The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1885-08-14
hf Mere among men as long IS conststu-
tionai government shall have an abidine-
place tIt,f,n the earth

hf Mere | among men as long IS conststu-
tionai government shall have an abioing@
place upton the earth.
They = shall resist the empire Of decay.
When time is Ger and worlds have passed away
Cold IN the dust the perishcd heart may iis.
But that which warmed 10 once can never die"
We are still too near these events to
Iorfn an impartial opinion as to the bear
ing 81 some Of them and are still furnish
ing the materials 70. their history. In the
| years 70 come, when all the actors OF Ger.
6rautst time and their immediate descend
snts shall have passed away, IL may be
SONS hundreds Of years hence, when the
spirit 9f party ~ silent aud the prejudice
% faction u dead. the Tosl hlstorian--the
Glbbon of the great civil war will appear,
anu not until thon can an impassioned
analysis OF men and Of those great events
DO rnade; bat tho time Will never come
when the people Of The United States will
rate Gen. Grant less or lower than they
did In the zenith Of his military ronown.
"h0 tint or words can spot his snowy
mantle" nor mar the luster tina. must for
ever attend his name.
"For ithsu art freedoms now and fstpe's,
One of the few immortal names y
That vera not born 70 diss'
In bis last hours the heroic spirit which
had animated and controlled him through
llfe did not fOrHake him. "If II II within
Gods providence" so he wrote, ''that
should go now, arm ready 10 obey his
call without murmur." 81 should pre- .
FOR 20 80 now" he continued, ITO enduring
my, present suffering for q single day
without the hope OF recovery" Calm,
serene, quietly, without . struggle, his
great spirit passed 10 the other shore leav-
ing an example OF a we'll rounded life
which well illustrates the greatest possl
bilttie3 or American manhood, In the
language of another and he wore the gray
during the eventful days~-"AilliUns or
hearts are aching. millions Of eyes are
blinded with tcars TO day; the peerless
man goeth 10 hic long home and the
mourners go about the streets. The sold
lers whom he met In our great civil war,
the fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters
Of the mon who won the blue the soldiers
who wore the gray. and the people Of the
So1ltE who thank God tor the restoration
of the Union-all these and all their fel.
low citizens bow their heads In sorrow for
our most honored citizen has passed be-
youd the shores Of time" He lived long
enough to complete the Iab0rs ne had as
signed TO himself and 10 realize that all OF
the angry passions engendered by the
great civil war had passed away and that
toward himself personally there were no
ieeitngs but thoss OF respect and honor.
There II reason TO believe that Gen. Grant
had hoped and waited for this hour. He
knew II would come, and II did, and made
tho old hero realize that hs had an abids
Ing place in the hearts of the people In
every section Of our common country.
But tbs relentless hand Uf the fell destroy.
or would not DO stayed. The loved, the
goo0, the true, the beautiful, the great
must all one day submit 10 his inexorable
claims. "Whai then Is man He sndur-
~ but for an hour and IL crushed before
The uo'h. Yet in the being and In the
working of faithful man IL there already
As ali faith from the beginning gives us
ASSURANCES something that pertains not
TO this wild death, element or time, that
irlumphs over time and Is. and will be
when .imc shall be no more"
Music by the choir was followed by
requiem by tho Mechanics Band and
prayer and benediction by Rev T G.
Brownson,