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FRIDAY
August 14th.
POSTPONEMENT.
We hold over a number of original
and news articles until next issue to
make room for a detailed report of
the Grant memorial services.
, A Grand Snow.
Fryer's Circus and Equescurriculum
performed last evening for the first time
in this city, and at once scored a great suc
cess. The iarge tent was completely
filled by an audience who wTent away
more than satisfied. Whatever was
down on the programme was fully carried
out, and not a hitch occurred. The first
part consisted of a series of gymnastic
acts and musical specialities, which were
cleverly done. Len Shilletto, as a mus
ical nomus, was particularly good. Un
doubtedly the hit of the evening was Mr.
Fryer's trained horses, goats, and dogs.
It is wonderful to think that dumb ani
mals can be trained to such perfection as
witnessed last evening. Eight pretty
little ponies went through a military drill
with great precision, and drew forth
tumultudis applause from the audience.
Afterwards they played hide and seek,
danced, skimoed rone, nlaved see-saw.
and one fired off small canon olaeed on
.his back, white nnotbPr Wrwl ovPr.
the latter leaping through hoops.. One
very amusing thing was the erection of a
gallows by two dogs, and the hanging and
funeral of a small dog which had been
6 v-x. liuriy
brought down the house. The perform-
ance concluded with an amusing act,
Circus Hidinfy "R-vnnaArl " clinnw
flftfrte(t Sfti.ci li-rirr a nnllni. HP.. :,, f ,
Circus Riding Exposed," showing how
young boys are initiated into the art of
riding in the ring. The only drawback
of the evening was the wretched music,
which it is to be hoped will be improved
upon. The second performance will be
given this evening, when there is no
doubt another large audience will be in
attendance.
Police court.
SEFOSE POLICE JUSTICE BICKEET0N.
TSUBSDAY, AugUSt 13th.
Elias, an express driver, was charged
with forgery. He pleaded not guilty, and
"was remanded until the-17th. Kinney &
Peterson appeared for him.
Ah Man, Ah Soy, Ah Chong and Ah Leone:
were charged with malicious injury. Each
defendant pleaded not guilty, and was re
nanded until the J.8th. Jlr. Jono. Austin
defends them.
George H. Torbert wa3 brought pp on re
mand, charged with larceny. Soon after
the case commenced, some one in Court in
structed Mr. Kinney to defend the prisoner.
The eyidence was all in yesterday afternoon,
and judgment will be given this morning.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
There will be music at the Yosemite Skat
ing It ink this evening.
ifessrs. Lyons & Levey hold their regular
cash sale at 10 o'clock this morning.
Applications for money orders on the
United States, per steamer Mariposa, must
b nude at the Post Office before 12 o'clock
noon to-day.
The Oceanic steamship ifariposa sails at
noon to-morrow for San Francisco. The
Peat O&ee mail closes at 10 o'clock a. m., a
late letter-bag until 11 o'clock.
The Eoyal Hawaiian Band will play at the
wharf to-morrow at the departure of the
teamer Mariposa, and then disband to
enjoy a well-earned vacation of one month.
There will be no concert at Emma Square
Saturday afternoon.
une wooden god Kanehoalaai was found
en August Sd at Molokai in a house lately
ariennied hv Knalrala. Tho naUvaa ii : - I
rf -".v- UCiicYc i
once kept by the ancestors of the late Kua- in
fcala, who worshipped it.
On Thursday morning Mr. and Mrs. Sam I
rarwr invnea a number of friends to drive
out and view the Pali and partake of a luau
in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Spreckeia, Miss
Ivers and Miss Pore. The affair was a thor
oushlr enjoyable one. The ti
And pleasant, and the yew from the Pali ex
e&ptiQJiilly fine. Among iha guests were
Ilia Majesty the King, H. K. JI. Princess
Likelike, Mrs. Curtis laukea, Captain Hay- to his birth-place, traced him through
ward, Mrs. HallaJea, Mrs. and Miss Coney, youth, watched -him up through the
Hr. and Mrs. Strove, Mr. and Mrs. Levi clouds at Lookout Mountain, stood ap-
And Mr. Monssrrat, b palled at hjs vigorous and persistent j
GENERAL G-RANT.
Memorial Services in Honor
of the Dead Hero.
Addresses Delivered on the Occasion.
The news of the death of General U. S.
Grant was received in this city on Satur
day, August 8th, by the steamer Mariposa.
