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_From the “Pittsburg Post.”_
THE death of Henry W. Grady will be received with profound regret
throughout the Northern States, while in the South there will be deeper
and more heartfelt sorrow than the death of Jefferson Davis called
forth. The book of Mr. Davis’s life was closed before his death, but it
seemed as if we were but at the beginning of Mr. Grady’s career, with a
future that held out brilliant promise. He had all the characteristics
of warm-blooded Southern oratory, and his magnetic periods, that touched
heart and brain alike, were devoted to the single purpose of
rehabilitating the South by an appeal to the generosity and justice of
the North. No speech of recent years had a greater effect than his
splendid oration at the New England Society dinner in New York last year
on the “New South.” It was happily and appropriately supplemented by his
recent address to the merchants of Boston. He was a martyr to the cause
he advocated and personated, for it was in the chill atmosphere of New
England he contracted the disease of which he died. Rarely has it been
given to any man to gain such reputation and appreciation as fell to Mr.
Grady as the outcome of his two speeches in New York and Boston. He was
only thirty-eight years old; at the very beginning of what promised to
be a great career, of vast benefit to his section and country. He was
essentially of the New South; slavery and old politics were to him a
reminiscence and tradition. At home he was frank and courageous in
reminding the South of its duties and lapses. At the North he was the
intrepid and eloquent defender and champion of the South. Both fields
called for courage and good faith.
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