Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-11-25
PEABODY EDUCATION FUND.

PEABODY EDUCATION FUND.
rwENTY-FoURTH MEETING OF THE BOARD
| OF TRUSTEES.
REMARKS AND RESOLUTIONS OF HON. A. H.
H. STUART IN REFERENCE TO THE
DEATH OF GEN. GRANT.
CURRY, ON VIRGINIA.
| We are indebted to Hon. A. Fl. H. Stuart
one of the members, for copy of the pro
ceedings of the Trustees of the Peabod,
Education Fund at their twenty -fourtI
meeting, held on the 7th of October at tn,
Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City.
After the meeting was opened with pray
by Bishop Whipple, Mr.. Winthrop, Chair
nan of the Board, addressed chat body, in
which address he reviewed the work tina,
had been done, and the great benefit thai
the Peabody Fund had conferred upon the
South-complimented in just terms the
service rendered by the General Agent, DR..
Curry, whose place it would be difficult to
il-and paid handsome tributes to the
memory of two of the Board who had died
since their last meeting-the Treasurer of
he Board, MIR. Samuel Wetmore, who died
IN the 73rd year of his age at bis residence
a New York City on the 9th of March
N H. 81 -
McGregor, in New York, on the 23rd of Ju-
ly last.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Winthrop's re-
marks Mr.. Stuart addressed the Board as
.'ollows:-
Mr.. CHAIRMAN,-I hope I shall not be
regarded by my colleagues as eficious OF
obtrusive in moving that so much of our
Chairman's address as refers to the deatL
of General Grant be referred to a selec'
committee of three, to consider and report
what action should be taken by the Board
in relation thereto
General Grant, though a native and resi-
dent of the North, in fact belonged to the
whole country; and it has seemed to me
that it would tend to give emphasis to that
fact if the movement to do honor to his
memory were to come from a Southern
man.
j | therefore, as the representative of Vir-
ginia.-a State which was under many OBJ
legations to General Grant, take the liber-
ty of submit ing that motion.
The motion was passed, and Messrs.
Stuart, Hayes, and Manning were appoint
ed the committee.
Mr.. Evarts then moved that the tribute
to the memory of Mr.. Wetmore be referred
to special committee, which was accord
ingly doue; and Messrs. Evarts, Aiken, and
Whipple were appointed.
Mr.. Stuart, in behalf of the committee to
consider the tribute paid to General Grant,
submitted the following report and resolu
lions, which were unanimously adopted. all
the members rising when the question was
putt
} The committee to whom was referred so
much of our Chairman's opening address
as refers to the death of General U. S.
Grant, have had the same under censidera-
ton, and respectfully submit the following
REPORT:
Death has again broken the ranks of cur
Board. General Ulysses S. Grant, the lau-
rel crowned warrior, the statesman who
was twice elevated by the suffrages of the
American people to the Presidency IF the
United States, the large hearted patriot
whose affections and aspirations during life
were dedicated to his country's welfare and
honor, the soldier who fought through long
years of war that peace and all it's attend
: ant blessings might be secured TO his coun-
| trymen, has been summoned from our side.
He went to his grave hoDOred and la
mented by men of all sections, and pariit S,
and races. Men who bad been arrayed
against him on the battlefield twenty years
f ago were no less sincere in their grief for
his death than those who had stood by his
side in the deadly encounters of war. All
appreciated his patriotic purposes. All ad-
mired his heroic courage and steadfastness
All honored his truthfulness and fidelity to
! every obligation. Bold, fearless, and ag-
gressive in war, he was humane and mag
2 unanimous in the hour of victory. When,
mainly through his efforts, civil war had
ceased, he was among the first to seek to
calm the angry passions to which it had
/, gwen birth and to invoke the blessings of
peace and the restoration of union in fact
DIS we'll as in name.
All remember how his patriotic appeal to
his countrymen at the commencement of
his first Presidential term, 'Let us have
peace,'' thrilled the heart of every true
American from the Lakes to the Gulf. and
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. From
that hour to the close of his earthly career
there is good reason TO believe that the first
wish of his heart was to witness the fulfill
ment of that prayer. When he stood as it
were on the verge of the grave,-when his
mortal frame was wasted by disease, and
his tongue had lost the power of giving ut
! | t.,u tn ba fh,nubtC uh ioh aHIlod bic
great soul,-he made the hand which had so
successfully welded the sword in defense
of the Union its substitute, to record his
gratitude to God for having permitted him
to live long enough to witness the restora-
tion Of UNION aud fraternity between his
,tely dlscordant countrymen.
These noble sentiments sank deeply into
the American mind, and awakened an echo
in every patriotic heart. When he was
stricken with the disease which finally
proved fatal, the hearts of the people of all
sections overlooked with sympathy and
whee the end came, wall of grief was
heard throughout our whole country, which
found expression in popular meetings,
through the public press, and in every 9th
er mode of Jestifying respect and affection
known to civilized society; ard his obse-
quies were celebrated with solemn pomp
and ceremony unparalleled in our country
since the death of Washington.
General Grant was one OF the sixteen orig
inal Trustees named by Mr. Peabody him
self to administer bis beneicent trust in be-
half of the lliterate children of lhe,Svuth.
ern States. He was in full sympathy with
the purpose of the founder of the trust, and
earnestly an cordially co-operated with his
associates in their eff ms to fulfil it.
AT the date of his appointment, he was,
with probably one exception, the youngest
member of the Board. and his robust frame
and apparently vigorous health gave prom
Use of long life. But as it has pleased Him
in whose hands are the issues of life and
death to order otherwise, all that remains
!, for us is with bowed heads and reverent
4 hearts to submit to Ills decree.
Having assembled now at our Annual
Meeting for the first time since this great
aff1iction fell upon us, we, the surviving