On the evening of that day a meeting,
called by His Excellency George W.
Merrill, United States Minister Resident,
was held at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel to
arrange for the holding of a memorial
service in honor of the late General. A
committee was appointed to make all ar
rangements, and the gentlemen compos
ing it faithfully fulfilled the duties en
trusted to them. Among other things it
was requested by the committee that
public and private business establish
ments should be closed during the
memorial services, and in response the
Government offices were closed at noon,
and the banks and private establishments
at 2 p. m.
THE MEMORIAL SERVICE.
Yesterday the services were held in the
Fort-Street Church at 3 o'clock. The
interior of the church was beautifully and
appropriately decorated for the occasion.
The top of the organ was covered with
the stars and stripes, in the center of
which was a bouquet of flowers. The
framework of the organ was all draped
in black and white, and over the center
of the gilded pipes hung a portrait of the
late General, draped in black and white,
and surrounded by flowers. The front
of the choir gallery was entirely covered
with American flags, forming an appro
priate background to the beautiful deco
rations on the pulpit platform. From
the front of the reading desk hung a
small silk American flag edged with
crape, while the front of the platform
was one mass of the choicest flowers and
ferns. The front of the gallery was draped
and festooned with black and white. In
the center was a large bouquet of flowers
and ferns, from which on either side
spread out the maile vine. At the time
appointed the church was comfortably
filled. Among those present were : His
Majesty the King, Her Majesty the
Queen, H. R. II. Princess Liliuokalani,
II. R. II. Princess Likelike, H. R. H.
the Governess of Hawaii, Hon. A. S.
Cleghorn, Acting Governor ; His Excel
lency "Walter M. Gibson, Minister of For-
eiim Affairs: His Excellencv C. T.
Gulick, Minister of the Interior, and Mrs.
Gulick: His Excellencv Georee W. Mer-
rill, United States Minister Resident, and
Mrs. Merrill : II. B. M. Commissioner
ironTJnirPutham, United 'States TCon-
sul General; the Japanese Consul Mr
Nakamura, Mr. Justice McCully and
lady, the Consular corps, etc., etc. The
I T l T T -r . . . - .
ivupmawuuan iana, Kindly placed at
the disposal of the committee by the
Hon. A. S. Cleghorn, Acting Governor,
.1 T.-...1 -,, -:j. iu i i , . . -
i,u,cu UUU5mc me cimrcu, Deiore and
auer me service, the following pro
gramme :
Funeral March ...... TiefithnvJn
"Dead March in Saul".. Handel
Funeral March h. Berger
" Swe et Bye and Bye."
The American Minister Resident was
President of the Day, and on the plat
form with him were Revs. E. C. Oggel,
George Wallace and S. E. Bishop. Their
Majesties the King and Queen arrived a
few moments after 3 o'clock, and the
service began immediately afterwards in
the following order :
PBOQxUMME.
Organ voluntary "Funeral March"...
Beethoven
Mr. Myron H. Jones.
introductory remarks
vlllZ .7 r V -FS7- V. a 2ggel
Blad?n!rom NPew "
Rev. Sereno E. Bishop
Aito boio-'-o nest m the Lord".
ReadVngNewTVsVamentV..... I
Rev. George Wallace
Hymn " America ".
Choir and Congregation
Brief Addresses;
Hon. A. S. Hartwell,
Mr. Jonathan Austin.
Reverie Violin and Organ
Mr. Yarndley and Mr. Jones.
Reading "A Tribute to Grant"
Mr. James B. Castle.
Anthem "O Lord Thou Art My God". .
. .....Dudley Buck
Brief Addresses:
Dr. N. B. Emerson.
Mr. J. M. Horner.
Consul General J. H. Putnam,
Hymn . . . , Choir and Congregation
Benediction .Bev. George Wallace
Kecessional-Organr, . : .: Mr. Jones
Addresses.
Resident Minister Merrill
follows:
spoke , as
The great conqueror has demanded'an
unconditional surrender of the General
of the age. Death's tidal wave has
washed the soul from the shores of time
out into the great ocean of eternity, and
while the body is moldering back to the
dust from whence it came, we assemble I
on n. rlistnnf coa.m'r iol r,4 r... i
eH" tsiuwDwwcinicw iir
thn i.nii f 0t ' '
honored guest; on India's torrid
through Russia's ice-bound
plains,
realms, men whisper, " Grant is dead,"
How can mortal add luster to liis fame ?
