Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-30
General Manderson Delivers an Ora.
tion at Grants Tomb.
REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS ADDRESS
Governor Hastings Speaks on
Gettysburg's Field.
APPROPRIATE SENTIMENTS
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

| NEW YORK, May 30.-The Grafton at
Grants tomb in Riverside Park today was
| dehVered by ex-senator Manderson Of Ne
| praska. The ceremony was under the aus
plces OF the Grant Post of Brooklyn
| zen. Manderson said, speaking of tire
sentiment of the ceremony:
| This tribute. that with every annual
Memorial day We pay to the memory OF
our dead comrades in arms, is no mere
pageant, no idle ceremonial Inaugurated
by the noble order whose motto is frater-
nifty charity and loyalty, whose insignia
| we are proud to wear, the sacred services
| incident to the day shall continue so long
as there remains a survivor Of the armies
| OF the Union, and after We have passed
Sm,ay VIKING hands' responding TO grate-
| iuI hearts, VIII, we hope, continue the
| .ouchlng ceremonies at the graves of the
heroes of the war of the rebellion.
| oh this twenty-eighth memorial day all
| over thls broad land wherever the nations
| noble defenders lie sleeping. whether in
| the south, where the grim edge of ba tile
| Joined, In the border country where the
| iear ana agony OF the republic centered, or
| IN the north, where anxious hearts grew
| sick with hope deferred countless thou
| SANDS are gathered to pay their tributes
| OF love and gratitude
| standing here in the shadow of this
| superb monument, destined TO remain
| tnroueh the ages as a testimonial to our
| chlei, standing on the appropriate summit
| oi recognition or mcst distinguished SER
| wee, highest loyalty and purest patriotism
| We look over the land to find by teeminR
| city and modest hamlet in noble cemetery
ana rural churchyard. the same gathering
| OF comrades 10 decorate costly tomb and
| simple headstone alike-placing the nag OF
the Tree over those who maintained n
| triumphant and the choicest flowers of the
vernal springtime to exhale their perfume
| WIN the fragrance of the sweet memories
of the dead
'Ah. These burial places. where
| Sleep the brave, who sank to rest,
with all their country's wishes blest'
| are the Fal-hallas, the Westmfnsters of
| our country.
Whether our departed lie where there are
stately trees, grassy lawns, flower bedecked
slopes, shaded walks. costly monuments
and commanding views, rest in obscure
places, where desolation reigns and barren
ness endures, IL can be said of all alike as
our comrade, Garfield, said of consecrated
and stately Arlington: Here is our temple:
Its pavement is the sepucher of heroic
hearts; its dome the bending heaven: its
| altar candles the watching stars"
Calm and restful, holy and beautiful is
Memorial day.
Grants Military Career.
Speaking of Grant, he said:
Ulysses S. Grants life had been one OF
| grinding poverty. adverse fate and unre-
| Quilted endeavor The snow OF misfortune
had covered him, and the east wind of
| chilling effect. 1t was the school in which
he taught patience, with which to en-
dure; determination, with which to con-
tnue effort; pertinacity until the end was
| reached, and with it all forbearance to
| those unfortunate generosity to those con-
Quered by the fates.
Aye! more. There came to him from
this forging upon life's anvil self-rellance
that had in ii nothing obtrusive, for il
was Joined to modesty most rare and a
simplicity of character so exceptional as
| to cause at times doubt of his great capac-
| ity.
But Cur friends, the enemy, never doubt
| ed.
Il was pleased IN read the remarks made
| but few days ago by the last remaining
great confederate soldier, Lieut.. Gen.
Longstreet. He said: OF all the Union
commanders he was the great leader, who
accurately surveyed the field of war, the
clements of strength and points of error
and considered the vast means necessary
| to silve the problem.
| The tale of the career of this renowned
| soldier leads along glittering line from
| Palo Alto to Nicksburg, Monterey to the
| Wilderness from Mexico TO Appomattox.
| Did time permit how we would like to
| dwell upon IL and tell of Grant at Fort
| Donnelson proposing to move Immediately
upon the enemys works and giving new
| and impressive meaning to the cabalistio
initials of his name, L. s. by deman
ing the unconditional surrender of the
| rebel Gen. Buckner. L would he glad to
describe him as | him at the trial
! period of his career. at Shiloh, when, not
| knowing he was whipped on the first day
| he gathered the scattered fragments of mis-
army and joining to them the fresh troops
| of Buell., renewed the fight with vigor in
| the gray dawn of the second day. won the
battle and held the great rivers whose
united currents We're to take the channel
of the father of waters and flow unvexed
| to the sea
How attractive the story of the siege Of
Vicksburg and the surrender of the army
| OF Pembertcn on the Fourth of July, add
ing new luster to Independence day.
"Of the leader, standirg on the works
about Chattanooga, directing Hooker in
his assault on lofty Lookout Mountain
/ Sherman in his fierce attack on Tunnel IIui
| and Thomas to charge and take frowning
| Mission Ridge, bristling with cannon 1
| fain would speak, but cannot
| I'VE all recall the story of fighting Il
out on that line in the dreadful battles in
/ the Wilderness, at lloody Cold Harbor and
| I'm the trenches of Petersburg.
What self-contained erieaVorl
What persistent determination,
| "Inexorahle as fate. he Pressed on TO the
end ana II came, in form il should
crowning all, the point of elimination of
all our hopes the termination of our fears
the acme of success-Appomattox.
| Grant I'm Civil Life.
Speaking of Grants civil triumphs and
| his foresight. General Mandarscn said:
The aggressive determination of his for
| e.gn policy, if evidenced in this day, might
provoke, from some less national in their
| instincts, the charge of 'Jingoism.'
His far-seeing mind the military
| and commercial importance of ship canal
| Communication between the two great seas,
and he urged the building of the inter-
oceanic canal.
He saw the coming battle among the
great powers for commercial supremacy,
and. looking upon the map Of the world,
he found our outDosts, the islands that
stand like sentinels along our coast and in
| the Caribbean sea, controlling the approach
| to the great river that drains our conti-
nent, parceled out among European pow
| ers and our republic without foothold or
oCaling station upon any one of them He
urged the annexation Of San Domingo, and
| the Congress blundered Moefully when IL
did not act in accord with his suggestion
Wa would be the better at this time for
| a little of his aggressiN eness.
President Grant old not forget the action
| OF our old-time foe and longtime rival,
England, during the dark days of the re-
bellion.
The American people might have for
| given her sympathy with and the encour-
| agenent given 70 those iD arrnad rebe1lfon