The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-23
B0STON'S TRIBUTE
TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. GRANT
A Large Meeting 10 fremont Temple Does
Honor to tho Dead Horo-Tho EuIoEy
of Rev. Henry Ward BssChsr-Sili.
tAr7 and Civic Achievements.

tarY and Civic Achievements.
Bosrov, Oct. 22.-The city of Boston
paid It's formal official tribute to the
memory of U. s. Grant this afternoon in
manner beftting the occasion. The
ceremony was conducted in tho fremont
Temple before an audience that filed the
hall. Mayor O'Brien presided. Howard
H. Dow played appropriate music upon
the organ while the audience was being
seated, and then in conjunction with the
orchestra performed Chopin's Funeral
March," Prayer was offered by Rev. B. F.
Hamilton, after which the choir Of 50vcices
sung to music from the "Magic Finte" the
first two aud last four starzls OF an ode
which Mrs. Julia Ward Howe hal written
for the occasion. A poem by Louisa 1mo-
gene Quincy was then read by Prof. Moses
T, Blown. The following, written by Rev.
]. Savage, was sung by the female portion
OF the choir:
"Gone through the shadow; gone through the
valley Ut 'hNdows:
| Hall: o. our Captain:
Hall, o patriot one, crowned asvct0s;
OIL o uur brother gone before us,
Otr ea'ihy sOEOw! Oet ths death.Vsin thou
hath conquered.
Glory's Sllrys live now AZ glorious:
Ia our arts st as In old time be thou
And In thy tOoISteps Ws'll follow TIL fJr all men
death Il conquered forever.
Amen. amen, Amcn'
Rgy. Henry Ward Beecher was then in
troduced by Mayor o Brien, and delivered
the following eutogy:
THE GRAFTON. .#
Another Hame is added to tho roll Of
those whom the world will not willingly
let die. A few years since storm.clouds
filed his heaven, and obloquy, slander
and bitter tears rained down upon him.
The clouds are all blown away, under a
serene sky he laid down his lie, and the
Nation wept. The path to his feet is worn
by the feet OF innumerable pilgrims. The
mildewed lips Of slapder are silent, and
even Criticism hcsitates lest some in
cautious word should mar the history OF
the modest, gentle, magnanlUlous warrior.
The whole S,ti0n watched his passage
through Illuminating misforlunes with un-
igiened sympathy; Tho Vhole world aigh-
when his life ended! a: his burial the
lunsyorded hands Of those whom he had
fought lifted his bier and bore him TO his
toulb with love and reverence,
Men without faults are apt to be men
without force. A ronrd diamond has no
brilliatcy cy. Lights aud shsdows, hills and
valleys, give beauty 10 the lGndsCSpe. 1he
fsults OF great ami generous natures are
often oyer.tips goodness, or the shadows
which thelr SiEsIts cast.
Three elements enter into the career Of
q great citizen:
That which his ancestry gives.
That which opportunity gives.
That which his viii develops.
aRASr's ORIGIN.
Grant came from sturdy New England
stock; New England derived it from Scot
land, Scotland bred it, at q time when
Coyenanters and PuEitans were made
men Of iron consciences hammered out
upon the anvil OF adversity. From New
England the stream flowed to the Ohio.
where it enriched the soil till it brought
forth abundant harvestsoI great men. When
| it was Grants time to be born, he came
forth without celestial portents and his
youth had in 1t no prophecy OF his mat
hood. His boyhood was wholesome,
robust, with vigorous frame. With q
heart susceptible OF tender love, he yet
was not social. He was patient and per-
sistent. He loved horses and could mas
ter them. That is good sign.
Grant had no art OF creating Circum-
stances; opportunity must sect him, OF
else ne would plod through life without
Disclosing the gifts which dod hid in him.
The goli in the hills cannot disclose
itself. It must be sought and dug,
The South fought for slavery. and inde-
mar ardence, The North fought for Union,
but for political suCcets after the War.
Tins for two years, not unma ked BY
Great deeds. the war fingered. Lincoln,
sad and sorfowiul, felt the moderation OF
h;s generals, and logged iaE msn OF iron
monId. WHO had but two woFds IN bis
military vocabulary, Victory or AanihIls-
ton.
He v as coming! He was heard from at
Forts Henry and Dorelson.
Three great names were rising to sight
l-Shermen, Thomas, Sheridan and larger
than either, Grant! With his advent tae
armies, with somerepulses, went steadily
forward, from corqueriog TO conquer;
Aside from all military qualities, he had
one absorbing spirit-.he- Union mnse-6e
saved, the rebellion E.Ggt be beaten, the
Confederate armies must be thTeshed to
chat ga on aEumner thrcshtpg hoo':
Thus at length Grant was really born!
He had lain in tho nest for long as an in
ferti,aOgg. The broodtnH Of war haichsd
tho egg, and an eagle came torthi
HIs MILITARY GRNlus.
II is impossible 10 rsseh the full meas
ure of Grants military gsaius until we sur
yey the greatness Of this most eatfaordi-
nary war OF modern days, or it may be
said OF any age.
For more than four yesStherc were more
than q million men on each side, stretched
out upon line of between one and two
thousand miles, and blockade vigorously
enforced along a coast Of equal extent.
During that time, counting no battle in
which there were not i've hundred Union
men engaged, there was fought more than
two thousand engayements--tvot thousand
two hundred and sixty,one OF record.
Amid this sea Of blood there shot up
great battles, that for numbers, Sighting
and losses, will rank with the great bat
w In 1852 the losses by death, wounds
and missing on each side, as extracted
from Government records are: .
uulou. Conied. Total.
1. shiloh. 500 lO,GD "I,lSy
>. seven Pines ngd Fair -oo- 10 -,s
8. bay EetreAt aud Nal, ,-., ca "a,