The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-24
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From Our Special Edition Of Yesterday. ]
FROM LIFE TO HISTORY.

From Orr Special Edition Of Iesterddyl
FROM LIFE TO HISTORY,
General Grant is dead. The brave, heroic,
withal modest, commander is at rest. He who,
from Donelson and Vicksburg to Appomattox,
amid the perls and storm of battle and the
conflict of armies Injured to war; demanded
and obtained an unconditional surrender from
the foes of his country, has quietly, uncom-
plainingly and with the same dauntless cour-
age met the last enemy of man, DEATH. In
his military career he knew no fear and ex-
pressed no doubts, and in the inevitable
conflict between mortality and the future he
has passed with becoming grace and courage
to that eternity of glory and fame that knows
no death, and in which he will live in the
hearts of his countrymen.
This century has known but one Grant
Happy the country that in the hour of it's
peril shall possess his equal The thunder of
the first gun fired against the walls Of Sum
ter found its echo in the prairies Of the
Northwest. Loyal hearts leaped responsive
to the first drum-beat to arms Amongst
the throng that came to the first cry of the
Nation in its hour of it's peril was
4 Ulysses S. Grant, humble, unheralded,
plain citizen of the Republic. With no ad-
ventitious surroundings relying solely upon
his merit he rose step by step from a clerk
ship in the mastering Office at the capital of
his State to the supreme command of the
grandest and largest army that ever followed
single leader There was no accident, no
chance in this; it was the fate that follows
merit. Washington was not an accidental
4 leader at the birth of the Nation; no more was
Grant an accidental general in the days of its
supremest trial AS Moses was raised up to
lead the children of Israel from the bondage
of Egypt, and as Washington was appointed,
I the undsmayed leader of the infant colonies,
4 so Grant was ordained to rescue a nation of
! freedom and progress from the thralldom and
! the oligarchy of slavery.
! Grant never failed. He took no step to the
3 rear; his face and that of his army was always
! to the front. The measure Of ability and of
] genius is success. That some other man, some
other general, might have won victories and
brought about the final overthrow of the rebel
lious armies is possible; but no one of them did.
After many trials andmany failures, after the
classical generals, the favorite generals, the
]! generals of the powerful classes all failed,
I and failed utterly, this unobtrusive man of
power was called to the command of all the
armies of the Republic. Where he was, there
came to every loyal heart and to every soldier
! the feeling that success was assured. 1t is not
1 impious to say that God might have made a
greater general and all ADLER commander
q than General Grant, but He never did. Had
any general of the North started in the serv-
i ice with the same glamour of family pride,
previous name and history that General Lee
q had he would have been named for a promi-
/ nent place. if not the first place, among the
leaders of the federal armies, at the beginning
of the conflict. General Grant was the hum
BILE citizen at the outset of the war. His pro-
! motion came from his own achievements and
his own superior ability. Whatever of re-
nown there is to his name he won for himself
The outbreak of the war found him a tanners
clerk; its close left him the most famous
general in the world. There is no country on
! the globe, no Inhabited island of the sea, to
which his name and fame have not reached.
Americas great general is dead. He has
met the inevitable fate Of all flesh. It has
! been appointed to all men once to die. After
J the conflicts Of life, Ulysses S. Grants sleeps
] with the heroes of the ages gone. There
were heroes before Agamemnon;' so there will
4 be heroes after Grant, but in his day and gen
Grafton he had no equal Stern in war, de-
handing everything that was necessary to
1 preserve the honor and dignity of his country,
yet his magnanimity to the conquered sur
passed even his valor in the field. His sole
] aim was the honor, the glory and the perpetu-
ity of his country.
General Grant is dead. A united country
North, South, East and West, mourns at the
grave of its grandest, greatest, and yet most
merciful soldier.
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