Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-30
GRANT HONOURED.
MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD BY
TIE SACRAMENTO PIONEERS.
EuIogistic Remarks of Newton
Booth, n. Greene Curtis and
Carroll NJ. Davis.

I Pioneers and made an honorary member Of
/ that organization. As is always customary
upon the death of one of their brothers, COM
mittee was appointed at their last meeting to
draft suitable resolutions to be submitted at the
meeting held last evening The hall of the Pho
neers not being large enough to accommodate
! all who desired to attend, the meeting was held
F.; in Methodist Church South, on Seventh street
AT an early hour the commodious building,
! which was suitably draped in mourning, was
! filed with Pioneers their families. members OF
/ the order of N. S. G. W. and invited guests.
( G. W. Chesley, President of the Pioneers,
called the meeting to order, saying: Ladies and
| Brother Pioneers: l have called this special
meeting for the purpose of giving expression to
| our sincere grief for the death of our respected
brother, General Grant, and to adopt suitable
resolutions of coincidence.
| McKelvey, who offered IL fervent and eloquent
prayer.
read by the Secretary John 5. Miller. From
! them il appeared that A. 2. Catlin, J. II. Nc
| Kune and A. r. Nixon were appointed com
mittee to draft resolutions upon the death OF
! their brother U. S. Grant.
! Mr.. Catlin, Chairman of the committee, then
stepped forward and in loud, clear and elo-
uuent manner read the following:
M President Your committee TO whom has
/ been assigned the duty of preparing a memorial
! address and resolutions expressing the grief OF
this society at the loss OF our late brother T. S.
| Grant, our sympathy with his family and our
! appreciation of his great services to our CON-
| mon country, beg leave to report that this So
| clety while il stands silent uncovered in the
| presence of q great grief which has fallen upon
| our beloved country, yet has a special sorrow
in the loss of a beloved brother, whom it was
| our delight to honor, and whose membership
we treasure as sacred to friendship, 10 love OF
| country, and those other virtues exemplified in
the life and character of General Grant.
49, Al. gnaI
| day of October, 1879 He left upon our records
! in his own hand the following
| - | arrived i'll San Francisco the first time in
September, possibly late in August 1852, via
| Panama, coming up the coast in the steamer
| Golden Gate. Was stationed a few weeks at
| Benicia. Afterwards went to Fort Vancouver,
now in Washington Territory. Remained there
until September 1888, when was promoted to
| a full Captaincy in the Fourth United States In
| fantry, which took ne to Humboldt Bay, in this
State, where remained until the spring of 1854.
! Left SAN Francisco in July, 1854 via the Mica
| ragua route for the East, and only returned to
the Pacific coast on the Dist OF September, 1879
| coming from Japan, or by the east the entire
way from our eastern seabOaTd. This day | was
made member OF the Sacramento Society OF
| California Pioneers, an honor which | highly
| prize. L. S. GRANT"
| Our records mention many events intimately
| connected with the early history of our State,
| in the construction and maintenance of which
we have borne humble part, but none that we
/ treasure with pride more genuine, pleasure
more heartfelt, than this brief statement of in
| cidents in the life of this greatest among men.
| who has thus hoHoTed us by his membership in
| our society, by his sympathy with us in our en-
! deavoIs to perpetuate the memory of historic
| events in founding this empire of the Pacific,
| bound with ribs OF granite, inlald with gold,
! and opening Golden Gate TO the jeweled East.
And shall not we, now that his mortal remains
| lie i'll state, in the presence of Il mourning ma
! ton and a SympathZing world, mingle our
tears with those of his bereaved family and
| join in the sorrow of the whole people? In his
| life his country called him to the head of its
| armies at a time when a lion-hearted leader was
! needed; and, when the wisdom and patriotism
/ of Washington and Lincoln were needed to re-
construct States, battered, depleted, discovered
| he was called to the Presidency, where, with Il
| master-hand, he brought to the people the bless
| ings of civil order fraternal feeling, union and
peace When his great work was done and
| three score years, and the hardships he had
| endured, made repose necessary, a grateful
country retired HIM from active service, still re-
! tanning him as the head of the nations armies.
| His country quickly sought to pay him its
highest honors, but is yet his debtor for services
! and honurs bestowed by him, which can now be
| repaid only by the grateful remembrance OF
| posterity; and this, we may be assured will
| continue TO the remoteSt generations Of men.
| General Grant by military record marked
| with rare combinations III strategy, prudence
under adverse circumstances promptness in
! action skill in the management of great armies
! of volunteer soldiers and in securing the fruits
| of his victories elevated his country to front
| rank among the nations of the earth and rem
| deTed standing armies and great navieS unnec-
! eSsary as means OF defense against dangers do
| nestle or foreign.
