {,
night, an hOnored judge upo
the bench Of one Of the highe'
courts Of our Empire Stat
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, and v
point TO him, and TO hundred
like him in positions Of simila
eminence and trust thrOughot
the North, as our further AM
wer TO Grady's question. tSer
sation."