The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-30
BEECnER ON GRANT.
emorial Services at fremont
Temple Boston.
The Plymouth Pastor Delivers . Warn
Iaiogium On the lafe, Virtues and
Heroic Deeds Of tine Depart
ed Observation-Disclosures.

Inc RIy00utA PASTOR D0uv0kD . 0otA
Iaiosiun On the Iire, Virtues and
Heroic Deeds Of tine Depart
ed Warrior-statesman.
Bosrox, MASS, October 22.-Beneatt
kindly tempered rays Of . mellow sun
thousands Of Bos:onisns thronged this A.
teruoon TO the Grant memorial exercises
at fremont Tempe, under the auspices
of the city Government.
At two o'clock prayer was offered BY
Rev. B. T. Hamlin, and an ode by Julis
Ward Howe was sung BY the choir,
POEM written b. Louise I. Quincy was
read BY Prof Moses T. Brown Of Tufts
College. "Gone Through the Shadows"
was rendered by . choir of women's
voices.
Mayor O'Brien at this point, in q brief
speech presented Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher a. eulogist of the day. Mr..
Beecher was received with generous ap
pause, and spoke as follows:
"Auother name Is added 10 the roll Of
those whom the world will not willingly
let die. A few years since storm.laden
clouds filed his heaven and obloGuy;
auder and bitter lies rained down upon
him. The clouds are all blown
away; under q serene sky he laid
down his life and the Nation wept
The path to his tomb. Is worn
by the feet of innumerable pilgrims; the
nidewed lips of SANDER are silent, and
even criticism hesitates lest some incau-
tious word should mar the history Of
the modest, gentle, magnanimous war.
rior. The whole Nation watched his pas
sage through humiliation and misfor.
tunes with unfeisued sympathy; the
whole world sighed when his life
ended. At his burial the unsworded
hands of those whom he had fought
lifted his bier and bore him to his
tomb with love and reverence.
Grant smades no claim to saintship; he
was man of like passions, aud with as
marked limitations as other men. Moth
ing could be more distasteful to his hon.
est, modest soul while living, and moth.
Inc more unbecoming to his memory
than lying exaccerations and fulsone
flltteries. Men without faults are apt to
be men without force.
A rough diamond has no brilliancy.
Sights and shadows, hills and valleys,
give beauty 10 q landscape; the fau Is
of great aud generous natures are often
over.ripe goodness or shadows which
their virtues cast. Three elements enter
into the career Of great citizen: That
which his ancestry gives; that which OPP
p1rtunity gives, and that which his will
develops. Grant came from sturdy New
England STOCK; New England derived it
from Scotland: Scotland bred it at a
time when the Covenanters and Puritans
were made-men of iron conscicnces,
hammered out upon the anvil, of adver-
city. From New England the stream
enriched the soil till it
brought forth abundant harvests of great
men. When it was Grants time ito be
born, he came forth without celestial
portents, and his youth mad in it no
prophecy of his manhood. His boyhood
was wholesome, robust, with a vigorous
frame, with a heart susceptible of tender
love, he yet was not social. He
was patient and persistent He loved
horses and could master them. That is
. good sign. Grant had no art
Of creating, and circumstances, oppor-
tunity must seek him or else he would
plod through life without disc osing the
gifts which God hid in him. The gold in
the hills can not disclose ttse.f, it must
be sought and dug. A sharp and
wiry politician for some reasons
of Providence performed = generous
decd in sending young Grant to West
Point"
Mr.. Bccchcr reviewed Grants life at
West Point, his service in Mexico and
California, aud, abiding TO his private
life, said: ale was poor farmer, 4
worse tanner, worthless trailickcr.
without civil experience, without literary
gifts; too difliient to be ambitious; too
modes. TO put himself forwards; too
honest to be \ politician, he was Of all
men least likely tn tain eminence, and
was absolutely untitled apparently for
prc-cminence. Yet Gods providence
selected him, ordained was Grant with
the ointment of war, back and su phur-
Gus"
His opportunity WAS coming. Already
aidA oA "SAC iiC eA"
III m not. No figures we're seen upon the
dI.m horizon of the already near future.
The insulted Dag; the garments rolled in
blood: q million men in arms; the sui
phurons smoke of battle; CORY heaps up
on desperate battle fields; an army of
SOW moving crippled heroes; grave
yaids populous cities. They we're all an
the cIo0ded horiznn though he saw
them not Let Us look upon the
scene. This continent lay Warrington
ages foe the::seed of civilization; at length
. sower came forth to SOW. While he
Q wed good seed OF liberty aud Christian
civilization, an enemy, lurking, sewed
tares. They sprans up and grew to-
gelher. The Constitution Graded both
slavery aud liberty. While yet ungrown
they dHelt together in peace. Thay
ensrled In youth, quarreled when half
grown and fought when o; full age The
final catastrophe was Inevitable. The
South, like . queenly beauty, grew i'm
perious and exacting; the North,
like IN ebsequious suitor, kneat
n her feet, only 10 receive
and mockery. Both parties.
" hig and Democrat, drank of the cup Of
her sorcery. 1t killed the Wing party.
Tie Democratic party WAS toasher, aud
was only besetted. II wise moderation
had possessed the South; II they had
the North; If they had met
just scruples Of honest men, who, hating
slavery, dreaded the d:shonof of break
in. the compacts of The Cons tuition, the
South might haze held control for an
other hundred pears. 1t was NO: to be.
God sent c strong delusion upon them.
They were seeking to mod
Quakes BY administering political
quinine. The wise, the statesmen were
and Politicians were juggling
fools. The So1th hat buiIded herself
upon the rock Of slavery. II Law 10 the
very channels of civilization like some
Good rock lying sGIlcn OF He'll Gate.