 There was a South of slavery and secession — that South is dead. There is a South of union and freedom — that South, thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour.  Transactions - Page 1931900Full view - About this book
 | John Raymond Howard - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1910 - 362 pages
...December 12, 1886, he made a great impression. "There was a South of slavery and secession," he began; " that South is dead. There is a South of union and...thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour," and he proceeded to depict it in glowing words that aroused the enthusiastic sympathy of his hearers.... | |
 | Marguerite Stockman Dickson - United States - 1911 - 650 pages
...for us to remember that in the progress of the days since the war the South has nobly borne its part. "There was a South of slavery and secession — that...thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour." These words, spoken in 1866 by one of the South's leading men, have been more than justified as the... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1911 - 602 pages
...kindlier judgment. This was the voice of Henry Grady, who quoted the words of another in saying: ' ' there was a South of slavery and secession : that...thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour." The awful problems of the South at the close of the war were brought home to many northern minds for... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1911 - 824 pages
...annual meeting. Q 55 I u £ P U x Rev. E. Lyman Hood, Ph.D. 44 ' • ^HERE was a South of slavI ery and secession — that South is dead. There is a South...thank God, is living, breathing, growing, every hour." These luminous words came from the lips, in 1866. of Senator Benjamin H. Hill, of Georgia, in Tammany... | |
 | Kate Forrest Oswell, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1912 - 618 pages
...feelings between the North and South, and it at once distinguished Mr. Grady as an orator of high rank. "There was a South of slavery and secession — that...thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour." These words, delivered 5 from the immortal lips of Benjamin H. Hill, 1 at Tammany Hall, in 1886, true... | |
 | Clark Mills Brink - Oratory - 1913 - 464 pages
...and as the utterance of a man entitled to be ranked among the very greatest of American orators.) " There was a South of slavery and secession — that...thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour." These words, delivered from the immortal lips of Benjamin H. Hill, at Tammany Hall, in 1866, true then,... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Elocution - 1913 - 632 pages
...my beloved, in the cause of humanity, under the American flag. — John M. Thurston. THE NEW SOUTH " There was a South of slavery and secession — that...thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour." These words delivered from the immortal lips of Benjamin H. Hill, at Tammany Hall, in 1866, true then,... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1913 - 614 pages
...so many articulate words, pleads for fidelity, for law, for liberty! THE NEW SOUTH. HENRY W. GRADY. "THERE was a South of slavery and secession — that...thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour." These words, delivered from the immortal lips of Benjamin H. Hill, at Tammany Hall, in 1866, true then,... | |
 | Leonidas Warren Payne - American literature - 1913 - 532 pages
...popular by Grady, was based on the words of the Georgia senator and orator, Benjamin H. Hill, namely: "There was a South of slavery and secession — that...thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour." Enamored of means in love with. 21. A brave and simple man. Grady's father, William S. Grady, who was... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1915 - 100 pages
...a kindlier judgment. This was the voice of Henry Grady, who quoted the words of another in saying : "there was a South of slavery and secession: that...thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour." The awful problems of the South at the close of the war were brought home to many northern minds for... | |
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