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_From the “New York Times.”_
FEW men who have never entered the public service were more widely known
throughout the country than Henry W. Grady, who died at Atlanta, and the
death of only a few even of those who have won the honors and the
prominence of public life would be more sincerely deplored. Ten years
ago Mr. Grady had made himself known in the South by the fervency of his
devotion to her interests and by the unusual ability he displayed in his
newspaper work, and the people of the South met his devotion with
characteristic warmth of affection and generosity of praise. A little
later he was recognized in the North as an eloquent interpreter of the
new spirit which had awakened and possessed the South. His speech at the
dinner of the New England Society three years ago was only an expression
from a more conspicuous platform of the sentiments which had long
inspired his daily writing. And it was not merely as an interpreter of
Southern feeling that Mr. Grady was entitled to recognition. In a large
measure he was the creator of the spirit that now animates the South. He
was an apostle of the new faith. He exhorted the people of the Southern
States to concern themselves no longer about what they had lost, but to
busy themselves with what they might find to do, to consecrate the
memories of the war if they would, but to put the whole strength of
their minds and bodies into the building up of the New South. To his
teaching and his example, as much as to any other single influence
perhaps, the South owes the impulses of material advancement, of
downright hard work, and that well-nigh complete reconciliation to the
conditions and duties of the present and the future that distinguish her
to-day.
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