The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-24

GENERAL GRANT.

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event which transpired on Mount Nc
. Gregor on Thursday morning was com
ing, the delay being only matter Of
; few days; all were prepared, as fully a
they could be, for the event, and ye
when the news comes that the slendel
thread by which the life of Genera
Grant has so long been held, is severed
it bows the nation in deepest sorrow
and bends all in saddest mourning. A
people can never so well prepare fol
parting with its great ones that they are
able to undergo the separation without
grief and sadness. Foreknowledge may
soften the sorrow, but it cannot over
come it; we cannot fortify against dis.
tress of this character. Grants death,
near as we all knew it to be, comes with
all the force of a sudden shock, and
none can feel that the long expectation
of the dissolution has helped him to bear
the affliction.
How dear to the hearts of the people
was the man who can be with them
no more, was never known until
yesterday, when he left with US only the
name. AS a soldier the people shouted
in his presence, but without asking
themselves why; he was a successful
general triumphant leader of men in
war, and it was the enthusiasm inspired
by war that caused us to shout and ap-
piaud, and to glory in the name. The
war being over and the man appearing
in the role of statesman, the cooler
reason of the populace asserted itself,
and Grant was gazed upon in the alb
sence of the military halo that had be-
fore surrounded him and dazzled the
eyes of the people. As a soldier he had
captured the admiration by storm as
President he was placed in a more
trying position; there could be neither
sound nor parade; what he did must
stand by itself and be approved or con-
demned on its merits, and people were
cooler and better prepared to pass judy
ment intelligently and with greater dis
elimination. 1t was then that Grant
found his way to the inside of the
American heart; it was then that he
showed the man as he had previously
the soldier. And, after all, it |
is the man, the true citizen of the re-
public in the broadest sense, rather than |
the military hero that the American |
people most admire. They are for the
time carried away by sound, parade
and show, but the man who wins his
way into an everlasting place in their
affections must do so through his re-
publican ideas and respect for and ap-
,reciation of American citizenship. Pol
tics and faction tried Grant, and most
erribiy 50, on the question of his re-
and it was because of a
loubt that the people were unable to
make up verdict in his favor. There
vas no question as to his military genius,
nd none as to his patriotism Or achieve
nents; all these stood forth and
Tere acknowledged; but the cry of
was raised, and the
eople were not all clear in their minds
5 to It's rightfulness or falsity. A
cesar could not be a true American |
tizen, and while there existed doubt,
he people dared not trust. But when
lat doubt was dispelled and Grant
ood forth as he had in reality been all
lie time, the patriot in peace as he had /;
cen the patriot and hero in war, how
lie hearts of his countrymen opened to
i'm, finding for him warmer and better
rejected place than had ever been &C.
lpied save by that other patriot in war
nd peace, George Washington. The {
st to which Grant was put was severe,
1t not too severe for the material be- \
g tried. Coming forth from the
ucible pure and shining, the alteration N
lat he excited has been growing louder
I'd deeper, and to-day no mans death
Ould occasion 1.-THE of the sorrow
at General Grants has inflicted upon
s countrymen. The mourning is G
ep and earnest. the feeling of genuine
dness penetrating all hearts. We
ieve over the dissolution of the great
an and sorrow at the consciousness Sd
at this generation will not look upon :
5 like.
The life of Ulysses S. Grant is so
niliar to the American people that it
to detail it here, CIR even
er to the important events therein.
s death will recall Donelson, Shiloh.
cksburg, Mission Ridge, and Ap-
mattox, and his glories there will be
lnded afresh; his death will carry
} minds of all back over the trying
les between 1869 and 1877, when he
cd at the head of the nation and
naged affairs with the master skill
The statesman; everybody will re-
" the events of the past few years,
' the civilized world paid =
/ homage as one of the
atest characters in history; Ri
' he came home to find his country "i
i enthusiastic in their admiration
pronounced and sincere in their II
ction; how he has lived quietly "