Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-18

hands.
Again II was familiar sight TO see
him on show-days head procession Of
fifty children to see the sights. He de-
lighted In their happiness.
lie and Oliver Cromwell were the
only two men who ever without author
ity adjourned deliberative body.
When Cleveland was elected president
and the news reached Atlanta, Grady
secured brass band and started q pro
cession. which increasing in number as
IL advanced enlisted the city. Finally
they marched 10 the capitol. AT the
entrance Grady announced 10 the
speaker of the house that he had mes
sage. To the request. let it be
Delivered Grady responded 1.-THE
first Democratic president since the
war has been elected" and proceeding
10 the speakers stand, strake the gavel
and declared the house adjourned.
Love ruled aud the house obeyed.
But now to the man-as an editor he
attracted attention when mere boy.
He won wide reputation IN 1876 when a
correspondent OF a New York paper
from Florida, during the action Of the
returning board. Always his editorials
read like fact clothed in fancy. Henry
Watterson said OF him that he recog-
nized in him youngster who had sur
passed his elders in learning and abll-
ity. It is safe to say that in the south
none equaled him except Watterson.
As editor OF the Constitution Grady
exercised a wide influence upon the
country.
AS an orator none such has been
given us since Prentiss faded from the
earth.
Popular oratory has always held
mighty sway over the hearts and minds
of men. IT was the most potent factor
in forming and maintaining many of
the ancient powers OF the earth as Of
the modern,
The hand OF the painter gliding over
smooth canvas and making images to
breathe life like man; the magical touch
OF the musician inspiring the soul into
delight; the lovely strains OF the poet
singing the songs of memories, hopes
and love-these even have fallen below
that height Of generation men have al
ways given the orator. In America
this has been especially the case, Our
country has been prolific OF orators;
and, IL may truly be said, II to
convince the Judgment, to please
the fancy and to move the will be the
province OF the orator, few have eX-
celled Henry Grady!
There was about his voice no such
thunderbolt impressiveness as charac-
terized Haskel;no suchdaring as pombs;
no such sarcasm us Hill, no such
dignified and lSnightly bearing as Davis;
and in his manner there was no such
splendid pose as characterized Hous-
ton; no such restless energy as Cal
houn; no such stately mein as Webster;
I but there was in his voice an earnest
ness that made one doubt that any
could think otherwise, liquid sweet
ness like the distant Lutte at eventide.
a comprehension that carried convic-
ton, posture that was the persona
ton of conscious greatness; gesture
that only Everett could command, and
a pathos that moved to tears. His au-
dience thought with him, felt with
him, acted with him-they were his
because first he was theirs.
In the public life of Grady, l notice
four things he stood for:
First-Individual liberty and Local
self-government.
Second-Progress
Third-Anglo-SaXon supremacy.
Fourth-Fraternity OF the American
people.
Begging your generous sympathy,
proceed to speak Of these in their order.
He stood for individual liberty aud
local seli-government
He believed that the sovereignty of
| every citizen rested beneath his hat
that the citizen should depend upon the
state for nothing the citizen can do and
! the state upon the nation for nothing
| the state can do. He believed that the
| surest cure for the existing evils that
in many ways threaten our government
is the preservation in purity OF the in
| diyidual home; and that every hearth
stone should be temple of prayer and
| a shrine Of liberty.
In the dawning of the twentieth CEN
| tury he viewed with much alarm the
| tendency to consider that all the pow
ers of government emanate from the
centre and are distributed to the states
and TO the people. 1t Is known by all
| what issues were settled by the sword
| In 1865 and 1t is not sought 10 revise
them. But it is insisted upon that the
sovereignty OF the states or the
source whence emanates all powers
to the United States goyernment--sur,
vived the shock; and the supreme court
declared that the government was an
0indissoluble union Of indestructible
states, - and it is held till yet that III
their individual capacity the states are
sovereign.
But with the passing of the years
strange ideas have came. Conditions
have changed. The pure and simple
faith of the fathers, whose heroism
blazed out the path for marvellous
achievements and set in motlon those
forces that have thrilled every nation
on earth with their magnetic shock,
these have been laid aside IN part, and
new ideas have superseded them. With
the 1awninp new visions have come,
Established ways are lost; Nothing i
steadfast and approved. The. miracles
of the present belle the simple truths
of the past" and men everywhere are
i amazed al the strange sight The ten
denov of the times is TO con
centTate In the hands OF the
Government the powers OF the people
There Is dazzling splendor that comes
from the throne Of power whose lascl-
nation IL hard to Withstand. III dal-
zles The unthinking, its opulence Temps
the nnor and the ayaricious, Its strength
assures the rich, its patronage incites
tbe spokesman and its power influences
The nartisan.n MeL have come TO think
that the government owed them DEBT
"a a tavo,-rather than reflect that as