How can I weave chaplets wiiich shall
add new beauty to the life and character
of such a man ? Impossible ! The
people know, and with one accord have
heralded his fame. The world lias gone
time
grasp at Yicksburg, listened to his guns
in the Wilderness, and with respectful
wonder watched him marching down the
brink of eternity, until he could hear the
waves beating on the opposite shore,
with that same firm, steady, courageous
tread which marked his soldier life. A
child of America, his character and fame
are the property of the wT6rld! His only
inheritance was a large brain, a great
heart, and a mother's benediction. 7 Born
in Ohio, in 1822, when that now prosper
ous and thriving State was a part of what
was once known as the "Wild West;"
from an humble beginning, struggling
up through adversity, against poverty,
crowding through a busy, rough and
frowning world, he heroically climbed
the column of human j-reatness until,
scarcely having passed the meridian
of life,
Moving up from high to higher,
Becomes on fortune's crowning slope,
The pillar of a people's hope,
The center of a world's desire.
Whether a youth stubbornly fighting
adversity, on the tented field amid the
smoke of battle, or as chief magistrate of
the nation, tliat same fortitude, courage,
stern resolve and fidelity of purpose, is
mirrored throughout his whole career.
He needs no monument. With his own
hands he has reared an obelisk more im
perishable than stone, more" brilliant
than gold, the foundation of which is
laid deep and broad in the affections of
his countrymen, and by his own acts has
piled stone upon stone until it stands
before the world the embodiment of su
perior genius. General Grant was not
an old man when called to bivouc
with the dead ; but life is not measured
by its hours and days, but by that which
we have done therein for our country and
kind. A useful life is. short if it last a
century. It is " measured by the soul's
advance." Man, by his own deeds
while living, erects, if he will, his own
monument, and by his acts carves in
scriptions which - will remain truthful
mementoes when the escutcheons on the
marble slab shall be dimmed by time
and buried in the dust ' of ages. Moths
may corrupt, and thieves break through
and steal the gilded painting ; ages cor
rode and crumble the marble and
granite shaft, but the crowning glory of
the silent, magnanimous man at Ap
pomattox. Never!
Not nly one great people raise his urn ;
The world's far extended regions mourn.
As the soul of the soldier obeyed the
bugle call from the other shore, bid
adieu to earthly scenes and joined the
waiting heroes, and went marching on
through the endless ages of eternity, the
chained lightnings thrilled the oceans
and flashed the solemn fact around the
world. Mortality is hardly cold, when,
to the prostrate widow beside the couch
ot tne aeaa, tne vjueen 01 a great nation
whispers consolation and dips her royal
scepter in respectful salute, while kings
ftP.. inters. cf every clime and of all
oi liis latlVe. laliu m paying inuuie uj
the memory of the flaxen-haired youth
of the prairies, developed into the illus
trious chieftain of the ace. It is not.
1 . . - tJ
America alone, but the civilized world
recognize the fact that a great man has
passed away great in liis use of oppor-
. , .. f .
tunny, great in tne generosity of his
heart and magnanimity of his soul in his
hours of triumph. Wilt thou, O Record
ing Angel! turn that page whereon is
traced, in undimmed brightness, the
names of illustrious men, and, with thy
pen immortal, in characters of fame, to
stand hencefortn forever, write also
Grant's name. Great in his usefulness
to a nation in time of need ; great in his
wisdom and patriotism; great in his
simplicity; a soldier without fear ; noble
m his life and heroic in death. When
wre contemplate the honors to his mem'
ory, bubbling up all over the world, it
seems to be true that he
Ascended fame's ladder so high,
From the round at the top he has stepped
to the sky.
AVhile we assemble here to pay humble
tribute to his memory, our hearts return
tender thanks to Your "Majesty and
mrs of this Island Kingdomas well as
to the representatives of other nations I
who have honored us with their presence
ana Kinuiy sympathy ; and when the
bells toll and the echo shall be flashed
beneath the seas, announcing that your
loved and honored ones are dead; I feel
that in the quiet, rural homes, in the
cities, on the deserts and in the rugged
mountains of the new world, there will
be words of praise, tenderly spoken, and
tears as honest ss any that can flow in I
your own realms.
MR. A. S. HARTWELL.
Mr. A. S3. Hartwell said in substance :
" Some nien are born to greatness, some
achieve greatness, and some have great
ness thrust upon them. General Grant
was no creature of fortune. Circumstances
did not make him he made them.
