The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-06-02
The Grand Review.

Such o spectacle as no other Continent
ever saw, as this Continent will never see
again, ended yesterday. The great armios
that have sayed the Union passed up Penn.
sylvania Avenue, ont OF portal sight and
into everlasting history. Hepcefortb they
exist only in name. The Army of tho Po.
tomac, the Army of the Tennessee, tho Ar.
nv OF Geauga--they are names to conjore
with forever, but the terrible force of them
in battle has been welded for four years on
ly TO vanish in day, and to leave behind
them results greater than themselves.
such pageant as yesterday and the day
before witnessed is an event hat has to
search wide for precedent Or parallcl.--
From the times OF Napoleon when ono or
two possibly s1ualed this in mere Numbers,
| there is nothing to bolp the fight of The i'm.
agitation till far back in ancient history
where we may fancy the myriads of Darius
passing in review before the tragedy of Ar.
bella had piled tho Persian host in heca.
tonbs ON the plain which ther Macedonian
conquerors trod. But the grcrt armies o.
old bistorv, Of Darius or of Xerxes are
shadows, while the great armies Of to-. bay
are living and breathing men. Those were
tho slayish instruments of tyranny and am
bition; these are the right hands of Nation
struggling for its own life and the immor.
tality of the Republic.
And these armies of ours passed in review
befsfeno ordinary spectators. The armies
,hemselves--what are they? Tho Two
Hundred thousand Men who tramped with
feet of flesh aud blood by the Whto House
who are they but the sad sunviyors of
successive armies Of dead Heroes whose
earlier fato gave life to their remaining
comrades aud to the Republic? Past what
do they file in quick procession Tuesday
and Wednesday of this week and this mem.
orable year.. Past o tcnantless White
House from which has gone out the dead
co.se OF Him who had earned the right TO
view this triumphal march! We know not
on WHICH TO think most sorrowfully-tbe
emptiness of tho President's Mansion or the
thiDness of those esoldier-ranks, where every
living man seems 20 be accompanied by in
Vulnerable shadows of departed patriot war.
riors Illustrious Dosd are they all-more
lllustrious than any living-possessed of a
more sacred and enduring iamo than any
who yet tread this wbirlIng globe.
Nor 10 The mind carried backward only iD
its survey of this miraculous procession
We think of those who look on as we'll as
OF those who pass by. There stands the
President whose hands arc uplifted by these
throngiDg thousands and who sees in them
tho visible support OF his Government--I
There is tho great commander whose all
embracing genius has saved tho Nation
There are the Representatives of the Exec.
utive, Legislative, Judca! Departments
each ono thankful to the army that he has
u department to administer. There arc the
diplomatic representatives of the great
Powers of Christendom--gaxipg with earn.
est eyes on this demonstration Of the great
est power; all conscious that no European
'Overegnty could match this marvellous
of Democratic supremacy.
And there-whether far or near, whether
rom tho steps of the White House or from
he prairies of The West, or the shores of
he Atlantic. or tho SUBMITS Of the mount
Tins that divide a continent-tbere is tho
American people looking reveron,ly, adm
ingly afiectiOna'ely on this march of their
'rothers through their capital. and like
them inspired, uplifted, and strengthened
~ tho occasion. No need to draw a lesson
rom it-stili less to applaud those who
make part it, We but echo the cry of the
'rmy and Of tho People into whom the or.
ny will 10 moment melt, Live the Repub.
ic--one and indivisible!-N Y. Tribune.