The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1888-08-09
TIL: BUPisL SPOT FOR
SHERIDAN.
Bury Him With His Kindred.
PILLS COME HOME"

PILLS CONE HOME"
There has been no system
adopted in the selection of graves
for the great. There is a reason
for the adoption of no system,
and the reason has its origin in
the nature of our people and
government. This is a Nation of
citizens and a Union of States.
On the retirement of a man from
Federal functions, that which
distinguishes him from his fell
lows OR identifies HIM as a civic
quantity is his citizenship of The
State and of some particular por-
ton of it. The Stale presents a
son 10 the Nation in trust, not in
fee, and recalls him to her side at
the close of his service. ITO
Wisconsin we bring back his
pale and sacred clay," said Ros
coe Conkling, when he, with his
colleagues, returned all that was
mortal Of Matthew Hale Carpen-
ter. 10 the Commonwealth he
represented In the Senate. Be-
side, death makes the honors one
has worn an incident, while it
emphasizes his individual quail.
lilies. This is seen in the senti-
ment which starts when the sep.
ulchers of the illustrious are
named.
Mount Vernon and Washing
ton are not different terms to the
mind. The place and the man
are complementary. The home
and its founder reciprocally sug-
gest one another. The Mount is
as calm, benignant and overtop-
ping as the character of him who
lived on it and whose body its
bosom Incloses. What qualities
the great executive and noble
contemplative mind of the Faith
er of his Country reveal harmo.
nize with the view and lesson of
the gradual hills, the vernal
slopes and the old-fashioned
house, the truthful exemplar of
a simple age of little art and of
exceeding comfort. Mount Yer
non stands poised above the Po-
tomac, as 1t rushes or eddles to
the sea, as camly as Washington
stood serene above the tides of
passion and the currents of con-
tention, in their brief and furious
raging on their way to the broad
stream of history which sur
rounds nations and centuries as
the undivided ocean, gathering
into itself all the lesser waters of
all the lands, encirles the earth.
So, too, where Abraham Lin
coin lived is Abraham Lincoln
buried. The flat and uninviting
Western town. the little Capital
of a great State. knew not only
the jests and gibes of the laugh
ing philosopher of the prairies,
but knew also that he held IN his
leash the homely, patient, far
seeing, divining qualities, which
showed him a very provision of
Diety for Freedom, when Time
struck the Hour and when Op
portunity and the Republic re-
CURED a Man. The plains which
he'trod with a spirit of comedy,
until he was called to the ordeal
of sorrow and of sacrifice which
ended in his tragedy, support the
pillars of the mausoieum which
has become the tomb of a martyr
and the altar of Liberty forever.
All that he exhibited in WASH
ington he possessed, undisclosed
because unneeled, at Spring
field. All he did in Washington
was but the eflorescence of him.
self. When life ceased and pow
er fell from him, when alike his
cares and his honors ended, there
remained the immortal memory
of the prodigious personality,
and the picturesquely homely
body which enshrined his wise,
loving and sunny spirit was com.
mitted to the kindly chemistry
of mature, where he went to
school in life to learn the lesson
he was to teach in station to all
the years and peoples that are
yet to be.
And the other free son of the
free West, on whom the hate of
factionism fell like bolt out of
the blue, died on the threshold
of great designs for his country,
10 be laid in Lake View by the
waters which reflected to his
young eyes and murmured TO
his young mind the story of dis
tance and of daring. If God un-
sealed the ears OF the dead, the
patient sufferer of the unfcrgot-
ten summer of woe co I'D hear
the cooling plash of E1rie's waves
at the base of the hill, whereon
he rests. Where he labored he
was brought, when labor was
done. The Reserve, which hon
ored him living, claimed him
dead. Though long it seemed
but apedestal TO raise him TO