National Republican., 1885-08-09
THE HERO AT REST.

other American wus ever 81 generally
and dcrply mourrcd ~ /, hc who was
CONSIGNED ,n thr tomb in Riverside Park
New York. Yesterday.
In saving this, We do not intend to
raise any question ~ to the relative
greatness Of uur grand lriumymtc--
Wushingou Lincoln and Grant Each
had his own allotted work. each wrought
in his own peculiar way. and the fame of
one cam never be- a rival of the fame
urcithrrurthruthrrr. Thrircuuntrvmcn
viii never care to discus, their respect
i've claim, ON the gratitude Of the nation,
but will gladly give tu each and all every
possible mark Of unmrusurud affection
and ungrulgcd honor
l,ut the condition Of the country ut
this time and the circumstances uttcnd-
inr the death and burial of General
Grant have ucca.ionrd such universally
of grief such q simultaneous movement
Of the people do honor to his memory
ns was not possible when Washington
"laid him down in his last sleep" or
when the high career Of Lincoln was
brought to Il tragic end.
When the Father of his Country was
called away the people were compara-
lively few. amt 50 primitive were their
means of communication that the news
of his death crcpt, as it were, along
the turnpkc~, country roads and brillc-
paths, So that the shock occHsioncd by
the calamity subsidized in one locality be-
fore il reached another. Grief there was,
sincere AMI deep, although modified, in
many minds, by bitterness of party feel
ing; for Washington, like his great sue
crssor~, dit not escape the notice of Il
hostile press and Jealous politicians.
When Lincoln died the fresh wounds
Of the great civil war were still bleeding
and the fires Of sectional animosity were
burning. The Intelligence of his death
and the cause Of it shocked the heart of
universal humanity. There had been
nothing like it in all our history, and
God grant that it, parallel may never
come hereafter. But the people of the
South could not mourn for Lincoln us
for Il father, brother or friend, and not
all the people of Nle North had then
learned to know him for what he was.
Horror was depicted on every face, and
fierce anger burned in millions of hearts.
There could be no union of the people
in paving due tribute TO his memory.
That WAS for the future. although as
sure to come as day is to succeed the
NIGHT And not II dny has nnssed since
the form of the MARTYR was consigned to
ifs sepulchcr Mt Springfield that has not
hclprd to dissipate the clouds of passion
nrr,r Iu,.r,rti,.,. ,ti,i rt.yvui r,is -t,ure and
lofty character. as it will stand in history
It's it will live in the hearts of men till
the last tradition of our Republic has
faded from human view.
1t was the happy fortune of General
Grant to die in the lllncSs of time, when
his work was DONE his fame secure and
his chaructcrapprrriatcd, not by Il section
or Il party, but hy all the people of the
great nation which hc saved from disrup-
ton. There is nothing in the history of
our own or any other land 50 strangely
beautiful, 50 incompuHbly grand Us the
last ami greatest of Grants victories, his
conquest and occupancy of the hearts OF
thcSouthcnpcoplc. That which hwclook
uponand scarcely wondcrai-this loving
respect of the men who surrendered to
General Gmntaltrr four years oftcrriblc
conflict this tenderness of the Southern
heart toward the grim warrior Of 1860
this stretching forth Of tn" hand of the
south To lay il"""rH ON his grave, this
marchingto.cthcroft hcsol,liers of ;rnut
and Icc-willalI read like wild romance
when pnt in cold tyne by those who shall
write the history orthrsr dnv.
But for fine love which rnrbids if were
more natural to envy than to ,nou,u ro,
GnrrruI Grant Xryrr v,s man man,
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i"''"''"'' ~ ',,' VT ''"'''' I''''e '''''l
i''r Nl''"''''' ,'r'"' ~ were 'Phor'
"'""' N'''o'''' III war; '''"'''''un'y pc'
h'''cm' "S were ,h''r results TO ms own,
"l'' ",' coming ''''''S' inc lh'R'''lrS' "i all
ms "'I'''N'I'VI''S was victory OF peace
nation, the blni~hmcnt of all unkindly
sentiments