Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-05-07

| from display, and be desired 10 escape II
after death. To lie in the churchyard
where slept his father ana mother would
| have been more In accord with his MIND
But he appreciated that his countrymen
/ mad claim upon his memory and the les
sons of his life and fame. he knew that
where he was buried, there they would
build shvine for the study and insplra-
tion of coming generations.
He selected New York because 1t was
! the metropolis of the continent and the
capital of the country, but he made one
condition. No spot should be chosen
which did not permit his wife to be at his
side at the resurrection. She had been
the love of his youth, the companion and
oonhdant of his maturer years.
She had made the humble cottage
at Gaiena, the camp, the white house,
and the stately city residence, all equally
his home He would have no monument,
however grand, which separated him from
her during the numbered years OF the
hereafter. At Arlington, he would have
lain among the soldiers who had followed
and reyered their great comm lnder, but
at Riverside he will await the last triumph
with the partneTof his life and the mother
of his children.
NE memory Oh our HtlONcf tuA PNAAH'o
ana our men of genius is one of the strong
est of the bonds which hold together our
union and perpe uate our power. But the
affairs upon which the fires of patriotism
are ever burning are north, south east
and west Washington is at Mount Yer
lnon, Lincoln at Springfield, Grant at
| New York, Sherman at st. Louis, and
jackson at the Hermitage Jefferson is
la 4 af [ IN lpp
ing rests among the scenes immortali2ed
by his pen at Sleepy Hollow, and Long
fellow amidst the inspirations of his muse
at Cambridge. Every state cherishes the
remains of It's citizens, whose illustrlous
achievements are the glory of the country
and the pride of their commonwealth,
whose works and lives are ever living les
sons of love aud devotion to the flag and
constitution of the United States.
New York in accepting this bequest OF
General Grant has assumed a sacred trust
The whole country are enlisted in the
army of reverence and sorrow, but he APP
pointed New York the guard of honor.
Let the monument which will rise upon
this corner stone be worthy of the magni-
tude of the metropolis and the grandeur
of the subject
, A phenomenon of our times, and one OF
the chief dangers to law and order, is the
; growth of the school of despair. The
, concentrated contemplation of accumu
! lated wealth. and the hopelessness Of nc
curing it, paralyzes industrial energies
, and true ambitions, and plants the seeds
of socialism and anarchy. But Lincoln
from the poverty of the Kentucky bin
{ and Grant from the narrow gifts of a log
a house in the Ohio wilderness, became the
. central figures and the representative he
3 roes Of our age. They are types of the
= glory of American citizenship.
Only under free institutions are suel
examples possible. The avenues OF pref
erment and opportunity must be opeI
= alike TO all. These great Americans Illus
\ trate the processes by which masterfu
men forge to the front, and the less capa
bic or industrious find their places in thu
& ranks in every village and hamlet IN th
r land. The schools cannot create heroes
/ They train and discipline faculties whi5i
only opportunity can reveal whether the.
are the gifts of a great commander,
l. The civil war demonstrated that OH
y country was singularly rich in excellen
brigade, division and corps commanders
!, 1t developed three or four officers capable
u of initiating and conducting military oper
r ations with immense forces and on larg
+ field, but only one general. The intelec
which tired of the routine of a soldier
. life in times of peace, which could not D
1t reused to the successful management Of
farm or a surveyor 3 Office, which indItfer
IL emily comprehended the duties of
n clerk or Junior in a merchants firm
n was clarified 10y grave perils and expanded
n under greater responsibilities. Grant a
h forty was an unknown and unimpOrtan
r. citizen in a western town, and at forty.tw
10 he was the hope Of the army, and the here
70 of popular imagination. Grant was tn
| most independent of generals, and the re
= suit placed him in the front rank of grea
a captains of the world. He rarely hell
,e councils of war, and never adopted theil
N conclusions. He sometimes acted directl
" against the unanimous judgments of tn
J. assemblage.
q When all his officers were of opinion
l. that sally in force from the fort was t
: be guarded against, he made up his min
. from the full haversacks found on the con
le federate dead that the enemy intended :
u retreat and by ordering an Immediate as
sault captured Donelson and gained hi
uTsL Ttdl hlCloiys kilNiLAoAhE NHYAhSt "
IF hostile congressman, doubling generals
Is and distrustful people, all surrendere
!. with Lee at Appomattox
.. No man can be truly great unless he
also magnanimous. Grant was the mos
81 seIfsacrifcing of friends and the mos
le generous of foes. Unconditional sur
10 render, / move Immediately on you
a works, were the conditions Grant oHere
- Buckner at DonesoD, but in the darknes
- of the night be entered the prisoners ter
y and said. "Buckuer. you must nave los
:. everything, take my purse he ha
!. been fer months making toilsome effort
- to break through the confederate lines
= but after the surrender of their defender
~ he refused to 90 within them. A lik
n temptation had not been resisted 10y an
W conaueror Of ancient or modern times.
The eliminating triumph of GeHeri
u Grant was that be received and returne
. the sword of Lee. The one act typlhe
y the victory and perpetuity of the nnioI
= and the other that its defenders foreyC
p after would be those who with equal an
y unequalled courage. had fought TO saw
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