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inv < GRADY'S FAMOUS SPEECH |< <?> j: <$> <$ <$><? <?> ?><? ?> <$> $> S* ^ <? <& <S>. On the 21st of December, 1886, ft Henry W. Grady, in response to an ] urgent invitation, delivered a! the *; banquet of the New England club in : < New York a masterly oration in which j < * * ~ I . tnere was a propneuc vision 01 mv; < New South, and the speech did much to reunify the national spirit time was j< destroyed bv the civil war. In conI nection with the celebrations in hon-ij or of Grady's memory now being ob-; ^ served, it is well to re-read tm>t won- i derful speech of the rrea'es: Sou ( thern orator, and it follows: |j "There was a South of slavery and j secession?that South is dead. There j is a South of union and freedom? < that South, thank God, is 'iving, ;< breathing:. growing every hour." j ] These words, delivered from the im-.j mortal lips of Benjamin H. Hill, at ; Tammany hall, in 1886, true then and j ] truer now, I shall make my text. j ?* Mr. President and Gentlemen: let j 1 me express to you my appreciation '< of the kindness by which I am permit- '1 ted to address you. I make this abrupt { acknowledgment advisedly, for I feel < that if, when, I raise my provincial < voice in this ancient and august p^es-jl ence, I could find courage for no more: < than the opening sentence, it would;1 be well if in that sentence I had met 1 < in a rough sense my obligation as aj1 guest, and had perished so to speak,; with courtesy on my lips and grace ; 1 in my heart. Permitted, throughj 1 your kindness, to catch my second j i wind, let me say that I appreciate the j ^ significance i)f being the first South- j t erner to speak at this board, which : 1 bears the substance, if it surpasses < the semblance, of original New Eng-; < land hospitality?and honors the sen- i timent that in turn honors you, but in which my personality is lost, and j * ? ^ '. the compnmeni to my pcupic UlttUC j ^ pl-iin. 13 I bespeak the utmost stretch of ; c your courtesy tonight. I am not j ] troubled about those from whom I j \ come. You remember the man whose 11 < i wife sent him to a neighbor with a j i pitcher of milk, and who, tripping on. s the top step, fell with such casual in-, J terruptions as the landings afforded } into the basement, and, while picking j himself up, had the pleasure of hear- < ing his wife call out: 1 "John, did you break the pitcher?" i "No, I didn't," said John, "but I'll! t be dinged if i don't." ] So, while those who call me from ] behind may inspire me with energy, } if not with courage, I ask an indul- } gent hearing from you. I beg that , you wiH bring your full faith in Am- ( erican fairness, and frankness to } judgment upon what I shall say. v There was an old preacher once who } told same boys of the Bible lesson he } was goinjc to read in the morning. The ] Doys, finding the place, glued to- i gether the connecting pages. The t next morning he read on the bottom r of one Daze, "When Noah was 120 s years old he took unto himself a } wife, who was?" then turning a > page?"140 cubits long, 49*\>ubits ( ? wide, built of gopher wood, and cov- j ered with pitch inside and oat." He ( was naturally puzzled at this. He \ read it again, verified it, and then ^ said, "friends, this is the.first time I } ever met this in the Bible, but I ac- t cept this as an evidence that we are I fearfully and wonderfully made." it j I could get you to hold such faith to- ? / night I could proceed cheerfully to a ( task I otherwise approach with a ^ sense of consecration. j Pardon me one word, Mr. Presi- j dent, spoken for the s:>le purposo of \ xgetting into the volumes that go out ( annually freighted with the rich elo- ( quence of your speakers?that fact ? that the Cavalier as well as the Puri- ( tan was on the continent on the early . days and that he was "up and able to t be about." I have read your books T carefully, and I fin-l no mention ot c that fact, which se^ms to nit- an im- j portant one for preserving a sort of historical equilibrium, u iu. else. ( Let me remind you t>-it the Vir- j ginia cavalier first challenged France J j on the continent?that cavalier, John!