Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-07
A NEW BUST OF LEE-Bv Jc

IL southerners rejoice and every high
~ minded northerner is glad that a bust
of the peerless Confederate commander
Robert E. Lee-was unveiled few days
ago in the Hall of Fame of New York Uni
versity.
1t is indeed notable and most significant
that busts of Abraham Lincoln, the famous
Federal president, and Ulysses S. Grant, the
victorious Union general, were unveiled at the
same time.
This triple unwilling was the highest ex-
preston of broad Americanism 1t was a
lofty illustration of the purest patriotism. 1t
breathed the beautiful sentiment of Prince
Edward, when contemplating the long War
of the Roses and the happiness of it's termina-
tom
Free from the passionate animosities of
either-Y orkist and Observation-Disclosures
victor from the field of Towton or ST.
Adams, are but Englishmen to me-
The unveiling was an answer to the pa
triot' S prayer:
Perish all memory of the past that can
build a wall between the souls of my people"
In Reply to Henry Grady
1t was a response to Henry w Grady's pa
triotc plea of 'peace be still" to the angry
elements of discord and the stormy waters of
sectional dissensions.
If Grady were here, how his golden heart
would rejoice at this manifestation of reunion,
reconciliation, goodwill, between the north
and south. | always love to think of this
brilliant orator and shining journalist as the
great Pacifcator. 1t has been nearly thirty
seven years since, like Lord Byron, he awoke
one morning and found himself famous
because of his matchless grafton on 1.-THE New
South delivered on the night of December
ri, 1886, at the banquet of the New England
Society, in the City of New York, in celebra-
ton of the 467th anniversary of the landing of
| the Pilgrim Fathers. 1t will be remembered
| that Grady selected for his text the imperish-
able words of the immortal Benjamin H. Hill,
! spoken in Tammany Hall in 1865: There was
South of slavery and secession-that South
! is dead. There is a South of union and free
dom-that South, thank God, is living, breath
| ing, growing every hour
| Beautiful Tribute by Depew
! Grady retired from that brilliant and nota-
+! Bile scene a historic personage-a national
! figure. His renoWn as an orator, won on that
occasion by the respondent glories of his
wonderful appeal to the hearts of all Ameri-
can people for harmony and union and COM
plete restoration to friendship on the part of
all the sections toward one another, will fame
down the ages forever more.
Grady's masterpiece of eloquence was ON
1.-THE Race Problem" delivered before the
Merchants Association of Boston, in Decem-
| Der, 1889, ten days before he died.
| In the Icourse of beautiful memorial trib-
ute on Grady by Chauncey M. Depew, the ia
nous New Yorker said: Ellis death, in the me-
ridian of his powers and the hopefulness of
his mission, at a critical period of the removal
forever of all misunderstanding and differ
ences between all sections of the republic, is
a national calamity
But the influence of Grady lives, and 1t has
received fresh exhibition in the unwilling
of Lees statue in the Hall of Fame Of New
York University.
Bronze Tablet to Lee by EpiscopaIians
1t is interesting to note in connection with
the foregoing, that not yeryl1ong ago a bronze
tablet was unveiled in St. Johns Episcopal