The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-01


the Sth of August.
Mt, MCGREGOR, July 26.-It is de-
sired that friends and the public
should know that on the morning of
Tuesday, August 4, they will be free
to view the remains of General Grant
in the cottage parlor where they will
lie in state that day. On that day
the principal funeral service will be
held at the cottage where DR.. New
man will deliver a funeral GRAFTON
and at that time the President and
State Governors are expected to be
present. The interment services in
New York will be confined to the
Methodist ritual.
MT. MCGREGoR, July 25.-While
in conversation to-day with the cor
respondent of the Associated Press,
DR.. Douglas very kindly read to the
writer the following remarkable doc
ument, which was written by Gen.
eral Grant in DR.. Douglas presence
on Thursday, July 2.
81 ask you not to show this to any
one, unless the physician you consult
with, until the end. Particularly |
want it kept from my family. If
known to one man the papers will
get it, and they 1.-THE family will get
it, 1t would only distress them
almost beyond endurance to know
it, and by reflex it would distress
me,
~ have not changed my mind ma
terially since 1 wrote you before in
the same strain. Now, however, |
know that 1 gain strength some
days, but when do go back it is be
You'd where / started to improve, |
think the chances are very decidedly
in favor of your being able to keep
me alive until the change of weather
toward winter. OF course, there are
contingencies that might arise at any
time that would carry me off very
suddenly. Themost probable of these
is choking.
"Under the circumstances life is
not worth the living. | am very
thankful (for thankful, glad was
written but scratched and 'thankful'
substituted} to have been spared this
long, because it has enabled me
to practically complete the work in
which | take so much interest. | cam
not stir up strength to review and
make additions and substraCtiuns
that would suggest themselves to me,
and are not likely to suggest them
selves to anyone else. Under the
above circumstances | will be hap
piest the most pain | can avoid. If
there is to be any extraordinary
cure, such as some people believe
there is to be, it will develop itself.
l would say, therefore, to you and
your colleagues to make me as com
Portable as you can. If it is within
Gods providence that | should go
now, | am ready to obey His call
without a murGIur. | should prefer
to go now to enduring my present
suffering for single day without
hope of recovery. AS | have stated,
am thankful for the provIdential
extension of my time to enable me
to continue my work.
81 am further thankful, in much
greater degree thankful, because it
has enabled me to see for myself the
happy harmony which so suddenly
sprung up between those engaged but
fewtshort years ago in deadly con-
flict. 1T has been an inestimable
blessing to me to hear the kind eX-
preston toward me in person from
all parts of our country, from people
Of all natiOnalities, of all religious
and of no religion, of Confederate and
National troops alike, of soldiers or
CARNATIONS, of mechanical, scientific,
religious and other societies, embrace
ing almost every citizen in the land.
They have brought joy to my heart,
fthey have rot effected cure.
$50 to you and your colleagues /
acknowledge my Indebtedness of
having brought me through the Val
ley of the Shadow of Death to enable
me to witness these things.
u. 5. GRANT,
"lH. Nc Gregor. JuLy >, 1885,"
LONDON, July 23.-United States
Minister Phelps, on being handed u
copy Of the Associated Press dispatch
announcing General Grants death,
expressed the greatest concern at the
sad event. He instantly ordered the
building Of the American legation
draped in mourning and the flags at
half-mast.
The newspapers contain long obit-
uary notices of General Grant, many
ofthem taking up most oftheir avail
able space in accounts of scenes and