The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-11-29

He viewed the future when every strain
shall be vocal with whrring spindles; the
mountain sides showering down the music
of the bells as the slow moving herds go
forth from their fold, the valleyes tranquil
in the gold of harvest" when uprlghtneSs
shall be in every heart, and eternal justice
shall rule Supreme-lIfe, love and liberty
everywhre.
He stood for Anglo-Saxon supremacy
He bravey asserted in the face of a Bos-
ton audience that it would be well If the
north could be brought to know that the
negro can never rule III the south. The
white people, bearing ninc-tenths of the bur
denS of taxation. welcome the negro to 90
per cent of the school fund. The courts are
lenient in the administration Of justice. The
humanity Of his white nelSnbor is rapidly
reducing crimes to miSdcmcanors More
tolerance is given his wrongs than those of
the white brother Politically, be is his
equal; numerically he is his equal; but NOR
ally, socially, intellectually, he is not.
The Lord God Almighty stamped on the
brow and i'll the heart of the Angl0-SaX0n
the seal of his imperishable knighthood,
and dccleed that it should never be domi-
Nated by an inferior race. Federal election
laws may be passed, whose purpose is 20
secure governmental control by securing ne
gre d0mInancy in southern states. but even
this could not prevail. #
Iastly-;irnly Grady stood for Amer
lean fraternity.
Dr. Talmage said that Grady's speech
IN New York was the greatest speech
in quarter of a century When
DR.. Talmnse spoke, he painted with a
masters hand. picture of how in the
pomp and circumstance of war the
northern soldiers had passed through
Washington cnroute to their splendid homes,
bearing on their foreheads the lofty look
of victors, as they looked forward to happy
homes unhUrt by cruel war; of how batal-
ion after battalion marched by in proud
array in solid phaIanx
Then General Sherman, catching up the
strain, spoke to its echo.
Then came Grady. He too remembered
an army that came home from Appomattox
not in victory, not in plenty, but TO poy-
erty--not to homes happy, but desolate-
but in honor great as heroes ever bore.
Turning for the last time their wearied
faces to the graves that dot old Virginia
hills, and wringing in silence the hands of
comrades who had borne alike the trials of
privation, suffering and defeat, and button
ing up in his ragged jacket the parole that
was to be to him and his children a. pass
port Of honor forever, he turned his face
southwark. where happy homes had rested
meath tranquil skies-tO find desolatiOn
and death everywhere.
While this pathetic Introduction he spoke
with wisdom and power and his words
caught the minds and hearts of the north.
He again spoke in Boston in 1889, and
sustaining himself and welding Il chain
of love between the north and the south,
came home to die.
..e was the great peacemaker Of the
union, and sought TO see the wounds of
war healing in every hcart--One nation
moved onward in peace and plenty under
one hope, one God-aii creeds lost in the
Bibie--s,n3 one American people marching
along one common highway, that drum
beat echoing to the .EiGi.bliaft. bounds OF
- t5ltlr 1tIZsF are wrought ~ ltS
they march TO the 81 an slieir immor-
tai glory.
But now this matchless life is gone.
Only the shadows come down to us. He
gave his genius to his fellow man. In
his early lnanhod his fruit is rpened and
he sleeps with his fathers.
when Jefferson Davis died the most
conspicuous figure of the old south died:
when two weeks later, Henry Grady died
the most conspicuous figure in the new
south died. | believe he was the most
brilliant Ion of this republic the one
bright star that has arisen out of a quarter
century of aliCr9tiOn whose placid smiles
linked togeth sr again the north and south
in fraternity. as when shoulder to shoulder
they fought the bloody battles of the rcyo-
luton and secured American independence
at Yorktown.
He is gone and nation mourns him.
But in the land he loved, meath the skies
he loved. meath the sod he loved his grave
piled high with southern flowers, redeWed
with affectonate southern tears and locked
in the embrace of southern hearts forever,
let him sleep the sleep that knows no wax
:1g; while his placid soul, borne by the
downy pinions of rejoicing angels, hask IN
the presence of Gods glory forever