St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-22


ernmental function-stin more of govern
mental uSu: patton.
Coming to the famous New South" speech
delivered by Mr., Grady at the New England
to the North with HIM the burden of a pup
lie care. and by his Inspired eloquence con-
WINGED lis of the earnestness of his message
touched the chord of human sympathy and
true Patriotism and bound again the looSened
ties o. Nctional friendship.
avn of the New Era.
.Fror (hat moment-appeals to sectional
r JUDGES fell Oh deaf ears; from that mo-
ment attem DIS to array section against Sec
vague fears and its animosities engendered
by war and allowed expression to its quick
ened sympathies, which the South, perceiv
ing and feeling, met with prompt response
and frank trust. From that moment began a
new era of fellowship and fraternity.
But his speech at the Boston banquet in
1889 was the ablest and grandest presentation
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 nation into peace
"A nation in peace A broad land dis
turbed by no civil dissensions threatened by
y
homogeneous prosperous and happy. No
trace of conflict no bitter memory, no ques-
toned loyalty. That people rejoicing i'll the
universal spirit of fraternity. retaining only
re pleasant recollections of the past, harmo-
0usly solving the problem of civilization,
Workil nut together the grand destiny of q
comm ;ountry-that people wiIl ever hold
IN grs j remembrance the life and public
servi' of Henry W. Grady"
The Grafton was well received
throughout. Tonight Gov. Hill and
party were entertained at a 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 I'M
covered head standing in an easy atti-
tude. with the left foot somewhat adj
yanced. 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 forefinger and the thumb the
lapel of full frock coat. On the right
and left of the statue are allegorical fig
ures OF Memory and History, and the
hgures 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 Observation-Disclosures 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 OF Mr..
Grady:
While he lived he was a young colleague
of whom l was very proud. And when he
died lamented him as a 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 / hadn been able to compass by siS-
teen years of>sonstant speaking and writing.
From that day, Dec. 81, 1885, to the day of his
death, Dec. q, 1889, he stood upon
the signal heights of American man
hood and brotherhood, self-poised and
peerless. He was prose poet and 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 a public and national
bereavement. The conveyance of Gods
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, yet
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.