Grant never pretended to be anything
but what he was. He was the same un
affected citizen abroad, the guest of
Sovereigns, as when in time of his adver-
sity he drove a load of wood into the city
of St. Louis for sale. He pamfi back fW
his. wonderful ovations around the world
.. . . , " . . ' I
DOSSlDie. a sonnrlpr Ampr Mn.l mn 1
v ? w"7 -
good judgment, and tenacious will. I
never had the honor of serving under his
immediate command either in the armies
of the West, or in the army oi the Poto
mac. Our sturdy townsman, the chair
man of the Committee of Arrangements
for this occasion, if he would speak out,
could tell of his personal and intimate
acquaintance with the General at one
as surgeon and medical director on
hJsEtaff". Another of our townsmen is
here who, while a lad, was present in
Mexic in the same battles with Lient. I
Grant. I saw Grant on only two occa
sionsonce in Charlestown, just after the
Civil War, when I spent an evening in
his company, with some of his staff of
fleers, at the headquarters of General
Sickles. He showed then no elation in
his manner, no consciousness of his grand
success ; he talked quietly and earnestly
of the condition of things and of the pros
pects at the South, and chatted about
reminiscences of the Mexican war. The
next time I saw him was upon Com
mencement Day at Harvard College, in
1872. He was President of the great Re
public. The University was giving him
the highest honors ; her most eminent
men were speaking his praises. He
arose in response to an eloquent address
from the President of the University, and
said that he must rely upon his friend
Judge Hoar, then Attorney General of
the United States, to speak for him, and
that.was all he said. He was not a man,
I think, of strong sympathies or antip
athies. He kept faith with those in
whom he trusted, sometimes during his
experience in civil life, when they did
not deserve his friendship. His soldier's
instinct, so true in military .matters,
failed him at times, as often is the case
with soldiers, in business matters and in
statecraft. . Men believed in him, not so
much from any electric influence which
he exercised as because they knew he
would do what he tried to do.
"But wiiatever his mistakes as a
civilian, he was always true to his coun
try, to the whole country. His fame is
untarnished by a single blemish."
MR. JONATHAN AUSTIN.
""Mr. Jonathan Austin said Comrades
and Friends : We have assembled to
day to join in thought and feeling with
the procession whose mournful symbols
are displayed from the busy centers of
civilization, to the four corners of the
earth, and while our hearts are oppressed
with sorrow for our dead commander,
our grief is tempered with the thought
tliat when the old soldier answered to
the last roll-call he passed from the
afflictions wiiich have borne so heavily
upon the closing months of his life to the
wTell-earned reward of peace through life
eternal. The whole world is better for
the life of such a man. The memory of
his deeds, and of his character, will live
to cheer and encourage true hearts so
long as justice and liberty shall be prized
by mankind. History furnishes no rec
ord of a leader surpassing General Grant
for calm and intelligent bravery in the
face of disaster, or for the boundless
magnanimity of his heart in the hour of
victory. The persistence with wiiich he
adhered to well considered plans was a
key-note to his character. His perfect
faith in the accomplishment of the ob
jects which he sought was exemplified in
the fact that he never turned back. This
was illustrated in his reply to a Chief
Quartermaster who had reported trans-
.. Vwwaarui men and
to -the attack, and who asked : " But
how,' General, if we are driven back ? "
The old hero's eye flashed, as he replied,
" If we come back, transportation for ten
t h"vn'rf tpSII !. . . . . 1 t n i
im ktc auipw iur an mat are
left.
While Americans are proud of a
nobility which has for its only basis in
tegrity and capacity, all nations acknowl
edge the nobility of this grand soul who
commenced life as a poor boy, and left
it the acknowledged military leader of
the world. The nations of the earth have
joined to honor this representative Amer
ican. Rulers and people the highest
and the lowest of all lands clainvwith
us the right to revere the memory of the
great General, the noble citizen. Let us
u: i ... i . . . '
us ,comraaes ana leilow citizens, who
have wandered so far from t.ii fUo
whereon he won immortal glory, join with
mends irom other lands who have
gathered with us to-day in the expression
of our thanks to the Supreme Commander
of the Universe, that this man of un-
swerving integrity and unfailing adher
ence to duty came forth from the peace-
ml pursuits of an humble citizenTand
slew the twin demons Disunion and
Slavery, So thorough was his work that
if ever the ghost of Disunion shall show-
his head, or if ever the ghost of Slavery
shall crack bis whip, the battle fields and
the burial places throughout the land
will give up their dead heroes ; and skele-
tons of regiments, of batteries, and of
troops will arise in their tattered shreds
of blue with the stars and stripes, and of
gray with the stars and bars. The dry
bones will rattle, and the rustv arms will
clank as they form the shadowy line of
battle, blue and gray shoulder to shoulder
to join in one grand charge and sweep
not from earth alone, but from eternity,
the thought of those two crimes. As we
go to resume our respective paths in life,
let us draw consolation from the faith
which assures us that our dead comrade
has left his earthly , abode with all of its
cares and trials, to live henceforth in per
fect peace, to inhabit a house not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens.
