From the “Darien Timber Gazette.”
Seldom has the nation’s heart been so saddened as by the news of Henry W. Grady’s death. Henry W. Grady, although comparatively young, has conquered this vast continent—east and west, north and south—and his many victories have been bloodless. He has truly demonstrated that the pen is mightier than the sword. An intellect exceptionally brilliant, an indomitable courage, a judgment keen, clear and cool, a character unspotted and unassailable—these are the weapons with which Henry W. Grady captured the nation.
The South loves him for his unflinching devotion to its interests; the North admires him for the conservatism which always characterized his political actions. The brilliancy of his intellect all admit. We venture to say that there lives not a man in the United States to-day whose death would be more sincerely or more universally mourned.
That a career so unusually promising should have been so suddenly cut off is sad indeed—sad especially for the South, whose claims he so ably advocated and so successfully furthured. The severing of the still more tender ties between wife and husband, mother and son, while in the youth of his glory, adds another gloomy chapter to the death of Southland’s most patriotic and brilliant son. Millions will bow their heads in grief with the loving wife and devoted mother.
We read and re-read the words of Henry W. Grady’s last speech with a strange fascination. They are like the last notes of the dying swan and will doubtless have much more weight under the sad circumstances. He has literally laid down his life that the colored man might enjoy his in peace and prosperity.
NO SADDER NEWS.
From the “Marietta Journal.”