Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-06-01
The Grand Reriaxx.

Such spectacle as no other Continent
ever saw, as this Continent will never SEQ
again, ended yesterday. The great armies
that have saved the Union passed up
Pennsylvania Avenue. out of mortal sight
and into everlasting history. Henceforth
they exist only in name. The Army of the
Potomac, the Army of the Tennessee. the
Army Of Georgia-they are names to con-
jure with forever, but the terrible force of
them in battle has been welded for four
years only to vanish in day, and to leave
behind them results greater than them
selves.
Such o pageant as yesterday and the day
before witnessed is an event that has to
search wide for percedent of parallel =
From the times Of Napoleon when one or
two spectacles possibly equaled this in mere
numbers, there is nothing to help the fight
Of the imagination till far back in ancient
history where we may fancy the myriads Of
Darius passing in review before the tragedy
OF Arbela had piled the Persian host in
h,ecatombs on the plain which their Mace
eonnn conquerors, trod. But the great
armies Of old history, of Darius or Of Xefxes,
are shadows while the great armies of to-day
are living and breathing men. Those were
the slavish instruments oftyranny and am
bitlon;, these are the right hands ofa Nation
struggling for its own life and the immor.
tality Of the Republic.
And these armies of ours passed in review
before no ordinary spectators. The armie,
themselyes-what are they? The Two
Hundred Thousand Men who tramped with
feet of flesh and blood by the White House
who are they but the sad survivors of sue
cessive armies Of dead Heroes whose earlier
fate gave life to their remaining comrades
and to the Republic? Past what do they file
In quick procession. Tuesday and Wednes
day OF this week and this memorable year
Past tenantless White House from which
has gone out the dead corse OF Him who had
earned the right to view this triumpha
march We know not on which to think
most sorrowfuly- emptiness of the
Presidents Mansion or the thinness of those
sodier-ranks, where every living man seems
to be accompanied by innumerable shadows
OF departed patriot warriors. Ilustrious
Dead are they al-more illustrious than any
living, possessed Of more sacred and endur
ing fame than any who yet tread this whirl
ing globe.
Nor is the mind carried backward only in
its survey OF this miraculous procession. -
We think of those who look on, as we'll AZ
of those who pass by. There stands the
President whose hands are uplifted by these
thronging thousands and who sees in then
the visible support of his Government. =
There is the great commander whose al
embracing genius has saved the Nation. -
There are the representatives of the Exc
cutive, Legislative, Judicial Departments
each one thankful to the army that he ha,
a adepartment to administer There are tn,
diplomatic representatives of the great
Powers Of Christendom- gazing with earn
est eyes on this demonstration oftbe creates
power of all; conscious that no European
sovereignty could match this marvelou.
demonstration oi Democratic supremacy. -
And there-whcther far or near, whethe,
from the steps Of the White House or from
the prairies Of the West, or the shores o
the Atlantic, or the SUBMITS of the noun
tains that divide continent--ther is tn,
American people looking reverently, admir-
ifgIy, affectionaiely on this march OF thei
brothers through their capital, and likt
them Inspired, uplitted, and strengthened
by the o1casion. No need to draw lessor
from it--stil less 10 applaud those VIII,
make part of +, We but echo the cry
the army and OF he People into whom tn
army will in moment melt, Live the Re
public-one and indn;sible foreverl-I N
Y. Tribune.