Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-05
GRANT mEMOR1AL SERVICES.

Smyth, Ex-Mayor Lewis and Rev. Dr. GoOdsell-The Grand Army Posts In Attendance.
 About a quarter of an hour previous to the | commencement of the memorial services at Center church last evening in honor of Gene | ral Grant the church bells in the center of
 the city commenced tolling and continued : until the hour arrived for the services to
 commence. The pews in the body of the
 church were reserved for the veterans of Admiral Foote and Henry 0. Merwin posts.
 The posts as they entered the church were
 preceded by Department Commander Frank
 D. Sloat and aids. After the Grand Army
 veterans were seated the seats remaining
 were taken by the general public and before the hour for the services to commence had
 arrived the seats were occupied by 8 large
 and intelligent audience that probably could
 not have been collected on such a sultry
 summer night under any other circum-
 stances.
 The front of the speakers platform was
 very elaborately draped in black, as was also | the pulpit, in front of which was placed 8
 portrait of General Grant also suitably
 draped. On the platform were seated Govern l or Harrison, Adjutant General s. R. Smith,
 Rev. Newman Smyth, D. D., of Center | A.
 First M E. Church Rev. William E. Vib-
 bert, D. D., of St. James church, Fair Ha- I ven East Rev. Wallace A. Butrick, of the
 First Baptist church; Rev. Albert P. Miller, l of the Temple street Congregational church:
 Hon. Henry G. Lewis, president of the
 Chamber of Commerce; and Colonel S. J.
 Fox, representing the Grand Army of the
 Republic.
 The exercises commenced with requiem
 which was sung by the quartette choir in ! excellent style. Then followed an appro- l priate prayer by Rev. MT. Butrick. On the
 conclusion of the prayer Rev. Dr. Vibbert
 read appropriate selections from the Episco- pal burial service for the dead, commencing 1T am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord" When Dr. Vibbert had concluded his reading an anthem entitled. "When in \ the Earth" by Rossini, was sung by the choir with excellent effect
 Colonel Fox then stepped to the preachers ! desk and said: Department Commander | Sloat having issued orders for proper ob- | servance of memorial services in honor of our
 late comrade General Ulysses S. Grant, and | this occasion being called for that purpose, | it becomes my duty representing the com | mittee having this memorial service in | charge to introduce the chairman of the eve ning Ladies and gentlemen, l have the | honor te introduce Hon. Henry B. Harrison. Governor Harrison on rising addressed the audience as follows:
 ADDRESS OF THE GOVERNOR. We meet to mourn the death of hero l But the death of the hero is his greatest vic tory; for it consecrates his character and his l work. The conqueror is not always hero; but the hero is always conqueror at last. Death hath no dominion over him. He was the hero of nation. A nation is not mere multitude of individuals. It has ! an organic unity and an organic life. It has | it's own specific ideals, aspirations and aims; | and along the line of those ideals, aspirations and aims it works out its destiny upon earth. The greatest hero of nation is he whose ! heart beats in harmony with the heart of the nation, while by the simple grandeur of his personality and the brilliancy of his achieve \ ments he Eliminates the ideals, the aspira- | tions and the determined purposes of the \ nation with the haloes of glory and TO- nance.
 He is the product and child of the nation bone of it's bone, flesh of it's flesh, mind of it's mind, heart of it's heart-and yet he is vouchsafed to the nation, and baptized from above with power to lift the nation higher and advance it with new and conquering energy along the path of it's destiny. He comes forth from the nation, and is the embodiment and impersonation of the na- tional characteristics in their highest exalta- tion; but he stands above the nation, and reacts upon it by the greatness of his exam ple-touching it's imagination and awakening its admiration and sympathy, and so making | it forever better and nobler than it was be- fore.
 All this was Grant.
 But after all his achievements and tri- umphs it was needful that he should suffer | calumny, poverty, distress of mind, hunnilia- ton of spirit and the bitter bangs of a long and lingering death-and therefore all these things came upon him-iH order that the affections of the people of the North and the affections of the people of the South might fuse together with fervent heat and over whelm him with passionate devotion, so that his character and his work should re- main henceforth sacred and secure forever And now, oh death! where is thy victorys On the conclusion of Governor Harrison's speech Rev. Dr. Smyth was introduced by Governor Harrison and spoke in substance as follows: Comrades of the Grand Army have been requested to speak tonight on the life and character of General Grant, and while may refer to his life, shall confne myself more closely to his life in camp and on the battle field, leaving it for my friend Dr. Goodsell to speak more particularly to you on the other points of the great mans character. In these days of hallowed peace our thoughts go back to the time when we were under his command and could thank God that at last we had a commander. To whatever department of the service belonged in the closing days of the rebellion we had but one commander. I am not here tonight to pronounce eulogy on General Grant. You
  ness when you wondered what the general would do next. You remember when the orders came to march and you were treasured and knew that you were not to recross the Rapidan again.
 From that hour when he ordered the army forward to the happy day at Appomattox, never was the army beyond the sound of the l enemy's cannon. In those winter months | when the country began to be impatient, his l eye was still on the foe. You recollect the |
 destruction of the Weldon railroad, then | the Southside railroad, and then those last | closing days, then that order for the final l forward march. You recollect his orders to | his guards to seize every opportunity to l weaken the enemy without waiting for | orders You recollect the booming of those l heavy guns and that last great charge. That | great commander did not stop there to exult | in victory. We remember how along that | line of triumph our joy was turned to pity | for those brave men who were fighting for | lost cause. Then as we look down into that | valley where Lees army was huddled in defeat | and the cheers that went up on the rebel side for the favorable terms of equalization grant ed to them, that they could even take their horses home with them. Then they came into our lines, mingled with our men accepted l our rations and went to their homes which were to be sheltered ever after by the same flag that sheltered our homes. Twenty years have passed, and out of the war has come the country's rejoicing and the country's peace The last bitterness of the war is over and | our great captain, victorious in life, is victo- rious in death. Comrades, we buried our animosities at Appomattox years ago, and if there is any more fighting to do hereafter others may do it and we will stay at home.
 The great men have gone from us-Lee, Sidney Johnston, Meade, Stonewan Jackson, and now Grant. And if they meet in the upper air it will be to rejoice in that divine being that wrought out purpose greater than ours and left us country one and in divisible.
 It was patriotism, pure and devoted, that gave endurance on the long and weary march. Let that patriotism on this day of I mourning revive anew in our hearts love of country. Let us teach it to our children, and not let them forget what our heritage of freedom cost. Perish the man that should ever be tempted to speak lightly of our his tory, our country's glory and our country's hope. May we have more of that patriotism for the good of all the people
 On the conclusion of Dr. Smyth's address the choir sang the hymn ''Sleep Thy Last Sleep"
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