Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-10
THE DYING HERO.

indianapolis Journal: Had Gen
Grant been dying twenty-five years
ago today the nation would have been
sleepless from anxiety, as it is now
from love and sympathy.
Rockford Register: His name stands
| level with the most illustrious of his.
tory, and it will grow brighter as the
years pass and the little criticisms oil
contemporary times are forgotten.
Utica Press: When the final agony
is past-but let us not speak of that
now. At the present "the great heart
of the nation beats heavily" as the bull
letins from the sick room are sped
over the land.
Syracuse Standard: If both Gen.
Grant and jefferson Davis should die
upon the same day, the death of the
latter would be forgotten in tie sor-
row which the nation will feel when
the hero of Appamatox is no longer
among the living.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette:
The interest In the condition of Gen.
Grant is universal, and sympathy with
him is confined 10 no class Or con d.
ton, creed or race or nationality. One
who will be always in the foremost
and highest group Of figures in Amer
lean history is passing away, through
frightful suffering, with admirable
composure and heroic fortitude.
New York Herald: The grand old
soldier faces the inevitable with the
same stern and indomitable courage
which he has shown on hundred
battle-felds He has at least the conso-
latiop Of knowing in his trial that
100000 of people, including the
north and the south, the east and the
w Z, forgetfUl of any aud all differ
ences of opinion in times past, staud
ready TO offer him their sympathy.
Pittsburg Chronicle-TeIegraph: Gen.
Grant leaves name that will shine in
history for many an age and become
brighter as the passions and preiudic-
es aroused by the great struggle of the
civil war pass away and are forgotten.
II is not the time now TO attempt a
detailed estimate of his character aud
work. That can best be left TO poster
ity. and lett TO it with full confidence
that il will accord him the full need
of fame as soldier and patriot.
Louisville Commercial: Ii i the
great soldier who did so much TO re-
store unity to this country; the mag
unanimous general who gave generous
terms after winning fair fight, and
insisted on their full observance at the
risd of official disfavor and popular
disapproval; the accomplishing man
who eDdures with calm fortitude the
bullets of misfori lne and disease,
around whom the sympathies of the
people cluster as they watch with
glistening eyes his dying torture.
st. Paul Pioneer Press: 1t is no
mere metaphor TO say that the atten-
ton of the whole country is fixed up
on that chamber of imminent death,
where physicians and friends are wait
ing for the last moment. From the
telegraph station established on Mad
ison avenue every bulletin is flashed in
a moment TO the New York papers
and TO the telegraph offices for distri-
button over the whole land The ma
ton stands at his bedside and hears in
the tick of the telegraph every futter
of his falling pulse. When the end
shall como, be ii day or night, the news
will run over the land like nerve inn
pulse, thrilling aud saddeDing hearts
and homes, in Minnesota and Califor-
MIA as soon rs in New York aud New
and The shock may be expect
ed any hour.