fitting for one whose monument was a preserved Union; whose sepulchre, the hearts of his countrymen; whose epitaph, the gratitude of sixty millions of people.

What Tennyson wrote of Wellington, America may read of Grant:

"Mourn, for to us he seems the last,

Remembering all his greatness in the past.
No more in soldier fashion will he greet
With lifted hand the gazer in the street.
O friends, our chief state-oracle is mute;
Mourn for the man of long-enduring blood,
The statesman-warrior, moderate, resolute,
Whole in himself, a common good.
Mourn for the man of amplest influence,
Yet clearest of ambitious crime,
Our greatest yet with least pretence,
Great in council and great in war,
Foremost captain of his time,
Rich in saving common sense,
And, as the greatest only are,
In his simplicity sublime.

On God and God-like men we build our trust.
Hush, the Dead March wails in the people's ears:
The dark crowd moves, and there are sobs and tears:
The black earth yawns: the mortal disappears;

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust;

He is gone who seemed so great.

Gone; but nothing can bereave him

Of the force he made his own

Being here, and we believe him

Something far advanced in State,

And that he wears a truer crown

Than any wreath that man can weave him.

Speak no more of his renown,

Lay your earthly fancies down,

And in the vast cathedral leave him,

God accept him, Christ receive him."

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CHAPTER XXVIII.

IN STATE AND AT THE TOMB.

FTER the death of General Grant a plaster cast of his face was taken, when the body was given into the hands. of the undertaker, who embalmed it. It was then draped in the national flag and placed in repose in the parlor of the cottage in which he died, on Mt. McGregor, under a guard of comrades from one or more of the Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, which was afterward increased by a regular army guard, who patrolled the grounds and protected the cottage till the day of the funeral.

Meanwhile the cities of the country were draped in mourning, and all the flags on buildings and ships hung at half mast. The press, at home and abroad, teemed with expressions of sorrow, with sad obituary, and exalted eulogy. The character and career of the dead patriot was the theme of universal mention and analysis, of the most eloquent prose and touching poetry. Not in all history has fame been dealt with so kindly or memory so tenderly. It was worth death to find a sentiment so unanimous, exuberant, and exquisite respecting the grandeur and solidity of a mortal character. Party, sect, section, country, levelled their lines and voiced the overwhelming regret and general praise. Let a few newspaper extracts answer as samples of all.

"He took upon himself, at the solicitation of the people, the highest civil responsibilities, and bore them with the same plain and unselfish fidelity which had distinguished him in the field."--St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

"Let us speak of our great chieftain only as the soldier whose fame has not a spot to mar its brilliancy. If his civil career seems to invite criticism, let us bury

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it out of sight and honor him as the great captain of the age; as the devoted leader who led the armies of the Union to triumph, striking the fetters from the slave, showing the magnanimity of the hero in the hour of victory as he showed the courage of the hero in the day of battle, and restoring to us the American republic stronger, more honored, and more glorious than it was when handed down to us by our revolutionary sires.”—New York World.

"No one man of our history so distinctively emphasized his individuality in war and in peace, in the field and in statesmanship, as did General Grant. He had none of the ornate characteristics of Clay; none of the ostentations of Scott; none of the impetuous qualities of Sherman. What he was, he was of himself and by himself; a self-creation whose history puzzles the reckoning of the world and makes romance pale before it. The thoughtless would scan the surface of his record, from the multiplied ill-fortune of early life to the highest stepping in the round of fame, and call it accident; but accidents build no such structures of imperishable renown."-Philadelphia Times.

"Thus another great and memorable figure in the later history of the republic—the most memorable, perhaps, excepting only Mr. Lincoln, among all those who performed their parts in the immortal contest for the preservation of the Union— passes away from living men and takes his place on the records of history. What encouragement for patriotism, for fidelity, for fearless defence of the great interests of mankind."-New York Sun.

"The name of General Grant will be remembered by Americans as that of the saviour of their country in a crisis more appalling than any it has passed through since the United States became a nation. His fame as a soldier will survive as long as the history of our nation is read. The last of the two greatest Americans of their generation is gone."-New York Times.

"Great men, said Burke, are the guide-posts and landmarks of the state; and Grant was the guide-post of a victorious war and a landmark of a magnanimous peace. The American people themselves will judge him now, after the calm evening and the serene repose of retirement, more justly than in the stress and storm of struggle. The asperities of the angry contentions have passed; the flaws have faced and the blemishes are dimmed, while the splendor of his achievements and the simple grandeur of his character have gained a brighter halo as the years have rolled by. The clouds and the smoke of battle have long since lifted; the fragments and the scenes are swallowed in the majestic drama; and to-day we see Grant elevated on his true pedestal of fame through the just perspective of history."-Philadelphia Press.