} Smith, gave New England its very j ] name, and was so pleased with the , job that he has been handing his own ? name around ever since?and that' j whil" Myles Stundish was cuting off: < i mens ears for courting a gwl v :n-i? out her parents' consent, and forbade \} men to kiss their wives on Sunday,' j the cavalier was courting everything in sight, and that the Almighty had ] vouchsafed great increase to the cavalier colonies, the huts in the wilder-!j I r.ess being full as the nests in the i . r woods. I ] But having incorporated the cava-: lier as a fact in your charming little < books, I shall let him work out his own salvation, as ne nas <*iw?a\? uvuc, with engaging gallantry and we will ' hold no controversy as to his merits. ' Why should we? Neither Puritan nor Cavalier long survived as such. The j virtues and good traditions of both happily still live for the inspiration of their sons and the saving of the old fashion. But both Puritan and Cavalier were lost in the storm of the ^ first revolution and the American cit-; izen, supplanting both and stronger :han either, took possession of the re11 l public bought by their common dioou and fashioned to wisdom and charg?d himself with teaching men government and establishing the voice Df the people as the voice of God. Mr. friends, Dr. Talmadge has told you that the typical American has . et to come. Let me tell you that he ias already come. Great types, like valuable plants, are slow to flower and fruit. But from the union of these :olonists, Puritans and Cavaliers, from the straightening of their pur 5 x ^ K1 AArl poses ana trie crusamj; ui nan uiwu, slow perfecting through a century, :ame he who stands as the first typi-. ?al American, the first who compre- [ lended within himself all the strength md gentleness, all the the majesty and grace of this republic?Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of Puritan ind Cavalier, for in his ardent naf :ure were fused the virtues of both ( *nd in the depths of his great soul the Faults of both were lost. He was greater than Puritan, greater than Cavalier, in that he was American, ind that in his honest form were first gathered the vast and thrilling forces )f his ideal government?charging it; .vith such trernendous meaning and j ?levating it above human suffering ;hat martyrdom, though infamously limed, came as a fitting crown to a' ife consecrated from the cradle to' iuman liberty. Let us, each cherish- j ng the traditions and honoring his; ?athers, build with reverent hands to j ;he type of this simple but sublime ! ife, in which all types are honored j md in our common glory as Ameri- j ?ans there will be plenty and to spare j * ! lOr your xorexatiiers anu iui mine. j Dr. Talmadge has drawn for 7" \ vith a master's hand, the picture of j four returning armies. He has told ;ou how in the pomp and circumstances of war, they came back to you, 1 marching with proud and victorious ;read, reading their glory in a naion's eyes. ' Will you bear with me j vhrle I tell you of another army that j ;ought its. Hbme at the close of the j ate war?an army that marched lome in defeat and not in victory? n pathos and not in splendor, but in ?lory that equalled yours and to learts as loving as ever welcomed heroes home. Let me picture to you he footsore Confederate soldier, as Duttoning up in his faded gray the 1- - ~ I- An*? 3cirOi(? WHICH Was tU ucai ivoumviij ?