The New York herald., 1921-10-28
HARDING IN ATLANTA WINS
PRAISE FOR HIS RACE SPEECH


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and sorrow incident to conflict. but he
saw beneath the surface the hungering
| to develop q common Inheritance. he
caught the aspirations for a common
glory, he touched the chords of SYM
pathy which echoed the note OF COM
mon rejoicing.
How strangely has destiny inter-
woven the rarts In this drama of ma
tion's restoration! The same year Of
| 1889 that saw Grady lain away with
| loves laurels on his proud and noble
brow saw another son of q mother Of
Georgia and the South entered In the
career Of national service. In that year
/ Theodore Roosevelt, following his inn
petuous appeals for better political
! morals at the Baltimore civil service
conference. was appointed by President
! Harrison to the Civil Service Commits
! sion, and his national career began. A
| son of the East and the South, but
already adopted by the West, he had
become a devout admirer Of that son of
the South whom all the nation had
taken to its heart. Think of them. you
Georgians. you men and women of the
1 whole South think of their services and
careers--and tell me, for such sons as
| these would you wish to provide lesser
stage than that of the united country
on which they played their parts?
know you would not. and never will. For
geniuses such as these you furnish. you
must at least let US afford a fitting
scene and setting. No 'pent up Utica
for such as they!
Georgians and Chivalry.
'"The other day there came into my
hands a volume Of the letters of group
Of eminent Georgians of the civil war
and reconstruction period. In the main.
they represented the correspondence OF
Alexander Fl. Stephens. Howell Cobb.
Robert Toombs. and Gov. Joe Brown.
Only recently published they proved fas-
cinating reading as turned the pagea
and felt myself admitted to the very
inner thoughts which these leaders Of
the Confederacy were thinking in the
years Immediately following the war
Especially was l interested In the ex-
tensive correspondence between these
Southern leaders and prominent men Of
the North which was carried on at that
period. 1t was nothing less than aston
ishing to note how little of bitterness, OF
resentment. of hatred, and recalcitrance
was manifested on either side.
With almost no exception they
breathed the fine spirit of chivalry Of
readiness to accept In whole heart and
good nature the arbitrament of the war
They held flavor of something more
than resignation, as IL already the
writers were realizing how fortunate
it was that union should have been pre-
served. They were all back in the
harness. working for the restoration of
their State. their people, their pre-
served country.
That was the spirit which made re-
construction, despite bungling and some
exceptional manifestations Of acerbity,
on the whole so rapid and effective
process. when measured by like incidents
In human history. They wanted to be
taken back into full fellowship.
I'VE would rather have one immigrant
from the North than Atty from Europe"
wrote one, "a few years after Appomat-
tox and he urged his Northern friend
to make the Northern people understand
how welcome they would be. Not even
the unreconstructible hatred Of old Thad
Stevens could maintain an effective front
against such appeals as that The North
did come to you, with olive branch in
stead Of sword: and you went to the
North and West, and became full part
ners In making that new empire which
Missouri wilderness; and now truly
there can be deserted no sectional di.
vision OF this land.
Making OF Greater Republic.
Recently passing in a motor car
through section where historical In
terest has inspired the setting Of tablets
marking Mason and Dixon's line. /
l. - L. LIB l~~t.
pie quarrelling about its geography,
half of them insisting that It didn't be-
long there at all, but SOME hundreds OF
miles further south Neither the at
lases nor the election returns give us
nowadays O dependable basis for tudg-
ment of what If South and what North
we have been politically annexing you
when you were not politically taking us
into camp--and we have been socially,
industrially, economically invading and
selling as much of your Imperial oppor-
tunities as we could get our hands on.
We have been pooling our capital with
your brains and resources and both
sides earning good dividends on the
transaction. and all the time jointly
making a greater republic.
ut would be hard to find more 1T
ting platform from which to preach a
gosrel of confidence. courage and de-
termination than Is afforded here in your
wonderful city Of Atlanta. In one OF
his speeches. think II was the ono at
the New England Society dinner---Hcnry
Grady turning to Gen. Sherman, who
sat near him, observed that Gen. Sher-
man was considered an able man In
our parts. though some people think he
Is kind OF careless man about fire.
That grim joke contained the spirit Of
the South. the courage OF Atlanta, the
eternal vision of the brighter side that
Is so natural to you people Of the land of
sunshine. One who comes to your me-
tropolis Of to-day cannot but realize
how useless to attemrt with fire and
sword 20 discourage such people as
this. to exting,ish their enthusiasm, TO
daunt their matchless courage. what
chance is there 70 keep down a people
who when you burn their house, rear
in It's place a palace of marble and
when amid the pafsiors Of war you drive
them In thousands from their home. re-
turn In tens OF thousands to build II
into n metropolis? The reason why the
South recovered so soon from the war
was that 1t was made up OF just that