Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-06

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eminent. One contributed largely 10 give
us what was then called the Great North
| west; another was victorious i'll many bat
| ties in that war which gave California TO
The Union Both pure men, OF unsullied
| lame Two Others, one soldier, fell by
| the hands of aSSaSSins. Both the first, as
| men do who have nearly reached the years
allotted to man, died privately. their last
| thoughts of their country a. with faltering
breath they committed that country to the
guidance of Heaven.
| Nor should / I've Just did not Join 10
those the great names of Adams Jefferson.
and Jackson the first two founders of the
Republic, the last, one from whose iron
soul was thundcred maledictions against
his country's foes
TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN.
II is of the last central figure of which
would SPEAK. and urge'upon you that this
lay, ais Washington is remembered as the
Father of his country. Abraham Lincoln
should - remembered as its preserver.
Washington came with only TWO dcscents
| lirectly from noble English house. Lin
,oln was born of the people. If in Wash
nStoa there was something OF the stateli-
ness OF those who feel compelled by an
cestral pride to walk with dignity, IN
Lincoln was manifested that power Of u,ag
netic absorption which sometime,says
the most !oyable of human Qu@Hes. The
touch of the emblem Of power did pass
INTO the great Cariinal-the might of
France. The touch OF the hand OF the
-ommonest man, the hand Of want and of
application. hy some invisible power did
permeate and fill that great soul with all
human sympathy. No matter who was
the person, no matter what the want, if one
did come III the image of his Creator that
man received attention, and if possible, aid
Speaking after the hard maxims OF war,
his womanish mercy was his only fault if
fault ii was. Like the oath of good old
man, " the accusing spirit, as he carried it
up To heavens chancery, blushed as he
gave 1t in, and the recording angel, as he
wrote It down, dropped tear upon tho
record and blotted it out forever"
Not to intend the comparison, the words
suggest, he was a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief. Who can estimate
his trials, his fears, his sorrows. rs the
great task opened before him. He was
compelled even to 90 TO his great place
without observance. The click of the tele-
graph, the feet of the messenger listened to,
as the signal of disaster How did that
great soul weep over the fallen, and at
every tale of woe. His food did not nour-
ish him, nor sleep refresh him and this
long agony drawn out for five Years.
And yet what must have been his con-
ISOLATION and his hope. In his exhausted
wanderings at night there came to him the
voice, Il am always with YOU In
the nom g there came the tramp of
armed freemen. ard their thunderous
acclaim, " We are coming, Father Alra-
ham, three hundred thousand more was
as from that host of numbers without num-
Der. In the tullness of time came back to
him his own words of prophecy, This
land must become all free or all slave"
And holding out in one band that immor-
tai proclamation. with the other, with q
nations power, he struck the manacles
from the limbs of 1000, goo of fellow-men.
Garfield, too, if of lower stature, yet was
worthy Qf bis Ign cQmraniQnahip. And
yet such was the inscrutablc pufi6sa tt tat
with their great predecessor, William the
Silent. in the full power of their great Of
fee, honored in all lands, beloved at home.
they fell by the felon hand of the mcanest
yermin of our race.
These great men were the natural prod
ucts of the larger freedom, which excites to
exertion, which puts no limit to the fight
Of the human soul. On this day they
should be held in honorable remembrance
As the mountain peak, far OFF, its topabove
the clouds guides the mariner to bis port,
so these men are eXemplars and guides of
all.
The Great Frederick, at the close of the
Revolutionary war, presented sword to
Washington, on which was engraved
. From the Oldest soldier Of the world to
the greatest
Our HERO, GENERAL GRANT.
There is another soldier, if vet he be,
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desperate enemy than that which was
shown in the revolutionary struggle A
soldier who has brought to his home dis
tinguished gifts of the warriors, sageS,
statesmen and monarchs of the whole
earth. lis fame in all lands needs no re-
newal. Summer is here, bur along lis line
OF life is an implacable foe, against whom
arms are of no avail. Surrounded by all
marks of domestic and national affection.
by all that sustains or soothes expiring hui
man nature. he faltcrs to his end.
Through the invisible agency Of nature
we feel every throb of that great heart, and
cry, 9 If it be possible, spare him good
Lord There is no hope for life but from
every heart bursts out, In the time
OF all tTibulation, in the hour of death and
day of Judgment, good Lord deliver Tim"
No more to him will come the plaudits Of
the nations-no more will the blare of
martial music, no more will the rattling of
warlike array, no more the thunder of The
Captains and the shouting
On the other side stand the host of
patriots dead, and beckon him to the land
Of silence. AS i'll dream of myths, the
faithful deaC came back and fought for the
land they loved; so ours, from their
shadowy cloud, as they cheer us, will be
answered by the voice of i nation, one and
inseparable, that here liberty under law
has found o RESTING place and man q homo