HENRY W. GRADY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: ENGRAVED FROM PHOTOGRAPH BY C. W. MOTES. H. W. Grady. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS’ LIFE OF HENRY W. GRADY INCLUDING HIS WRITINGS AND SPEECHES. --------------------- A Memorial Volume COMPILED BY MR. HENRY W. GRADY’S CO-WORKERS ON “_THE CONSTITUTION_,” AND EDITED BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (_UNCLE REMUS_). THIS MEMORIAL VOLUME IS SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION, AND IN THE INTERESTS OF THE FAMILY AND MOTHER OF MR. GRADY. --------------------- NEW YORK: CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 104 & 106 FOURTH AVENUE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1890, By MRS. HENRY W. GRADY. _All rights reserved_. Press W. L. Mershon & Co., Rahway, N. J. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LOOKING FORWARD TO THE REALIZATION OF THE LOFTY PURPOSE THAT GUIDED OUR _MESSENGER OF PEACE_, AND TO THE SPLENDID CLIMAX OF HIS HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS, THIS MEMORIAL VOLUME OF THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF =Henry Woodfin Grady,= IS DEDICATED TO THE PEACE, UNITY AND FRATERNITY OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH, AND TO THE PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY OF _A RE-UNITED COUNTRY WITH ONE FLAG AND ONE DESTINY_. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS. ------- PAGE IN MEMORIAM—_Henry Watterson_, 5 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH—_Joel Chandler 9 Harris_, MEMORIAL SKETCH—_Marion Verdery_, 69 SPEECHES. THE NEW SOUTH—Delivered at the Banquet 83 of the New England Club, New York, December 21, 1886, THE SOUTH AND HER PROBLEM—At the Dallas, 94 Texas, State Fair, October 26, 1887,