The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-08-14

OIVI war, Wnon SponG al evening LII
| his company, with some of his stall Oh
| ficers, at the headquarters OF General
Sickles. He showed then no citation IN
| his manner, no consciousness OF his grand
success; he talked quietly and earnestly
of the condition of things and OF the pros
poets at the South, and chatted about
"reminiscences of the Mexican war. The
next time saw him was upon Com
mencement Day at Harvard College, IN
| 1872. He was President of the great Re
public. The University was giving him
the highest honors her most eminent
men were speaking his praises. tie
arose in response to an eloquent address
from the President of the University, and
said that he must rely upon his friend
Judge Hoar, then Attorney General OF
the United States, to speak for him, and
| that was all he said He was not man,
l think, of strong sympathies or antip-
athies He kept faith with those IN
whom he trusted, sometimes during his
experience in civil life, when they did
not deserve his friendship. His soldiers
| instinct, so true in military matters,
failed him at times, as often is the case
with soldiers, in business matters and in
statecraft. Men believed in him, not so
much from any electric influence which
he exercised as because they knew he
would do what he tried to do.
{" But whatever his mistakes as
civilian, he was always true to his coun-
try, to the whole country His fame is
untarnished by single blemish."
MR.. JONATHAN AUSTIN.
Mr.. Jonathan Austin said-Comrades
and Friends We have assembled to-
day to join in thought and feeling with
the procession whose mournful symbols
are displayed from the busy centers of
civilization to the four corners of the
earth, and while our hearts are oppressed
with sorrow for our dead commander,
our grief is tempered with the thought
that when the old soldier answered to
the last roll-call he passed from the
Affections which have borne so heavily
upon the closing months of his life to the
well-earned reward of peace through life
eternal. The whole world is better for
the life of such man. The memory of
his deeds, and of his character, will live
to cheer and encourage true hearts so
long as justice and liberty shall be priced
by mankind. History furnishes no rec
ord of leader surprising General Grant
for calm and intelligent bravery in the
face of disaster, or for the boundless
magnanimity of his heart in the hour OF
victory. The persistence with which he
adhered to we'll considered plans was a
keynote to his character. His perfect
faith in the accomplishment of the OBJ
jects which he sought was exemplifed in
the fact that he never turned back This
was illustrated in his reply to Chief
Quartermaster who had reported trans
----- g. .tr-> Thousand men and
10 +che attack, and who asked e But
how, General, if we are driven back p,
The Old hero's eye flashed, as he replied,
" Ii we come back, transportation for ten
thousand will be ample for all that are
Left" While Americans are proud of q
nobility which has for its only basis in
tegrity and capacity, all nations acknowl-
edge the nobility of this grand soul who
commenced life as a poor bow. and left
it the acknowledged military leader of
the world. The nations of the earth have
| joined to honor this representative Amer
| lean. Rulers and people-the HIGHEST
and the lowest of all lands-claim with
us the right to revere the memory of the
great General, the noble citizen. Let us.
his comrades and fellow citizens, who
have wandered so far from the fields
whereon he won Immortal glory, join with
friends from other lands who have
gathered with us to-day in the expression |
of our thanks to the Supreme Commander |
OF the Universe, that this man of un-
swerving integrity and unfailing adber-
ence to duty came forth from the peace
ful pursuits of an humble citizen. and
slew the twin Reconsideration and
Slavery, So thorough was his work that
If ever the ghost of Disunion shall show
his head, or if ever the ghost of Slavery
shall crack his whip, the battle fields and
the burial places throughout the land
will give up their dead heroes; and skele-
tons OF regiments, of batteries, and of
troops viii arise in their tattered shreds
of blue with the stars and stripes, and of
gray with the stars and bars. The drv
bones will rattle, and the rusty arms will
clank as they form the shadowy line of
battle, blue and gray shoulder to shoulder,
to join in one grand charge and sweep :
not from earth alone, but from eternity.
the thought of those two crimes. AS we :
go to resume our respective paths in life,
ct Us draw consolation from the faith
which assures US that our dead comrade :,
has left his earthly abode with all of it's :
'ares and trials, to live henceforth in per- =.
ect peace, to inhabit a house not made 2
With hands, eternal in the heavens. =
A poetical tribute to Grant was read .,
y Mr.. James B. Castle, being Walt. n
Vhitman's poem in commemoration of :,
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