The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-07-10
iron Tie Sow -gk Times. J1ly3.
E.hUmItIon OF the Remains Of President
Monroe.

The remains Of James Monroe, trth Presi
dent Of the United States, which have lain
twcnty-sevcn years in the Second street
Cemetery, il this city, were early yesterday
morning d Suffered, and taken to the
Church Of the Administration in Eourteenth
street There thiity-threc pall-bearers, dis
tinguished, and, for the mos, part, hUnora-
bic citizens, took charge Of them, and.
marching down Broadway, attended by a
large procession Of civilians and the militia
ry, with solemn music, while all the bells
wero tolled, and, from our national vessels
miaute-guns were fired, laid them in state in
the City Hall, under guard OF the English
Regiment. This morning the remains will
be borne 10 the steamer jamestown, and
surrendered 10 the keeping Of a committee
Of the Virginia Legislature for re-interment.
The affair was admiralty conducted, and
calculated to revive whole ONE memories Of
the virtues Of orr early Presidents.
James Monroe was born in Westmore'and
county, Virginia. in 1858. Though q Col
lege student at Trenton, when the war Of
the Revolution broke out, he Joined the
my under Washington, and fought CALAMITY
at Harlem Heights, White Plains, Trenton,
and Brandywine. When he retired from
the army, it was with the rank of Colonel,
he was first elected to Congress. In 1874
he vas Minister plenipotiaiy at Paris. and
afterwards Midister to London. In 1914 be
was member of Mr.. MadiSon's Cabinet
From 1918 to 1926 he was President of the
United States, having been elected unani-
mousy to Il second term Of service. During
the whole of his long public career there is
on record no act Of his which is blemish
On his character; and while he was before
the public as principal actor in these
events which now are our proudest history,
he enjoyed an immunity from abuse ard
scandal which makes the funeral ovation of
yesterday no contrast to the eulogies Of his
contemporaries. He retired from public lfe
poorer man than he entered it, and, as all
the world said then, and echoes now, an ho-
nest man. The Dust of an homes. man has
consecrated our City Hail. The oontempla.
ton Of such Anticipated virtues " does good
like a medicine"
Monroe died in this city, and was buried
i'll the cemetery from which his remains
were yesterday removed, on the 9TH Of july,
1881. His funeral was a very imposing one,
and the place OF interment honorable. A
marble slab lying upon the earth, and bear
ing upon it simply his name and the name
of the owner Of the vault indicated to the
visitor the spot where one Of the Fathers of
the Republic was laid, but was no sign to
the passer-by in the street that President
Sas buried there. 1t was decent, but
sea RELY becoming burial. Virginia does
tardy justice to the memory of one of her
distinguished sons 10y retaining his ashes,
though the metropolis loses ono OF its attrac.
tons for sober, good people, who loved to
feel that so honest man was at least among
their dead. The occasion, yesterday, was
creditable to all concerned in conducting it.
The funeral music. the muttled drums, and
the Grape. were not in affectation of mourn.
ing-what was there to mourn but pro-
per memorial to the virtues of one who long
ago had "gone over to The majority" and
in the presence of whose relics we instinct
lively stand uncovered and respectful.