Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-02-15
sAeRMANs DEATH IN WASHINGTON.
The Executive Order-Army Orders--Re-
marks In Congress.

sHERMAN's DEATH IN WASHINGTON.
The Executive Order-Army Orders-Re-
marks In Congress.
by telegraph TO the Dispntch.l
WASHINGTON. February 1.-THE follow
ing executive order has been issued:
II is my painful duty TO announce TO the
country that General William Tecumseh
Sherman died this day at l o'clock aud fifty
minutes 7. Nj. at his residence in the city
Of New York. The Secretary of War will
cause the highest military honors 10 be
paid to the memory of this distinguished
officer. The national flag will be foated
at half mast over all public buildings until
after the burial and public business will
be suspended in the executive departments
at the CITY Of Washington and in the city
where the interment takes place on the
dag of the funeral and IN all places where
public expression is given TO the national
sorrow during such hours as will enable
every officer and employee to participate
therein with their tellOw-cltiZens.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Executive Mansion, Washington, d. c., Febru-
airy "a, 1891.
THE PRESIDENTS CONDOLENCES.
The President also sent a telegram Of
coincidence TO the family. in which he sug-
ington on its way to St. Louis and that it
lie in state in the rotunda of the Capitol
for at least one day.
GENERAL oRDER 10 THE ARMY.
The Acting Secretary of War this after
noon issued a general order to the army
announcing the death of General Sher-
man. 1t included the Presidents message
TO Congress, and the executive order
issued by him to the executive depart
ments. and closed as follows:
The MAjor-General commanding will
issue the necessary orders to the army. 1t
is ordered that the War Department be
draped in mourning fora period of thirty
DAYS, and that all business be suspended
therein on the day of the funeral.
IL. A. GRANT,
Acting Secretary of War"
GENERAL scHoFIELD's ORDER.
This was accompanied by another order
issued by Adjutant-General KeltOn by
command of Major-General Schotield, as
follows: ION the day of the funeral the
troops at eyerv military post will be pa
raded and this order read 10 them, after
which ali labOrs for the dav will cease
The national flag will be displayed at half
staff from the time of the receipt OF this
order until the close of the funeral. On
the day of the funeral a salute of seventeen
guns Will DO fired, at half-hour intervals,
commencing at 8 O'clock A. Nj. Officers OF
the army will wear the usual badges OF
mourning and the cOlOrs of regiments and
battalons will be draped IN mourning for
the period of six months.
THE day and hour of the funeral VIII
be communicated TO department COM
manders by telegraph, and by them TO
their subordinate commanders. Other
necessary orders will be issued hereafter
relating to appropriate ceremonies"
SENATOR HAwLEY QUOTES BUNYAN.
Senator Hawley closed his remarks in
the Senate to-day upon the Sherman TesO-
lutions by reading the following passages
from Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress. " After
this it was noised about that Mr.. Valiant
fOr-the-Truth was taken with summons.
When he understood il he called for his
friends and told them Of it. Then said he:
/ am going to my fathers, and though with
great difficulty cot hither; yet now | do
not repent me of all the trouble l have
been at 70 arrive where / am. My sword
l give to HIM that shall succeed me in my
pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to
him that can get them. Ny marks and
scars I carry with me TO be witness for me
that l have fought His battles who Will
now reward me. When the day that he
must 90 hence was come many accom-
panied him to the river, into which as he
went he said: Death, where is thy stlngY
And as he went down deeper he said:
. Grave, where is thy victory? SO he
passed over and all the tTumpets sounded
for him on the other side"
SENATOR MoRGAN's ELOQUENT REMARKS.
Mr.. Morgan said ION this occasion of
national solemnity l would lead the
thoughts and sympathies of the American
Senate back TO those days IN our history
when General Sherman was by choice
greatly honorable TO his nature, citizen
of the State of Louisiana and presided
over a college for the instruction of south
ern youths IN the arts of war and the arts
of peace. Those were not worse days IMAM
some we have seen during the last half OF
this century In those days, notwlthstand-
mo the conditions of the South in view Of
its institutions inherited from the older
States OF the East, every American was as
welcome in Louisiana and the South aS he
wac elsewhere in the Union. We are
gradually and surely returning 10 that cor
dial state of feeling which was unhappuy
interrupted by the civil war.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
Our fathers taught that il was the high
est patriotism to defend the Constitution
of the country. But they had left within
its body the guarantees of an institution
tlAf me VIII Oh lilt AA1 hAstAlg 49,
mined should no longer exist and which
Dut the conscience of the people 20 the
seyerest test. Looking backward, now, 70
the beginning of this century and 10 the
conflict Of opinion and of material interests
engendered by those guarantees, we can
see that they never could nave been
stricken out Of the organic law except by
a conflict Of arms. The conflict came, as
It was bound 70 come, and Americans be-
came enemies. as they were bound 70 DC III
the settlement of issues that involved SO
much of money, such radical political re-
sults. and the pride OF great ana lll1s-
trious race of people. Power rested with
the yictors at the close of the conflict but
NOT all the honors of the desperate warfare.
Indeed the survivors are now winning
honors, enriched with justice ana mag
nanlmity not less worthy than those won
on battle-helds in their iabors 10 restore
the country 10 its former feeling OF trater,,
nal regard and TO unity OF sentiment anu
action and TO promote It's welfare.
sHERMANs FIDELITY.
The fidelity Of the great general who has
inst departed in the ripeness OF ago ana
with a history marked by devotion 10 ms
fac was the true and simple faith OF an
American to his convictions of duty, We
differed with him and contested campaigns
and battle-helds with him. but we welcome
the history of the great soldier as proud
inheritance of our country. We do TINS as
cordially and rs sincerely rs we gave him
welcome IN the South as one OF our peo-
ple. when our sons were conhded to MS
care in a relation which, next TO that OF
paternity. has the greatest influence upon
the Young of the country;
The great military leaders on both sides
of our civil war are rapidly marching across
- hor5er 10 the land where history ana
frrth and Justice must decide upon every
mans career When they meet there they
will be happy TO find that the honor OF
bnman actions is not always measured oy
their wisdom. but by the motives IN when
they had their origin.
NONE on HITHER SIDE DELINQUENT.
cherish proud belief that the heroes
of sbe siyil war win find that, measured by
th;s standard. none Of them on either side
we're srs1 delinquent. and that they win be
happy in an association that NV val never o,'a,
e 1'.;i ; cnebt iealonsy, or dlstrust. When
= line h 81 narrow divides US from those high