The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-08-10
GRANT.
The Observance of His Funeral in
Portland.

Portland.
Memorial Services in the City Hall.
Full Text of the Various Speakers
Addresses.
How the Day was Observed Else
where in Maine.
Full Text of Mr.. BIaine's Address in
Augusta.
In accordance with the request of the au-
thorities, places of business in this city were
almost universally closed Saturday, after D.
m, flags dropped at half-mast from the ship
ping, public and private buildings, and many
of the store windows were festooned in black
and white and displayed portraits of General
Grant appropriately decorated. The sun
shone brightly and its rays were tempered
by the breeze from the ocean.
At 2 p. M. Bosworth Post, No. 2, G. A. R..
Commander Galley, headed by Chandler's
Band marched to City Hall. At Thatcher
Post Hall, Thatcher Post, under command
| of Vice Commander Williams, fell into line
At the hall reserved seats were occupied by
the two posts, and also by the members of
the Loyal Legion, Commandery No. /, of
this city. The hall balconies and platform
were heavily draped with black.
From point above the platform, streamers
of white and black radiated to the walls in
the form of a canopy. In the rear of the
platform was the national flag. The desk
| was covered with black and in front was a
statuette of Gen. Grant and over it white
dove and sheaf of wheat
On the platform was seated Mayor Deering
| and members of the City Government, the
ex-mayors of Portland, officers of the staff Of
Brigadier General Brown, and of Col. Lynch
of the 1st Regiment, together with the line
officers of the same regiment, officers from
Fort Preble and the revenue steamer Dallas,
the officials from the Custom House and
| Post Office, and many of our most prominent
| citizens.
| AT p. m, every seat in the hall-some
| 2200 in number-were occupied and people
| stood about the aisles and in the corridors
outside. At the same time the solemn toll
| ting of the bells announced that the hour had
come to pay the last tribute on earth to the
| great commander.
The meeting was called to order by Mayor
| Deering, who said:
| My Fellow Citizens We have as sembled in
this hall to assume our share Of the common
| sorrow and national grief that is felt throug h.
out the land at the death of General Grant,
and by our presence here, this afternoon, take
our part in this memorial service, which an
nounces that Portland, in common
with the whole American people,
mourns the death of the greatest
soldier that the world ever beheld,-that illus
trious hero! whose great brain and heroic
| bravery brought our civil war to a successful
| conclusion, and secured forever to this nation
liberty and union, wedding the name of
Ulysses S. Grant in imperishable fame to the
| glory of the nation, which will emblazon
| it upon the escutcheon of our country,
| only next to the names of Washington
| and of Lincoln. His marvellous self control in
| peace and in war, his wonderful capacity for
| command his heroic, almost superhuman
bravery, his unimpeachable integrity, made
him the most illustrious and first citizen in the
land, and truly the typical American of the
| age.
| My fellow citizens l regret that l am not
/
every American citizen feels for the nation
dead, and will now present to you our friends
| and neighbors to whom feel sure you will
| gladly listen, and who are far more competent
to pronounce our eulogies than am.
| As the Mayor concluded Chandler's Band
| playedmost effectively the beautiful dirge,
crest, Spirit, Rest" after which Rev. DR.. A.
K P. Small of the First Baptist church read
| the following Scrinture lesson:
| SCRIPTURE READINGS.
q Samuel III, 81, 80, 3S.) And David said
| oJacob and all the people that were with him,
"Rend your clothes and grid you with sack
| cloth and mourn before Abner.'' And David
| himself followed the bier And they buried
Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up
his voice and wept at the grave of Abner; and
all the people wept. And the king said unto
his servants, "Know ye not that prince and a
! great man is fallen this day in Israeli
prov. VIII, IL, 13, 10, l6) For wisdom is
| better than rubies: and all the things that
may be desired are not to be compared to it.
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride,
| and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the fro
ward mouth do 1 hate. Counsel is mine, and
sound wisdom l am understanding l have
strength. By me kings reign and princes de-
cree justice. By me princes rule, and mobiles.
Even the judges of the earth.
Psalms xc, 1-6). Lord, thou hast been our
dwelling place in all generations. Before the
mountains were brought forth, or ever thou
hadst formed the earth and the world, even
from everlasting to everlafting, thou art God.
Thou turnest man to destruction; and say
est, "Return, We children of men," For a
thousand years in thy sight are but as yester-
day when it is past and as watch in the
night. Thou earliest them away with a
| how
are like grass which groweth up. In the
morning it fourisheth and groweth up; in the
evening it is cut down, and withereth.
(II Timothy, Nv, 6-8) For | am now
ready to be offered, and the time of my de-
parture is at hand, l have fought a good
fight, have finished my course l have kept
my faith.
The venerable Rev. DR.. Carruthers of the
Second Parish, who has been so often called
upon to officiate at the funerals of our
great public men, offered prayer, after which
the Weber Club sang with great expression
Webers ''There is blessed home.'
Gen. Charles P. Mattocks was then intro
duced and spoke as follows:
THE GRANDEsT SOLDIER OF MODERN DAYS
Two years Of bloody conflict had passed
Thousands of men had been sacrificed and mil
| uOuS Ol lIedSur6 ldNlsueu Ill u
maintain the integrity Of the Union of States
cemented by the blood of our fathers. The
plains of Virginia were dotted with the graves
I IrgrufOus n1aIarIa ndu uO4feAal-llallat and tn.
among the ranks of the Union forces at tn
South. The gallant army of the Potomac, afte
untold hardships, often defeated but neve
dismayed, stood confronting the army 0
Northern Virginia, with sullen glances acros
, the blood stained waters of the Rapidan
Mcclellan, Pope, Burnside and Hooker ha'
in turn met the flower of the Confederate arm
t with occasional success, but without substan
tial results. Meade, by the favor of Providence
t and an inspiration, as believe, derived by th
Northern soldiers from the fact that for tn
! first time in the history of the army of tn
! Potomac, they were fighting upon North /,
2 soi and, as they believed, to repel an invasio
l. aimed at their own homes,-fghting within Il
|. borders of State rich in the recollectons
our first Congress, and co1secrated t
e the memories of the Declaration of IndC
y pendence, the grandest document that ev