The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1915-03-29


mind all tended to mpe him journalistic pen And
no other Of activity could he have effective
to the Southern rehabilitation Mr. Cradvs mis-
sion was distinctly two fold
In the first place he sought to develop
OF his immediate section of the the country
waste places and to retrieve along commercial and industrial lines
OF attack the reverses which had Confederate
In the second place sought heal engendere
by the great civil conflict and establish knder relationships
tween the North and the South
Henry Grady spoken of as the Jpuder Tn 1881 he en-
listed his zeal in the of the Cotton exposition This
the first of the great industrial exposons which have
served to make Atlanta prominent among Southern cities
the
In 1887 he sounded the call for great exposition to be
held IN SIX months Although the audaciy this bold PROPOSE
tan was most apparent yet ads enthusiasm to be in
fictitious and the exposition held fully met public expeca
tons it was fully able to pay financially From this time
forward Grady was unremtngy active in directing the attention
ofCern Caqta TO the claims of Southern The
building of cotton factories development of marble ouares and
the announcement of immigration became his hobbies He
Interested and the organizer of the Piedmont
which proved great success
tavorte Institution in Georgia which honors the heart as
wen as the mead OF this great the Confederate Soldiers
Home Decatur.
Picking of York papers from the pile of ex
ranges on MS desk one morning Mr. Grady citizen
from Texas was making the metropolis for funds
with which to build home for the old soldiers of his state
Inc eor appeared to be energetic than fruitful and
"e the comments OF the unfendy there
an of feeling and atmosphere of the e
used which nettled Mr. Gradys spirit red
think of the crippled Soldiers Sonh begging for aims upon
the curb stones of distant Babylone
'I'l show them what can be done in Ceoroia said he
throwing down the and calling his Senographer He
nere upon dictated the double headed editorial which
next morning under the caption mayor Walker come home
lhls editorial fired the State the mountains all the way
the Other Georgia newspapers took up the refrain
the money Tor building the Confederate Veterans
was soon subscribed Before the laid
Grady died and after his death was several years before the
touches applied On local prejudice the
was at first reluctant adopt the institution but
nS unpaoc bias last Georgia opened to
her old Soldiers the Institution which Grady had founded
John g. Gordon was born in Epson County, Georgia. Feb
o. 1857 His father the Rev. Zachary Herndon Gordon
D. g. Gordon educated at the University of Georgia
He married 1854 In 1861 he joined volunteers and
was elected Captain of company served to the close of
wa" becoming IN succession major eutenantcoone colonel
major general and lieutenant general and att
OF the war commanded wing Lees army In
an oca report of General D. H. M General Gordon was de-
the Chevaer Bayard of the Confederate Army and
has been said of him that no Soldier in American arms
maze record that surpassed in audacy the one
marked out by Gordon General Gordon won an
tame as soldier An English correspondent of the London Times
declared him the rising the South He was second
10 the great Lee After the surrender he gathered his men
ABOUT MN and exhorted them bear their trials bravey to 90
III peace ooev the laws rebuild the country work the
veal and harmony of the Republic These words were the kew
OF MS entire career after the settled in Atlanta at
close OF the war; General Gordon had after honor con-
upon hm was elected thirty fifth Governor Georgia and
three times United States Senator his service in the Tinted
States Senate was brilliant and statesmanlke
he was chosen by the Democrats of Congress to draft an
10 the the people Louisiana and the South urging patience
- anu an appear to returning of justice
wrongs; ne aided Lamar in saving Mississippi from poll
mrue and empowered by Governor Hampton to look
0outn Carolina interest havng canvassed the State for
It's redemption with Hampton After adjournment of Congress
s9rea the removal Of troops of Carolina For this he recev
ed the historic dispatch he troops have been withdrawn
tect peace prevails South Carolina THANKS you'' 80 RI
s life size portrait South Cardinals Capital
a SEM MS little daughter born in Washington "a silver
win Hamptons dispatch it, and the people OFFS c. sent to
Gordon Superb Silver Service with each piece mounted
with gold palmetto tree
General Gordons personally was one o rare ewootno rd
and bis private and public life model manly virtue and Christian
c'zenshp lie died on JAM 8, 1904 his home Bsavn
F orlet Illness The whole country his passing flags
were at half mast and business suspended almost evry southern
city, thousands of poured Atlanta to do honor to
his memory at the funeral obques 1t was said that