A poetical tribute to Grant was read
by Mr. James B. Castle, being Walt.
Whitman's poem in commemoration of
President Lincoln.
dr. rarensnx.
Dr. ET, B. Emerson said: In studying
l.ue iaracter oi a great man, it is well
worth while to picture to oneself the out
ward fashion of his body, and thus gain
a definite conception of the qualities that
made up his physical being, and formed
the soil in which his manhood rooted
itself. Let us not disdain, then, to devote
a few minutes to the study, in all reyer
ence, of General Grant on the physical
side of his being, assured that such study
will well repay us by unfolding some
fountain of strength, some element, or
combination of elements, which made
possible the marvelous success that
cravmpA bia lifa T,iTira;o
Grant possessed no advantage that lifted
him above the competition of thousands
of his fellow-citizens. His bodily frame
was not cast in the mould of a giant.
We find him to have been of medium
height and weight, equalled and even
supassed by many of Ids Generals in
distinction and nobleness of appearance.
Hooker and Custer were giants in stature
alongside of Grant, and in a tilt at arms
the hero of Vicksburg and Appomattox -might
have fared hardly at the hands of
Lee or Beauregard. General Grant had
not the courtly presence of Washington,
or the commanding physique of Scott,
yet no one looking upon him would have
set him down as insignificant or common
place. There was character in his coun
tenance, and force in tle attitudes of his
body. He was gifted by nature with a
sound constitution and a vitality that
sturdily resisted the shocks of accident
and disease. He was a good sleeper, and
could avail himself of this great means
of recuperating tired nature under cir
cumstances which would havQ made
slep impossible to most men. His habits
of body and mind were temperate ; his
pulse w as wont to keep an even beat,
and his temper was not easily ruffled.
The physical temperament of General
Grant was happily compounded of such
qualities as were calculated to impel him
to make prolonged and stubborn resist
ance, and would not permit him to suc
cumb to the depressing influence of de
feat or disaster. In the language of the
physiologist, hi3 temperament would be
described as made up chiefly of those
two vital elements, the bilious and the
sanguine. Along with these was such
an admixture of the nervous and lym
phatic or phlegmatic as is necessary to
the formation of a strong resistant char
acter. It might be said that to this
bilious element in his temperament
which, by the way, predominated in the
make-up of Abraham Lincoln Grant
owed his powerful, bony framework as
well as his taciturnity and reticense.
