Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-08
THE DYING HERO.

indianapolis Journal: Had Gen.
Grant been diving TWENTY-FIVE years
ago to-day the nation would have been
sleeplc>s from anxiety, as it is now
from love and sympathy.
Rockford Register: His name stands
level with the most iilustrious of his
tory, and it will grow brighter As the
wears pass and the little criticisms of
contemporary times are forgotten.
Utica Press: When the final agony
Is past-but let us not speak of that
now. A the present 1.-The great heart
of the nation beats heavily As the bull
!etins from the sick room are sped
over the land.
Syracuse Standard: If both Gen.
Grant and Jefferson Davis should die
upon the same day. the death of the
latter would be forgotten in the sor-
row which the nation will feel when
the hero of AppamatoN is no longer
among the living.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette:
The interest In the condition of Gen.
Grant is universal. and sympathy with
HIM l. confined 10 no class or condi-
ton. creed or race or nationality. One
who will be always in the foremost
and highest group of figures in Amer
lean history l. passing away, through
trightfui suffering. with admirable
composure and heroic fortitudc.
New York Herald: The grand old
soldier faces the inevitable with the
same stern aud indomitable courage
which he has shown on a hundred
battle-ticldS. He has at least the conSo-
latiop of knowing in his trial that
j0.0G0o00 of people. including the
north and the south, the east and the
west, forgeiful of any and all differ
ences of opinion in times past, stand
ready To offer him their sympathy.
pittsburg Chronicle-TeIegraph: Gen.
| Grant leaves name that will shine in
| history for many an age and become
| brighter a the passions and preludic-
cs aroused by the great struggle of the
civil war pass away and are forgotten.
| Ii is not the time now TO attempt a
detailed estimate of his character and
work. That can best be left TO pos;
ity. and LETT TO il with iu.l confidence
that il will accord him the full need
of fame as soldier and patriot.
Louisville Commercial: Ii is the
great soldier who did so much TO re-
store unity 10 this country: the mag
unanimous general who gave generous
terms after winning fair fight, and
insisted on their full observance at the
risd of official disfavor and popular
diSapproval: the accomplishing man
VINO endures with calm fortitude the
| bullets of misfortune and disease
around whom the sympathies OF the
| people cluster a. they watch with
glistcning eyes his dying torture.
81. Paul Pioneer Press: Ii is no
mere metaphor to say that the atten-
ton ofihe whole country is fixed up
on that chamber of imminent death.
where physicians and friends are wait
ing for the last moment. From the
telegraph station established on Mad
ison avenue every bulletin i flashed in
a moment to the New York papers
and to the telegraph offices for iistri-
button over the whole land The ma
ton stands at his bedside and hears in
the tick of the telegraph every fiutter
of his falling pulse. When the end
shall come. be il day or night, the news
will run over the land like a nerve inn
pulse. thrilling and saddening hearts
and homes. in Minnesota and Cslifor-
MIA as soon as in New York and New
England and the sheck may be expect
ed any hour.