The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-30
IN REMEM BRANCE.
Henry Ward Beecher's Eloquent Tribute
to General Grant at fremont Temple,
DISQUALIFICATION of the Trust Fund.

AASAaEy NaFu 1seScD0fsS EIOQueEC Tribute
to General Grant at fremont Temple,
DISQUALIFICATION of the Trust Fund.
BosToN, Oct 23.-The city of Boston
paid its formal official tribute to the mem
DRY of Ulysses S. Grant yesterday afternoon
in manner beftting the occasion. The
services were held in fremont Temple, the
audience filing every part of the great
auditorium. Mayor O'Brien presided.
Howard NJ. Dow played appropriate
music upon the organ while the
audience was being seated, and
then, in conjunction with the large orches-
ira, performed Chopin's Funeral March,"
Prayer was offered by Rev. B. T. Hamil-
ton, of the Elliot Church, after which
the choir of fifty-nine voices sang to
music from the Magic Flute'' the first
two and last four stanzas of an
ode which Mrs. Julia Ward Howe had
written for the occasion. A poem
written by Louisa Imogene Guiny was then
read by Prof. Moses A. Brown. Then the
motel, Gone Through the Shadows, :"
written by NJ. j. Savage, words by II. II.
Dow, was impressiyely rendered by the
female choir
Mayor O'Brien then introduced Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, whose eloquent
eulOgy was listened to with the deepest in
terest. Mr.. Beechers eulogy embraced an
interesting review of General Grants life.
Following are extracts:
Grant made no claim to saintship. He was
q man OF like passions and with as marked
limitations as other men. Nothing could be
more distasteful to his honest, modest soul
WnlIe HVlng and nothing more unbecOming TO
his memory than lying exaggerations and full
some batteries. Men without faults are apt
TO be men without force. A round diamond
has no brilliancy. Lights and shadows, hills
and alleys, give beauty to the landscape.
The faults OF great and generous natures are
often the oYer-ripe goodness or the shadows
which their virtues cast. Three elements en-
ter into the career of a great citZen-thet
which his ancestry gives; that which oppor-
tumty gives; that which his will develops
Grant overcame the wish to drink,
which js better. But the cloud hung over his
reputation Tor many years and threatened
his aScendency when better days came. OF
all his victories, many and great this was
the greatest - that he conquered himself
His Will was stronger than his passions He
was good subaltern, poor farmer, worse
tanner, worthless traffcker. Without civil
experience, without literary gifts, too diff
dent to be ambitious too modest to put him.
self forward, too honest to be q politician,
he was OF all men the, leaSt likely to attain
eminence and absolutely untitled apparently
for pre-emnence; yet Gods providence Sc
lected him. Ordained was Grant with the
1t is impossible to reach the full measure of
Grants military genius until we survey the
greatness OF THU most extraordinary war of
modern days, or, it may be said, of any age.
Into this sulphurOuS storm of war Grant en-
tered almost unknown. 1t was with difficulty
that he could obtain a command. Once
set forward, Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg,
Chattanooga, the Wilderness SpOttSylvania,
Petersburg, AppomattoX-these were his
footsteps. In four years he had risen with
out political favor from the bottom to the
hiUhaSt Saonn6 IN IN U
ing commander in all the world. His plans
were large; his undscOuraged will was pa
tient to obduracy. He was not fighting for
reputation nor for the display of Generalship,
nor for a future Presidency. He had
but one motive, and that as intense
as life itself, the subjugatiOn of the
rebellion and the restoration of the
broken Union He embodied the feelings of
the common people. He was their perfect
representative. The war was waged for the
maintenance Of the Union, the suppression of
armed resistance and at length for the eradi-
cation of slavery. He never wavered, turned
aside or dallied. He waded through blood to
the horses brides. In ali this career he
never lost courage, or equanimity. With a
million men for whose movements he was
responsible he yet carried tranquil mind,
neither depressed by disasters nor eated by
success; gentle of heart, familiar with ALL
never bOastful, always modest. When
his work was done and the defeat OF the Con-
federate armies was final the dreadful man OF
blood was tender toward his late adversaries
AtitS close ''The American Son." writ
ten by NJ. j. Savage and set to music by
V. Cyrillo, was rendered by the full choir.
The exercises closed with the benediction.
THE TRUST FUND.
NEW YORK, Oct. ga meeting of the
subscribers and the trustees of the Grant
trust fund was held yesterday afternoon.
Among those presen were: Jay Gould Sid
ney Dillon, Russell Sage, George Jones,
Judge Noah Davis, G. p. Huntington,
William. A. Wheeler, Richard NJ. Hoe, Jr.,
and General A. G. McCook, Henry Day
and John p Terry, executors of the Z.
ID. Morgan estate, also attended. Mr..
Jones said that the fund amounted to
$24S, 900, 1915, 900 Of which was invested
in consolidated mortgage bonds of the Wa
bash Railroad and $780, 900 in the bonds of
the ''Nickel-Plate" Road. The payment of
the interest has been made to the family
every quarter, the sum amounting to So, $40.
After discussion of over an hour, the fol-
lowing resolution was drawn by Judge
Noah Navis and offered by Sidney Dillon,
seconded by Jay Gould and adopted:
Rcs0tUed Firstly, that the fund be placed in
the hands of trustees to pay the income to
Mrs. Grant during her life and after her de-
cease to the children Of General Grant during
their lives, and on their decease, respectively,
that the funds be so divided to their descend
ants per stripes and not per capita Sec
ondly, that a committee of two be APP
pointed to prepare the trust deed and to
submit the terms of the same to the donors at
a future meeting to be called. Thirdly, that
the United States Trust Company be appoint
ed as trustee, and that on the transfer of the
funds now in the hands Of Messrs. Jones and
Hoyt, they be discharged from all further re-
sponsibility and liability. Fourthly, that
Judge Noah Davis and Henry Day be appoint
ed a committee to prepare the trust deed.