Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-05

has never been equalled, and that never can be equalled. On one side of the great city will rise as an instructor to the nations of the earth the statue of liberty en-
 tightening the world; on the other side let
 there rise monument to General Grant, the
 defender of that liberty.
 The closing speech, which was by Rev. Dr. Goodsell, was as follows:
 Who can gather another sheaf even for the grave of Ulysses s. Grant, after such glean- CTS as Governor Harrison and Dr. Smythl The one has sketched the dead hero with the fine discrimination of legal mind and with 8 statesmans breadth. The other has drawn him with moral elevation and sympathy toward all men.
 Yet surely there is a time when one may | be permitted to repeat again and again the 1 words of praise which have fallen from lips of earlier opportunity. Each citizen seeks the privilege of repeating to himself and for others, that General Grant may be the better remembered, the loving phrases by which nation would attest it's gratitude and it's grief. The man who has gone from us did so much, was so much, that we do we'll to accumulate and intensity our concsp- tions of his character.
 For do we not remember that historians study earnestly the opinions of 8 mans con- temporariesa How he appeared, what he accomplished, what he was in spirit and in conduct in the eyes of those who lived when he did, is that for which the historian searches. And we here tonight frame our
 opinions and voice our emotions that this city of Pilgrims, of education and of manu-
 facture may add it's note to the na-
 tional lament. We have heard how calm and silent and strong he was: how broad in his plans how accurate in his information; how true to his friends; how modest and unassuming; how undisturbed in uncertainty; how magnanimous in victory.
 Yet of all that has been said, l doubt not, we have been most touched by the refer ences to the amazing fortitude and more amazing industry of his last days. For we feel instinctively that those were his noblest and his bravest days. The commander-in-chief must not expose his life in battle. It is enough if he, amid the turmoil, possesses and commands himself that he may command others. Nor although one be brave amid the comradeship of dan ger when many face death together does it follow that he will be brave when he meets death alone? Dying as Grant did after months of agony, we all wish that his last days had been less painful. But, as it was to be-. we feel that the highest crown of a noble life came to him in the patience of his fight with death.
 We have with impatience observed that some have denied greatness to this man. He conquered, it has been said, not by skill, but by brute folc ce. Some have said he had the resources of nation behind him; those resources which were but scantily entrusted to others We have done well to recall to- night the fact that he was at the beginning no pet of West Point; no nominee of super annuated generalshipor the war department; he was no political general, studying each military possibility in the layout of his political ambitions. He came to be trusted because he fought his way up from the unknown tanner to Unconditional Sur render Grant. The people believed in him ha did SnDAfhjnO and a6m1nlStra- tions had to take him up because he made himself the man for the hour.
 The world has been apt to underrate silent men, The hero of the novel still has some hold on the popular mind. The man who can talk well enchants many, still the larger part of the soldier. It is no wonder, then, that the shabby man in camp. the silent man in council, should have seemed less than he was to some. But, tried by the standard O. facts, what a man he was! Great in war and great in peace, great as friend and as father, great in his patience under trial and in his freedom from jealousyl He does not wait for our verdict to take his place by the side of our greatest. He has taken it and we must look up to see him.
 In one respect we have one advantage of our fathers. We cannot read the debates in the convention which framed our constitu tion without seeing that these wise men had little history behind them. England's he roes had gained their laurels in the interest of that monarchy which our fathers rejected. They had to go back to the struggles of the Greeks to find their heroes. It was no affec- tation of @ learning ,.s which filled filled names and quotations. They had yet to fill than any since given, they had, but he was still living and within the reach of jealous rancor But one hundred years of history have been fruitful. A cloud of lesser stars mingle their light in broad bow across our sky. But there shine out, brightest to the eye of all the world, Washington, Lincoln, Grant. And two have lived in our time, and two we have followed to the tomb.
 Some of us have memories of men who fought under Washington. I think now of one I saw in my boyhood to whom men gave the place of honor because he had felt the bangs of the nations birth. And I remember how men pressed him to tell the story of those days, and young hearts stopped beating in the fascination of the tale. We, too, have lived in great time. The men who saved us in the hour of the nations peril are with us yet by the hundred thousand The men who have fought under Grant compete with us in the industries of life. But they are passing out one by one. And say that the time will come when he who was at Fort Donelson and Appomattox with Grant will be honored as was the soldier of the revolution. To save the nation was as much as to found it. Comrades, God used you and the great man who is gone to do his work. He rests and your day is coming. May you rest with God.
 On the conclusion of Dr. Goodsells ad- dress the closing hymn was read by Rev. Mr. Miller. The first verse was as follows:
 Go to thy grave in all thy glorious prime,
 In full activity of zeal and power;
 A Christian cannot die before his time,
 The Lords appointment is the servants hour
 The solemn services were concluded with the benediction by Rev. Dr. Vibbert