Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-17

100000 as his share of the spoils.
On the night of the memorable day
on which Lee surrendered General
Grant sent rations for twenty thou
sand men to the starving enemy, and
never received a dollar of extra COM
pensation for his Incompatible SER
vices.
1t is useless to search the annals
of other lands fol the counterpart of
Gen. Grant. The American repub-
lie alone furnishes his peer in the
peerless Washington. In lofty pa
triotism. in sublime faith. In invinci-
BILE frmness, in supreme devotion to
duty, ''saving common sense,
Washington and Grant will stand as
the heroic figures in the forefront of
the nations life. The one blazed
the way by which the little colony
of states marched out of the wilder
ness of oppression and vassalage into
the light of day and independence.
The other blazed the "Wilderness"
with shot and shell, with charge and
counter charge, with battle by day
and battle by night, until above the
roar and din was heard the shout
that Richmond had fallen, that Lee
had surrendered, that the rebellion
was dead.
After the victory over an enemy
there remains greater victory to be
won over self. Washington, after
Yorktown, stood on a dizzy height.
He might have said with Cromwell,
walking in st. James Park, ''What
if man should take upon himself to
be king?" The temptation was
there. The opportunity was then.
Surrendering his sword and commits
sion, Washington retired to Mount
Vernon and became a tiller of the
soil. Grant, after the surrender of
the rebel armies, had another army
to vanquish. A million men were in
arms to be relegated to the peaceful
and Industrious walks of life. In
few months he had mustered out of
service 1,O23,021 Union soldiers.
Those soldiers returned to their
homes and posts of duty in civil life,
only ''conscious of having discharg-
ed," as their great commander said,
"the highest duty of American citi-
zens." Washington lived to see the
Union established and the republic
launched among the great nations of
the earth. Grant lived to see the
union restored, peace re-established,
and the republic started on a new
career of liberty and prosperity such
as it had never known before.
When Washington died the first
consul ordered the banners of France
to be draped in mourning for ten
days, and solemn service to be per-
formed in the Invalides, Sin the
presence of all that was eminent in
Paris" When Grant died, the flags
of Osborne and Windsor were half
masted, and the doors of Westminis-
ter were flung open and the greatest
and noblest in London were present.
But it is not to Grant, the patriot
and soldier, that this days CONT
mental tribute is alone paid. Gould
be speak whose lips are now sealed
| in death, he would say, as he said
when Europe laid It's homage at his
feet, "This homage is not for me
but for my country" "This tribute
is not for me alone, but for my com
rades of the Grand Union army az
WE'LL" This days wide and magni
fcent testimonial is paid to Genera
Grant, and to the tens of thousands
| of his gallant comrades. both dea(
and living, who staked their all 70
their country.
1t was the policy of ancient Rom
to fuse into Roman civilization al
nations that were conquered by Ro
man arms. Something of this broa'
and generous spirit has seemed t.
actuate the conquerOr of the state
of the rebellion. In the terms h
gave, the acts that he ordered, an
the words that he uttered, the pun
pose has been plain to win the erin
states back to their normal positiO
in the union, and fuse into one com
mon and patriotic fraternity the en-
, tire citizenship of the republic. l
the tributes of affection and veners
ton that come from east and wes
. from north and south, from the cor
quered and conqueror alike, our her
has won the noblest and most endu
ing of all his triumphs. His deaf
is swallowed up in victory. He WI
never surrendered while living,
death,
"Surrendered not but died"
: Telegraph.
. A NATIONAL FUNERAL.