/v> j lis children of his fidelity and faith, j le turned his face southward from i i Appamattox in April, 1865. Think 1 >f him as ragged, half-starved, heavy- j learted, enfeebled by -want a*d, vounds, having fought to exhaustion,; le surrenders his gun, wrings the j Tonrlc nf his comrades in silence and if-ting his tear-stained and pallid i 'ace for the last time to the graces! hat dot old Virginia hills, pulls his rray cap over his brow and begins the ! >low and painful journey. What does( le find?let me ask you who went to i / our homes eager to find, in the wel- j ome you had justly earned, full pay- j nent for four years' sacrifice?what I - - ' * _ n i i Iocs he find wnen navin^ iojiowea j ;he battle-stained cross against over-; vhclming odds, dreading death not j lalf so much as surrender, iie reaches he home'he left so prosperous and! jeautiful? He finds his house inj uins, his farm devastated, his, >laves free, his stock killed, his Darns; impty, his trade destroyed, his money! vtirthless, his social system, leudal J i _ ! n its insignificance, svep: away; m:> )eople without law or legal status;! fis comrades slain and the burdens j >f others heavy on his shoulders. J Crushed by ??ecea!, hia very traditions ire gone. Without money, credit, ;mployment. material or training; md beside all this confronted with he gravest problem that ev?>r met hunan intelligence?the establishment >f a status for the vast body of Mis iterated slaves. What cops he rl.. here in gray Vith a heart of gold? Does he sit lown in sullenness and despair? Xot; .'or a day. Surely God, who had strip-1 x?d him of his prosperity, inspired) lim in his adversity. His ruin was' lever before so overwhelming, never vas restoration swifter. The soldier } stepped from the trenches into the furrow; horses that had charged Fed?ial <runs marched before the plow, inu fields that ran red with human ! I Dlood in April were green with the I riarvest in June; women reared in lux-: ivy cut up their dresses and made! Dreecnes for their husbands and with i patience and heroism that fit women ilw&ys as a garment, gave their hands :o work. There was a little bitterness in all this. Cheerfulness and frankness prevailed. "Bill Arp". struck the keynote when he S&id: ""T " T oc manv of them as W Cli, 1 Aiucu ct.3 4..^... . they did of me, and now I'm going j to work." Of the soldier returning; home after defeat and roasting some j corn on the roadside, who made the j remark to his comrades: '"You may leave the South if you want to, but! I am going to Sawlersville, kiss mv! w??MH?I?twn < MTU ftr-mumm. - ??-i?"! pwu-wi wife, arid raise a cvon. and if the-Yaii-j kees fool with me any more. I'ii whip 'em again." I want to say to Genera! Sherman, who is considered an able man in our parts, thoujrh some pe.rpie think he is a k'nd of careless man about fire, that from the ashes he left us in 1S(?4 we nave ral -ed a brave and beautiful city; that sonn-how or other we have caught the sunshine in the bricks and mortar of our home? and have builded therein not one Un.;bie ; prejudice or memory. But what is the sum of our war? We have found out that in the sum-J ? - -? f ?*. mo''. III: 11^ Ul> UJL- I Ii y (UU.IUthan he did as a ilave. We have; planted the schoolhouse cn the hilltop and made it free to white and black. : We have sowed towns and cities in the place of theories and put business above politics. We have challenged your spinners in Massachusetts ar.d your iron makers in Pennsylvania. We have learned that the $400,000, 000 annually received from our cot-! ton crop will make us rich when the supplies that make it are home-raised. We have reduced the commercial rate of interest from 24 to ft per cent, and ! are floating 4 per cent bonds. We j have-learned that one Northern im-j migrant is worth 50 foreigners; and! have smoothed the patch to south- i ward, wiped out th? place where M.i-1 ? * -ta r? \ (Continued on rage <$.) | NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT j I will make final settlement of the! estate of Mrs. Louisa F. Zobel, Hel-j Gilder & 1 ATTENTION TOURiSTS W<~~ AND CAMMPERS ' . <* You should have one of our 41? large enough for three peo"Tourists Special Tentobed"' l-f pie $81.50. or one large enough for two Requires no poles 01* stakes, can be set up in five to eight iMgnj minutes. Rolls up I feet G OTai inches long and 5* inches tikimeter in waterproof cover. Columbia Supply Co. ^77^ 823 West Ci^rvais Street, Columbia, S. C.. ! * *,.v.CTinjr.