The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-01

was in the fullest sense member of the great the
impershable the immortal army of American volun-
teers Those gallant spirits now lie in untmely sep
ulcher No will they respond to the fierce blast
of the bugle The call to But let us believe
that they are not dead. but sleeping
Friends and countrymen since last comrades
met to perform the service that 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 and every sound that
marks the life of matter upon its ceaseless round Is
burdened with sigh. The song of every bird that
tunes its lay to the awakened deity of the year IS
married In sweetness b5 an involuntary note OF
The hum Of business has been mufied. The WORKS Oh
have 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 murmuring streams. and her songs of busy mat
ter; the Birds through their carols and men and ma
tions through their common humanity have united in
sad wall for the loss of noble and greater
leader than ever before marshaled troops in fierce
array Of battle.
The silent chief whose work is destined to influence
posterty to the latest syllable of recorded time has
to his couch and neither the call of his country
nor the siren reckoning of earthly glory will eer
break the soundness of his sleep upon this hther side
of eternity. The mortal remains of Ulysses y Grant
repose in peace beneath the weeping vault of yonder
tomb The ravages of time will reduce them to ashes,
and the lapse of ages will transform those ashes to
other forms OF NATTER all that was earthly OF that
noble figure will change its form of materially and
at last the personality of Grant will be extn
guished and forever lost to human gaze.
The speaker then devoted considerable time to
a review of General Grants military deeds and
comparison of them with those of the great
soldiers of past ages. claiming that no greater
soldier had ever furnished material for the his
torian General Logan concluded with the fol-
lowing words,
Men and women of America in our generation
man has lived great enough military leader to
subdue force of instruction that could have annh
lated army of the world from the time of Cyrus
down to that of Napoleon. A man has lived who,
weighed with the enormous results flowing from his
work into the ramihcations of the unknown future,
was UNNECESSARILY greater than Cyrus. above Aexan-
der, grander than Caesar. supreme Pompey,
Hannibal and Scipio, towering among Charlemange,
the Prince of Orange Frederick the Great Wellington
and Napoleon, and whose is not to be mentioned
in connection with those of Mitiades and Sula. In
all authentic military history the work of but one in
be chiseled upon the majestic column that, leapng
from the banks of the Potomac rears its graceful
head far into the clouds, the living ambassador from
grateful people to the borders Of the undiscovered
country to which both soldiers have gone-Washing-
ton and Grant! The warriors of iberty One its
father and the other its latest defender
Feowcitizens: A chill autumn wind blowing over
sterile plain bore within it's little seed torn
with ruthless force from it's matrix on lofty tree
and dropped the seed upon the sand to perish A
brig t-winged beetle weary with fight and languid
with the chilly air, rested for moment the arid
plain. The little seed dropped by Eolus served to
satisfy the hunger of the beetle which presently
winged its fight to the margin of swift-runnng
brook that had sprung from the mountain side and,
eeaving bed through rocks of granite, went gaily
sea. Slipping drop of the crystal food, the beetle
crawled within protecting ledge and folding it's
wings. lay down to pleasant dreams. The Ice King
passed along and touched the insect in its sleep It's
mission fulfilled; but the conflict of the seasons
continued until the white destroyer melted in the
breath OF balmy spring. And then sunbeam sped
to the chnk wherein the body of the insect lay and
searching for the little seed entombed but not de-
stroyed invited it to Join the jubilee of returning
life and hope Under the soft wooing of the peopled
ray the little seed began to swell with joy tiny root
lets were developed within the body of the protecting
beetle. minute stem shot out of its gaping
n mouth s and .h 10! mighty tree had been car.
of winter nurtured and started upon its mission of
life and usefulness by humble insect that had per.
but building better than he knew the widespreadng
tree remained by the margin of the fegving brook,
shelter and rest to the weary traveller upon ifes
great highway through many fretful centuries. A
child abandoned by it's mother to perish in Egypt
ian marsh, may become the instrument to deliver
nation from bondage and an unostentatious man,
of mighty work, destined to benefit the human race
as long as it may last upon the earth.
Oh! mighty agent Of a grateful people we are here
render testimony of the bene6cence 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 generations. It's ray shall pale the rich
troopers of the night and forever fash with undmin
another year shall reawaken the flowers and fill the
verna air with incense leave thee with the faithful
spirits that guard thy rest and smile about thy tomb
The rest of the programme was as follows:
Beethovens funeral march, by Arbuckle's Band;
salute to the dead battalion of marines, u. s. N;
salvo by first battery, National Guards, New
York; minute guns and salute by the North At
lantic squadron; hymn, My country, It's of
thee" by the Amphion Society; benediction, by
Bishop w. l.. Harris.
AT the conclusion of the exercises those organi-
cations which did not desire to return by steamer
were dismissed The others marched back to the
wharf at Observation-Disclosures ninth street
by the same route over which they had come to
to the tomb. They then boarded the steamboat
Grand Republic, and were landed at Brooklyn.
A Beautiful Tribute from Col. Villas.
NEW YORK, May BIN the evening the
Academy of Music was crowded. President
Cleveland being among those who attended
The address of the evening was delivered by
Postmaster general Villas. In the course of his
Grafton he said
So far could do it, the soldiers of the Union
saved this Nation from destruction Who has meas
ured the full significance of that momentous fact SO
shortly put in wordsl Few minds grasp with appre-
citation the enormity of danger Stunned by the value
of its escape Obseurity hides the horror of many an
abyss on whose very brink the Of man is often
checked and whence he speeds away half conscious or
his peril Who dwell without terror the apall-
ing threat of acknowledgements of the Uniong What
eye penetrate the abyssmal gloom of that future
to which its pathway led near9 Robbed of national
PRIDE of patriotism, of all the generous sentiments
which govern the lives and conduct of Americans de.
Evered UP prey to ambition. rapacity and fraud all
education, invention progress smothered i'll turbu.
lence how would human happinence have gone in the
whrlwind of dscordl View not alone the fair picture
of this broadspread Brotherhood of men, self governed
Free happy in possessions and in hopes couple reason
with imagination to drag from mystery the aspect it
might have shown, ye who would fairly measure
praise to them who kept the Union whole
Heaven vouchsafes often far beyond original aims
the rewards OF noble purpose in heroic And
so recompensed our brethren In arms. In ven.
Grafton of the fathers they mustered in the name of
the Union, content but to what tho Revolution
had planted; and lo the angel of Liberty in shining
presence led their battle beyond the fathers aims,
They blotted from the Constitution the COW
ert meaning of that abhorrent word the voice of free
they who gave you honest right. the Constitution