Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-07-30

honor and duty, and we appreciate the
kind terms granted by him when our flag
was folded ut Appomattox, thus learning
that great man, firm in war, could he gem
Tie ana generous in peace to his fallen foes.
VICE PRESIDENT HENDRICKS sfEAEs.
ST. CLAIR SPRINGS, MIcH. Juiy 25.-
Vice President Hendricks has added the
following TO the Senate committee to
attend General Grants funeral; Messrs
Allison of Iowa. Hawley of Connecticut,
Cockrell of Missouri, Manderson OF
Nebraska, Ingalls, of Arkansas, and Cam
den of West Virginia. Tonight Mr..
Hendricks addressed 1,500 people from
this place and Port Huron, speaking
touchingly of the nations great loss.
THE SOUTHERN PRESS ON GRANT.
Happy he was in one sense in the time
of his death. Had his life ended but
few years since, the mourning for the
| great leader would have been more or less
sectional in its manifestation. Dying as
he now dies, the grief is Us widespread as
the Union, and the sorrow isas national
as his fame. Only little while ugo Gen.
| Grant belonged to the victorious north.
In his last days he was the foremost citi-
zen of these United States OF north and
l
armies of the United States that General
Grant was held in most joyous aud honor
able remembrance by the north, and by
the act of north and south alike lie died
as general of the armies OF the
United States By this act the whole dis
tance between 1865 and 1855 was bridged
over The north had no thought save of
the man of Appomattox. and the south
had no thought save of him who told the
worn md ragged Confederate soldiers of
Lees army that they might take their
horses home with them, as they would
need them for the spring plowing, and
who threw his soldiery honor into the
scale when Andrew johnson was hesitat-
ing whether he should, by arresting Gen.
II. e. Lee, violate the terms of the Con-
federate surrender and the sanctity of the
parole. Charleston Ne2cS and Courier.
II is as great soldier - brave, simple,
generous and victorious - that he will be
best remembered. It is as soldier, even
though his sword struck down her cause,
that the south loves to remember him.
As the conqueror of Lee, refusing to take
the sword of that great leader whose
heart broke when he surrendered his
army; as the thoughtful victor, feeding
his starving enemies from his own wagons;
as the high-minded man of honor, de-
manding the integrity of his parole at the
hands of vindictive secretary of war
ms dauntless man, standing alone, but
determined, between the helpless south
nnd the angry north, he held, as he de-
served, in all his trials the deepest and
fullest sympathy of our people. Atlanta
Constitution.
The close of his military career was in
generous treatment of his fallen foe
that sent a grateful recognition through
the heart of the south. His conduct
toward Gen. Lee and the southern army
Mt Appomattox, and his firm stand in de-
fense of their rights as prisoners and his
own honor as soldier will always be q
model for the action of other victorious
leaders, and is n green leaf that hides
many shadow on his subsequent career.
-M0atg0mery ddUertiser.
Excepting, perhaps, Washington, no
American occupies so conspicuous and
enduring place in the worlds history as
Gen Grant. His name and fame are the
worlds heritage and he will be kept in
remembrance through all time. His fame
as q military chieftian needs no comment,
and on it rests his claim of lasting renown,
for in this field he was truly great. There
was no indirection or duplicity about
Gen. Grant. He was simple and plain
and honest, and he was generous and
| magnanimous. - VickSJu3y Commercial
| Herald.
Steady and direct was his rise, till, at
the close of the great civil struggle, he
was general-in-chief of a successful army.
There will be few who know the history
| of our times who will refuse to acknowl-
Il Il,
| justness, fairness, and honorable spirit of
| General Grant at the end of the war.
The people of the southern, no
| less than of the northern, states are in no
| mood at this hour for a critical analysis
| of a man who has fallen. They stand
around his bier as they stood in silent
sorrow by the stricken body of the de-
parted Garield-all thought of war, all
thought of party buried. In all of the
days of Grants sufferings, those who
were once his foes have been among his
most steadfast sympathisers. They have
felt the God-blessed touch of nature and
wished for his relief with all that better
and tender feelign that comes of woman
and never wholly leaves her child.-Rich-
nl0lld State.
In our opinion not only is his one of
the few immortal names that were not
born to die, but his is one of the still
fewer names that are entitled to immor-
tality upon earth. He is not only one of
the immortals, but he is one of them by
right He was an Agamemnon-a king
of men. He was SO pervaded by great
ness that he seemed not to be conscious
that he was great. His chiv-
alrous spirit would not permit him to ask
Lee or his officers for their swords or
Lees men for their horses. Go in peace
was the substance of his treatment Of the
heroes who surrendered at Appomattox
court house. His fidelity to his not
assumed but presumed or supposed obli-
cations, his loyalty to truth and Justice,
caused him to forbid that General Lee
should be arrested or annoyed by Federal
authorities. RicA0s0nd Dispatch
1t would be an appropriate thing for
the citizens of Vieksburg to give some
formal expression to the feeling of sorrow
in this community on account of Gen.
Grants death. After Grant captured
Vicksburg he treated the citizens in the
most considerate manner and the soldiers
with the greatest kindness and magnan-
unity. The resolutions of sympathy for
Gen. Grant recently passed by the county
convention should now be supplemented
by more elaborate expression in regard
to his death Ptek;sbU'g Eneniag Post.