The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 8, 1890, Page 7

= GRADY’S FAMOUS SPEECH. South’ That Made His National Reputation. ' ——— i Following isa speech delivered by , Grady, in response to the toast the new South,” at the annual lanquet of the New England associ_ stion, in New York city, in Decem- ber, 1886. Mr. Prestpenr anp GENTEMEN: [et me express to you my apprecia- tion of the kindness by which Iam itted to address you. I make his abrupt acknowledgement advis- y, for I felt that if, when I raised y provincial voice in this ancient d august presence, I could find yurage for uo more than the open- ing sentence, it would be well if in that sentence I had met ina rough nse my obligation asa guest and had perished, so to speak, with cour- ayonmy lips and grace in my} ‘Byart. (Laughter. ] Permitted rough your kindness to catch my ond wind, let me say that I ap- iate the significance of being the floquent Address Upon “The New of the people as the voice of God. |[Applause.] Great types like valu- himself with teaching men free gov- ernment and establishing the voice able plants are slow to flower and fruit. But from the union of those colonists, from the straightening of their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, and he who stands as the first typical American, and first who comprehended within himself all the strength and gentleness, all the maj- esty of this republic—Abraham Lincoln. [Loud and long continu. ed applause.] He was the son of Puritan and cavalier, for in his ar- dent nature were fused the virtues | of both, and in the depths of his | great sou! the faults of both were} lost. [Renewed applause.] He was greater than Puritan, greater than cavilaer, in that he American {renewed applause,} and that in hs homly form was first gathered tl e! vast and thrilling forces of t} lal | government—charging it with such | tremenduous meaning and so cevat- | ing it above human suffering a d| martyrdom, though infamou t a} ed, came as a fitting crown to a life | was t Southerner to speak at this rd, which bears the substance, if ! surpasses the semblance of New| gland hospitality—[applause]— | d honors a sentiment that iu turn | onors you, but which my per- | pality is lost, and the compliment | my people made plain. [Laugh-! in er. } jas Americans there will be plenty to | Ibespeak the utmost stretch of ; our courtesy to-night. I am some- hat indifferent to those i hence I come. You remember the | pan whose wife sent him to a neigh ors with a pitcher of milk, and who! ipping on the top step, fell, with mech casual interruptions as the ndings afforded, to the basement, nd, while picking himself up, had| #e pleasure of hearing his wife call t: “John, did you break the pitch- from | “No, Ididu't, said John, “but I pdinged if I don't.” (Laughter. ] Sowhile those who call to me hind may inspire me with energy, not with courage, I ask an indul mut hearing from you. I beg that will bring your full faith in Bherican Cy. “ap fairness and frankness to judgement on what I aw about to There was an old preacher “Fee who told some boys of the Bi- lesson he was to ming. The boys, finding the e, glued together the connecting ges. [Laughter.] The next day tead at the bottom of one of the “When Noah was one hun- redand twenty years old he took to himself a wife. who was”—then ming the page—“140 cubits long covered with pitch both inside mdout.” [Long and continued ughter.] He was naturally puz- edat this. He read it again, veri- Y Bit and said: “My friends this ) the first time I ever met this in f e Bible, but I accept it as evidence | ibe assertion that we are fearfully dwonderfully made.” {Immense ighter.| If I could get you to id such faith to-night Icould pro- d cheerfully to the task I other- @approach witha sense of conse- Btion. RITAN AND CAVILIER HERE TOGETHER. }Pardon me one word Mr. Presi- nt spoken for the purpose of get-! @Peinto the volumes that go out Pully frieghted with the elo-| ince of your speakers—the fact | cavalier as well as the puritan | on this continent in the early | im andwas “up and able to be * (Laughter.] I have read | books carefully, and I find no | ition of the fact, which seems to! important for preserving a sort | storical equilibrium. t read in the| consecrated fromits cradle to human i liberty. [Loud and prolonged cheer- | ing-] Let us, each cherishing 1 s| traditions and honoring his fathers. | build up with reverent hands to the | type of this simple but sublime life, in which all types are honered, and | in the common glory we shall win) - spare for your forefathers and mine. | {Renewed cheering. } | WHAT THE NEW SOUTH MEANS. | the with | which you have honored me i necept the term, “The New South,” no sense disparaging the Old. Dear to me sir, is the home In spexking to toast as in| of my child- hood, and the traditions of my peo-| pie. There is a New South not i through protest against the Old, but because of new conditions, new ad- justment, and, if you please, new ideas and aspirations. It is to this that I address myself. I ask you, gentlemen to picture if you can the footsore soldier, who, buttoning up in his faded gray jacket the pzrole which was taken, ‘children of his testimony to his fidelity and faith, | turned his face southward from Ap- ;pomatox in April, 1865. Think of | jhim as ragged, half-starved, heavy-| hearted, enfeebled