Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-04-16

Ona survey Of dehsral Grants entire
career as an army leader taking note
of the magnitude of his operations,
the extent of his cam paigns and FIN
portance Of his battles, we do not doubt
that history will say no man ever ac.
complished like things with a smaller
percentage Of loss iii killed and wound
ed 1t must be remembered that he
commanded such armies and conducted
such military enterprises as were never
known on eHrth before.-;S. Louis
Globe Democrat.
1t will be a source of deep satisfaction
to the people of the United states that,
after the finger of death was laid npon
liifh; General Grant was still spared
long enough to fully know and realize
How profoundly the popular heart was
todched and stirred by his sufTerings
and mortal afhiction, and to feel how
completely tile steady and enduring
fervor Of the American peoples rever-
ence for the great haihe Of Grant has
dispelled tile ihists Ut perpietty and
embarrassment that troubled the iast
year of Ills life. --New T5tE Times.
Thsfe Is DO patty feeling now in
General CRAFTS 6wh sectioh; foF lis
fellow citizehs; whether Democrtts Bf
fepublicahs, cannot fail TO remember
the services which, beginning at
Belmont, continued at Forts Henry,
Donelson, Shiloh, Vickstt;rg and
Chattanooga; ciilihinatcd in the
campaign from the wilderness to
Appomattox. These are memories
which excite none but patriotic emo
tions, and about which division on
patty lines Notld be disssnsion. n.-totCd
State teuaet:
Tie wonderful tenacity of life shown
bS the general is the cause of comment
ON every side The Universal feeret Is
expressed that the long fight can not
have II different endihs titan his all
along beef1 predicted, and that is in
evitable. The SAME surprise is mani
tested by tile people in regard to his
power lin combating DEATH that Wis
elicitel ffoni tlie c5intry at his wonder
full achievements in the army. Grant is
remarkable man, whether the esti-
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diving hours, - Rochester Post Express.
1t was painful fast day, when Grant IS
life was hanging by n thread, to ste
what the fire alarm from box No. So
causedl Rough, plain men, pretty
huch such men as Grant himself was
not so many years ago, started out OF
shops, easements and englhe rooms.
us Giant ieadl8 was their question:
No 1t was only fire alarm. Let it
burn. What cared they. If Grant
could have known how many men were
waiting, some with tna-s in their eyes
to see whether the bells were tolling
for him, the dbGse tindef which nc
Suffered for so fhahy years would
all have been forgottei. BoSt5n Her.
ala.
GoR. Giant ia dyisE fact Before
the sun again kisses the fiiIItops and
warns the valleys; tie tblllns bsll:
may announce that he has passed
away. Every loyal heart will be flood
ed With grief at the demise of the
hefo Of our greatest war, our secoht
Washington; &ii6se calm, determined
and persistent valor sinote the hideou'
front Of febelli6h till it fell and the flal
of the republic fodted over a reunite,
and tftfenslnved people: Whatever par
tisans may say OF his political career
and whatever bitterness inay be left il
the hearts of those whose cause he over
threw, his patriotism as citizen anC
his valor and greatness as o soldier arr
safe from the worst that his detractor
can say; The republic may thank Coz
forever more that, in fer hour of need
the tanner Of GaiehS developed mil
tafy genius of the highest order ant
in fifs heart was the calm Clear puf
pose, without ambition or seIf-seeSing
to render to his Country the highest SCI
vice that the hotlr demandcd--tlle de
stfGctioii of her armed enemies AnC
The restoration of peace. The militia
ry career Of Gen, Grant can not be as
sailed, ffe stands peerless 6nd unthal
leng:d, the greatest soldier whom
America has produced, and the equa
of any in the tids of time. The maj
is unworthy Of American citizenship
| Who would feel no regret at his death
bay Citg Tribune.
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