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l.c. [printed]: A YEAR AFTER DEATH. We once heard a celebrated orator say, "A dead man's great deeds are soon forgotten, that a nation is unmindful of these services rendered her \ by a faithful soldier; and his loved ones are permitted to want, when the nation rolls in wealth and its vaults are overflowing." What mean this packed throng of people, fine equipages, thunder of \ cannons, those wistful faces bent eagerly forward to hear every word of the orator, the death-like stillness of those thousands of human beings, who have come from the remotest parts of the New \ World, eager to catch every syllable that falls from the orator's lips? What's going on here? To whom are these great masses paying their respects? It cannot be the memory of a dead one, for are \ we not told that republics and people are forgetful and ungrateful to the memory of the dead? Let's get nearer this great multitude and see what it means. We catch an orator's thrilling words \ as the wind shifts toward where we stand, and he says in words of solid gold, "His deeds will live as long as the world lasts, in the hearts of every American." WHO DOES THIS ORATOR MEAN? \ We go still nearer, but the multitude is so dense that we are yet far away from the speaker, but we catch his words this time more distinctly, as he says in a stentorian voice, "We come to do rev- \ erence and pay homage to the memory of Gen. U.S. Grant, who died one year ago. A man without an equal in this or any other land." We were a little surprised; here was another uprising of \ people to General Grant's memory, another ovation to his great worth, equal to the ceremonies on the entombment day a whole year ago, and the fire in the hearts of the people was as bright for him \ to-day as it was on the day they put him under the ground one year ago, at this very spot. The roar of the guns fired by the 1st Battery Artillery of New York drowned our thoughts, and as smoke rolled up \ in dense clouds heavenward, we remembered our great Statesman's remarks, and wish he had lived at this time and seen the tremendous homage paid this day to a man who died a year ago; and it \ seemed to us as if all the world was present in honor of his memory, and his tomb was literally obliterated with flowers from every State and from every class of people, and General Grant knows that (although \ he has left us) he still has a place in our hearts on this earth. \ 234

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