New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-01
THE Duly OF AMERICANS.

The Grant Monument Association has been
organized. Ex-PresdenJ Arthur is the chair
man. Mavor Grace and ex-Secretary Hamilton
Fish are the yice-chairmen; and the secretary
ia Professor Richard II. Greener Collections
are to be made temporarily through the Mayor
office and the firm of Drexel Morgan a. Go. An
address has been issued to the American people
inviting them to participate in the erection OF
monument that shall be worthy of the man who
saved the Nation. AS this is the monument
that will tower above his grave. is the only one
that will be in any real sense a National memo
rial. One city may vie with another, one cap
ital with another in concentrating his mill
itary genius, his patriotic services and his noDh-
ity of character. But honorable as this rivalry
will be, there can be only one monument that
will belong to the American people. mat
monument will be erected over the grave III
Riverside Park in the city where the Nations
hero evidently preferred 20 be buried.
The National character of the memorial needs
to be strongly emphasized since there is a dis
position East and West to cavil at the decision
of the Generals family to have their dead
buried in New-York. "Let New-Gork pay for
its own monument" is a sentiment which al
ready finds expression in the press OF Boston
and Chicago Well, New York can afford to
nav for magnificent memorial to the heroic
soldier. but it does not intend to mar the fair
symmetry of "A National monument by making
it the embodiment of local feeling or municipal
pride. His body when it lies in Riverside Park
will have a resting place on American soil, and
the monument that's raised above 1t Will belong
to every American in the Nation which he
delivered from ACKNOWLEDGMENT. New-fork
appeals to the country, North, South, East and
West, to unite with it in a memorial that will
be worthy of the American people
THE TRIBUNE will gladly do what it can to
promote the success of this National undertake
ing. 1t hereby appeals without delay to its
readers, In all editions, daily. semiweeldy and
weekly, to contribute generously to the Grant
Monument Fund. Any contributions sent To
this Office will be acknowledged in our columns
and promptly transferred to the treasurer. The
TRIBUNE also suggests to its more than ten
thousand regular club agents, scattered
throughout the various States, the propriety of
starting subscription lists in their respective
localities with the same object in view This will
be useful mode of REACHING country readers,
and of imparting a National character to the
undertaking.
The columns of THE TRIBUNE are open for
the acknowledgment of contributions, large or
small, to the Grant Monument Fund. Let the
money begin to roll in at once. Let there be
no hesitation on the part of readers Mt a dis
lance to respond to this call. 1t is to be Il
National monument. New-York is a great city,
but it Is not big enough to mOnOpOize either
General Grants ashes or his fame. Here he
wished to be buried, and here the Nation will
commemorate his greatness. THE TRIBUNE
earnestly appeals not alone to NewYorkcrs
nor to Republicans to Americans through
out the land to bcspeak their gratitude to Gen
eral Grant by generous aid to this undertaking.