St. Landry democrat., 1885-10-31
BEECHER ON GRANT.
Memorial Services at fremont
Temple, Boston.
The Plymouth Pastor Delivers a Warm
Eulogium On the Life, Virtues and
Heroic Deeds of the Depart
ed Warrlor.Statesman.

ternoon to the Grant memorial exercises
a; fremont Temple, under the auspices
of the city Government.
At two O'Clock prayer was offered by
Rev. B. r. Hamin, and an ode by Julia
Ward Howe was sung by the choir, a
poem written by Louise 1. Quincy was
read by Prof. Moses T. Brown of Tufts
College. "Gone Through the Shadows, ~
was rendered by choir of women's
voices.
Mayor O'Brien at this point, in brief
speech presented Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher as eulosist OF the day. Mr..
Beecher was received with generous ap-
pause, and spoke as follows:
"Another name is added to the roll of
those whom the world will not willingly
let die. A few years since storm-laden
clouds filed his heaven and obloquy;
I.sahder and bitter lies rained down upon
him. The clouds are all blown
| away; under o serene sky he laid
down his lie and the Nation wept.
The path to his tomb Is worn
| by the feet of innumsrable pilgrims; the
widowed lips of SANDER are silent, and
even criticism hesitates lest some incau.
| tious word should mar the history of
! the modest, gentle, magnanimous war;
| Tior. The whole Nation watched his pas
sage through humiliation and misfor-
tunes with unfeigned sympathy; the
whole world sighed when his life
| ended. At his burial the 1nsWorded
hands of those whom he had fought |
lifted his bier and bore him to his |
tomb with love and reverence. I
Grant smade5 no claim to saintship; he |
was man OF like passions, and with as |
marked limitations as other men. Moth. /
ing could be more distasteful to his hon
est, modest soul while living, and moth
ing more unbecoming to his memory
than lying exaggerations and fulsome /
batteries. Men without faults are apt to
be men without force.
Mr.. Bcecher reviewed Grants life at
West Point, his service in Mexico and
California, and, abiding to his private
life, said: 'sIIc was poor farmer. a
worse tanner, worthless tranicker.
without civil experience, without literary
gifts; too diflldent to be ambitious; too
modes TO put himself forward; too
honest TO be politician, he was of all
men least likely to al tain emnence, and
was absolutely untitled apparently for
prc-emtnence. Yet Gods providence
selected him, ordained was Grant with
the ointmenA of war, black and sulphur
GUS"
His opportunity was coming Already 4
clouds afar off were gathering He saw
III m not. No figures were seen upon the
din horizon OF the already near future,
! ne 4nsuited Tag; the garments rolled in
Oiooa; million men in arms; the sui
phurous smoke of battle; CORY heaps up /
on desperate battle-feIds; an army of
Stow moving crippled heroes: grave {
yards populous cities. They were all In t
the clouded horizon though he saw t
them not Let Us look upon the t
scene. This continent lay waiting for /
ages Tor thesseed of civilization; at length
soWer came forth to SOW. While he q
s"Wed good seed of liberty and Christian {
an enemy, lurking, sowed {
baFes. Ihey sprang up and grew to. I
sether. The Constitution Graded both c
slavery and liberty. While yet ungrown c
they dwett together in peace They {
snaried in youth, quarreled when half b
grown and fought when of full age. The s
anal catastrophe was inevitable. The n
SCUM, Ike queenly beauty, grew i'm. c
oerious and exacting; the North, c
Ike an obsequious sutton, knelt Ii
u her feet, only to receive n
and mockery Both parties. |,
mig and Democrat, drank of the Gun Of r,
Ter sorcery. It killed the Wing party. a
Lhe Democratic party was tougher. and | G.
vas only besotted. If wise moderation | Il
lad possessed the South; If thev had @
oncltlated the North; If they had met II
ust scruples OF honest men, who, hating 81
laVery, dreaded the dishonor of break. al
ny the compacts OF tho Constitution. the dt
'outn might have held control for an oil
!thef hundred years. It was not to be. G
~ sou sent strong delusion upon them m
ne, were seeking to mod W
faie volcanoes and stop earth. Nd
uakes by administering political OF
hlnlne. The wise, the statesmen were sh
: Wildered, and politicians were Juggling nc
JOBS. The South had builded herself TO
pom the rock of slavery. 1t lay in the le
cry channels of civilization like some co
ooa rock lying sullen off He'll Gate. VII
ne tloes OF controversy rushed upon 1t Fc
nd split Into eddies and swirlfng pools. W,
ringing violence and disaster. The rock las
oufd not move. 1t must be removed. IT tn
as the South itself that furnished the las
lglneers; arrogance in council sunk Gu
e shaat; violence chambered the sub. br
rranean passages, and infatuatlon on
aded them with dynamite. Ali was Sc. on
ire. The hand that fred upon Sumter his
,pioded the mine and tore the fortress col
atoms. For one moment the an
aters rocked with wild confu- dr.
on then the way of ciyiIiza- Sic
% was opened The souto fought shs
slavery and independence. The North COZ
ugnC Hor union, and for political
cess after the war. Thus for two lea
aFs. hot unmarked by great deeds, the ren
= fingered Lincoln, sad and sorrow. oY
|. felt the 1nndaratio,, u - z, ,