"A splendid sun has set; its light is out and its dark places have followed its bright ones below the trees and hills. It went down lingeringly, as if in pain with parting from the scenes it lighted with more of majesty in its gathering

gloom than its noon had ever known. Those on whose downfall the temple of his fame was builded will sow no thorns on his grave to prick the violets planted by his people there. Whatever were his faults, his errors and his failures, but yesterday he stood in the eyes of all the world the foremost figure of the Western Continent.

"Looking at the life and character of General Grant from the broadest national standpoint, it is true to say that no man since Washington has better illustrated the genius of American institutions or the temper of Americans as a people.”— Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.

"Our special despatches bring the not unexpected news of the death of the greatest and most illustrious man that lived in the world in the year 1885. Washington and Lincoln will divide with Grant the prominent place in the history of this country, but no man since the days of the great Napoleon has attracted so much attention throughout the world or made such a great military and civil reputation as Grant, and, when prejudices pass away and time brings calmness, justice and reason to pass upon General Grant's life, character and achievements, he will hold a very high place in the esteem of the citizens of this country, the citizens of the North, South, East, and West, and all of them will have great admiration for his character, a just pride in his patriotic services, and a profound respect for his memory."-Vicksburg Post.

"The silent, modest man, who was unknown twenty-four years ago; who had had a real baptism of fire' when, as a subaltern, he did a true soldier's service in Mexico; who retired soon after that war to take part as a worker in civilian life; who gave his service to his country when the secession revolt began; who grew to be a great soldier and the only one, after many better known had failed, who could lead the Union hosts to final victory; who was magnanimous beyond all other victors in his treatment of the defeated armies; who received the highest military and civil rank that was possible in the United States; who won the grateful love of the people even in the section of the country where he was the leader of invading armies—such a man has a unique and distinct place among the great men of the world."-Philadelphia Bulletin.

"With the clearing of the early mists yesterday morning passed away the soul of General Grant, the most distinguished of living Americans, the general commanding the victorious armies of his country, and twice president of the republic. Washington alone of all men in our history has equalled him in honors. General Grant was a great commander. The operations of war, in

which he was the leading figure of the Union armies, were colossal. The comprehension that grasped this tremendous situation and the fortitude that endured its awful disasters was of itself greatness. The clear-sighted sense that moved straightforward amid these bewildering scenes, undeterred and undeviating, was military genius."-Atlanta Constitution.

"As the mortal remains of Ulysses S. Grant lie in their casket, and solemn guns are booming the last salute for the dead commander, we, of the South, forget the stern general who hurled his terrible masses upon the ranks of our fathers and brethren; whose storms of shot and shell mowed down our friends like wheat before the gleaner; remembering only the manly soldier who, in the hour of triumph, displayed the knightly chivalry that robs defeat of its bitterest pang. Vanquished by his arms, in his chivalric kindness we were doubly vanquished at Appomattox."-New Orleans Times-Democrat.

"The foremost man of the nation has closed a career second to no other in the history of the republic."-New York Tribune.

"He has passed from the home of endearment and sympathy into the pantheon of memory, and must be ranked with the illustrious great, whose genius is consecrated by noble services of patriotism.”—Boston Advertiser.

"In our opinion not only is his one of the few immortal names that were not born to die, but his is one of the still fewer names that are entitled to immortality upon earth. He is not only one of the immortals but he is one of them by right. He was an Agamemnon, a king of men. He was so pervaded by greatness that he seemed not to be conscious that he was great. He was magnanimous, modest, faithful to his friends, just to all men as far as his surroundings permitted, above simulation or dissimulation, self-poised and equal to every occasion. He was one of the greatest of generals; there was nothing small about General Grant, no punic faith, no perfidious element, no jealousies. His chivalrous spirit would not permit him to ask Lee or his officers for their swords, or Lee's men for their horses.. 'Go in peace' was the substance of his treatment of the heroes who surrendered at Appomattox Court House. His fidelity to his not assumed, but presumed or supposed obligations, his loyalty to truth and justice, caused him to forbid that General Lee should be arrested or annoyed by Federal authorities.”Richmond Dispatch.

"General Grant was a great soldier. In the opinion of many, he was the greatest soldier developed by the civil war. Reputations are made by success, and he was successful. He started at the bottom of the ladder and climbed to the top steadily, and he remained there. Even if history should not give him the first place among the soldiers of the civil war, it will rank him with the greatest soldiers of the world. No one will say, now that he is dead, that he ever turned away from those who had any claim upon him. There are those who were against him in the war to whom he reached out a helping hand when the war was over, when they sadly needed help. He was popular with the soldiers because he knew how to appreciate soldierly qualities. His magnanimity at the Appomattox surrender showed that he was as generous as brave.”—Savannah News.