The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-08-08
The Funeral of Grant.

DALLAS, Aug, s - Editor HERALD
Your Meridian correspondent, w.
A. r., in yesterdays HERALD, seems
representative lest, in observing the
oeremonials to-day, in memory of Gem
eral Grant, Southern men act as sup
plants ard hypoerits. He thinks the
South has cringed long enough and
seems prone to consider Northern
marks OF respect TO deceased Federal
soldiers as time-serving knee bend-
Ing, When the heroic and beloved
General Dick Taylor died in Now
York and Was borne to tho grave by
Union generals, no American man,
proud OF bis country, felt ash med or
agSrievea, or that any one had played
sycophsnt. When Henry Clay and
John Randolph fought a duel and Ran
dolph fired in the air, Mr.. Clay, in tho
fulness OF his heart, rushed TO him
exclalminR: "My dear sir, after what
has happened, | would not have hurt
a hair OF your head for the world" to
which Mr.. Randolph replied, "And /,
Sir, would not have made Mrs. Clay
widow for all the world aud tho traits
thereof"
When, in another duel in those
earlier days, General White fell
wounded, bis antagonist, General Sam
Houston supported his head on his
own lap. In another duel when the
celebrated DR.. Richardson fell pierced
by the bullet OF tho great surgeon
Dudley, at Lexington, the latter at
once rendered his professional GER
vices. Here are throe cases illustrating
Southern character. Does any South
ern cheek blush ~ their recital.
AS to General Grant: laying
aside the general and strictly
national view OF the case, un.
derstood by all, look Tor moment
from a strictly Southern standpoint
and how stands the matter. In the
first place, General Grant was the
communicative chief of the Union
forces in the hour of their greatest
and final triumph over us. Az no
time during tue contest was he &c
cused OF going beyond tho rulesOf war
for our dobasemeiS, and in the last
great triumph, when cur hearts bled
rs those b0relt of all kOpe, his bear
ing towards our Leo and his starving
legions, was noble and magnanimOus.
4 lltt,e later wEon the secretary OF
war would have broken pightCd
faith, arrested our chosen lBauors and
had them tried, Grant stood forth in
indignant manhood and stornly said
no! In his dying utleranCos, written
aud spoken during q prOtractOd ILL
ness, nougnJ but Kindness toward the
South escaped HIS lips. We dig not
into the bowels Of blood and carnage
from 1861 10 1863, toreyivo hatr0ds then
famed by a mighty tempest, but pass
over the intervening 20 years down
20 the death Of tho great victor, Gull
lug flowers from tho tnOrus aud thistlea
by the wayside to lay upon his grave
In communication OF those virtues
which ne, Rs people, distincLively rec.
Ognise, While we revere and on the
affairs Of our hearts rear monuments
20 Lee, Johnson and other illustrious
chiefs who sleep In their tombs and
cherish love aud gratitude Tor their
survivors, in tho fulness OF American
Misunderstanding not ono jOt or little
we would eXult our civilization and
it's remOteness from the barbarlsm OF
hate, by joining with the sixty mil
lions OF our cOuntrymon in manifest
Ing proper and national respect for
the memory Of the deceased Chieftain
and commend his soul 10 tho God who
gave IL. So We feel and intend TO net,
regardless of those who prefer to
cherish other feelings or pursue a dit
ferent course.
Confederate SOLDIERS.