The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-26

For the special benefit of the six city
companies of the Thirteenth regiment
services of a memorial nature COM
memorative of Grant and the ap-
preaching dedication of the tomb We're
held last night in the Penn Avenue
Baptist church. Rev. DR.. Joseph X.
Dixon delivered a stirring address, and
he had for an audience so many per-
sons in addition to the guardsmen that
the seating capacity of the church was
insufficient. Chairs were used and
the steps leading to the auditorium
were occupied, and a number went
away after finding themselves unable
to procure seats
Large flags decorated the space about
the pulpit and organ loft, and there
was stack of arms on either side of
bust of Grant in fronc of the 2ul-
pit. a souvenir programme printed
in red. white and blue, the product OF
The Tribune's job department, were
distributed. The programme con-
tanned a vgnette of the dead chief
tain, an excellent half-ton picture of
the great mausoleum and the oruer of
exercises. The singing included the
hymns, onward, Christian Soldiers"
anu tit Idlllt Inn VI llle 1tepuDllC,
sung to the air of GLORY Hallelujah."
The companies present were A, b, C
and ID of the central city; f, of the
west side, and H, of the north end.
They were under the immediate COM
mand of their respective captains and
under the general command of Lieu
tenant-Colonel c. C. Mates.
DR.. Dxon's discourse was entitled
Of A
were Put up the sword into the
sheath" Jesus--in John xviii:11, and
Let us have peace" Grant-in ac-
cepting the presidential nomination in
1868. DR.. Dixon said:
The south wind had called out the ar
butus, the Crocus and the violet The
April air was redolent, for the magnolia
had hung out her banners of bloom.
Spring had broken the seal of winter and
let out the imprisoned music. In awful
and tragic contrast the waves of battle
surged through the lines at Petersburg
and with simultaneous shock broke down
the adamantine walls about Richmond
that had for four years batfied and dehcd
twenty millions of people. Lee marched
his troops westward in several columns on
both banks of the AppomattoX, Grant was
hot on his track Meade and Ord and
Sheridan, with infantry and cavalry, were
eager ON his flank, and there was soon to
be n sunset to the hopes of this distin-
guished and intrepid chieftan.
Every whittier there was the roar OF
booming cannon, the hurrying tread of
horsemen, the crash of exploding shell,
the solemn tread of infantry-every
whittier brave mon rushed into the clos
ing conflict baptized the soil with their
blood as though they had water with
which to charge the SOIL houses along the
nf ms rpb
men did not wait to sleep away the ia
tigue of weary marching and unrernt-
ting fighting, but with cheers and deaf
ening shouts they received orders which
passed from regiment to regiment to-
press the foe-the time had come to COM
pei Lee to surrender. Grant and n few
orderlies were riding through the darkness
of the night to hold a counsel of war with
Sheridan-it was a midnight conference
the dashing officer came down stairs rub
| bing his eyes which were soon to flash
with the certainty of glorious victory
on the back of letter he pointed out the
position of Lees men and the location Of
his own columns. 81 want him to take
| this position" he said, 80 / can swing
round there. Then Wen have every
mothers son of them"
HE WROTE TO LEE.
Hesitating to shed more blood, Grant
wrote Lee: The result of the last week
must convince you of the hopelessness of
further resistance on the part of the
Army of Northern Virginia in this strug-
gle. | feel that it is so, and regard 1t as
my duty to shift from myself the re-
sponsibilty of any further effuson of
| blood by asking you to surrender that
| portion of the Confederate states army
known as the Army of Northern Virginia"
In another communication Immediately
| following in answer to Lees inquiries as
to the terms of surrender, General Grant
replied: II would say that peace being
my great desire, there is but one condi-
| tion l would insist upon, namely, that the
men and officers surrendered shall be dis
qualified for taking up arms again against
| the government of the United States un-
| til properly exchanged"
Every student of history is familiar with
| the marvellous programme entered upon
| by him whose tomb the nation will dedi-
| cate on next Tuesday-the moments are
| too swift for me to even hint at the tri-
| umphs he won in moulding and advancing
| the civil interests of this great land-how
| twice the enthusiasm of a mighty and
| loyal people placed him in the executive
| chair--how the laureled chief made the
! tour of the world, meeting the crowned
| heads of the greatest empires with a
! calm dignity which pointed him to be the
! peer of all, receiving the laudations of
! every land as the worlds supremest cap
tain-no man ever lived VINO passed over
the earth under such a succession of
! honors.
GRANT MUST DIE.
Finally the tidings travel on swift wings
that Grant must die A thrill of sorrow
! and tenderest sympathy move through the
! pulses of the civilized world-it was a sor-
row that could be felt even in the busy
marts OF trade.
| To escape the heat, General Grant was
finally taken to the cool heights of Mount
! McGregor, overlooking the ancient battle
| field of Saratoga. Here he fought out
| again his last great battle.-a campaign
with death. Soldier TO the last. Few
! sights are more pathetic than this hero
sitting amid untold suffering indlting his
memoirs that his wife may be cared for
| when he was gone and his creditors fairly
! dealt with. Hero at AppomattoX-here on
the mount whittier he descended into the
valley of the shadow.
Tell me, oh yc moaning winds; speak
| for me, Oh We sobbing seas; articulate for
me, oh ye melancholy storms of Novem-
ber-then and not until then may l tell
| you who listen the sorrow that sobbed
itself out when the nation gave itself up
| to the funeral of the dead hero-from
| Tuesday morning until Saturday night II
continued, until they laid him away for
| 'nS resurrection OF lnat magnificent MIL
| slope In Riverside Park, where, under the
silent stars tonight there rises the impos-
ing granite mausoleum whose privilege
and honor 1t will be yours to help dedi-
| cate.
On the second day from this, the White
| Squadron, in companionship with vessels
from foreign nayies. will sail up the HUI
son to point opposite the tomb, when the
| monster steel mouthpieces will salute the
dead hero-and the largest military page
ant since the war will tramp the streets
Of the new world metropolis. 1t will be a