The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-28
TRIBUTE TO GRADY
DR.. A. z. Conrad Hon
ors Former Mass.
Man.
SPEAKS ATATLANTA.
Delegate to Ninth Annual
Sunday School Con-
yention.

Atlanta, Ca, April 27.-The race
question was a disturbing feature of
the morning session of the interna-
tional Sunday school convention. 1t
appeared in the endeavor of Georgia
and South Carolina negroes to place
nations with the whites and by reason
of the fact that the convention in per-
hitting negro delegations to be seated
with the whites, is violating not only
city ordinance, but also a state law,
which requires that the whites and
blacks be separated in all public gath
erings. The police called the attention
of Col Gambler, chairman of the en-
tertainment committee, to the matter,
but after discussion it was decided to
let the delegates sit as they wished.
Today Rev, DR.. A. 2. Conrad pastor
of the Old South Church of Worcester.
Mass, delivered the memorial tribute
at the floral dedication of the Grady
monument by the delegates. The huge
wreath of laurel sent by the state of
Massachusetts was placed at the foot
of the monument. Rev. DR., Conrad
was commissioned by Gov Wolcott to
deliver the tribute. He said:
The twenty-third of December, 1889,
recorded the passing of a man whose
regal qualities marked him as a prince
among his fellow mortals. His life of
noble advocacy found its sublime Gull
mination in an appeal which for thrill
ing pathos, compelling logic and COM
handing eloquence has not often been
surpassed in the life of our republic.
His last message was a message of
peace and love. But Henry w. Grady
was too large man to belong exclu-
sively to any locality or to any single
state.
He belonged to his country and
among the sons of the republic a
steadier more patriotic heart than his
did not beat.
Ostensibly representing the common
wealth of Massachusetts, but in reality
voicing the intelligent and patriotic
sentiment of the whole north, and yet
more broadly of our entire republic, we
stand uncovered and reverent at this
sacred shrine and invoke the guidance
and blessing of Almighty God upon the
country that we love.
1t is with q sense of pride and salts
faction, record that our fathers were
natives of the same state. A childhood
in North Carolina a youth and early
manhood in Missouri led my father to
teach his children a generous and af-
fectionate interest for the south.
How like catastrophe the departure
of Mr.. Grady In evidence of the I'M
usual hold he had on the hearts or
those whose ear had been nearest his
beating heart this monument stands.
A larger and more lasting monument
grows silently and more unobserved in
the institutions founded through his
advocacy and encouraged by his influ-
ence, and in the exalted sentiments he
was enabled to awaken in the hearts of
the men Of his generation.
The passing decade has revealed more
clearly the unique features of that mind
which for compass and character mas
rarely been equalled. His star is bright
with growing glory. In the north the
name of Henry Woodfin Grady is a
synonym for peace with nonor. Happy
for our country the day when on the
southern horizon there arose a star Of
meteoric brightness commanding first
the curious, then the interested. then
the admiring attention of the north.
Every cleaning point was plea for
national unity. The unification of the
north and the south became the con-
trolling passion of that illustrious life
He plead for homogeneous Wilderness
which should lose all consciousness of
zones. He was in the highest accept
alton of the word a pacificator, but the
olive branch that he carried in his
hand was not the emblem of servile
fear, but royal sceptre of regal truth.
We know Mr.. Grady first as a journ-
alist. His extraordinary and gifted per-
sonality blazed from his editorials as
the sun leaps from the mirrors face.
An editorial from his zen acted as con-
densing lens through which the light
of his mind rushed TO the focus Itself
with burning power upon the hearts Of
the citizens of his own and other states.
We know him also as an orator. AS an
orator he had humanity as a theme,
the nation as his audience, and he
poured forth his convictions as molten
gold for his message. He was conscien-
tiously eloquent. What malice nor guile
was in his tongue. What is the expiana-