Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-09
THE MEMORIAL ENERCIsEs.

for the mortal remains Of one Of the worlds
great soldiers and Americas true citizens.
The memorial services Of General GRANT
were among the greatest any nation has
ever accorded to man. Besides the many
thousands who took part in the procession
that attended the remains Of the old Hero
80 the place Of sepulture, the citizens Of
every city and town and hamlet in the land
were wing with each other in paying
fitting tributes to his memory,
This event marks a new and
suspicious era in the history Of this country.
A little more than one month ago, the
republic Of France buried the great French
man, YICroR HUGO, in the Pantheon. That,
though sad, was still a proud day for
France. All strife of church and state WAS
hushed; the red flags Of the Communists
were hidden away and the fralernal bonds
that were formed while they were unitsdi in
doing honor to the great poet were harding
ers Of lasting fellowship among Frenchmsn
OF al parties and sections. But yesterday,
though also time Of universal mourning,
was q tar prouder day for America than
that which France reverenced. 1t was
Just such a day as General Grant
had wished to see since the
war, harmony and good feeling among the
sections" The old grudges and anlmositiss
that were naturally caused By the late civil
war have gradually been becoming less and
less, and every year the veterans Of the
North and the veterans Of the South have
felt freer in joining hands and forgetting
the past. As most fitting token of the
good feeling that now exists in the South,
the city Of Atlanta, q short time ago, laid
the corner stone of a soldiers monument
that will be graced with statues Of GIANT,
SHERMAN, JOHNSTON and LEE, and soldier
in blue and 8 soldier in gray frsteruslly
clssping hands. But yesterday this good
feeling was expressed as never before. There
were aching as pail bearers marching side
By side in the procession, and in other ways
taking part in the ceremonies, such men as
SHERIDAN, JOHNSTON, LOGAN, HANCOCK,
Flrz HUGH LEE, Curtis, GORDON, BUCESER
and hosts Of others who had once been
deadly enemies, aud everywhere in the
South General GRANT was claimed by the
people as belonging to the Nation and be-
longing to them, and they paid him the
most marked tokens Of respect. What does
this sIl mean? 1t means not only, as Gen
eral JOHNSTON remarked while on his way
to New York to act IS one Of the pail
bearers, The South respected GRANT living,
they honor him dead but it means
much more. It means, as was wreathed IN
notices on the cstatalqUe that bore the
ashes Of the old Commander, No North;
No South, but united and
free people. The tokens Of coincidence aud
respect foreign nations have sent up mean
not only tribute 10 great man, but a
tribute to American manhood and Ameri-
lean free institutions. From far of Siam
$, Japan, in Asia, and from the sdherents
-chy and aristocracy in Europe
4 reverence that is worthy
'swho are partakers in the
Of our institutions. Even
who has only till of late
for our republic, has given
f that she believes in the
political and social freedom
.ogish speaking people on the
It's are henceforth to work to-
,ore mutual sympathy than here
sa proof of her Difference, Canon
in his memorial address
v.e the high dignitaires of
England, in Westminster Abbey, said,
in speaking Of General GRANT, such careers
are the glory OF the American continent;
they show ths. the people have a sovereign
insight into intrinsic force "
Gods light has shown for the failure desti-
MES CT a mighty nation"
All these demonstrations have taught
their lessons and left lasting imprint upon
:he future Of the Republic, and as General
Curtis the eorqaeror of Fort Fisher re-
marked as the other day as he graspsd the
haudoi an oldGeneral that had fought against
MIN in battle, may it only be an emblem
of what is coming to the whole country.
Wheeling yesterday brought in her chap
let Of flowers and observed fitting ceremo'
MES while the body of the old Commander
was borne TO that beautiful spot overlooking
the historic Hudson. The immediate in
pulse that prompted the people Of Wheeling
and the people Of the entire country will
soon pass away, but the good influence will
remain. The noble aud heroic men who
lie in the Pantheon and in Westminster
Abbey, the remains of Shakespeare on the
Avon, and OF William, Prince of Orange,
in the Delft will have added to their num-
Der three heroes at whose shrines lovers OF
freedom and right and manhood in all fu-
ture generations viii feel proud to kneel.
As long as American institutions exist and
American minds and msDners shall be found,
the names WASHINGTON, who sleeps at
Mt. Vernon, LINCOLN, who fills = tomb at
Springfield, and GRANT, whose mausoleum
is on the banks of the beautiful Hudson, shall
among their eountrymen remain household
words.