The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-01
AT TIE ToMp on GRANT.

The Father aud Defender Of the Country.
Men and Women Of America,
Extracts irOm Garsral! LOgaa'J Speech at RiEa'itc
PaTk, Nay 81.
Men and women Of Americal In our
generation a man has lived great enough
as b military leader to subdue a force OF
iusurrection that could have annihilated
any army OF the world from the time OF
CYRUS down to that Of Napoleon. A man
has lived, who, weighed with the enor-
nous results flowing from his work into
Ina rami6cations Of the unknown future,
was im~measurably greater than Cyrus,
above Alexander, grander thai Caesar,
supreme over Pompey, Hannibal and
Scipio, towering among Oharlemagne, the
Prince Of Orange, Frederick the Great,
Wellington aud Napoleon, and whose
name Is not 10 be mentioned in ConneC-
lion with those OF Miltiades and Sulls. In
All authentic military history, the work OF
but u individual approaches that Of
Grant, Two names should be Chisoled
upon the majestic column that, leaping
from the banks OF the Potomac, rears its
graceful head liar into the clouds, the liv-
fng ambassador from q grateful people to
the borders Of the undiscovered country,
to which both soldiers have gone-WAsH'
IHGroE aud GRANT! The warriors Of lib
erty! One its father and the other its
latest defender.
Fellow citizansI A chill autumn wind
blowing over q sterile plain bore within
its arms q little seed torn with ruthless
force from its matrix on q lofty tree and
dropped the seed upon the sand to perish,
A bright.winged beetle, weary with flight
and lsnguld with the chilly air, rested for
a moment upon the arid plain, The little
seed drOpDed by Hiolus served to satisfy
the hunger Of the beetle, which presently
winged its flight to the margin o. q swift
running brook that had sprung from tho
mountain side and Cleaving q bed through
rocks OF granite went gaily laughing upon
its cherry way down to the e%ver.rolling
sea, Slipping a drop Of the crystal food,
the beetle CrRWled within q protecting
ledge and, folding ia wings, lay down TO
pleasant dreams. Tho Ice King passed
along and touched the insect in its sleep,
Its mission was fulfilled; but tho conflict
OF the aeasons continued until the White
Destroyer melted in the breath Of balmy
spring, And then a sunbeam sped 10 the
chink wherein tho body Of the insect lay,
and searching for the little seed entombed
but not destroyed, invited 1t TO "join the
jubilee OF returning life and. hope"
Under the soft wooing Of the peo-
pied ray the little seed began to
swell with Joy, tiny rootlets were develop.
ed within the body OF the protecting
beetle, q minute stem shot out OF its gap
ing mouth, and, 10! o mighty tree had
been carried FROM tho desert, saved from
the frosts OF winter, nurtured and started
upon is mission Of life and usefulness by
an humble insect that had persisted with
the flowers. The agent had passed away;
but building better than he knew, the
wide.spreading tree remained by the mar
gin Of the life.giving brook, asheltor aud q
rest to the weary traveller upon LIES great
highway, through many trettul centuries.
A child, abandoned by it's mother 10 per-
ish in an Egyptian marsh, may become
the instrument to deliver q nation from
bondage, and an unostentatiousaman, un-
known to fortune and to fame, may be-
come the agent OF Almighty work, destined
10 benefit the human race as long as 1t
may last upon the earth.
Obi mighty agent of grateful people,
we are here TO do you honor. Oh in.
spired genius, we come to render test.
mony Of the benetiCenCe Of your work.
Noble citizen, kind husband, loving father.
good friend, great captain, chosen agent
the work thou hast done will shine from
the armament as a new star to light the
coming generation. Its ray shall pale the
rich troopers Of the night, and forever
flash Observation-Disclosures fire in 1.-THE presence
OF the God Of day. Until another year
shall reawaken the flowers and fill the
yernal air with incense, we leave thee
with the faithful spirits that guard thy
rest and smile about thy tomb.