Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-31

the soil of our common country, or
await the final transition in the grottoes
of the fretful ocean-we may symbolic
our faith, and load the atmosphere with
the fragrant gratitude of an appreciative
generation.
B:ing flowers, then, to their memory;
| Throw hither all your quaint, enameled eyes,
| That on the green turf sucked the honeyed
And purple all the ound with vernsl flowers.
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies;
The tufted crew-toe and the pale jessamine;
The white pink and the pansy, streaked with
The glowing violet,
| The musk rose, and the well-attirsd woodbine,
| With cowslips wan that hang the pensiye head,
And every flower that sad EN- broiderS wears"
| Friend ana countrymsn, since last our
comrades met to perform the service
that we now render to our fallen heroes,
other distinguished soldiers have been
called from the ranks of the living. Nature
herself is in mourning. Every breeze
that plays through the open leaves OF
summer; every stream that murmurs on
It's course to the mighty sea, ard every
sound that marks the lie sof matter
upon its ceaseless round, is burdened
with u sigh. The song Of every bird that
tunes Its lay to the awakened deity OF
the year is marred in sweetness by an
involuntary note OF sorrow. The hum
OF business has been mutiled. The works
of man havs been paralyzed; his voice
has been broken With emotion, and the
nations OF the world have hung their
temples In black. Nature, through her
breezes and murmurirg streams and her
songs of busy matter; the birds, through
4 fhAtr In
| through their common humanity, have
united in one sad wall for the loss of a
noble man, and greater leader than ever
before marshaled troops in fierce array
o: battle.
Tho silent chief, whose work is
destined to influence posterity to the
latest syllable OF recorded time, has
gone to his couch, and neither the cali
OF his country nor the siren beckoning
Of earthly glory will e'er break the
soundness of his sleep upon this hithef
side of eternity. Tho mortal remains
of Ulysses s. Grant repose in peace
beneath the weeping vault OF yonder
tomb. The raveges OF tune will reduce
them to ashes, and the lapse
of ages will transform those
ashes to other forms of matter; all that
WAS earthly OF that noble figure will
change its form of msteriality, and at
last the mere personality OF Grant will
be extinguished and forever lost to hui
man gaze.
s'Can it be?
Matter immor tal and shall spirit die dies
| Above the mob Ter shall less noble lie?
Shall man alone, fer whom AL else reyives
No resurrection know? Shall man alone,
Imperial man, be sown in BARREN ground
LESS privileged than grain on which he feedsT
But my friends, the supreme work
that our now sleeping hero performed
will endure until the wreoking OF the
human race shall leave this planet 9
mere counterpoise OF the other mighty
worlds that pursue their ceaseless roll
around tie blazing orb OF light and day
waiting their appointed time to cast
themselves into their sire's arms.
Friends, this noble mans work needs
no monument, no written scroll, in orde,
that it may be perpetuated. Itis higher
than the dome of st. Psul's, loftier thar
st. Peters; it rears iteelf above the pyra
/, mIds; 1T soars beyond the highest noun
tain tops, and it is written IN letters o
, the sunbeam across the blue arch thai
forever looks down upon the busy tribes
, of men.
!. 1t ere task OF supererogation to re
peat at such time the fascinating stor,
, of this great man's life, or with careful
hand to trace his career from the perlot
when, taking command of the Twenty
first regiment of Illinois volunteers q
its colonel that career began, until, al
lieutenant general of the armies of tn
United States, he received the swori
that misguided men had placed agains
: the breast of new born liberty
1t has been Justly observed that "a
: substantial success attended the unio
= = arms until the historic proclamation Q
= emancipation had been promulgated
! and it may well be added that no com
prehenslve plan for the final crushing 6
!. the enamy was conceived until th
uighty chIeftain to whose tomb we ar
> this day sorrowing pilgrims was place
y in position by the immortal Lincoln t
. !, lead the union hosts to certain AM
= final triumph.
In the dark hours of 1861 star aros
J, in the heavens that, beginning Its tiigh
= from Belmont, took within it's orbit Fol-
. Henry and Fort Doneison, Pittsbur
y Landing, Corinth, Port Gibson, Ra,
\ mond, jackson. champion Hills, Blac
River, and Vicksburg, where for
J short time it paused. Renewing il
- rapid course, it winged its way to Lool
!. cuG iuOuDGdlu duts tO MlhblUH EtoRt
~ when it came to rest directly over th
= head OF the man whose name had bee
A' written III the book OF fate as the IL
70 stramen. to snatch from destruction th
y offspring OF all the preceding ages.
y From the moment that Grant We
- invested with the supreme iiiss 6;
20 the triumph OF the union arms became
. simple question of time, An unlooke
for chance might postpone it; but I
- well might it be attempted to turn I'll
% avalanches in it's overwhelming crash |
" to overt the force OF those irresistih
a. hosts that, under the direction of an a
!. pointed genius, were fatally envelopin
% the armies of resistance. From Chatt
W nooga to Atlanta, and from the Wilde
10 ness to Richmond, some OF the mo
70 brilliant military movements, and mar
~ of the most gallant battles ever Tough
u adorned the union generalship and arm
- That lamentable weakness of huma
~ nature. jealousy, prompted detractic
nc nc and Misrepresentation but the ensmy
VI the tolls, and the brave union soldi
e; executing those lapld and remsrkab
,h movements, felt alike that master har
- - was at the helm OF battle, and that
whirlwind of power was upon the fisl
= The silent commander was sphinx, bl
u he was likewise an oracle; he was
ne plain, unpretendipg man, but alss
" soldier, with skill OF profession, raj
US courage, cool head. quickness
In i, nol.r;tu nf ,1anisio, apl