The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
The Nation Mourns the Death of Grant
Where his Remains Should
Repose, &c.
RAr.r,Nopr JuIv 2Sth 1873

BALTIMORE, July 2Sth, 1885.
Messrs. Editors Grant, the second Washing
ton the great soldier and pure patriot, the revered
saviour of his country and of Unborn republican
liberty, has passed through deaths eclirsing
shadows on earth and is now at rest in the celes-
tial spheres. God bless his pure spirit The ma
ton mourns his departure, but let us hope what
we mourn as loss he finds gain. There are to
him no more troubles to encounter here. We have
now only to respect and cherish his memory,
which we are yet to do in hallowing his sacred
memory on the day devoted to his obseques No
words can add to his worth and his greatness
Already all has been said that could be in his
praise all over the civilized world, whilst his own
people sadly remember his loss and will embalm
his memory in tears in many, many years yet to
come. He was-being at the head of our armies
truly, purely and emphatically second Wash
ington, as he, with those under him, saved from
pending destruction what Washington gained
American Liberty. Had he not done SO at the
time he did, we might yet be stepped in interne-
| cine blood and in without being able to say
| when it would end. Therefore, what Washington
gained and made beautiful in all its parts, Grant
| saved and maintained for the luxury of coming
| generations. We were comparatively young and
| small when our Revolutionary armies conquered,
| but when Gen. Grant entered the conflict and came
out victorious were large, numerous, strong
and more difficult to control. The greater (conse-
quenty) the struggle the more terrible and bloody
How fortunate, therefore, long as it was, that the
country was saved and a great nation of (really)
brothers found period of peace. Had it moi
| been for his successes we might almost yet have
seen the red hand of bloody war still uplfted in
our domain where peace should reign and the
white dove and Star Spangled Banner be our holy
| emblems. This do I say, that Grant was as great
in maintaining, large as it had grown and more
terrible in capacity of destruction, nation like
ours quarter of century ago, than it could pos
sibly have been in the earlier dawn-in Washing
toms day-of our struggles for liberty PERM nj
preserver of republican liberty and freedom en-.
bodied in our constitution. May they never Ie
forgotten so long as the stars shine or the sun
holds his place in the heavens No never-neve
lamentable mistake-a fatal one-in nv
judgment, is likely to be made in placing the mr.
tai remains of so great, so universally concededa
national man in one of the parks of New Yok
or any other city outside the District of Columbia.
Washington, being our nations capital, selected
to be such by Gen. Washington himself, and his
own remains now reposing at Mount Vernon MT
far off, and Grant, being in his ife-made so by
| events-a purely national person, should by al
means have last resting place in the nations
capital. Let it be the Mecca where people mty
make pilgrimage to pay respects to the memoy
OF one whom they revered and loved. The prop,-
| siti0n to make one of the parks of New York CITY
the tomb of Gen. Grant would look as if money
had its influence and the illustrous dead wers
placed there as a business speculation, to CON
stantly bring stream of people TO that great city,
so that thereby two birds-three probably-migtt
be killed with one stone-that is, to make pu.-
chases of goods, spend money, beget wealth al
vance the place in interest. This at best would
be rough idea of patriotic lamentation and re-
spect for the memory of the dead By all means,
before it is too late, make Washington city the
spot where the mortal remains of our nations hero
| al ha huri parcnpS 10 tha sO,,S
capital on business or pleasure could make visit
to the graves of Washington and Grant both on
| the same day. There is time enough now to
remedy the evil. Let it be dono.
| The Fifth Regiment has returned from its sum-
mer encampment at Atlantic City, and the men,
bers were highly delighted.
| Speaking of watering places it may be proper
for me just now to mention the fact that quite n
number of rude boys may often be seen in Jones's
Falls, at different places where persons and pas
sengers in the city obliged to pass. They,
too are quite large and perfectly nude. L don't
blame them for seeking the cool water this hot
weather to take plunge, but they ought to 60
out farther or into the rural districts The police
| should be On the alert. It's both shameful and
disgraceful.
The recent rain and fine showers have been of
great service in numerous ways. The country is
greatly refreshed and farmers bid such rains God
speed. am told, however, that an additional
supply is needed.
Our city markets now display plenty of remark
ably fine watermelons, cantaleups and other sea-
sonabe fruits and vegetables, selling at reasona-
BILE prices.
The hot weather forces thousands to seek ex-
cursions on the Chesapeake bay these moonlight
nights, which are represented as really cool and
delightful Many persons come in from adjoin-
ing counties to partake thereof. The crowd on
steamboats, on the Chesapeake bay was larger
than ever before known, and so it will be so long
as the very hot weather keeps up.
The past heat has been highly oppressive among
children. causing MANY of them to do --'e,a sum-
mer complaint. The weeks death rate in conse-
quence has been greater than ever known before.
The poor little things suffer terribly and fatally.
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