Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-05

side by side they snail sleep in the sans
tomb. aud she shall share with him whatever
homage future ages shall pay at his national
shrine.
Was hers laudable desire that the FORTH
coming memoirs should BE- inscribed 10 herp
et she surrendered her claim to the magma
nimity that inspired mm TO write: at is q
great deal better that 10 shOu de dedicated
as IS. made what reputation have a. q
soldier. The troops engaged on both sides
are yet living AS t is, the dedication Is to
those we fought against, as well az those we
fought W tn. IL may serve a rurpose ia re-
storing harmony. If IT does. &c Is Of more i'm
port nee than 10 crafty little vanity. You
VIII dle; II Is hoped the book will live. After
you and the soldiers who fought are all gone,
now"
And such was the'tenderness OF his love and
soheitude for her and hers be surprised her
by letter found after his death. It came as
a message to her from him after he had gono.
When his spirit had returned to the God who
gave It there was found seore ed In his robe
his last letter TO her, engeloped, aealed, and
addressed. He had written il betimes: writ
ten seoretly, and carried the sacred T0lssive
day after day during fourteen day, knowing
that she would lind It ~ last. In 10 he poured
forth his soul in love and solicitude for their
children.
On April IS he said to me: 81 believe in the
holy Script urea. and whose lives hy them VIII
be benefited thereby; men may differ as to
the interpretation, which Is human; but tho
Scriptures are mans best guide" He rev.
cred their source, recognized their influence,
responded TO their fequsitions trusted in
thelr promises, and found consolation In their
hopes. His faith in God as the Sovereign
Ruler and the Father Almighty was ample
as child's and mighty as prophets.
lie was not btgot. Big0try was no part Of
his noble and generous nature. While he de-
manded religion rs the safeguard Of a freo
people, he accorded TO all the largest freedom
= falth and worship. He was without preiu-
dice; he claimed that public education should
pa iorff III Ffa
Des Molnes public speech on education was
not against the Roman Catholic Church, but
against ignorance and superstition. The orr
der Issued during the war excluding certain
Jewish traders from given military district
did not originate with him, but came from q
higher authority; and was not against the re-
liGiOn OF the Jews.
He is gone. but shall death defeat q purposs
80 benehcent2 Is he not mightier in his death.
than in his lifeP What home has not felt the
sympathetic chord touched by ths invisibie
hand OF his terrible but patient suffering,
How the embers of sectional strife have dsed
out on the heaFthstOne of the natiOnl How
political animosities have skulked awav I'M
shame from the peaceful spirit Of his last
momentsl How sectari9n prejudice shrank
into oblivion when around his couch all bowed
In prayer before universal 9avlourl How
the young men OF the republic realized that
life is worth living when they felt the touch
OF his great soul How the little children OF
the nation united his name with that Of
father and mother In their purer prayers, and
opened the tablets OF their young memories 10
receive the image Of his life and charactarf
md wherever he had touched the circuit Of
the earth there came from Japan, Ch ma and
L. dia, from the temple. Of Jei usalem and tho
pyrs mds OF Egypt, from Attic plains and
ancient Troy, frsm the Bos h0rns and the
Golden Horn, from the ID Dtpube and the Kline,
from the Seine and the Thames. the voice "a
love that made all men AKIN. who would
not even dare to die 10 do SO much for man
kind? And this was his consolasicH.
IT'S morning, tisthe prom lee Of brighter
day. The trumperers Of the lies are sound
ing the reveille. Their notes have reached
the earth. Their notes have reached our.
Generals ear. He has gone to Join the tri-i
umDhant host. IT'S morning IN HeHYcal