by want and! tion, he surrenders his gun, wrings the hands of his comrades, and lift ing his tear stained and pallid face for the last time to the graves that ‘dot the dead Virginia hills, pulls his gray cap over his brow and begins | the slow and painful jouney. What does he find—let me ask you, who went to your homes eager to find all the welcome you had justly earned full payment for your four years | sacrifice—what does he find, what | does he find when he reaches that home which he left four years be- fore? He finds his home in ruins, his farms devastated,his slaves freed, his stock killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed. his money | worthless, his social system, feudal in its magnificence, swept away, his people without law or legal status, his comrades slain, and the burdens of others heavy on his shoulders. Crushed by his defeat, his traditions gone. Without money, credit, em- ployment, materia! or training—and besides all this, confronted with the | gravest problem that ever met hu- man intelligence—the establishing of a status forthe vast body of his liberated slaves. What does gray with a heart of gol@—does he sit down in sullenness of dispair? | Not foraday. Surely God, who! | he do—this hero in! —— {CUTLERY Moline Farm Wagons, (Manufactured "ese EEO eee --: R. R. DEACON --- ——-:— DEALER IN—.-—__ HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENTS :The Best in the World:———_ BUCKEYE FORCE PUMPS. Gas Pipe Fitting and Pump Repairing. 1 AND GUNSteg___ by John Deere.) Uaughter and applause, ] or tho soldier returning home ofter defeat and roasting some corn by the roadside, who made the remark “You the South if you want going to Sanderville, to his comrades: inay leave to, but Iam kiss ny wife jand raise a crop, and if the Yankees fool with me any more I will whip em again. Want to [Renewed laughter} I say to General She who is considered an oar parts, thou: inan in people think he is kind of careless with fire—from the ashes he left us raised a brave and beautiful that somehow or other caught the sunshine and mortar of our able in 1864 we have city; we have in the bricks builded therein not one ignoble prej- | udice or memory. [Applause. ] THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. But what is the sum of our work? We have found out that in the geu- eralsumming up the free negro wounds, having fought to exhaus-{counts more than he did as slave. i that when Pre We have planted the school house on the hill top and made it free to white and black. We have sowed towns and cities in the place of the- ones and put business above poli- tics. [Applause] We have chal- jlenged your spinners in Massachu- | slavery the corner stone of the chetts and your _ iron-workers in Pennsylvania. We have learned that 400 millions dollars annually received from make us rich, when the supplies are home raised. We have reduced the commercial rate of interest from 24 to 6 per cent and floating 4 per cent bonds. We have learned that one Northern immigrant is worth fifty foreigners, and have smoothed the path southward, wiped out the place where Mason and Dixon’s line used to be, and hung the latch-string out to you and yours. [Prolonged applause.] We have reached the point that marks perfect harmony in every household, when the husband confesses that the pies his own wife bakes are as those his mother used to bake, and we admit that the sun shines _as brightly and the moon as softly as jit did before the war. ,tablished thrift in city and country. We have es- We have fallenin love with work. Whe have restored comfort to homes from which cuiture and elegance never departed. We have let econ- jhas scourged him in his prosperity, omy take root and spread ameng us ith the cavilier once established inspired him in his adversity. As|as rank as the crab grass which fact in you charming httle books |ruin was uever so overwhelming, sprung upin Sherman’s cavalry camp | let him work out his owe sal | never was restoration swifter. The | until we are ready to lay odds on Fas ke has always done with | soldier stepped from the trenches | the Georgia Yankee as he squeezes guine gallantry, and we will hold!into the furrow: horses that had | pure olive oil out of his cotton seed 4 ‘outroversy as the his merits. jcharged federal guns marched be-|against any down easter that swap- Py should we? Neither : valier survived long Mrtues and traditions of both Ply still live for the inspira- Pe iheir sons and the saving of Ee old fashion. fApplause.} But #@ Puritan and cavalier were Lost as such | republic ommon blood and red with blood in April was gree: with harvest in June; women reared | inluxury cut up thei S make breeches for men, d with pa- that fit women tience and heroism always as hand to v terness in: they did of me and I'm going home| achieved in these : had part, hb r work. Never was nobler duty con- fined to human hands Puritan | fore the plow, and fields that ran} ped wooden nutmegs for flannel sin the valleys of Vermont. I], ve kuow that we have “piping times of Above peace” a fuller independence for the South than that which our fathers sough to winin the foram by the ir nee or compel on the field by vords. [Loud Applause.) It isa to have iu this nubile, than the up- homes and have our cotton crop will | in: | building of the prostrate and