Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-06

1T III my palnIul duty 20 announce 20 Cn0
country that General William Tecumseh
Sherman died this day at / O'Clock and
fifty minutes P. N. at his residence in the
city Of New York The Secretary of
War will cause the highest military
honors to be paid to the memory OF
this distinguish officer. The national flag
will be foated at half mast over all public
buildings until after burial and the public
business viii be suspended in the Executive
departments at the city of Washington and
in the city where the interuent takes place
on the day or the funeral, and in all places
where public expression is given TO the ma
tional sorrow. during such hours as will en-
able every officer and employe TO participate
therein With their fellow citizens.
''BENJAMIS HARRISON.
Executive Mansion, Washington, d. C"
following is the Presidents message to
Congress:
To the Senate and House Of Representa-
tires:
The death of William Tecumseh Sherman,
which took place to-day at his residence in
the city of New York at 80 P. N, is an
event that will bring sorrow TO the
heart of every patriot citizen. No
living American was SO loved anu
venerated as he. To look upon MS
face to hear his name was to have ones love
of country intensified. He served his coun-
try not for fame, not out of a sense Of pro-
fessional duty, but for love of the flag and
of the benefcent civil institutions OF
which 1t was the emblem. He was
an ideal deal soldier ana shared TO
the army, but he cherished the civil insti-
tutions organized under the Constitution, and
was only a soldier that these might be per
petuated in undiminished usefulness and
honor. He was in nothing an
imitator. A profound student OF mill
tary science and precedent, he drew
from them principles and sug-
gestions, and so adapted them to novel condi-
lions that his campaigns will continue to be
the profitable study of the military profession
throughout the world. His genial nature
made him comrade to every soldier
of the great Union army. No pres
ence was SO welcome and inspiring at
the camp fire or commandery as
his. His career was complete; his hOnors
were full He had received from the Gov
eminent the highest rank known to our
military establishment, and from the people
unstinted gratitude and love.
No word of mine can add to his fame. His
death has followed in startling quickE ass
that of the Admiral Of the Navy, and it is a
sad and notable incident that when the de-
partment under which he served shall have
put on the usual enlblems of mourning four
of the eight Executive departments will be
simultaneously draped in black, and one
other has but to-day removed the Grape from
its walls.
BENZ HARRISON.
Executive Mansion.
The President also sent a telegram of con-
dolence to the family, in which he suggested
that the body be brought to Washing
ton on its way to st. Louis, and that
it lie In state in the rotunda Of the Capt.
toll at least one day. The acting Secre-
tary of War in the afternoon issued a
general order to the army announcing the
death of General Sherman. It included the
Presidents message to Congress and the
Executive order issued by him to the Execu-
tive departments.
This was accompanied by another order is
sued by Adjutant-G General Kelton by com
mand Of Major-GeneralS chofeld, as follows:
every military post will be paraded and this
order read to them, after which all
labors for the day will cease. The
national flag will be displayed at half
order until the close of the funeral. On the
day of the funeral a salute OF seventeen
guns will lie fired at half hour intervals.
commencing at o'clock A. NJ. The officers:
of the army will wear the usual badges OF
mourning, and the colors of the several regi-
ments and batallions will be drape1 Ill
mourning for a period of six months.
''rhe day and hour Of the funeral will
be communicated to department command
ers by telegraph, and by them to thei.
commanders. Other necessa:
orders will be issued hereafter relative to
~
When the Presidents message announcing
General Sherman's death reached the Senate,
discussion of the subject under consideration
the Copyright bilH was suspended, and M
Hawley offered the following:
Resolved, That the Senate receives with |
profound sorrow the announcement of the |
death Of William Tecumseh Sherman late |
General of the armies of the United States |
Resolred That the Senate renews its &C. |
acknowledgement of the inestimable services !
which he rendered to his country in the day |
Of its extreme peril, laments the great loss |
which the country has sustained, and !
deeply sympathizes with his family in it's |
bereavement.
Resolved, That copy of these resolutions !
be forwarded to the family of the deceased |
Brief eulogies were then delivered by |
Messrs. Hawley, Morgan, Henderson, Davis. !
Pierce and Evarts after which the Senate |
adjourned.
In the House, about three o'clock the mes
sage was received from the President on |
the death Of General Sherman but |
after consultation between the Speaker !
and Mr.. Cutcheon, of Michigan, and a few |
others it was decided by Mr.. Reed, in !
view Of the near expiration of the !
Congress and Of the necessity of getting |
the appropriation bills over to the Senate as !
soon as possible, that it would not be adj |
Visable to lay the message before the House |
until near the usual time of adjournment. It !
was then referred to the Committee on Mill |
tary Affairs.
General Sherman's Career.