Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-22

that the new order had taken its place.
Twenty years after your great states
man, Benjamin II. Hill, came and spoke
those memorable words before the Tam
MANY Society OF New York-twenty
wears, twenty years later, your ardent
Young Grady came and spoke the same
memorable words before the New Eng
land Society of New York, and carried
conviction 10 Republican hearts.
"There was a South OF slavery and
secession. There is South OF Union
and Freedom. That South, thank God,
is living, breathing, growing every
hour"
Other appeals had never touched the
same chords OF sympathy and charity.
He told Us only what we knew, but
what before we had never so fully ap-
preciated He burst the narrow bounds
OF our sympathy and gave is broader
SCOPE. He uncOnsciously and unobtru-
sively rebuked our sectional selhshneSs,
brushed away our jealousies, scattered
our prejudices and almost in an instant
made of US all better patriots and truer
Americans.
I, was the appeal OF eloquence and
patriotism. II was the cry OF earnest
ness aud truth. In this pathetic pic
ture OF the gray-cOated soldier wander
ing homeward from Appomattox in 1868,
half starved, ragged, wounded, hndlng
home gone, friends killed, families d.
vided, property destroyed, old instltu-
tions shattered seeing not one ra? OF
hope for the future, broken in spirit
and I'm health. yet bravely meeting these
grim realities as he had met Federal
bullets and bayOnetS and setting himself
20 work TO build a new structure OF So
ciety under strange conditions, 10 slim
ulate industry, TO restore lost fortunes
in this eloquent realism Grady stirred
the Northern heart as il had not been
stirred before.
HIS GENEROUS TRIBUTE.
His generous tribute TO Abraham
Lincoln-the sum of Puritan and Cava-
lier-as 1.-The first typical American -
the first who comprehended within him
self all the strength and gentleness, all
the majesty and grace of this republic"
the touching eulOgy 10 his own dead
father, who died a soldiers death In the
Southern cause, the recital OF the
progress. hopes and ambitions Of the
new South, the pledges of it's loyalty
which he renewed in its behalf, and his
appeal for justice, reconciliation, con-
fidence aud patience, did more towards
the humiliation OF sectional animoslties
than any speech that was ever delivered
In this country, and rendered it the
most effective, patriotic Grafton OF mod
eru times. IL received the plauditS or
the people. IL thrilled every part OF
the nation. It reunited the Republic In
the sacred bonds Of union and peace.
II cemented the ties Of friendship be-
tween the sections stronger than when
they were first formed by our forefath-
erS during revolutionary days.
Itcaused revival OF pure and lofty
patriotism. IL touched the heart and
conscience OF the country. The name
OF Grady was upon every lip. lie had
accomplished life work in an hour. ii
he had 10 other claim upon the graft
tude and remembrance OF the American
people, this single effort OF his genius
was sufficient to give him uudying fame
and TO establish his memory forever In
the grateful acfTectionS OF his country
men.
His speech at the Boston banquet In
December, 1889, was the ablest and
grandeSt presentation Of the position OF
the South on the race problem that has
ever been put forth, and In the iudg-
ment of many surpassed all his previous
efforts as a brilliant orator aud profound
thinker.
Ills MISSION ENDED.
With this speech Grady's mission OF
peace was ended. For the last time
that eloquent voice had sounded the
note of reconciliation, and in the very
home OF PuritaniSm, 1t was his last ef-
fort and his last sacrifice. At Boston
he contracted the disease which caused
his death. True are the sweet words
of the inscription upon this monument,
that "when he died he was literally
loving a notion into peace"
A nation i'm peace. A broad land dis
turbed by no civil diSSensiOnS, threat
ened by no foreign enemy! A people
united and homogeneous, prosperous
and happy, No trace OF conflict, no
bitter memory, no questioned loyalty.
That people rejoicing in the universal
spirit of fraternity, retaining only the
pleasant reconections of the past.
He died at the early age Of 80. His
wonderful career reSembled a meteor
flashing through the heavens, dazzling
us with its brilliancy and startling US
with its sudden departure.
Proud ought Georgia 10 be Of her
noble Sonl. Proud ought the South 20
be of her great befactor. Proud ought
the nation to be Of her eloquent paciti-