To the sanguine which was the factor
most largely present in General Wash
ington Grant owed his well-developed
muscular system, and at the same time
his never-failing cheerfulness and elastic
hopefulness of spirit. To the nervous
element in his temperament in which he
was excelled by Sherman General
Grant owed liis power of quick adapta
tion to circumstances, his readiness to
seize an opportunity and press the ad
vantage of his own strength . in the direc
tion of the enemy's weakness. While to
the phlegmatic element he owed that
seeming stolidity which enabled him to
turn a deaf ear to the tongue of envy and
detraction, and to preserve an outward
calm when death played havoc about
him. But analyze as we may the phys
ical elements that make up the material
basis of the man, there is a spirit that
inliabits and rules them which defies our
analyses; let us therefore bring to our
oOAVhv Am-rneTilgwf-cikm'iJet-
mi . -
wuvcouji kji vTeiierai vjrant was
Scotch, and the clan whose name he
bore w ere proud to claim him in 1877 as
one of them. " Their war cry," says
Badeau, " has always been Stand fast,
Craig Ellachie ! ' " Certainly blood is
thicker than water, and it bears along in
us stream tne cumulative influence of
pasi generations. One cannot but think
that the dogged resolution of General
Grant to " fight it out on tlus line if it
takes all summer," was descended by
ordinary generation from that old war
cry of his clan. Let us picture him as he
wTas at the age of twTo score and two, five
feet nine inches in height, a hundred and
sixty pounds in weight, a firm set figure,"
erect and muscular, but not bold or strik-
1Z?g " aPPea"nce head square and well
placed, attached by a neck not too Ion
to a pair of broad and staunchly-built
shoulders. From beneath a broad, clean
cut forehead, which looks white com
pared with the tawnv brown of his
clieeka.; look calmly out uPn you two
lntellect"al yes which, in some
ll?hs seem almost blue; the nose is
slraint' ana llot over long, and gives
one me impression of being slightly
Roman in profile. The liands, which
are attached to muscular arms of ample
lensti
i, are not those befitting a coutier;
but rather such as are inherited from an
ancestry of toil. The -more J consider
the physical and mental make-up of this
remarkable man whom his nation and
the world to-day mourn, the more I am
impressed with the fact that in him wa's
exhibited a most fortunate concurrence
of forces. The elements were the same
as are common to human nature, but in
the nice proportioning of the alloy, as
well as in the regulation of the furnace
fire that fused the elements into one
mass, there was in this case some haunv
stroke of fortune. Such things do happen
MMIIU1J , IJU JVI1UW, 1A1 US
thank God, and call it Providence, which
gave to the metal toughness and hardness
of temper not known before. The spe
cial gift of General Grant was a vast
stubborness in carrying out a purpose.
Though as a citizen he loved peace, yet
as a soldier he was always ready to
fight. The analysis of hi3 generalship,
is beyond me, I am unequa.1 to it.
It siffices for me to say that he was
pitted against able Generals, and won
4.1- - 1 1 - - -
iuai ne was surrounded by great Gen
erals, and yet was gladly acknowl
edged by them to be their superior.
General Grant was not fond of the nm-
fesaion of war. He cared not for its
pomp and circumstances. He delighted
not in battle. The Treaty of Washing
ton was a triumph more dear to him
than the surrender of Lee at Appomat
tox. Time does not rjermit me to more
than mention the
. . 1 -. 0a.,v, ixjf- i
uig uuu reverem siae pi his nature. It
was in these qualities, after all, that
his true riches lay. Then the dear com-.
rade of the Grand Army lay dying at
Mount McGregor, it wras not of his
triumphs we were . thinking, but of the
warm-hearted, generous friend.
Mr. J. M. Horner, in a few well
chosen words, eulogized General Grant.
CONSUL GENERAL PUTNAM.
Consul General Putnam said: On the
12th of April, 1861, the intonation of a
great gun burst upon the air in Charles
ton Harbor. It was borne over the waves,
flashed upon the wires, and hurried upon
the bounding train, until its echoes re
sounded throughout the world. Its
mighty voice proclaimed to Christendom
that the disputes of half a century, in the
greatest of Republics, wiiich had defied
statesmanship--and patriotism,, was now
to be settled. by the arbitrament of arms;
that the greatest civil war in history had
burst forth in fury, and that the millen
ium of arbitration must await a settle
ment by force. All about me I see the
veterans of that contest, and by the fire
which still burns in their eyes, dimmed as
they may be by the gentle touch of time,
I read the remembrance of those stirring
times. Soon the fierce contest, like a
prairie fire, consuming all within its
reach, burst forth. The men who fired
the gun at Sumpter marched their bat
talions upon Washington, the first battle
of the war, and would have reached their
goal had their knowledge been equal to
their valor. Battle after battle came,
each followed by a cry of distress and
rage from those who loved the Union,
for in ea. h contest the stars and bars
were triumph .int. The Confederates had
prepared for the strife and the Republic
had not. But soon a cheer came to us
from the beautiful Cumberland. Fort
Donaldson, the key to the stronghold of
the rebellion, had surrendered, and the
world was introduced to the young man
who was to carve the road to victory and
achieve a place in history by the side of
the military collossus of the world
Ulysses S. Grant. Yicksburg, Mission
Ridge, and the innumerable triumphs
which contributed to the chaplet which
encircled his browT, followed, and then he
led the children of the Union through the
Wilderness, , into the promised ; land,
wiiere the eagles lurched upon their
banners, and the. emblems of rebellion
lay abjectly at their feet. It is a trite
saying that "circumstances make men."
