The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-08
GEN. GRANTS FUNERAL.
The Body Removed from Mt. McGregor to
Albany and from thence to New York
City-Dr. Newman's Eulogy.

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At 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning services were
held in front of the cottage at Mount McGregor,
and were opened by reading the Goth Psalm, fol-
lowed by an impressive prayer by Bishop Harris.
About one thousand persons were present, includ-
ing Gen. Hancock and staff and the U. S. regulars
that had been doing guard duty. The family oc-
cupied the room in the cottage where the remains
lay. Following the hymn, "My Faith Looks Up
| to Thee" Rev. DR.. Newman delivered his sermon,
taking his text from the XIV chapter of Mat
thew, 21st verse-"Well done, thou good and
faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy
| Lord"
At the conclusion of the eulogy the hymn,
"Nearer, Ny God, to Thee," was impressively
sung by the audience, and the services ended with
the benedicton. The body was then borne to the
railroad station by detachment of Grand Army
men, who placed it upon the funeral car. Men,
bers of the family, military officers and prominent
friends then took their places in the cars and at
one o'clock the train moved off for Saratoga amid
the booming of artillery and the throng OF people
who stood with uncovered heads, the scene pre-
sented being one of great solennity. From Sar-
atoga the train sped on to Albany, thousands of
people being assembled along the route to see 1t
| pass. It reached Albany at $40 p. m, when the
| body was taken from the car and removed to the
Capitol, followed by procession numbering forty
five hundred. While lying in state in the Senate
corridor thousands upon thousands or persons
passed through to view the remains. At 1890
on Wednesday, the body having been replaced
| tha fup fbo N doT 60,
York city, where it arrived at 5 p. m. The body
was then removed to the City Hall, where it will
lie in state until day, when the final funeral
services will take place and the body of Gen.
Grant will be followed to Riverside Park by one
| of the grandest and most imposing funeral pa
geants in this country.
| In the course of his remarks Rev. DIR. Newman,
who had for years been on terms of the closest
intimacy with Gen. Grant and his family, said:
Who is dead /? ye sobbing winds of Mt. Nc
Gregor, that famed his brow, tell it not Whisper
| it not, ye mountain pines that shaded his FORM
| And keep We silent, O ye summer skies of love
| and beauty that smiled upon him
| Wherein others dreamed Of success he foresaw
defeat, when others expected despair he discover
| ed ground of hope. What were contrasts to 9TH
ers were comparisons to him. He often stood
alone in his judgment and plans: and it is the
| enduring compliment to his practical sense that
the bunders committed by others on military and
| political questions were the result of plans which
never had his approval.
In war and peace he was the wisest and the
safest guide this nation has had since the Father
of his Country assembled to his reward. In his
| dying chamber he grasped the hand of him whose
| sword the first he had won, and said: II
have witnessed since my sickness just what +
| wished to see since the war, harmony and
| good feeling between tho sections" On holy
| Easter he sent forth this tender message: 81 de-
| sire the good will of all, whether hitherto my
! friends not
After five years in camp and field, he returned
to his home without stain upon his character.
| Among ancient or modern warriors where shall
| we find his superior in moral elevation =? Given to
no excess himself, he sternly rebuked it in others
He never took the name of his Creator in vain,
and an impure story never polluted his lips.
Gentle, true, and kind gratitude was one of the
nobest emotions of his soul. His words were
few, but pregnant with grateful recognition. To
| one who had been friend in need he declared
| at am glad to say that while there is much I'M
blushing wickedness in the world, yet there is a
| compromising grandeur of soul. In my case I
have not found that republics ungrateful, nor
| are the people,"
| Was he silent under reproach He preferred
the greater satisfaction of the reversal of public
| opinion. Only those permitted to hear the whis-
| guish he experienced when maligned by ignor-
| ance, prejudice, and disappointed aspirants.
As he was the typical American should we be
surprised to find that his was the typical Ameri-
| can home? May we lift the curtain, and look
| upon the holy privacy of that once unbroken
household? Oh, the mutual and reciprocal love
of welded life within those sacred precincts
Husband and wife the happy supplement of each
other, their characters blending in sweetest har-
mony like the blended colors in the bow of prom
Use. He, strength, dignity, and courage: she,
gentleness, grace, and purity. He, the Doric
column to sustain she, the Corinthian column to
beautify. He, the oak to support; she, ivy to
entwine. She shared his trials and his trinmphs,
his and his joys, his tolls and his rewards.
How tender was that scene, in the early dawn
of that April day, when, all thought the long
expected end had come, he gave her bis watch
and tenderly caressed her hand. 1t was all the
great soldier had to give to the wife of his youth.
And the dying hero whispered
"I did not have you wait upon me, because 1
knew it would distress you; but now the end
draws NIGH"
And out from the "swellings of Jordan" he
rushed back to the shore of life to write this ten
der message to his son:
"Wherever I am buried, promise me that your
mother shall be buried by my side" 1t is all a
wife could ask it is all husband could wish.
"Lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
their death they shall not be divided"
And how tender was his care. He thought not
of himself, but Of her. To his son he said: "I
hope mother will bear up bravely." To quiet her
anxiety he wrote: "po as do; take it quietly.
I give myself not the least concern. If / knew
the end was to be tomorrow, would try just as
hard to get rest in the mean time" Would she
keep holy vigis through the livelong night He
wrote her: 900 to sleep and feel happy that is
what I want to do and am going to try for. I
am happy when out of pain. Consider how hap
py you ought to be. Good nightw
And such was the tenderness of his love and
solicitude for her and hers he surprised her by
letter found after his DEATH It came o mes |
sage to her from him after he had gone. When
his spirit had returned to the God who gave it
there found secreted in his robe his last letter
to her, enveoped, sealed, and addressed. He
had written it betimes, written it secretly, and
carried the sacred missive day after day during
fourteen days, knowing that she would find it at
last In ii he poured forth his soul in love for
her and solictude for their children.
"Look after our dear children and direct them
in the paths of recitude. 1t would distress me
Gar more to think that one of them could depart |
from an honorable, upright, and virtuous life |
than it would to know that they Frustrated |
on a bed of sickness from which they were never |
to arise alive. They have never given US any |
cause for alarm on their account, and earnestly |
pray they never will.
"With these few injunctions, and the knowledge |
have of your love and affection, and of the duti-
full affection of all our children, bid you final |
farewell until meet in another, and, trust, q |
better world. You will find this on my person |
after my demise"
Reared in the Methodist Episcopal church, and |
baptized in his last illness by one of her minis
ters, his religious nature was sincere, calm, and
steadfast. The principles of Christianity were
deeply engrafted upon his spirit. Firm but never
demonstrative he was not q man of religious pre-
tence. His life was his profession. On the 18th
of April he said to me 81 believe in the holy
Scriptures, and whose lives by them will be bene-
flied thereby; men may differ as to the interpre-
tation,. which is human but the Scriptures are
mans best guide"
On Monday, April 20, he said to me /: "I did
not go riding yesterday, although invited and
permitted by my physicians, because it was the
Lords Day, and because felt that if relapse
should set in the people who are praying for me
would feel that was not helping their faith by
riding out on Sunday"
On this mount, to be hereafter halowed ground,
and where his monument shall rise in grandeur,
he said, to an honored priest of another church:
~ know and feel very grateful to the Christian
people of the land for their prayers on my behalf