The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-08-20

against y foreign fue. lie realized
from the beginning that recOncilia
tion was all-important-that the
North and the South. with the ces-
sation of war, had to be reunited.
and he knew and felt the absolute ne
cesSitv Of winning back the estraug
ed hearts OF the Southern people 1t
IL not likely that any other com
mauder wond have pursued the
wise course he dill. Al that very
hour the Northern people were vim
dicliveIv clamoring Tor the punish.
mcnt of rebels
Their newspapers were full of bit
ter maledictions against the re
hellious South. and their eloquent
orators proclaimed that traitors
must be hung and treason be made
odious.
They had sent 20 the field over
two millions of men Hundreds OF
thousands had gone down in the
shock OF baItle At that very hour
forty thousand Federal soldiers
were langmshing and slowly dying
in Southern prisons The very air
was burdened with The wild cry for
vengeance. No paroles of honor for
rebels confiscatiou and the scat
fold
Amid this Wild sea of passion
Grant stood the very embodiment
Of Wisdom, serenity and justice,
lowering above the angry multi
lude
Like some tall cliff that lifts its giant
foIm
Up from the vale and midway cleaves
tue storm.
| Though round its base the rolling clouds
are spread,
! Eternal sunshine settles ON his head"
His motto then, ~ afterwards,
| was, Let rs have peace He was
absolutely without sectional prciu-
dices
He saw that if Virginia had fur
nished the great soldier Lee to the
Confederate army, Virginia had also
given the Uuion host great soldier
in George II. Thomas. He saw that
if Alabama had given Scmmes tt
the Confederate Navy, Tennessee
had given to the Federal Navy The
greatest nautical commander since
the fall Of the hero of Trafa gar
And in the ranks it was brother
against brother. Wherefore the
great magnanimons General in the
supreme hour of final victory, end
lug the hloo1iest and most rxpen
Sive war The world has ever seen
proclaimed peace, forgiveness, recon
Citation. And when aflerward the
head Of the Government, Andrew
Johnson, Southern man, under
took To ahrogale his generous terms
to the PROSTATE ConfederateS, Gen
Grant said 1T should not be done
You can take nv sword from me
but YOU shall not violate the paro
Of honor given by me to Lee and hi
"a ant army
And this simple act has done more
to make us one homogeneous people
and n nation if You Please with {
big \ han all the acts and do ng'
Of all the politicians North anC
South since the war.
And he pursued The same gpner
Gus course when President. We al
remember how, Mt a gloomy hour, he
submitted TO the vote Of The peopl,
i"f Mississippi the oppressive d.
franchising clauses # the State Crn
, ~lilution, 10 the end that thoS, un
Just and odious provisions might he
stricken out.
Therefore let US all Join in pcan>
of praise to the memory of the cour-
agcouS soldier and statesman, who
amid flowers and solemn martial
strains OF music, and saIYOs Of artil
irrN, on the classic banks OF the
Hudson, almost in sight Of West
Point, where in youth he studied
the science Of war and laid the
foundation Of his brilliant military
career, is to day being buried. A
TO his place Of burial he cared but
little, so II was Il spot where Julia,
his faithful wife, could rest beside
him. There in the great metropolis
a monumental marble pile, towering
skyward, wi i'll tell to unborn millions
] the history Of his wonderful achieve
mcnts. But he needs no monument
to pcrpetuate his deeds. His fame
will reverberate through all the cor
ridOrs Of Fine. His work in war
and peace will be throughout all the
ages inseparably associated with the
true glory of his country. Like his
great antagonist in war, he died on
/ the mrgntainS. and so long as the
AIleghan!cs in Virginia and the AID
irondacks in New York tower to
to the heavens will the names of Lee
and Grant be inseparahIy connected
and honOred in the remembrance of
mankind.
Soldier, rest, thy warfare DER
| Dream OF battle fields no more
| Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn OF toll nor night of waking"
G.. s. NJ.
| SdtuTUdu, 1u0. 9Th 1898.