-ij?i11~d r x.uwuiinBi.11 wi^ga??? ena, S. 0., in the Probate Court for S< Newberry, S. on Monday, the 23rd I day of-Ma\\-H>21. ;:t 10 o'clock in the) forenoon and will immediately ask for my drscharge a? Administrator of! said estate. All persons holdinc: claims against | ^ said estu'e \v;il prese.'H tnc *anie, prt?-1 viued r-ts reqiit'd by law, to me or to di the :ittoyn?*y in the case, Hon. Geo. f]t P>. r>;omi'r. and all claims not present-: ed will ho forever barred. r A1! person? indebted to said estate di wiH make immediate pavment. OTTO K 1 F.TTXER, Administrator. ^ NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Xotio is hereby ;*iven that the un-j dersipned wii! make final settlement ; of the est.lie of William Lake Dom-i( inlck. deceased. in thi- probate court} for Newberry chanty. South Carolina,; on June 20th, li?2i. at 11 o'clock in ihe forenoon. and will immediately i thereafter apply to "aid court for let-j ters <Ii:;mis3ory as administrnf-All I oersons indebted to said o^.a:e will j | make immedate payment; all personsji holding claims against said i-state will present the : am<, proved according to: law, by the said date or payment will: be forever barred. Claims may be; presented and debts paid to the tin-1 der signed or to her attorney, Eugenej S. Blease. Xewberrv. S. C. PEA RLE E.'DOMINICK. I Qualified Administratrix, j , | NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT; 1 w:ll make a final settlement off V.urr-in Hflnrv in the i I liXC CJUl LC VI A * ^ ... Probate Court for Newberry county,! S. C., on Monday. the 13th day of June, 1021, at 10-o'clock in the fore-j noon ar.d will immediately thereafter: ask for my discharge as Administra-i trix of said estate. j BERTIE HENRY, Administratrix. Newberry, May 11, 1921. t Weeks Co. "V;-: -,:J! II rhedule of Passenger Trains Effec- | ill! tive 12:01 A. M., Sunday, January 30, 1921. St ~ ' > - f i Southern, i\o. jo, ior uacuvmt, ic at 8: 48 a. m., daily. du ic at 10:11 a. m., daily except ie at 8:2.1 p. m., daily. di Southern, No. 17, for Greenville, ,ie at M:40 p. m., daily. | di Southern, No. 18, for Columbia, da You are invite Institution in t ? that you woul< merchandise o Your banking 4 teous attentior be welcome. / Newb< B. G MATTHEWS, A ICOXUV^liU State, Count Member Make This Its Worry % We? * Work has ne1 hard work plu contented life. Now of all tim man can tell v Banish worry Opening A Sa Today and L Success And I Years To Com The E) "Thi e at 12:30 p. m., daily. Southern, No. 16, for Columbia, C., X. & ]j., No. 55, for Columbia, inday. C., N. L., No. 52, for Greenville, ic at "1:00 p. m., daily. N. & L., No. 53, for Columbia,! 10 at 3:38 p. m., daily. C., N. & L, No. 54, for I>aurons, j ic at G:10 p. m., daily except Sun-j IV. MV1TA1 d to come to t he same matte] * i enter a stoi r service, ; business will r i. A friendly < f A Bank of r% .1 n *rry, South i^ar T. K. JOHNSTONE, Cashier. y and City Federal Reserve . Bank Your Busim ?Not Wo g irs folks I ver killed anj s Saving is the ics is The Time /hat tomorrow e i ?c rrom your arc vings Account stying The Foi iappiness In T1 le! ^change ? Bank of the Peot / C., N. & L., No. 12, Mixed train, for Laurens, due at 0:30 a. m., running one hour and 30 minutes lat? account A. C. L. connections, expected about 11:00 a. m. ? - t v 1 o i i I'., A: Ij., ino. i?>, iuiavu urrtiii, for Columbia, due at. 5:20 p. m. These trains run daily except Sun> day. T. S. Lcflcr, Union Ticket Agent. i I rioN I his financial r of fact way i ,| e to secure J > I < , \ eceive eour:all will also * p } I! I i in im Newberry f ' t 1? J oiina W. W. CROMER I Assistant Cashier. j Depository I System .1 I ill ? ?? 1 -i K i ;ss Home! \ rk?That "hit 'body. Good formula for ; 1 \ \ to save. No i : may bring. ; j forever by j In This Bank nidation For : be Days And ! ' s Bsuik >le" ?