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
The South mourns the untimely death of Georgia’s brilliant son.
The North deeply sympathizes with us in the death of him whose
last public utterance so feelingly touched the patriotic heart
of the people, and the response comes back from all sections of
a re-united people and a restored Union. Few men have
accomplished so much for the unification of public sentiment on
questions of grave import, and there is no one who has
accomplished more for the material development of his beloved
South. He is dead, but his works will live after him. His name
is enshrined in the hearts of his grateful countrymen, who are
saddened and bowed down with unspeakable sorrow.
Henry W. Grady had the zeal of a martyr and valor of a patriot.
If it be permitted to mortals who have put on immortality to
look upon this world from their celestial home, the incense of
praise which ascends from our stricken hearts will be grateful
to the soul of Henry Grady. God has set his seal upon his silver
tongue, and no more forever will his eloquent voice, stimulating
his fellow-countrymen to deeds of noble enterprise, be heard on
earth. Matchless the fertility of his mind, matchless the magic
and power of his presentation, matchless his power of
organization, matchless his power of accomplishment. Truly,
indeed, can it be said of him, there is no man left to fill his
place.
May his golden soul rest in the bosom of the God that gave it,
is the humble but heartfelt prayer of one who admired and
respected him living, and who mourns and reveres him dead.
ADDRESS OF HON. B. H. HILL.
I cannot speak in studied phrase of my dead friend. The few
simple words I can trust my faltering lips to utter will come
from a heart burdened with grief too deep for language to
express. A grief whose crushing weight, outside of my own home
circle, has taken away from life its brightest hopes and its
highest inspiration.
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