Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-10
added greatly TO the fine effect OF the
demonstration.
Commander Hoffman then introduced


demonstration.
Commander Hoffman then introduced
GOVERNOR ELI H. MURRAY,
Acting President of the day, who deliv-
cred the opening address.
My Friends: Our country, clad in the
habiliments OF woe, turns to the banks
of the historic Hudson river and to an
open grave which waits to receive the
dead body of General Grant. The mo-
ments of this passing hour are marked
by the heart throbs of the American peo-
pie. A devoted wife and loving sons and
daughters have looked upon, and touched
for the last time the pallid brow and icy
lips of their precious dead, and have
given his tired body, as he gave the
energy of his best years, to a grateful
country, whose people, stricken with the
calamity which bows their faces to the
dust, will consign him to the grave into
which leaves scared by the summer sun
of grief from every hillside and from the
lands beyond the farthest of the seas,
and bourne by sympathetic winds, will
fall.
The speaker paid beautiful tribute to
General Grant as a faithful soldier, a
worthy President and true American
citizen His domestic life was also
touched upon and the last moments of
the struggling hero were pictured as he
lay watched over by the white winged
Angel OF Peace.
In the ceremonies of this day section
alism is forgotten, contentious are
hushed, and rivalries are abandoned; old
age halts to hear the solemn dirges that
4on - Iao4l, 10 ho o,1I fba
| lips of young manhood culver as fond
| farewells for our dead are spoken. Let
| the history of this life fall in easy recital
from the lips of our children, and lessons
of this occasion make deep impress upon
! the hearts of the women and men of
America.
At it's conclusion the President of the
Day announced the Grand Army of the
Republic Memorial Services, and Com
mander Hoffman asked Post Adjutant F.
M. Bishop:
For what purpose is this meeting
called?
Adjutant-To pay our tribute ofrespect
to the memory of our late comrade.
Post COMMUNICATIVE you record
of his service in the cause of our country,
and in the Grand Army of the Republic /?
Commander, have
The Adjutant asked that Comrade Eli
H. Murray, President of the Day, be
allowed to read the record, which Gov
ernor Murray did in clear manner,
addressing himself to the sacred record
of the dead hero, while the Grand Army
people remained standing. The record
was most complete history OF General
Grant, giving his geneaology, birth,
schooling, early life, and first military ca
reer in Mexico and at the opening of the
last great war in America. The speaker
very graphically portrayed the attack
and capture of forts Henry and DonelsOn
at the commencement of the great strug-
gle which made him immortal. The two
armies were described, one under Lee and
the other led by Grant. Daring UNDER
takings and miraculous achievements
of the great American were recounted by
Governor Murray. Then the peace of
the whole country, Grant at the head of
this free Republic, his public and private
life, his quiet and unostentatious de-
meanor, his stubborn will and strongest
characteristics, and the trials, imposi-
tions and all which at times he bore
secretly, as all great men do. Nothing of
blAC teif WStS llDlC lillClltly llolcIlCu W
than the record of General Grant. In
closing the long but interesting history
of Grant the following beautiful verse
was read:
Mourn for the man of long enduring blood,
! The Observation-Disclosures reso-
lutte.
! Whole in himself, a common good.
Mourn for the man of amplest influence,
| Yet cleareSt of ambitions crime,
Our greatest, yet with least pretense.
Great in council and great in peace:
Foremost Captain of his time,
Rich in saving common sense,
And, as the greatest only are
In his simplicity sublime"
LET the sound of those he sought for,
And the feet of those he fought for,
Echo round his bones forever more.''
At the conclusion of the record OF the
dead, the Post Commander said:
The record is an honorable one, and in
a few appropriate words the ritual of the
G.. A. r. was read and taken part in by
! the members of the order. At the con-
| clusion of these exercises the Opera House
! Band played "Grants March" composed
for the occasion by Prof. Peddersen. Gov
ernor Murray then introduced
COMMISSIONER RAMSEY,
Who said that the most forcible impress
sion made upon his mind by the death of
General Grant was that the world to-day
was not what it was yesterday, since the
moral power welded by him had been
removed for ever, and that there was not
one man in our millions who could, should
the emergency demand it, WELD such a
beneficial influence That the power and
influence of his name had extended far
beyond the limits of his native land, and
that he had been cloaked with potential
influence even in the distant Oriental
States of Siam, China and Japan. His
name had been power among all the
English-speaking nations of the earth,
and they had We'd with each other in
paying him homage, That his continued
success from the time he first took charge
of the troops had won the admiration and
esteem of the world, and all nations
united in sorrowing at his death. He
had enjoyed pleasant relations with
General Grant and often met him during
the period of the war, and never, not even
in the moments of the most intense COM
motion, heard from him any remark in
regard to the opposing force that evil
denced passion or great excitement. He
was always the same quiet, calm, self
contained, self-reliant man. 1t was so
during his Presidential terms, when the
speaker had come into more frequent con-
tact with him. Questions of the greatest
moment We're before the Congress and
the country, in many of which he took an
especial interest; but while he sought
conversation with members of either
House upon different subjects, such as
the matter OF st. Domingo, the resump-
ton of specie payments and other equally
important questions, he never exhibited
any unseemly eagerness in imposing his
views upon others.