The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-01-14
GEN. GRANT DECLISEs.


New York, Jan. 6.-The Mall
and Express contained the following
this afternoon:
The following letter from General
Grant will be of the deepest interest
to the American people:
New York CRY, Jan. 6, 1885. My
Dear Sir. Through the press and
otherwise | learn that you, with a
few other friends of mine, are engag-
ed in raising fund for ny benefit
| appreciate the motive and the
friendship which have dictated this
course on your part. but on mature
reflection | regard it as due to N.Y.
self and family to decline this pro-
found generosity.
regret that | did not know this
earlier.
Very truly yours,
U. s. Grant.
CYRUS W. Field, ESQ.
This hr,ef note needs no elOquence
or pathos of comment To make 1t
the more surely arouse the deepest
sensibiiities and most patriotic emo
tions of every true-hearted Amerl-
can. although its object was purely
To cause the Withdrawal of the effort
of tried friends in behalf OF our great
est most beloved, most unfortunate
soldier. The man whose unialter-
ing persistence, matchless military
skill and untiring energy supplied
10 million of American citizens In
Federal uniforms the one supreme
need OF victorious leadership, and
who many times in a single day 5
work saved To the North uncouhtec
millions of Treasure from imminent
risk-not to mention infinitely more
precious possessions-will not allow
brivate liberality to be urged IN his
behalf.
The Mai1 and Express then goes
on to comment on the delicacy OF
Generl Grants situation, and then
adds:
1T was impossible for Grant to
saw what he felt obliged TO say in
his note without bringing to a crls 9
the painful situation In which he
has silently suffered these long
months. during which time the SYM
pathies of people unfal;eringly
grateful at heart have bad the guld-
ance of no definite idea as TO what
needed To he done, what could be
done or what should be done.
AT last the situation is defined
That it will be met in a manner
worthy of the American people and
of their pride In their greatest hero
we do not doubt. Open the channel
and give the direction, and the re-
pressed, bahed, separated rills of
sympathetic American telling will
come out, run together. and swell
into a resistless torrent.
The WaH and Express asks what
is next to he done, aud answers
"Wb but the one straightforward,
legitimate. adequate method bec0m-
ing the government OF the United
States, itself the proudest monument
of Grants achievements. The title
ard rank created for him rs the rec
ognilion of his services should be
restored to him bv common consent
Whatever individuals may have
done, the government has only paid
him his salary as Its chief soldier
and as President, into whose duties
he was drafted against his inclina-
tinns. For deeds far less important
and valuable, poorer nations have
rewaided their great soldiers with
vast grants Of money and estates
1t is a sn.all matter for this nation
made a nation more by Grant than
any other man-to give To him by
special enactment, as it did in the
warm impulses of its fresh grati-
tude, the title and the pay of Gener-
al of the Army of the United States
Thus the people can again express
their gratitude and recognition in
the only and best way possible to
them in the aggregate capacity.
They can put him out of the reach
of want in the place he made great.
and show to all the other nations of
the world that gave him their hom-
age, and thus honored Us through
him, the most perfect proof of our
continued and undiminished admi-
ration and affection for him"