New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-31
SERYICE 1T GRANT TOMB.
Gen. Lees Name 4pplauded-Dr
Cadman on the Negro Problem.

More than ten thousand people attended the
exercises at the tomb of General Grant yester-
day From the time the tomb was opened uhtii
after the exercises a steady stream Oh people
passed in AZ. . out and looked down to the
marble sarcophagi where rest of the bodies OF
the great commander and his wife
Floral gifts surrounded and covered the
sarcophagi from the large set pieces sent oy
the Grand Army posts and the President Of
the United States to the rosebuds thrown GOWN
by the comrades of U. s. Grant Post There
was a large shield of red and white roses from
u s Grant Post; a pillow of roses from
the New-York Commandery of the Loya'
Legion; a wreath of white roses from the ARMY
of the Potomac, and shield of White roses anu
immortel1es from the Army of the tennessee
Two large set pieces were from George G Meaoe
Post No. /, of Philadelphia, inscribed our
Comrade", Much interest was taken Ill d
wreath of red lilies and palms from Presldent
Roosevelt, and pillow Of white roses from the
Chinese Minister at Washington, Chen Tung
LANG Chang.
The exercises at the tomb We're conducted by
T. S. Grant Post No 327 which came by boat
from Brooklyn, and arrived at the tomb about
$50. Just before the exercises began the
converted cruiser Mayhower, by order Oh the
Secretary of the Navy, arrived in the North
River opposite the tomb and fired the natlonaI
salute
Past Commander Noah Tibbetts, chairman or
the Memorial Day committee, called the as
.semblage to order, and, after the ritual of the
Grand Army had been carried out, introduced
the Rev. DR.. s. Parkes Cadman, the orator OF
the day. DR.. Cadnan said in part:
If there is lesson standing out to-day more I'M
pressively than any other among the many which
Memorial Day teaches us 1t lies In TINS oadage in
America, brought here as he was LOT tne P1 R1 n
amount of bloodshed and to-day the most thorny
question In current politics social life is ths
IT, therefore, for the sake of the present aggran-
are being emPoysd IN causes confessedly wrong;
II the time should ever come or now mas; ma t1ac
of power we allow ourselves to be tempted TO
leave the pathway Of national rectitufe ana ElIqe
blunders have been perpetrated III the Gays soIe
sScrifres of the mast that cur resolutions shall be
armed against any such entangements, and our
iican Institutions be undiminished.
an advocate of peace and In TN TINS TGsPe Of
Him who said Blessed are the peacemakers, l0I
they shah be called the children of God" / held
this man whose aust we gather IN silent rev
Let have peace But peac;e to be Per maj 6r
must FIRST be pure and sT aw ePff % al
ways justified when it redeems state or Ih'h8s
reckonincs in these memorial exercises. as we
reflect upon what We have lost ana aIso WLac Nc
e1e7 to sav It is true that national stability and
unity and law and the social order ana thG nonIe
have received an impetus through the walton
the bower of an ordinary mortal to estimate 49,
There is a greater necessity TO remember uiiis
sion of opinion heard in prominent quaTteLSj
when touching upon the question OF the coiored
narties must be rebGked the wisest and the
strongest both of hearts and brains whether nv
ing in Boston New-Orleans or san F5am nG go
mist mite their forces and raise a standard for
the colored man and for all classes OF ighq q
Of I nr"gress can gather His essential qualities OF
gratitude and buoyancy and under ProP naraI IL
ment docility, must be respected ms mora nor r
fects must be treated with compassion ana WIN
tenderness His education must Re upon fie onpor
tInitv: his rights before the law must De sacred
and his privileges must be secured by the promo
OF his intrinsic manhood ana worm. ,.-.,,-.
1t would seem to be that this IS the irreducibIe
and who the wards Of THIS natlon Wneleoer
and support their infancy and bring them to those
aims and ends which God intended when ne credleu
with aiacrfty and not reluctance. Your fellows
died to make free is what We say TO-DAY; iet
supposition. and let gratitude for your lnc9mI
parable conservation take upon itself the pracCal
form Of working out in completeness of structure
this brotherhood Of free. people gaJnered from
many climes and conditions into a federated ana
life Of manhood in the interests of the kingdom OF
benefcent and loving Coo.
The name of Robert +. Lee whom the orator
mentioned in his address, one of the great
soldiers of the world, was applauded
After DR.. Cadrnan had finished his address, the
audience sang the Doxology, and Taps was
sounded by the bugIer The post then marched
into the tomb Each member as he passed the
we'll where the sarcophagus is, dropped bud
Mrs Cramer, a sister of General Grant. was
escorted into the tomb by a committee OF the
post.