Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-01

- married IN sweetness by an involnnto
=, note OF sorrow. the hum OF buslne
ny has been muiiied. The works OF m
lce have been paralyzed; his voice has be-
az broken with emotion, and the nations
the world have hung their temples
es black. Nature, through her breezes al
y. murmurlng streams and her songs of bu,
Os matter; the birds, through their carol
g and men and nations through their con
es mon humanity, have united In one 50
y wall for the less Of noble man, and
= greater leader than ever before MARSHALL
q troops IN fierce array OF battle.
Y Inc silent chief, whose work Is dc,
g tlned TO influence posterity 10 the lates
= syllable OF recorded time, has gone to hi
y couch, and neither the call OF his countr
nor the siren reckoning OF earthly glor
VIII e'er break the sOuudness Of his sleel
7 upon this hither side OF eternity. Tn,
mortal remains OF Ulysses S. Grant re
/ pose In peace beneath the weeping vault
OF yonder tomb The rayages Of Time
VIII reduce them 10 ashes, and
the lapse Of ages viii transform those
ashes TO other forms Of matter; all that
2 was earthly Of that noble figure win
change It's form Of matcrlallty, and at
last the mere personality OF Grant will be
eNtinguished and forever lost to human
gaze.
"Can &c Der
| Matter immortal, aud shall spirit der
! Above the n0bcr snail less noble LEI
SlaI man alone, Tor whom all else revivos.
~, no res,nreotion know Shall man atone,
Imperial man. be HOwn tn barren ground,
less privileged than grain on which he feedsY'
But, my friends, the supreme work that
our now sleeping hero performed will en-.
dnre until the wrecking Of the human
race shall leave this planet mere coun.
terpoise OF the other mighty worlds thar
pursue their ceaseless roll around tho
blazing orb Of light and day, waiting their
appointed time to cast themselves into |
their slre's arms.
Friends, this noble mans work needs
no monument no written scroll, in order
that IL may be perpetuated, II is higher
IMAM the dome Of ST Paul's, loitler than
~ refers; II rears itself above the pyra-
piasi IL scars beyond the highest noun
lain tops, and it Is written la letters OF
.he sunbeam across the blue arch thai
ofeyer looks down upon the busy tribes
n men
IL were task Of supererogation TO re. I
'eat at such time the fascinating story | i
Il this great mans life, or with careful | i
and TO trace his career from the period Z
'heh, taking command OF the Twenty
rsl regiment OF Illinois volunteers as liz i,
olonel, that career began, until, as lieu. q
snaht-general OF the armies Of the United n
"a IS, ne received the sword tiat mis-.
nlned men had placed against the breast m
newborn liberty. n,
III mas been justly observed that no sub "A,
autlal success attended the Union arms
W. inc historic proclamation If enamel N
l,oh hal been promulgated, and It may q
oH NC nuueu lndt no comprehensive plan bJ
= tle HnaI crushing of the enemy was an
uVoi,eu uhtll the mighty chieftaiu TO ty
Ivy tolnO we are this day sorrowipg a.
s s' was placed IA position by the fei
lhortal Lincoln to lead the Union hosts 81,
q certain aud final lrlumpb S7ri
u the dark hours of 1861 star oy,so -
me heavens that, beoiunlpg its a,%bt mo
m Belmont took within It's orbit Fort Sci
Ivy aug Forl DonelsOn, Plttsburg of
Using, COllhth, Port Gibson, Ray mond, kp,
,yASoui champion Hills, Black river ito,
Nlcksburg, where for a short time II az
lsou' renewing rs rapid course, IL epc
lged Its way to Lookout Mountain and n q
Mission Ridge, when ii came in reat des
es S. oyer inc head OF the man whose sd!
.e as the Instrument to snatch from soy
itructlop the offspring Of all the pre-. nar
ling ages. aus
rom the moment that Grant was iu- can
tcd with the supreme command, the ran
lmph OF the Union arms became a sim an
question Of Time An unlooked-iOr was
nee might postpone IL; but as well who
'ht II be attempted TO turn the ava day
che IN It's overwhelming crash as his
.Verl the force OF those irresistible shal
Is that, under tine direction OF M APP thrC
lleu genius, were fatally enNelopng new
armies OF resistance. From Chat uuk
)oga TO Atlanta, and from the Wilder. The
10 klchmond, some OF the most brill men
I military movements, and many of ranl
most gallant battles ever fought, mys
rned the Union generalship and dest
s. peri
nat lameptable weakness OF human useI
are, Jealousy, prompted detraction disa
misrepresentation; but the enemy In scar
tolls, and the brave Union soldier Som
cutting those rapid and remarkable to N
cement = felt alike that a master hand pole
at the hem OF battle, and that men
rlwind OF power was upon the field thei
silent commander was a sphinx, but cove
was likewise an oracle; he was 8 wad
II, nnpretendlng man, but also a sol canl
; with askill OF profession, a rare he r
rage cool head, n quickness OF The
sment celebrity Of decision, and mos
dity OF movement that made him peril
NY lnVlhelole. page
Len Caesar, after conquerlug the Syri. mt
King, PHARMACIES, penned the shortest upol
iry dispatch in the annals,of war, al he h
G, saw, conquered his words am
c not traughI with 1.-THE Of the I'M coul
anee attached TO the laconlcism of friel
American general announcing de- goot
llnation "to light II out on this line II then
axes all summer And when the Nj
led priest of the middle ages chanted gene
church ritual and invoked the bless as a
p vooiscum, upon his half militia insu
lalt religious congregations, no such any
was kindled, no such electrical de- Cvrt
lment WAS Witnessed, as when the has
or OF enormous armies aud the subiu- enor
u of q eplendid military force, ex- into
ON -,
hen Shakespeare wrote of julius Cns
ar "lle was the foremost man of and
his world Gran had not then lived mag
y has sought to AXE away from this the
d hero many of the qualities upon whol
N his brilliant success depended. As conn