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_From the “New York Churchman.”_
THE premature death of Mr. Grady has taken from the career of journalism
one of its most brilliant followers. In him has passed away also an
orator of exceptional powers, ready, versatile, and eloquent, a man of
many gifts, a student with the largest resources of literary culture,
and at the same time enabled by his practical experience and training to
use these resources to the best advantage.
But the point we wish especially to note is that Mr. Grady, while deeply
attached to the South, and inheriting memories of the great civil
contest which made him early an orphan, was one of those who both
recognized the finality of the issue and had the courage to say so.
He will be remembered at the North as one who spoke eloquent words of
conciliation and friendship, who did his share in healing the wounds of
war, and in smoothing the way toward complete national accord. “Blessed
are the peace-makers” is the inscription one would place above his
too-early opened grave.
We have not the space at our command to do extended justice to Mr.
Grady’s great powers, or to picture at length his bright history. That
has been done in other places and by other hands. But we cannot pass by
the work he did for reconciliation without some expression of
acknowledgment. Such words as his, offered in behalf of peace, will
survive not merely in their immediate effect, but in the example they
set.
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