The history of the world has furnished
verification. From Joshua to him whoso
memory we to-day embalm, events have
developed merit. But nowhere has there
been so marked an instance as in the
career of the late General of our armies
Who, in the early months of 1861, would
have looked upon the worn and disap
pointed middle-aged man officiating as
clerk, in a Galena leather store, and by
the most exhaustive stretch of fancy de
pict him as a victorious General of
armies, as President of the Republic,
which in this instance was at least grate
feliaifi?1!!!?..?11:6.81 of al1 the civiI"
I - "'T 'r
nero ana iaol oi a free people? If arbi
tration had settled the questions of the
war, Grant would probably have gone to
ins grave as thousands of waiting men
have gone. But events presented his
opportunity and lie was equal to it.
i-roviaence Had reserved him for his
nation's emergency. But the lesson has
still further value, as evidence of the ad
vancement oi tne age. Tins unknown
man of Galena became the hero of his
time because the oppportunities of de
velopment were given him. The cramped
?A 0 Am ...
spini oi tne past is obsolete, and the
times demand the recognition of merit
rather than a dependence upon class or
race. Remarks to-dav shnnl
brief to allow an analysis of the charac
ter of the great General whom our nation
mourns, jn either is it necessary, as he
was as open as an open book. If too
much frankness is a fault he possessed it,
and every trait of his -character was as
transparent as crystal. His patriotism
was the absorbing element of his char
acter. The periietuity of the Union and
honor of his Government Were the ruling
motives in his action. The grandest
human virtue was his chief weakness
an attachment to friends, so fervent as to
blind him to their faults. To this, more
than all else, maybe attributed such just
grounds oi criticism as attached to hia
administration. But the nobleness of
the act of placing himself as a shield be
tween his friends, whom he believed to
be pure, and calumny, is one winch true
men must always admire. It would
haye been impossible for him to conduct
two administrations through those troub
lous times without incurring the penalty
of abuse and criticism. The purest char
acters are olten obscured by calumny.
The beautiful evening star which sparkles
like a diamond in the gorgeous afterglow
of your setting sun is sometimes hidden
by a passing cloud. But the mist dis
solves and the star remains with its
luster undimmed. The greatness of this
remarkable man was most forcibly exem
plified in the days of his suffering and in
the scenes preceding his death. No hero
ever made a, nahler fight than he. Not
merely a fight for a life which he desired
protracted for his own objects, but for his
devoted family and friends, for time to
work and make renewed contribution to
their happiness, welfare and reputation.
With the terrible canker eating its slow
way to hi3 vitals, and the grim arms of
ucaia constantly stretched to receive
him, he worked with the avidity of a man
wrho had his fortune and fame to cane,
rather than as the great captain who
stood upon the pinnacle and looked down
upon th,e transitory pernors of earth with
which an admiring world had crowned
him. But he felt that his people were
so
uuvuiea to a
record of the wonderful
mrAnin 1- J L 1 1 11 .
a participant, diawn from the only brain little used, W wuJ?rf
n which they were stored. There ' were
errors of historv
. , . J w enrn i
iuue liberated- s
unmasked, ana fAV
Pleaded with theatU lS: .
Physician
the country rX
answered, and death HCj:
th- y$
lely appreciated,;.
His fame extended IT 1
civilization, .JlV0;
u. s-ir r rv m.. v t i i ni
admitted tlQa
markableand r
and on.........
com in En8)J
H1VU,W me world U
yy i '
Not even WashinBI'r;-,:
...: i
filled the eve an.ll
In
ou
S exemplified the '
our
and its glorious rZ.Hj
the public life ni Uv
v VII
rant.
icans here awmhU L7, .
n. 1 .
re two thousand miu. 11
"til fc
1 l
I loin llfminu ... VMI
- - ivm
ios. in n,;a
little
winch, in its
V. Sfiritr, . , "S
u Vx antl ruled a 1
that they scarcely kno
all, feel their hearts
they draw the same ln i
t General and theirai
But it is given unto all to
times I .feel that had Uh
I would make excepts to tJf' I
course. There are men Jj
such perfect mold that thev 'j
forever and ieople coming I
not the law, and IIaJ
Alexander and Caesar & 0
erick and Napoleon and vl'l
faded in their hodi . ?"'t
Grant, and like their's, hism!
immortal. Bring flowers. , '
butthevcan add tin
u.JJ4 i
memory. Pile stone upon st
decaying remains, but his soiv i
At 1 . ... '
?saet i
tne neart.s ol Ins (ountrvmen.
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