bleed- | ing South, misguided, perhaps, but beautiful in her suffering aud hon- est, brave and generous always. [Ap- plause.] In the record of her so- cial, industrial and political restora- tion, We await with verdict of the world. But what of the negro? Have we solved the problem he presents or ressed confidence the in honor and equity to- Let point. ward its solution? speak to this the record No section ‘shows a more prosperous laboring population than the negroes of the south, none in fuller sympathy with the employing and landowning class. He shares our schoo! fund, has the fullest protection of our laws and the friendship of our people. Self linterest as well as honor demand ' that he should have this. Our fu | ture, our very existence depend upon our working ont this problem in full \ and exact justice. We understand sident Lincoln signed | the emancipation proclamation your j victory was assured, for he then com- | mitted you to the cause of human | liberty, against which the arms of | man cannot prevail [applause]; while | those of our statesmen who made con- | federacy doomed us to defeat, com- liitting us to a cause that reason | could not defend or the sword tain in the light of advancing | civilization. [Renewed applause] ; Had Mr. Toombs said, which he did not say, that he would eall the roll | of his slaves at the foot of Bunker hill he would have been foolish, for he might have known that whenever slavery became entangled in war it | must perish, and that the chattel in |human flesh ended forever in New England when your fathers—not to | be blamed for parting with what didn’t pay—sold their slaves to our | fathers—not to be praised for know- | ing a paying thing when they saw it. ({Laughter.] The relation of the | southern people with the negro are close and cordial. We remember with what fidelity for four years he | guarded our defenseless women and | children, whose husbands and fath- jers were fighting against his free- jdom. To his eternal credit be it | said that whenever he struck a blow | for his own liberty he fought in open _ battle. and when at lasthe raised his | black and humble hands that the shackles might be struck off, those | hands were innocent of wrong against | his helpless charges, and worthy to | be taken in loving grasp by every | |man who honors loyalty and devo-| |tion. [Applause.] Ruffians have maltreated him, rascals have misled him, philanthropists estoblished a | hallowed to you by the blood of |ro#ds must continue to bank for him, but the south withthe | your brothers who died from the/rates as will enable the north protests this simple and sincere people. To liberty and enfranchis far aslawean earry the The r 1ust be left to e and ‘ a It ft to those anlong whom lot is cast, | with whom he is indissolubly con-| i nected, and whose i ; pends upon their possessing his in. jMor maintain healthy growth. telligent sympathy and confidence. Faith has been kept with him in Faith will be kept with him in the: future, if the south holds her reason | land integrity. [Applause. | THE SOUTH Has KEPT FalTH. | But have we kept faith with you? In the fullest sense, yes. When Lee surrendered—I_ don't Johnston surrendered, because I understand he still alludes to the time when he met General Sherman last as the time when he determined to abandon any further prosecution of the struggle—when Lee surren- dered, I say, and Johnston quit, the south became, and has been since, loyal to this union. We fought hard enough to know that we were w hip- ped and in perfect faith accepted as final the arbitrament of the sword to which he had appealed. The south found her jewel in a toad’s head. The shackles that had held her in narrow limitations fell forever when | the shackles of the negro slave were broken. [Applause.] Under the old regime the negroes were slaves to the south, the south was a slave to thesystem. Thus was gathered in the hands of a splendid and chiv- alric oligarchy the substance that should have been diffused among the people, as the rich blood is gathered at the heart, filling that with affluent rapture, but leaving the body chill and colorless. [Applause.] The old south rested everything | on slavery and agriculture, uncon- scious that these could neither give The new south presents a perfect democ- racy, the oligarchs leading into the popular movement—a social system compact and closely knitted, less splendid on the surface but stronger at the core—a hundred farms for every plantation, fifty homes for ev- ery palace—and a diversified indus- try that make the complex needs of this complex age. A PEOPLE EMANCIPATED BY DEFEAT. The new south is enamored of her own work. the breath of a new life. The light of a grander pay is falling fair on her face. She is thrilling, sir, with the consciousness of growing power and prosperity. As she stands full sta- tured and erect among the people of the earth, breathing the keen air and looking out upon the expanding horizon, she understands that her emancipation came because in the inscrutable wisdom of God, her hon- est purpose was crossed and her brave armies were beaten. [Ap- plause.] This is said in no spirit of time serving apology. I should be unjust to the south if I did not male this plain in this ‘presence. The south has nothing to take back, nothing for which she has excuses to make. In my native