Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-08
GENERAL GRANTS TOMB.

Colonel Fred Grant has written a letter
in which he sets forth what he believes to
have been the wishes of General Grant
relative to his burial-place. From this it
appears that the General expressed him.
self as evenly divided in opinion between
ST. Louis, where he was married and
where three of his children were born
Galena, from which place he was called to
take his place in the war of the rebellion,
and New York, where he made his latest
home and had been the recipient of much
kindness. Colonel Grant replied to him
suggesting that his national character had
delocalized him and that Washington
would be specially appropriate place for
his tomb Thereupon General Grant re-
called his first note of suggestion and
wrote
1t is possible that my funeral may become
one of public demonstration, in which event
have no particular choice Of burial-pisce; but
there is one thing which would wish you and
the family to insist upon, and that is that,
wherever my tomb may be, place shall be
reserved for your mother at my SIDE
He thus waived his former choice and
left it to the nation to decide where his re-
mains should repose. Colonel Grant took
this view of it also, but adds that on the
death of the General all offers of burial
sites were considered, and New York's
Riverside" plat was agreed upon. But,
adds Colonel Grant:
Ny mother, myself and all our family feel
deep gratitude for the delicate and touching at
tentions paid to General Grants memory and to
his tomb at Riverside by the citizens of New
York, as well as by the citizens of other States,
and since the nation made his great funeral
ana wishes 70 build his tomb. they were and are
the nation may decide is best provided, of
course, that his expressed wish be carried out
This leaves the question of the loca-
ton open, and being so we are free to say
that the question of appropriateness I'M
questionably pronounces in favor of the
National Capital. That city should be
chosen and the remains of the nations
greatest Captain should be placed in suit
able tomb in or near that city, where the
representatives of the nations of the earth
assemble, where the National Legislature
convenes, where Washington's monument
rears its lofty peak, where the chief mill
tary seat of the army Grant commanded is
located. New York can perform no more
graceful service than by Withdrawing its
claim and acceding to what is believed to
be the wishes of the vast majority of the
American people. The expression of the
New York World indicates that the great
metropolis will adopt this policy when it
says:
II the nation, as represented by the Federal
Government, should wish to remove the re-
mains of General Grant to the Capital and build
there its monument, Minister Grants letter in
Inmates that his family would accede to the
plan, with the proviso that the last wish OF the
dead soldier, adhered to with characteristic te
nacity under the most pathetic circumstances,
should be carried out ard place at his side be
reserved for his faithful wife and companion
New York could have no wish 70 oppose such q
change, so ordered. She could sill proceed to
erect testimonial to the magnanimous Gen
eral-inviting the cooperation of the Southern
people and all others who are not affected by q
jealous proyincalism-as splendid Arch of Peace,
at the main entrance to her beautiful Central
Park, symbolizing the restored Union and the
strength and simplicity OF the character of its
greatest defender.