Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-07-31
gram expressing sorrow at the loss of
so distinguished a soldier and man.
Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican premier,
sent the following:

trious General Grant and personally tender my
deep sympathy and my family s heartfelt sympe
thy in your bereavement.
FROM MRS. FRELINGHUYSEN.
Mrs. Freliaghuysen, widow of the
late secretary of state, telegraphs:
pray receive my sympathy. We feel deeply
for YOU all / so highly appreciated the generals
kindness to me in my sorrow even when he was
such a sufferer"
Gov. Hill has rendered the family
the use of the executive mansion dur
ing their stay in Albany.
ONE OF THE GENERALS CONFIDENTIAL
MESSAGES TO DIR. DOUGLAS.
While in conversation with corres>
ponaent of The associated press Dr.
Douglas very kindly read to the writ
er the following remarkable docu-
ment, which was written by General
Grant in DR.. Douglas presence. on
| Thursday, July I'd:
1 ask you not to show this TO any one, unless
Particularly 1 want it kept from my family. IL
| known to one man the papers will get it. and they
the family will get it. ltwould only distress
| them almost beyond endurance to get it. and by
| a reflex would distress me- have not changed
my mind materially since wrote You before in
the same strain Now, however know that
gain strength some days, but when l do go back
| it is beyond where started to improve.
l think the chances are very decidedly in favor
of you being able to keep me alive until a change
of the weather towards winter: of course there
are contingencies that might arise AT any time
| that might carry me off very suddenly. Most
probable one of these is choking, under such
circumstances life is not worth the living / am
| very thankful to have been spared this long be-
| cause it has enabled me to practically complete
the work in which took so much interest
| l cannot stir up strength enough to review it
| and make additions and subtractions that would
| suggest themselves to me and are not likely to
fH.1r alraey 70 aal,r.
| above circumstances, will be the happest the
| most pain can avoid. II there is to be any eS-
is to be, it will develop itself would say, there
! fore, TO you and your colleagues to make me as
comfortable as you can. Ii it is within Gods
/ providence that l should go now, am ready to
| obey his call without a murmur. should prefer
/ to go now to enduring my present sufferings for
a single day without hope of recovery.
| AS | have stated am thankful for the provi-
dental extension of my time TO enable me to con-
| tinue my work. l am further thankful and in a
! much greater degree, because it has enabled me
| to see for myself the happy harmony which has
| so suddenly sprung up between those engaged but
few short years ago in deadly conflict. 1t has
been an inestimable blessing to me to hear kind
expressions to me in person from all points of
country; from people of all nationalitieS of all
religions aud no religion; of confederate and ma
tiona troops alike; of soldiers organizations; of
mechanical, scientific, religious and ether sccie-
ties, embracing almost every citizen in the land
They have brought JOY to my heart, if they have
not effected a cure. So to you and your eel
leagues acknowledge my indebte ness for hav-
ing brought me through the valley of the shadow
of death to enable me to witness these things.
(Signed), U. S. GRANT
THE AMERICAN PRESS.
st. Louis Gisbe-Democrat If ever
man deserved long life and the felicity
of an old age filled with "honor, love,
obedience, troops of friends, surely this
man did who served his country with
such unfinching devotion and to ends
SO incomparably good and splendid.
His name is associated in a shinibg and
potent manner with the most important
events in all our national history; his
record covers the period of the greatest
military and political convHlsion of
modern times, and is in large measure
the story of that tremendous epoch.
Only Lincoln towers to an equal hight
with him. The two stand together,
each supreme in his way, each lmmor-
tai. 1t was their privilege to share, one
with the other, the chief glo1ies of the
war for the union and the overthrow of
slavery; and by a strange, impressive
coincidence, future generations will
read with specially tender and reverent
interest that their lives both went out
nnder cruel conditions and in the light
of mournful tragedy.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: All
that now remains for our people is to
forget the faults aud we'll and truly re-
member the glorious qualities of the
dead hero, and bow i'll sorrow over his
tomb, Though passed from our view.
he will yet continue to speak. and the
pages OF history that recount the events
of his active and eventful life will point
and serve to lead to purer craftsmanship
and higher civilization. 1t will require
no IN onument of bronze or marble to
perpetuate the memory of Gen. Grant
This is engraven in the hearts of his
countrymen, and it will pass along the
stream of time from generation to gen
Grafton coupled with that of Washing
ton.
Cincinnati Enquirer: He was one of
the products of the War of the Rebel
lion. He was the central, most victorious
fsuIe in the greatest clash of arms the
New World has ever seen. He was one
of the. most remarkable specimens of
American monho0d. He illustrated in
the lowliaess of the beginning and the
tremendous achievements of his matur-
ity the possibilities of American citizen
ship, and conveyed a lesson of patriot
ism which will be learned by the youth
of many generations to come. No event
could effect the Nation more profound
lN LnAH luG OCdlu VI Ncus D. l1Il6
softened the sectional asperities, pro-
NOTED philosophical views of the war
between the north and south, sifted
mems views and motives, and made
Grant the military hero of the whole
country. He was admired on all hands
for his genius, and respected for his
patriotism, sincerity, and fairness even
among those against whom he led the
soldiers of the Union
EDITORIAL EXPRESSIONS ON GRANTS
DEATH BY TIE ENGLISH PAPERS
LONDON, ENG.-The Post says: 1.-The
Ame rican Republic has lost one of its
most iliustrious citizens. Gen. Grant
will be best remembered as the able
soldier who prevented the final sever
ance of the great rebublic. 1t is thus
that he will be known to Iosterity.
Though not Napoleon or Yelling
ton, he handled large armies and led
them to victory"
The Standard says: although the
death of Gen. Grant was long expected
the event is not the less deplorea. We
can only share with his mourning
| countrymen in sense of the loss OF
one whose career was so notable, so
| honorable to himself and so useful to
! Ills u1blt0 ldhu II Lhal "CAU BO,oIO1Cs
| he even rose in popularity when the
nation saw the way he faced poverty
and ruin. Simple and modest, he was
never cast down by reverses, nor. ..elated
by prosperity; never great STRAIT
egist, he knew only one course, name
Iy, to fight. To-day, from Cape Cod to
| the Alaskan isles, the land will once
more resound with the fading memer-
les of the war"
The Daily Telegraph says: 'Yester-
| day the greatest and most successful
soldier that the United States has pro-
duced, breathed his last. In no portion
of the United States have the financial
disasters marking the close of General
| Grants career been regarded with more
sympathy and regret than in England.
Beyond all others, he was best fitted 10
cope with the tremendous crisis which
made him, and when the grave closes
over all that is mortal of Ulysses Simp-
son Grant, 1t will be fels that he leaves
| hShind him no man cast in simpler,
| sincere or more heroic mould."
Draping His Birthplace.
PoIsr PLEASANT, Ohio.-The members
of Zsns 81. Scott Post, No. 279, G. A. R.,
of Moscow, knowing that the time fer
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