Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-27
DEATH OF GEN. GRANT.

ct OF apparent sleep. All the men,
bers of his family were present at
the bedside. Something more than
a year ago he became badly afflicted
with a trouble in the throat which
was found by the physicians to be
cancer, and since then his decline
has been steady, but not uniform.
AS long ago as last March he came
very near his end in one of the bad
turns that have occurred from time
to time ever since the disease seated
itself upon him; but the constant
care from friends and skillful physi-
clans has heightened out his life sew
eral months. Gen. Grant like Wash
1ngton, Lincoln, and Garfield, has a
place not only in the love and patri-
otto affection of the people, but his
name will have an imperishable place
in the history of his country. His
fame will be great as warrior, no.
BILE as a statesman and revered as a
man. He was born Apr. 81, 1922,
and was sixty-three years and three
months old at his death. Among the
many true and interesting things that
are being said of him, the following
from the Boston Journal is quoted:
General Grants capacity as a
captain can only be judged from re-
suits. Before he became a promi-
nent leader IN the western armies no
real results were reached and no def
mite success had been gained. When
he became a trusted leader great re-
suits followed his action everywhere,
and when he was transferred to the
east he turned the armies over to
leaders who were in every way COM
petent to carry out his designs. Fail
ure came only when his suggestions
in regard to commanders were not
needed. Coming east success fol-
lowed where there had been nothing
but defeat or disaster. He was equal
to any emergency. Other men lost
courage and confidence. He always
acted under the inspiration of both.
Other men were surprised and over
whelmed by sudden disaster. Gen
eral Grant it is said, was never sur
prised. His plans were always well
layed, but frequently they were rip
ened into full fruition by the emer-
gencis and the opportunities OF a
campaign. His judgment was al
ways sharpened by events, and his
faculties were always brighter in a
crisis. His decisions were most I'M
erring when compelled to be most
sudden and irrevocable. Then his
words were not laggard, and they
were always to the point. Then &C
ton followed as fast on thought as a
strong mans movements on his will.
Donaldson. Shiloh, Vicksburgh, Chat
tanooga, the campaigns of 1864 and
1865, with their results, establish his
place among the most famous of the
great captains of the age. Congress
acknowledged it by creating the rank
of general as his reward, and the loya
people in the last months of the wal
looked upon him as their great hops
as the man raised from obscurity
by Providence to rescue nation"
Gen Logan in his speech at Port
land recently, put as much truth into
a brief space as could be embodied
in the following:
"For him / can say no more thar
that when he passes away this coun
try and civilization will lose one o
the greatest supporters of liberty tina
ever lived, and one of the grandes
citizens that ever died.
| Among the eminent qualities tina
have endeared the dead chieftain t.
the hearts of the American peopl
have been his simplicity, his care TO
the common people, and his unswerv
ing honesty. He has been great i
the field, successful in the chair O
state, honoled beyond any other ma
by the nations of the earth, but thes
are not the particular things tina
make men beloved; his goodness Q
heart, his simplicity of manners
and his patience during the long pc
Rod of his sufferings have all tende
to strengthen the affection in tn
hearts of all the people, north an
south, till millions feel person.
grief in their hearts as they think {
that great and excellent man ths
now lies in the embrace of deatl
The telegraph had no sooner fashe
the news of his death over the cour
, try-and the world, for that matter
than bells began to toll, flags wei
placed at half mast, and emblems {
mourning showed the respect ever,
where felt for the dead hero, and tt
; grief of all hearts. We give belo
the proclamations of President Clev
, land, and of Gov. Hill of New Yorl
and might have added those of otl
2 er governors, mayors of cities, etc
showing what was done by prominel
officials to do honor to the dead:
The following proclamation hs
been issued by the President:
"The President of the Unite
States has just received the sad til
3 ings of the death of that illustriol
: citizen and eX-President of the Uni
: ed States. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant,
y Mount McGregor, in the state
New York, to which place he hs
lately been removed in the endeav,
d to prolong his life. In making tn
= announcement to the people of tt
8 United States the President is il
+, pressed with the magnitude of Il
public loss of a great military lead
u who was in the hour of victory ma
a unanimous amid disaster serene al
: self-sustained; who in every static
q whether as soldier or as Chi
Magistrate twice called to power
his fellOw-countrymen, trod answer
IL ingly the pathway of duty, undeterr
l. by doubts, singleminded and straigf