town of Athens, a monument that crowns its eternal hills, a plain white shaft. Deep cut into its shining sides is a name dear to me above all the names of icy that of a silent man who died in brave and simple faith. Not all the glories of New England nor Plym outh Rock all the way would I ex- change the heritage he left me in his patriotic devotion. To the foot of that shaft I shall send my chil-! dren’s children to reverence him who ennobled their name with his heroic acts. But, sir, speaking from the shadow of that memory, which I honor as I do nothing else on earth, Isay that the cause in which he suffered and for which he gave his life adjudged by higher and fuller wisdom than his or mine, and I am glad that the omniscient God held the balance butile in His Almighty hand and that the American Union was saved from the wreck of wat. (Loud applause.] This message, Mr. comes io you from consecrated ground. Every foot of the soil about the city in which I live is sa- cred as a battle ground of the repub- lic. Every hill that invests it is President, by the blow of those who died hope less but undaunted in defeat—sacred | isoil to all of u i i of us that x bette in its less ¥ say when | Her soul is stirred with | | Speaking and eloquent wituess in jits white peace and prosperity to _the indissoluble Union of American | Spite of calumnious assertions to the | States and the imperishable brother- jcontrary by those who assume to |speak for us by frank opponents. , hood of the American people. [Im- | Mense applause. } What answer has New England to ;make to this message? Will she per- | mit the prejudice of war to remain jin the hearts of theconquerers when jit has died in the hearts of the con- ;quered? Will she transmit this prej- udice to the next generation, that in hearts which never felt the generous ardor of conflict it may perpetuate itself? Will she withhold, save in strained courtesy, the hand which straight from his solders heart Grant offered to Lee at Appomat- tox? Will she make the vision of a jrestored and happy people, which jgsthered above the couch of your | dying captain, filling his heart with j Peace, touching his lip with praise land glorifying his path to the grave —will make this vision on which the last sigh of his expiring soul breath- eda benediction, or cheat or delu- sion’ If she does, the south, never jabject in asking for comradeship, must accept with dignity its refusal. But if she does not refuse to accept in frankness and sincerity this mes- sage of good will and friendship, then will the prophecy of Webster, delivered to this very society forty years ago amid tremendous ap- plause, be veritied in its fullest aud final sense, when he said: “Standing hand to hand and clasping hands, we should remain united as we have been for sixty years citizens of the same country, members of the same government, united, all united now and forever. There have been diffi- culies, contentions aud controver- sies, but I tell you that in my yudg- ment Those epposed eyes, Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven, All of one pature, of onesubstance bred, Did lately meet in th’ intestine shock, March allone way. Mr. Grady's glowing tribute to Abraham Lincoln brought every man to his feet. His graphic description jot tlie defeated returning confeder- jate soldier was well received, and his reference to the contentment of the southern negro with his employ- ers made a good impression. At the close of his speech the baud played “Way Down South in Dixie,” and the entire company rose to their feet and gave three cheers for Mr. Grady and three more for the Em- pire state of the south. A Young Man Cured.; Mr. John W. Webster, of Atlanta, Ga., says: I was confined tomy bed with rheumatism for a month, part of the time I was unable to move myself, nor could I be moved with- out severe pain. Honnicutt’s Rheumatic Cure was recommended to my father. He bought me one bottle, and when I had taken about half of it I was sound and well, and am still so, and heartily recommend Hunnicutt’s Rheumatic Cure. For sale by drug- gists at $1 per bottle. Hunnicutt Medicine Co., Atlanta, Ga, Proprie- tors. 61m The Farmers and the Railroads. John G. Carlisle, in the Forum, The farmers are more interested than any other class of people in the cheap construction and opera- tion of railroads, for they greatly outnumber any other class, and fur nish much the largest amount of ifreight to be carried. The whole cost of transportation is deducted from the prices of their products, whether sold at home or abroad: and besides, they are frequently compelled by county taxation to aid in the construction of the roads. The cost of the railroad constructed jand repaired during a period of |twelve years only was increased $188.514,004, by reason of the pro- | tective tariff on steel rails, and it ihas been increased by many millions of dollars by the same policy in oth- jer periods. This was not~ only an unjust and oppressive tax in the be- ginning, but it constitutes a perma- jnent charge upon the people, he- | cause the farmers and others who jtravel and ship freight on these pay such companies against injustice to | Victory, and doubly hallowed to usjto pay interest upon their bonds and eclare dividends to their sf xkhold ee ncn ac snc -ceuneepeinmmeriimment mmmsinensteniieny apn anion serait mate