The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-28

all night wondering whore tho enemy
arc, but Grant don't caro- whore they
arc or what they arc doing" This was
because, having once prepared his plans
.with reference to every known contin.
gency, no has SO completely calculated
tho resources OF his advcrsarics
and Of his own, that no could
not contemplate disaster and never
know defeat. For thirty days hc
led tho Army OF tho Potomac
through tho wilderness, hurting 1t
against the cntronchcd positions OF the
enemy by day. and moving by night 10
assault fresh defcnscs In tho morning.
Tho country shuddered with horror ut
tho carnage, and called for his removal;
his officers wero affected by tho uni.
vcrsal distrust OF his movements, tho
mangled columns OF troops rccoiling
from tho shot and sholl which plowed
through their ranks from impregnablc
Notifications, sometimes refused to
attack again. But tho response OF the
confident and impcrturbablo com.
mander 10 his soldiers, was tho ever
recurring order, "by the left flank, for
ward and to his countrymen, III will
fight II out on this limo il 1t takes nll
summer" Criticising cabinets, hostile
congressman, doubling generals. and
distrustful people, ail surrendered with
Leo at Appomattox.
Ills GENEROSITY.
No mai can be truly great, unless no
is also %magnanimous. Grant was the
most aclf.sacrifcing Of friends, and the
most generous OF foes. Tho underlying
forces which stirred his feelings and
prompted his actions were Il profound
sense Of justice, and ardent patriotism.
Tho triumphant march from Atlanta to
tho sea had aroused the enthusiasm and
captured the imagination OF the people
who had been contemplating with sui
len anger the losses in The Wilderness,
and the bloody but Intellectual battles
about Richmond. They demanded that
Sherman be placed in supreme COM
nland. Sherman, with that beautiful
loyalty which he always showed to his
chief, loudly protested and refused, but
Grant calmly wrote, "No n
would be moro pleased ut your
advancement than |. l would make
tho saine cXertions to support you that
YOU have done TO supper, me, and
would do all III my power to make our
cause win" In the rapid reversals
common to revolutions, after 4 few weeks
Richmond had fallen and Grant was the
popular hero, the terms offered to Gen
cral Joe Johnston by Sherman hadbecn
contemptuouslv countermandcd by the
secretary OF war, and Grant had been
sent to relieve Sherman and receive tho
submission OF the last Confederate
army. But Grant remained outside the
: camp, his visit known only to Il few.
while Sherman submitted the modified
terms from Washington to Johnston
and received his sword. Not until
years aftcrward did he, General Sher.
man, know that he had been super
seded.
Unconditional surrender, l move i'm.
mediately OH your works" were the con-
ditions Grant offered Buckner at Dom
clson, butin the darkness OF the night
he entered the prisoners tent and said,
"Buckner, you must have lost every
thing, take my purse" He had been
for months making toilsome efforts to
break through the Confederate lines,
but after the surrender OF their defend
crs he refused to 20 within them. The
failure to capture the Confederate CAPT.
tai had exhausted the u and
impaired the reputation OF all the gen.
erals who had preceded him, but when
it lay PROSTATE ut his feet he
cternly declined tho triumph OF an
entry ut the head OF his victorious
army: Alike temptation had not been
:esisted by any conquerer of ancient or
modern times. But General Grant said,
"thesc people are now and will be here.
after our brethren aad. fellow citizens,
and they must not be hulniliated."
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The %culniinating triumph OF General
Grant was, that he received and re-
turned the sword Of Lee. Tho one act
typitied the victory and perpetuity OF
the union, and the other that its de-
tenders forever after would be those
who with equal and unequalled courage
had fought to save, and to destroy it.
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The most brilliant Jewels ir his crown
OF glory will be, that though a conquer
or in the field, he counscled through
life, and advised with his pen when in
his last hours his voice had failed, peace
and reconciliation among his country
men, and that though q soldier Presi-
dent, he successfully demonstrated the
Justice and wisdom OF settling disputes
among nations, not by war, but by arbi-
tration.
The tendrils OF loyalty and love
stretch from this monument to every
soldiers grave in the land. Tho mem
beers OF the Grand Army OF the Republic
who have cono before, and those who
are here awaiting the summons, present
arms to-day to the memory OF their old
Commander. This Imperial City proud
ly and affectionatcly assumes the custo-
dy OF his remains. The people called
from the 'absorbin. cares OF life by his
natal dag and this solemn ceremony,
take up again their burdcnswith lighter
hearts, and brighter hopes for their
children and their childron's children,
because OF tho career and the deeds of
Ulysses S. Grant.
The ceremony was concluded by the
firing OF n salute OF twenty-one guns
from tho monitor Miantonomoh, which
lay in the water OF the Hudson adjacent
to the scene OF the ceremonies.
AT the conclusion OF Mr.. Depew's ora
ton, Mrs. Grant, who had been pro-
foundly affected at times during the ell
oqucnt recital OF her dead husbands
noble and soldlerly qualities, warmly
shook the hand OF Mr.. Dcpow, remark
ing, "After the great soldier comes the
great orator, and You are he"