The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-09

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BILE emotions must have moved unon
them in'the hope of the future when
General Grant said to them: aRovs
/: take your horses home with Won Won
Will need them for your spring piow-
Ing. How well they have piowed the
seed sown, and the harvest garnered
isa balm in Gilead, healing Sectional
luminosity and discord A realization
OF this fact by the grand old hero at his
closing hour softened and made death
easy. And now as the solemn corteee
passes slowly by, we bow our heads. as
the Blue and the Gray place his remains
in their last resting place.
HoS. Arthur L. THOMAS was next in
troduced.
Dir. Thomas Speech.
During this hour when the mortal re-
mains of the greatest Captain of our
time are being borne to their final rest
ing place. the people have assembled in
the principal cities of the United States,
and OF other lands, to do honor to his
memory, and in accord with this uni
versal action we are met to help swell
the tribute of civilization to General
Grant. 1t does not often happen that a
common feeling so completely unites
governments and peoples. official and
unomclal bodies, hostile parties, and
warning elements, in one spontaneous
and irresistible expression of sorrow for
the loss of any man, however distin-
tlngulshed. 1t is eminently fitting that
mankind should thus manifest its re-
gard for the man. and appreciation of
the mighty work he accomplished.
The fame which attaches to the name
OF General Grant will rest very largely
upon the success he achieved as COM
mander during the civil war. The war
was gigantic one. Armies, money
and all the munitions of war were raised
on scale never before contemplated
or necessary.
The result was long in doubt. There
came days when Joyous hope filed the
nation, followed by dark days of humi-
iation and disaster. Army after army
was defeated. General after general
was deposed.
But the hearts of the people never
failedathem, and the nations spirit rose
the higher, the lower its fortunes sank.
There was aroused throughout the
north firmer determination to sacrifice
everything. and to suffer anything
IdLucI bldn dUduuOu us anu
renounce its place among the nations.
The career of General Grant duringl
these dark and perllouS days was rel
markedly successful.
Early in 1862 he captured Fort Donel-
son, and secured more prisoners of war
than had been taken in any battle
fought upon the American continent up
to that time. This first important
triumph which had come to the Union
arms inspired the people with fresh
courage, and won for General Grant
their respect and confidence. In the
winter of 1S62-63, and the following
spring the military situation was ex-
tremely critical The movements
of our armies in the west created
in the minds of the authorities
at Washington, and of the people,
feeling of distrust, and this
was accelerated by the invasion of
Pennsylvania by General Lee. In the
west we were i'll danger of losing the
control of the Mississippi. In the east
the division of the territory held by
the northern people was seriously
threatened. To the dark cloud which
hung over the nation there came a
silver lining. Lee was hurled back
from Pennsylvania, and Vicksburg sur
W IL WAS lUt
turning point OF the war. 1t was a
happy omen that President Lincoln was
enabled to announce both these vic
tories on the morning on the 4th of
July. In. a day the situation had
changed. The tide had turned. The
darkness began to fade away, and in
the dissolving shadows could be seen
the first rays of the coming days of
peace. Afterwards the result was only
a question of time. The battle on
Lookout Mountain was fought, and
then General Grant was summoned to
Washington to receive a commission
constituting him Northumberland
and commander of all the
armies of the United States. Then
followed in quick succession the
battles of the Wilderness, Winchester,
and Chicamauga; the famous march TO
the sea; the capitulation of Savannah;
the storIning of the lines before Rich
mond the virtual suppression of the
great rebellion.
The success which had crowned the
efforts of General Grant was marvellous.
Entering the Army in 1861, the Colonel
of an Illinois regiment, at the close OF
the war he held the high rank of Gen
eral, and was the leader of Armies that
A1dCSUOIldll anu l11C llO1AAdA AdFO
envied, and in the final day of triumph
he had his full share in the halo of glory
which crowned the conquering arms of
the Republic, and in the hour of victory
he crowned the laurels he had won in
war, by treating with his defeated OPP
ponents with a magnanimity and for
bearance -which has no parallel i'll the
history of war, and which emphasized
the native grandeur of his character.
Long before the end came President
Lincoln and the people had learned to
love him, and to honor this silent uaas
Stunning man who bore himself so fear
lessly in danger, so calmly in difficulty,
and so modestly in success, and to have
the fullest faith in bis eminent ability for
leadership in crisis so terrible. His terse
sayings became rallying cries, and in
spired his countrymen. His integrity
of purpose, his frmness of will, and the
deep sense of accountability which
marked every important act, presented
a character which steadily and visibly
gained not only upon the minds and
hearts of his own countrymen- alone,
but also of the world.
He remained the general Of the armies
until he was elevated by the people to
the office of chief magistrate, retiring in
1877, upon the completion of his second
term,
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