In managing great affairs General Grant was
| never the servant of hesitation or fear. In war
ne acted on the theory that delays were dan
| gerous.
Standing upon the p sfilous edge of battle he
surveyed the field with an all-embracing eye,
| with all emotions pressed down under the
| weight OF his mental pOiSe ana resources, and
saw where and when to strike the decisive blow.
! 10 rIrad ~ -. (
| strength with uuerring certainty Artillery.
battalions the heToism of soldiers inspired BY
confidence in a victorious leader, were indeed
| most potent agencies, but were doubly effective
under the quick and timely direction of such a
! master of the forces of war.
| His policies, in both military and civil admin
| istration, were grounded upon the broad idea
| that complete success and permanent peace
| could be established only by edhering to the
| highest principles He never resOrted to cXpe-
| dents or compromises where these principles
were concerned.
He loved his country with " a respect more
| tender, more holy and profound than his own
| life He joined himself to no party that did
not support the flag of that country with an I'M
| qualified and unconditional devotion
| To those i'll arms against that flag he yielded
| nothing. But when those opposing arms were
laid at his victorious teeta great heart and mag
unanimous mind controlled his actions
He was Il cOnqucror in the highest sense of
that word. He subdued the aims of his adyer-
| saries and conquered their hearts at the same
| time.
| History has no record of a victorious military
| lcaderwho was less ambitious, or more obedient
! to the Prince or Government whom he served
nor more unseliishly devoted to the cause for
which he fought. He cared not for himself
what he should eat or drink, or wherewlthal he
should be clothed. lie sought nothing for him
! self, not even honors. applause, rank or emolu
ment. He was an absolute concentration, an
embodied intensiflcation of one purpose-to put
down the armed opposition 10 the Government
and bring the revolving states back TO the
Union.
10 this one grand purpose he bent all the
aroused energies of his nature, all the qualities
OF a dauntless courage and an unconquerable
spirit Il self-rei0nce born Oi the highest mental
grasp, Il military education supplemented with
II soldiers experience at Palo Alta ReSacada de
la Palma and Molino del Rey.
At the very outset of his service in the civil
war, with only Il Colonels commission in his
pocket and before he was known TO the coun-
Try as one among its many Generals, lac compre
hended. far in advance of Others, the magni-
| tude of the struggle and the StTagetical i'm
poTtanCe of the great rivers of the West. To
obtain the control of these rivers and the
States upon their borders, and before the PreSi-
dent and Senate placed him at the head of all
the nations armies, he had, IN twenty-six
rmonths, won seventeen battles, taken 100000
prisoners, 800 cannon and innumerable thousands
OF small arms He took no rest from his labors
| until he had broken and destroyed the Confed-
crate power in the Southwest, and had more
| than half conquered the rebellion.
| General Grant was man Of remarkable sim
| plicity Of character. He was free from all guile
or indiTectiou a devout lover of truth in its
| plaiueSt forms. He loved not strife, and had no
taste for the poInp and circumstance of glori-
GUS war; Nature gave him a heroic soul
ard duty made him draw warriors sword,
which he quickly Sheathed when duty called to
| peace. He made war short, but terrible as the
| only means for quick and solid peace.
No statue i'll bronze monument in marble, or
| monolith in granite can sufficiently serve to
commemorate his great deeds. You may in
| scribe upon them Donelson, luka Shiloh, Corinth
Nicksburg and Chattanooga, the Wilderness
| Richmond and AppomattoX, but the inscriptions
| win crumble into dust, the iron and stone min
| gle with their mother earth. and yet the name
story and song until the last syllable of recorded
| time.
| The Sacramento Society OF California Pioneers.
| desiring to Join in the universal acclaim OF
| - Wen done, good and faithful servant, in spe-
| cial meeting assembled, unanimously
| keSOlrc, That we join in the universal sorrow
| and unite with all the people III their express
sions of respect for the deceased General, and OF
| honor TO his memory.
| SympathieS, and mourn with them in their
| anlction.
That we deeply deplore the loss of brother.
endeaTed to us by II personal association brief
| but profoundly interesting. We Will cherish
| the memory of his great services TO the country,
| his virtues his unselfiSh devotion TO principle,
| and to the highest good OF our whole country.
| ". f. KGoX moved that the resolution be
| adopted spread upon the minutes and that on
| engrossed copy be forwarded TO the family OF
! the deceased.
Mr. Cheslcy- Brothers: 1t is a well known
| fact that we have talent among our mem
berS, gentlemen eloquent in words and two of