The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-27
help-meet indeed and in truth. Of her he
might have said:

might have said:
'She is mine own;
And as rich in having such jewel
As twenty seas. If all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold
In his private intercourse with men he was the
same plain, unosteutatious gentleman, and, al
ways governed by his modesty and that acute
sense of the eternal fitness of things. he never
violated the rules of polite society, or disturbed
the atmosphere that ever surrounds true
gentleman His innate sense of the greatness
and goodness of his God ever restrained MIN,
even when the unfathomable depths OF his ma
ture were stirred to its very foundation 10 take
the name of God vainly and useessiy upon MS
lips
In the shock attending his terrible financial
reverses he maintained his remarkable courage,
and looked the world like man OF clear con.
science, IN the eyes, dlSeountenanclng many or
the i'll advised schemes for his relief and did all
he could to repair the wrong committed by his
cruel betrayers, who, like Judas selling
their friend for paltry gold. This calamity, be-
falling him so soon after his first physical in
TRINITY, moved him to undertake in new field,
to him arduous tasks for the rebuilding of his
shattered fortune. The remarkable fortltude
and determination with which he guided his
hand to this unusual task, suffering at the same
time all the pain his nature could endure. pour
ing even his life into every sentence OF the last
and greatest work of his wonderful career, are
facts too well known for recaptulatiou.
he was cool and collected in the heart OF the
fray at Shiloh, a veritable hero before Rich
mond but sublime at Mt McGregor, battling
sin gle handed and alone with that never terri
fed and ever unconquerable foe, death.
The General was too much man of strong
character to violate a single principle laid
down for his control and government.
Temptation to do this is readily overcome if
we deSpise its source; but to remain true to our
convictions in the home of friend, when the
opportunity to break our own rule of action is
couched in full AID heartfelt expression of
courtesy, also in line of the custom of the society
in which we move is a harder thing to do. This
DIR. Grant did. in this city, when he left his
wines untasted at the house of his honOred host
and accomplished hostess; and this tribute to
temperance ought not TO be overlooked. Perhaps
among men, had rested his head on the tombs of
many friends, to whose epitaphs he might have
added these words: destroyed by strong
drink
Every nation has its sacred and consecrated
spots. No Jew could forget Psgah. No Chris
tian the place where his Lord lay To Amerl-
cans, the Old Theater the cottage at El beron and
now the peak of Mount McGregor. The first
two are marked by broken columns, eloquently
suggestive of the violent and untimely death
suffered by the great statesmen whose memory
they commemorate Let MS erect on Mount
McGregor a completed shaft of solid granite for
the life that closed there a finished one.
Perhaps the cool, dispassonate historian, one
hundred years hence, in weaving his wreathS Of
laurel, will place the larger one on the brow OF
General Grant. Meanwhile, let us vie with eacn
other in initiating his virtues and forgetting his
weaknesses. that this Nation may be in the eyes
of God worthy of many such.