The Red Cloud chief., 1885-07-31
GRANT Is DEAD!
The Saddcst Announcement Since
That Of Lincoln's Fall.
a Brief Review Of Some of the salient
Points i'm His Grand Carerr-Isis Rec
ord A. a soldier, ~ Politician and
President aud a. a Man.

President. and a. a Man.
General Grant is dead. His last words
have been spoken. lie has gazed upon the
lace of "n'ure for the last time. His great
career Is enie-i. We are. therefore. COM
Teiod :" peak If hin who hut "a few hour
"a" was The most iliuatriDus of living men
ns one WHO has oheyed the nrnmon To-
"Jplm III inHumcraiic caravan that moves
bwafd Tho realms where each must take
has siumter in the silent halls Of DEATH"
In The closing Of his life our grand tri-
"mViTate OF departed misunderstanding
ION Lincoln and Grant-granier than tn"
history of any other nation prescnts-is
completed The Nation mnurns its idol
IN" world, which knew him hv heart,
syiepa'hizes with the people OF the United
States in their bereavement.
Whom Daniel Webster died Frnnkhn
II"r"" said: 9Th" great heart Of the Ma
li"n tErphs heavily At the portals Of his
grave" General Grants death viii touch
IN" heart Of universal humanity, for the
events ~ has life spanncd the widest range
% hEmnn "Xp"ricLcc-frrm almost blank
"tscurIiy L" the most dazzling fame the
world can give; from tn" imppt"ncy Of a
poor aud almost unknown man To sEch
power as human hand has seldom crasped.
II Is not easy - think OF xritc of Gen
'rni Grant in tn" past tense. So ~graully
Solid was the man in his habits, his char
meter, his deeds: 50 genuine, 50 far re-
moved from ali that was not substantial
as the everlasting truth, that h.s passage
from the society Of the liyin. t. "the
ir"athl"ss darkness and the narrow
huuSc' seems like ia" sinking Of n noun
tam or the sudden pro-tration 81 a forest.
For wears he was the silent Nam
9Th" Si,hyHx'-sn r.ticcnt that those who
judged without knowledge spoke Of him
"a pn"wh" gained "a reputation for wis
dom H. suying little. Eat he never failed
f. speak when words We're needed. and np
man ever uttered weighter words than h..
His words are as iinperi-hnhIe as his
deeds: both viii liv" in tn" memory Of
men SO Ion. rs a record or tradition of our
Republic shall endure. Centuries hence
Ia" descendants Of ihe men ~ho fought
with Ice, and Johnston. ami Stoncwall
Jackson viii ponder trnderly ana lovingly
un the words which Grant spoke t. L." at
Arpuinuttoy: Let vour men takr home
their horses: they viii need them in plow-
i'm and making uirir crops" And ahoy"
the ro1r Of political ~crnp.St for many u
decade t. come viii De- heard the Let Us
have pracc', with which Grant met the
furious >'orm that rat the political i.rrua-
mont seventeen vonrs 40.
1. can no. h. said that General Grant
made no mis;akrs ia his military career:
t. claim tia. wouln lc I, SCI; him above all
tro v.,tn.-s., .EumaUitv, to culow him
with IT,. nitriI.rt.. Of the D.ifv. But let
i: be rc~r.rinler~lr That la almost every in
sfa.c. uf nm alr..I .'lIunlrr" his iulg-
mon, vyae Kiudir9trI lev results. You
v.r. ri-lf ana uos wranr'' wrote Ahru-
n, Lincoln 4, Gran. on memorable sr-
ca~ion. g. Wa "A simple !ut magnificent
trihi'.. TIN, timo has not vet como for au
uuimua-.ipu-I analyst, of Grant IA IA
commander. hut the tina, viii meyer come
vr., tan I..npl. Of liz. United States nil
rti. A.a. jess. ,r hover than thrv Ill in tn"
zenith of his military rrmpwn. tie cave,
,r;r arms ,lc,aSS when others failed. lie
WI th- on. man ul deeds, the op" man
who asked for rarhinr. the most modest.
una--umin. maa that ever Ia an army t.
1,.f.r,. f'ut a.. know himself. Ia trusted
himself. and ilat calm. unu'torcl trust
va,. tine confidence af III army and the
,n,i,f
Comm ont az n. war crowned rs h
Nl- with i.ur,lS. j.. WAS Inevitable that
Giart should l.. or ri the Fr--ii urv.
with ia. ar'aiutv ai election - h- wp8ll
consent. |: may d. Tat. fH- lbs own hap
Nun. he mad. a mistake in l-4y.n. the
G,uar,'ship for H.. Presidency. But he
,h.,.I -. cali ofrh. country ursyIi as he
had ohr,rl u an military life. A. he never
asked fur promotion il the fe!i. - be was
carried into ia. White House 10y the POM
lar Will. aud not hV his own procurement.
The ci-ht years Of his Administration
w.r, \ stormy rrriol-the era of recon
s,ruc,ion. an era IF bitterness, of political
m,laxol.pco. Il was. too. "A time when the
decentralization wrought by the war mani
f.S,,l itself in po,itiral rorruptinn. Bat
.vsr believed that Gram, was not
absolutely incorruptihle. His greatest
f,ul, MIS-, ,~o.d trait carried Ia an extreme.
IIa trust.l his friends sometimes when
a., hal - =; .bt to his ~nntidruce
IT., H. -,,ot Er, ,,u,
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'ht't -" u.-
tour III i'r'lSh 'h'> ""> "''' ~
'h''iih'S' a'i ~
Ia MN anu MS ia'iii'H wv ~ F,t""' :" "
Young man on whom ne had hutit an ahSo-
Int trust. make up n strangely varied