The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-08-07
GRANT Is DEAD!
The Saddest Announcement Since
That OF Lincoln's Fall
a Brsef Review Of some 81 the salient
>osnss In His Grand Career Rec
ord a . soldier. as Politician ana
President. aud - Man.

have been Spokru. nv "or ~"-N A
face OF Nature for the last time. ms grea' !
career is ended. We are, therefore, COM q
pslled 70 speak Of him who but fe" hours
ago was the most illustrious OF hvins men
As one who has obeyed the summons 70
"ioin the innumerahle caravan that moves
toward the realms where each must take
his siumber in the silent halls OF death"
In the closing Of his life our grand tri-
umvirate Of departed patriots-W ashins-
ton. Lincoln and Grant-grander than the
history OF any other nation presents
completed. The Nation mourns is IDOL
The world. which knew him by heart.
svmpathizes with the people OF the United
States in their bereavement.
when Daniel Webster died Franknn
Pierce said: ssThe great heart Of the Ma
ton throbs heavily at the portals Oh MS
crnve.r General Grants death viii touch
the heart OF universal humanity, lot the
events 81 his life spanned the widest range
az human experience-from almost blank
ohscurity 70 the most dazzling fame the
World can give: from the impotency OF
moor and almost unknown man 10 sucn
mower as human hand has seldom grasped.
II i NOT easy to think or write OF 6en-
eral Grant in the past tense. so granny
solid was the man in his habits, his enar-
scter. his deeds: 50 genuine. 80 Tar re-
moved from all that was not substantial
as the everlasting truth, that his passage
from the society Of the living 20 "the
breathless darkness and the narrow
house, seems like the sinking Of mouu-
tain or the sudden prostration OF forest
For wears he was the 'Silent Man
.sthe Sphvnxr--so reticent that those VINO
ind red without knowledge spoke OF MIN
a. one who gained a reputation for Wis
iom by saving little But he never failed
- sneak when words were needed, and no
man ever uttered weightef words than he.
His words are as imperishable as his
leeds: both will live in the memory OF
men - long as a record or tradition Of our
Republic shall endure. Centuries hence
fha descendants Of the men who fought
with Lee. and Johnston, and Stonewall
jackson viii ponder tenderiy ana lovingly
On the words which Grant spoke 70 Lee al
Appomattox: LET your men take nome
their horses; they will need them in pillow
ing and making their crops" And abov'
the roar OF political tempests for many
decade to come will be heard the Let u
have peace with which Grant met TN
furious storm that rent the political hrna
ment seventeen years ago.
Il can not be said that General Gran
made no mistakes in his military career
10 claim that would be 10 set him above a.
the weaknesses OF humanity, 70 endow hir
with the attributes OF the Deity. But L
ii be remembered that in almost every In
stance OF an alleged sshlunder' his judg
ment was vindicated by results. "fo
were right and was wrong" wrote Abra
ham Lincoln 10 Grant on a memorable &C
casion. II was simple tut magnliicer
tribute. The time Las not yet come for
unimpassi0ned analysis Of Grant as
commander but the time Will never com
when the people of the United states WI
rate him less or lower than they az IN 20
zenith of his military renown- he ga,
our arms success when Others failed. =
-xas the one man Of deeds, the one ma
who asked for nothing. the most modes
unassuming man that ever led an army
victory. But he knew himself. ne trustf
himself. and that calm, unuttered trn
xon the confidence Of the army and Il
country.
was with laurels, il was inevitable m
Grant should be offered the Presidenc
with the certainty Of election n ne wop
consent. II may be that for his own Ia
piness he made miSiak IN leaving Y
f,eneralghip for the Presidency. But
-oheyed the call of the country IN civil az
hal obeved IL in military life. A. he new
asked for promotion IN the Held, - ne y
carried into the White House by the pop
lar will aud not by his own procuremeI
The eight years Of his Adminlstratl
were n stormy period--the err az reco
struction, an era of bitterness, ~ poiltis
malevolence 1t was, too. time when
decentralization wrought by the war maj
Tested itself ia political corruption. /
I'LL rafl NJ
absolutely incorruptible. Ills great
fault was a good trait carried 10 an extref
He trusted his friends sometimes VII
they had no right 70 his confidence:
The closing years Of the great life y
ended were not passed in repose, for %
eral Grant could not he an idler. his Y
tour ia foreign lands. his various busin
enterprises and the awful disaster brouI
70 him and his family by the perrdy o.
young man on whom he had built an az
lutte trust, make up a strangely var
picture as his career passes in review.
was well--it was SO good thing that
country will not soon cease 70 DO graft
for it--that Congress performed an act
Justice TO the deur "Old Man before
closed his eyes on the scenes 81 earth.
was well, too, that he had an opportun
n. witness to tell the simple story 81
BETRAYAL by Ward. His last days y
male less painful by these two events.
Millions Of hearts are aching, million
syes are blinded with tears to-day:
peerless man goeth 70 his long home
the mourners 20 about the streets.
soldiers whom he met In our great
war. the fathers, mothers, brothers
sisters 81 the men who wore the blue;
soldiers who wore the gray, and the
ple of the South who thank God for
restoration Of the Union-all these an
their fellow citizens bow their head
sorrow. for our most honored and
loved citizen has passed beyond the 81
Of time.
The Hero's Career.