The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-22


We heard the fine clarion among our SHOWS
as Won mad been hearing 1t over your savannas.
The sweet piercing note sautes at first IN
f,jendly ears. but wins its way at length, per-
.nades a silence among Earring tongues. and
SnaIlv attunes a chorus TO its own pure lofty
melody.
THE COUNTRY WAS READY.
Idonot over estimate the effect produced by
a single speech. But you know now it is said
1bst swiss guides in a snow path whisper, lest
xjbrauous from the voice shake down a little
White drift, and so let loose an avalanche.
Results may look magical that can be ex-
planned. ia.
pnbic mind of north and south. All the CO
WORKING tendencies which more than 100 years
ago brought the disunited colonies along our
~sst Atlantic board into a single federation
~ United States; all the giant forces which
thirty years ago, between the gulf, the great
lakes and the two oceans. interlocked their
stresses and their strains TO resist the disruption
If war-all these controlling tendencies and
forces had been ce6selessly at work.
Yet the day of our peace seemed forever post
poned.
shrilled his untimely note-"Let US SHAKE hands
across the bloody chasm"-and tumbled to his
burial in its dust.
The master of many legions, Gen. Grant. in
vain cried out of manly and patriotic heart
"Iet US have peace"
Your great soldier, Lee, amid another gallant
generation of southern youth, had set himself
preusrIng the harveSts of peace and
her victories
No less than those of war"
Quite other ideals OF duty inspired those
heroes who then kept waving the bloody
shirt For then too many tongues were yet
bitter too many hearts were yet sincerely alien
ated.
And it vas then that this young southron,
whom we all for that public virtue now praise
came to the metropolis of our un on, where his
voice could be heard afar. and in a single
speech, for You so represent alive. for US SO
moving sounded a note and called forth such a
unison from accordant hearts as heralded our
better day.
Il was no miracle, no magic. But it was the
hour and the man.
1t was the victory of youth and genius. It
was the perception that the old orderc angeth
giving place TO the new-aud that the old order
had changed, and that the new order had taken
its place.
Twenty years after your graat statesman,
Benjamin IL. Hill, came and spoke those
memorable words before the Tammany Society
of New York. and carried conviction to every
democratic heart, twenty We trs, twenty years
later, your ar ent young G ady came and spoke
the memorable words before tae New England
Society Of New York, and carried conviction to
republican hearts
THE NEW SOUTH.
"There was a south of slavery and secession
There is q south of union and freedom. That
south, thank God, is living. breathing, growing
every hour"
chords Of sympathy and charity. He told us
only what we knew. but what before we had
never so fully appreciated. For a generation
We mad looked at the misery of only one side in
that terrible contlict-our sympetnies and our
charities we're seltishly confined to the suffer-
ines OF our own section. Grady lifted the scales
from our eyes and gave us new sight. He burst
the narrow bonds of our sympathy and gave il
broader scope. He unconsciously and unob-
truslvely rebuked our sectional sefshness,
brushed away our Jealousies scattered our
prejudices and almost in an instant made Of us
all oett-r patriots and truer Americans
1t was tue appeal of elo5 uence and patriotism.
II was the cry of earnestEeSs and truth.
In his pathetic picture of the graycoated
soldier wan iering homeward from Appomattox
IN 1861 half starved. rag red wounded finding
home gone friends killed, families divided,
property destroyed, old institutions shattered,
seeilg not one ray of hope for the future
broken in spirit and in health, yet bravely
meeting these grim reylities as he had met fed
eral bullets and bayonets and setting himself to
WORK to build new structure Of society under
strange conditions, to stimulate industry, to
restore lost fortunes-in this eloquent realism
Grady stirred the northern heart as it hal
not been stirred before His generous tribute
to Abraham Lincon-the sum OF Puritan and
cavalier-as the first typical American-the
first who comprehended within himself all the
strength and gentleness, all the majesty
and grace of this republic'-the touching
eulo2y t. his own dead father who died
soldiers death in the southern cause, the re
cital Of 81 g progress, hopes and ambitions of
the new south. the pledges of its loyalty which
he renewed in It's behalf, and his appeal for
justice, reconciliation, confidence and patience,
did more toward the humiliation of sectional
snmosities than any speech that was ever de-
iivered in this country. and rendered it the
most effective, patriotic Grafton of modern
times. 1t received the plaudits of the people.
II thrilled every part of the nation. 1t reunited
the republic in the sacred bonds of union and
peace. 1t cementad the ties of friendship be-
tween the sections stronger than when they
were first formed by our forefathers during
revolutionary days.
REVIVED PATRIOTISM.
Il caused revival of pure and lofty patriot
Ism. 1t touched the heart and conscience of
the country. Tle name of Grady was upon
every lip. he mad accomplished life work in
al hour II he had no other claim upon the
gratitude and remembrance of the American
people this single effort of his genius was Suf-
hcent to give him un lying fame and to estab-
t asl bis memory forever in the grateful affec-
lions OF his countrymen.
he lodged conviction in the hearts of many
patriot, many politician who had shared the
passions and voted the convictions of the old
ihepu0hcan party, but VINO till then had over
ToKed tue circumstance that the war was over,
slavery dead, and what stood surviving in COM
plete Vigor and boundless beneicence was IAN
inuSSouble union of indestructible states"
anu so they too, little belated in their fellow
o.'zensalp If you please, but not time-servers,
gave hm cordial greeting as one who spake
N1 9 apatrlots heart TO patriotic hearts.
4he blood OF the PUritanS still flows in the
se:ns OF their countless children aud chill ren's
cnuoTen. between Cape Cod and the Golden
N uate II a proud lineage. Democrats or re-
psSoucSns' they know they belong to the breed
~ IN, ene founders and upholders of states, the
s u1 coadltores fmDertOrUna By the measure
az tIOse SACRIFICES which they joyfully and I'M
lsu!ihc1lnglY bore, and still bear, to preserve in
hhlssoluole this union of states lndestruct ibe,
~ Inst measure we may know what sacrifices
e a. need they would joyfully and unainchin ely
near 70 Preserve indeStructible the states of a
union indissoluble
% Grady, carrying to the north with him that
e J,utuen OF public care, and by his inspired
S;;o4uslce convincing us of the earnestneSS of
Us message, touched the chord of human sym
t at una true patriotism, and bound again the
Uosened Ties of sectional friendship. From that
SosnehI, appeals to sectional prejudice fell on
seai ears; from that moment attempts to array
Sscuon against section were vain. The north
~ way JUS vague fears and its animosities en-
S euiCSu oy war and allowed expression to its
sSitDhened sympathies, which the south. per-
srS Si ie ana feeling, met with prompt response
NJ NJ ran trust. From that moment boxan q
ei@ Vi fellowship and fraternity.
HIS ADDRESS At DALLAS.
WINE It will be conceded that Mr.. Grady S
bio england dinner speech at once established
M putAelon as an orator upon a wider and
crJ3 sndurlng field than he had heretofore oc-
csr auu attracted world wide attention be-
fuse OF us impassioned and unique oratory and
Ivpe cular circumstances surrounding its de-
III YET II may well Do c0ntended that
ssTh a1uress az the Dallas (Tex) fair on
a6a9 south and Her Problems was more
PRODUCTION and exhibited more careful
Clentstn,t ana preparation. His address Against
az eaton, delivered before the societies
rue e University of Virginia in 1889 showed the
sn'lalch and foresight of Statesman Rut nis