Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13
IN REMEMBRANCE.

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Henry Ward Beechcr's Eloquent lripu.o
In General Grant at fremont Temple'
Boston-Dlsposition of h Trust Fund.
RosroS. oct. 23.-The city of Boston
Maid its formal official tribute to the mem.
ory of Ulysses S. Grant yesterday afternoon
in n manner BETTING the occasion. The
services were held in fremont Temple, the
audience filling every part of the great
auditorium. Mayor U'Brien presided.
Howard NJ. Dow played appropriate
music upon the organ while the
audience was being seated, and
then. in conjunction with the large orches-
fra. performed Chopin's Funeral March,"
PRAYER was offered by Rev. b. +. Hamil-
TON. of the Elliot Church, after which
the choir of ti%fty-nine voices sang to
music from the Magic Flute" the first
two and last four stanzas of an
ode which Mrs. Julia Ward Howe had
written for the occasion. A poem
written by Louisa Imogene Guiny vas then
read by Prof. Moses A. Brown. Then the
motel, 'tGone Through the Shadows"
written by NJ. j. Savage, words by II. NJ.
Dow, was impressively rendered by the
female choir.
Mayor O'Brien then introduced Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, whose eloquent
eulogy was listened to with the deepest in
terest MI. Beecher's eulogy embraced an
interesting review of General Grants life.
Following are extracts:
Grant made no claim to saintship. lie was
a man Of like passions and with as marked
limitations as. other men. Nothing could be
more distasteful to his honest, modest soul
while living and nothing more unbecoming TO
his memory than lying eXaggerntIons and full
some batteries. Men without faults are apt
to be men without force. 4! round diamond
has no brilliuncy. Lights and shadows. hills
The faults of great aud generous natures are
often the over-ripe goodness or the shadows
ter into the career of a great citizen-that
tunity gives; that which his win develops.
which is better. but the cloud hung over his
his asccndency when better days came. OF
the greatest that he conquered himself.
His will was stronger than his passions. He
Mas a good 3 %o snhalterf IT, q a RGor faS Wif5o y worse o;yii
experience, without literary gifts. too diff
dent to be ambitious, too modest to put him
self Sc w for~ VIZ d., too %n honest mes ,e to be ti.a q p % afisin
eminence and absolutely untitled apparently
for pre.eminence;. yet Gods providence Sc
l ointnen ni' OF w oraS Slnea ana Kdas s%u G5ant with the
1t is impossible to reach the full measure of
Grants military genius until we survey the
greatness Of this most extraordinary war of
modern days. or, it may be said. of any age.
Into this sulphurous storm OF war Grant en-
tered almost unknown. 1t was with d, thculty'
set forward, Donelson. Shiloh. Vicksburs,
Chattanooga, the Wilderness, Spottsylvaniu.
Petersburg, Appomattox77these were HE
footsteps. In four years he had risen with
out political favor from the bottom to the
very highest colnmand-not second to any liv-
ing commander in all the world. His plans
\ were large: his nndiSnOOr m pp1 will WIS ma
tent to e5bdiuracy. He was not lighting Tor
reputation nor for the display of Generalship;
but one motive, and that as intense
rebellion and tho ,re.foration. Of the
the common people. He was their perfect
representative. The war was waged for the
maintenance of the Union, the suppression Of
armed resistance, and ut length for the eradi-
cation of slavery. He never wavered, tnrned
aside or aallied. He waded through blood to
the horses brides. In all this career he
never lost courage Or equanimity. With a
million men for whose movements he was
responsible he yet carried u tranquil mind.
neither depressed by disasters nor elated by
success; gentle of heart, familiar with ali.
never hoastful, always modest. n When
his work was done and the defeat of the Con
federnte armies was final the dreadful mar of
blood was tender toward his late adyersaries
as a woman toward her son.
Atits close ''The American Son." writ
ten by NJ. j. Savage, and set to music by
Y. Cyrillo, was rendered by the full choir.
The exercises closed with the benediction.
TIE TRUST FUND. F.
NEW YORK, Oct. GA meeting of the
subscribers and the trustees of the Grant
trust fund was held yesterday afternoon.
Among those presen were: Jay Gould, Sid
ney Dillon, Russell Sage, George Jones,
Judge Noah Davis, C. P. Huntington,
William. A. Wheeler, Richard NJ. Hoe, Jr.,
and General A. G. McCook, Henry Day
and John P. Terry, executors of the +.
ID. Morgan estate. also attended. Mr..
Jones said that the fund amounted to
S24s, 600, 1915, 900 OF which was invested
in consolidated mortgage bonds Of the Wa
bash Railroad and $50, 900 in the bonds of
the 'Nickel-P late' Road. The payment of
the interest has been made to the family
every quarter, the sum amounting to 81, $40.
After a discussion of over an hour, the fol-
lowing resolution was drawn by Judge
Noah Navis and offered by Sidney Dillon,
seconded by Jay Gould, and adopted:
Resolued, Firstly, that the fund be placed in
Mrs. Grant during her life. and after her de-
cease to the children of General Grant during
their lives, and on their decease, respectively,
dnat the funds be SO divided to their descend
ondly, that u committee of two be an.
pointed to prepare the trust deed, and to
submit the terms OF the same to the donors at
the United States Trust Company be appoint.
ca as trustee, and that on the transfer OF the
funds now in the hands Of Messrs. Jones and
Hoyt. they be discharged from all further re-
Judge Noah Davis and Henry Day be Ippoinc-
ed u committee to prepare the trust deed.
CHINESE MOBBED IN WYOMING.