Joel Chandler Harris' life of Henry W. Grady including his writings and speeches
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Joel Chandler Harris' life of Henry W. Grady including his writings and speeches
Grady, Henry Woodfin, 1850-1889
Now, here we are confronted with the most thorough and widespread
agricultural movement of this or any other day. It is the duty alike of
farmers and those who stand in other ranks, to get together and consult
as to what is the real status and what is the patriotic duty. Not in
sullenness, but in frankness. Not as opponents, but as friends—not as
enemies, but as brothers begotten of a common mother, banded in common
allegiance, and marching to a common destiny. It will not do to say that
this organization will pass away, for if the discontent on which it is
based survives it, it had better have lived and forced its wrongs to
final issue. There is no room for divided hearts in this State, or in
this Republic. If we shall restore Georgia to her former greatness and
prosperity—if we shall solve the problems that beset the South in honor
and safety—if we shall save this Republic from the dangers that threaten
it—it will require the earnest and united effort of every patriotic
citizen, be he farmer, or merchant, or lawyer, or manufacturer. Let us
consider then the situation, and decide what is the duty that lies
before us.
In discussing this matter briefly, I beg the ladies to give me their
attention. I have always believed that there are few affairs of life in
which woman should not have a part. Not obtrusive part—for that is
unwomanly. The work falling best to the hand of woman is such work as is
done by the dews of night—that ride not on the boasting wind, and shine
not in the garish sun, but that come when the wind is stilled and the
sun is gone, and night has wrapped the earth in its sacred hush, and
fall from the distillery of the stars upon the parched and waiting
flowers, as a benediction from God.
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