Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-29
As Grady Urged ReconciIia-
ton for Nation, So viii
AMERICA Plead for World
,Mr,Harding Says

Harmony,Mr, Says
| Standing at the foot Of the Henry
Grady monument in Marietta street,
| President Warren G. Harding ad-
dressed a warm appeal for the CO.
| operation of a truly united coun-
{ try" in solving >the problems now
confronting it, asked for a gospel
Of understanding, and urging that
nothing should deter the south from
doing it's part to provide mo lesser
stage than that of a united country"
| for such sons of the south as Henry
| Grady and Theodore Roosevelt, on
whose birth-anniversary he 4 was
| speaking.
mo 'pent-up Utica for such as
| they!' he pleaded, and went on to-
! speak of the impending conference
on international disarmament. He
| said that the United States was 60
| ing into the conference SO imbued
with the desire for world-fellowship
| that if the conference failed, "the
fault would lie elsewhere"
The presidents references to the
part of the United States intended
| to play in turning a disrupted
world into the paths of peace" were
| heartily applauded, and his tribute
| to Henry Grady was met with an
! ovation.
! The following is a complete text
of the presidents address:
| Fellow Americans: T can not
| tell you how glad I am to be here,
| to greet you men and women of At
lanta, of Georgia and the south, and
| toreceive this testimony of devotion
to our common country. Be assur,
! ed that, much as I crave, and wish
| to deserve, your good will, I shall
| not mistakenly assume that such a
greeting as this is for me, or ever
could be for any one man. / recog-
nize it as the tribute which great
i people pays to a constituted author
ity in it's public life. 1t is the reflec-
ton of the spirit which makes our
popularity governed institutions Sc
| cure.> But you will permit me to say,
| from my heart, that nowhere else do
they do these things with quite the
same Zest and flavor and convincing
enthusiasm which spice the hospi-
| tality of your wonderful south. AS
private citizen or public official, it
has always been to me an especial
| pleasure to come to the south. AS
| a young man | was very near In
tdeed to becoming a resident Of the
south and a citizen of your neighbor-
| ing state, Tennessee. Even for the
sake of paying a compliment, shall
not tell you 1 am entirely sorry I
didn't come; it might imply a lack
| of appreciation for the somewhat
! notable kindnesses that have been
extended to me by the people of my
own state, operating in conjunction
with a very impressive company of
| friends in other parts.
ITO come to Georgia is to come
| to the heart of the south. To come
to Georgia on this, of all days of the
| year-the birthday of Roosevelt-is
to realize that the heart of the south
throbs for all the nation. To the
making Of that typical American Of
the new era went equally the warm
err strains nof the old south and the
sturdy stock that gave the nation
| it's empire state.
$50 it Is good, in greeting you
men and women of Georgia, to recall
| the career of that outstanding Amer
! lean who in his life, as in his line
age, taught us how much we are
! prOSpered and exalted because of be-
| ing united. And. coming thus among
| you, it is peculiarly g. satisfaction to
! speak from the shadow of the shaft
| which you have reared to the memo
ry Of one who taught a reunited ma
ton it's duties, it's obligations, it's
| possibilities. For / recall the thrill
with which I read, as a young man,
| the address of Hepry w. Grady to
the New England! club; that most
famous Grafton, I think, of it's gen
Grafton; that inspiring call to a ma
ton to awaken to itself, to under
stand that it's yesterday was dead,
it's tomorrow pregnant with mag
nificent opportunity.
Grady's Great Speech
eff ever one man was ordained to
speak with the tongue of conviction
and the voice Of a great people, that
man was Grady. Gifted with the
poets imagery, the seer's wisdom,
the plain mans humor, and the
statesman's Vision, he pretended to
be neither poet, seer, nor statesman;
| he sought no publics place, but pre-
ferred the private post close to his
people. But somehow it was his to
| understand and interpret the long
ing Of the nation for true and per-
| feet reunion. He appraised the diff
ffculty of fashioning new temple
of concord and hope out of disap-
pointment and sorrow incident to
conflict, but he saw beneath the
surface the hungering to develop
common inheritance, he caught the
aspirations for a common glory, he
touched the chords of sympathy
which echoed the note Of common
rejoicing.
with heart ag1ow and tongue in
| spired, he Felt it his duty to preach
the gospel of new understanding,
and having uttered his new gospel
at home he came north the evangel
OF a new day and made his New
England speech. Since that night he
has belonged not to you of Georgia
but to the nation, to-the truly re-
united nation of which in his day,
he was the foremost apostle and
spokesman. The south never had a
more loyal or jealous son: but he
saw, with an eye for wider scopes,
! that this people was not to be di-
vided. And he preached that gospel
north and south; the gospel of unity
and common destiny; and when he
died untimely, at thirty-eight years
of age, the nation which so soon
had learned to love him, bowed it's
| head in a universal sorrow. Reading
his passionate pIeadings for ma
tion-wide understanding, I cannot
but feel that he would have been
content to go as he did if he could
have known how close that tie of
common sorrow would bring the
people for whom his life had been
the labor of a supreme love.
Glow strangely has destiny inter
woven the parts in this drama of a
nations restoration! The same year
Of 1889 that saw Grady lain away