Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-09-24
THE GRANT MEMORIAL SERVICES
Al Eureka. Nevada. August =. 1850
Remarks of Gee, W. Cassidy, U.
$. Senator From Nevada, For
merly OF Mexico, Mo.

VI piotSiS N
memory of the most distinguished
American citizen of his time:
Where can words be found with
which to appropriately garland the
achievements of the greatest of mil
itary chieftains?
l humbly confess, in this presence,
that [ never before so fully realized
tue utter poverty of the English Ian
guage.
Whence this pageant?
Whence this s%orrowing among fifty
millions of freemen throughout the
length and breadth of the land?
Whence, indeed, these lamenta-
'tions wherever the worlds civiliza-
ton extends?
4 patriot, a soldier, a hero is dead!
And millions mourn him for his un-
selfish devotion to country and the
cause of free government among
men.
All that is mortal of an immortal
man is to-day being laid to its final
rest, in Riverside Park, New York,
and Il nation with grief-stricken heart
is PROSTATE upon the bier!
Only three names shine out con-
spicuously above all the others in the
annals of American history-Wash-
ington, Lincoln, Grant!
AS Washington and his compeers
conceived and created the Union, so
Lincoln and Grant preserved it.
Inseparably connected in the Ma
TONS history with the author OF
emancipation, himself the power that
gave that edict force and effect,
Grant must take his place i'll the
minds of men forever as the associate
and peer of Washington and Lincoln,
Washington, the Father of his Coun.
try, Grant its Savior; twins in fame.
their names will echo down through
all the coming ages to the last sylla
BILE of recorded time.
The world may well pause to-da,
) to honor such 4 man as Grant.
Reverence for heroes and heroisn
has existed in all ages and among al
people. 1t will be a sad day for tn
nation when this sentiment perishe
from the earth. Men are taught b,
example rather than from pages 0
books.
We are assembled to-day not NOR
to testify our respect and affectio.
for the great soldier than to impress
| on the plastic minds of those VIII
: are to succeed us in the ADMINISTERS
. ton of the Government tue lesson
| taught by his life-his patience. hi
frmness, his magnanimity, and hi
love of country.
p His was a sublime character. H
was as guileless as a child, as modes
$ as a maiden; sincere, noble, homes
and a true Christian.
His fellow-citizens appreciated hi
-, character and patriotism and twic
p honored him with the highest civ
station within the gift of the nation
the presidency of the United States
the most exalted position within til
worlds gift.
But it is as a great soldier and mi
: itary genius, rather than as q civ
administrator, that he will rank i
O the history of the ages.
: AS transformations as Washington
as far seeing IS Napoleon, with til
7 determination of Wellington {
Frederick the Great, and endowe
= with the courage of Richard th
/ Lion-hearted, he vas at once a ma
vel and miracle of military greatness
1t will not do to assume that hi
, brilliant military career was due solt
i, ly, or mainly, to good fortune. Hi
record is made up by an unbroke
series of ]ces Grant neve
2 lost a battle from Fort Donelson t
Appomattox Courthouse.
He never failed to secure victor
in the end over his opponent, whetf
er it was Pillow Oh Polk, Floyd c
Buekner, Albert Sidney johnson Q
Beauregard, Joseph Z. Johnston c
; Pemberton, Bragg or Hardee, o.
last, and greater than them all, til
cool, ~self-reliant and hitherto inyi1
chile Robert +. Lee.
I He won the first practical victor
for the Federal arms when he cal
t tured Fort Donelson in Feb. 1862.
When the enemy proposed the al
pointment of a commission to decic
upon the terms of capitulatio.
Grant sent back word:
mo terms other than an uncond
tional and immediate surrender.
propose to Immediately move upC
your works.
Not the victory more than h
soldierly declaration to the eneu
made Grant the hero of the FEEDER
army. He at once became the id
of the people of the North and Il
J.; President commissioned him Maio
General.
81 Then followed in rapid ~successit
,f the victories at Pittsburg Landin
Corinth, and the grand campaie
against Vicksburg, 1.-The Gibraltar
~ the Mississippi which resulted
:, the capture of 27,000 Confedera
e prisoners. For this brilliant al
# signal achievement he was promote