The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-08-13
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% have witnessed slrDo ny fIckno.s
Iust what have wished ID 500 over
since tho war harmony and good feel
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10 day the world viii witness what
% noyor fiuro its dawn yet saw, ard
Iuua,los- will never SEQ egslu-tho
world 10 WOO, For Gs ULYSSES 3.
.GRASr was h1uorod during ITO, AZ
never was man before him, by every
civilization ard by even oiimos mo-
youL its pale, so iu death mover vas
king, emperor, warrior or civilian 90
modern or la olympian orc so oya.ed
by NIL cgoods, professions na5onali-
ties, with such funeral pageant and
ohsCquics as VIII DO observed to-day
over this modes. American citizen, on
vii, hear rlom minute guns aad toll
Ing bolls, whose Ieyeraeralions VIII
be heard around the hemisphere.
To-day, like IN the case Of Him ofCa''
vary on the Cross, tho whole country
somehow feels az though a sort Of "vi-
carIous' penalty had been imposed
Tor atonement and reconciliation,
and 50, looks upon tho shadow OF this
great grief a. a mist about tho
shroudsd sun as it rises to meridian
glory. At this common sopulchro all
parallels OF latitude meet, al lines Of
Longitude converge.
Ia harmony with tho general move
the great state OF Texas, with hcr
500, eco cosmopolitan souls, with her
1900 Democratic majority, bows over
tho bier of Republican ex.president
dead. And so, too, tho entire South
ern sislerhcod, with tho conquered
banner fun ed, MULES the music and
marches in deepest sorrow TO perform
by proxy the last sad rites over The
conqueror, himself now conquered by
mightiar than he. Tho magnolia
and the palmetto sigh in sympathy
with the cypress and the willow OF
colder homes.
Who can look upon the wOndrous
scene and not be impressed with tho
conviction that tho achievements, the
personag5s and tho circumstances of
The late civil strife havo brGaGoned
into a common heritage for US all, SO
that no Federal triumph and no Con
federate SUCCESS VIII DO suffered 20 be
fenced Of from it's follows? Who car
contemplate th0 uuirer5Rl Outpouring
orylctorious Democracy for tho head
and front Of Republicanism and the
leader of anlagoni8tiJ armies, and not
| feel that the nation that watched at
the bedside OF the Christian hero, the
successful general, the two'term pres
ident, the worlds guest, ard the couu-
try's patient, in his Doric dignity as
his great life nickered in its socket
and whose ideal heroism, under tho
stroke OF death, but added another
flower 10 his fame-is henceiorth
single and solid, one and
ipdivisible forever, with its con-
stitution under every test strong
IS The granite shores which face tho
sea only TO dash back tho foam Of
the maddened waves?
And all this about man upon
whose walls hang no ancestral por
traits Of renown, but who, like the b.
NAPARTE, like COLUMBUS, MAHoMET,
SHAKESPEARE, VIRGIL, FRANKLIN,
and the rest, so carved out his
own career in less than decade from
the lowest rounds until through shit
ing fortunes he reached the highest
stepping on the pinnacle Of permanent
exaltation, SO that no man in all the
more than century Of time shines
brighter on tho page of history, or will
longer live like a star on the horizons
verge. AS the type Of q real Amsri'
can, America reveres his name and his
deeds, and will conserve his glories.
Faults he had, failings rather let us
call them now, spots on the SUMS orb
bu. indistinguishable In the blazing
sunshine, and such az they were they
seem to have sprung from those mob or
instincts that humanity honors. The
very type of 10y atty to his country, to
his principles, to his duties, he was SO
loyal to his friends that he not only
shared their responsibilities, but fol
them shouldered the popular resent
ment, and divided their dis2races. He
impressed all with his sterling worth,
superior abilities and rare modesty
and unselfshness, all Of which and
more is attested on all sides, now that
partisan malice hiss been so hushed
and professional and political jeal'
ousies are no more, 80 that those he
warred against ere pail bearers for his
remains.
II these things were all true of him
| hnur M let en- have hean these naOnle