es Grant, in its nobility, its simplicity, and
its charity, that has endeared him beyond any knowledge afforded by the
outward manifestations of his life.

His conversations in his last days, as reported by visitors to Mount
McGregor (among these was General Buckner, who surrendered Fort
Donelson), show a soul serene and cheerful, devoted to his country, to
humanity, and to peace. No experiences of malevolence and injury had
shaken his trust in the goodness of the great majority of mankind.

When the great soldier died he owned no uniform in which he could be
suitably attired for the grave, no sword to be laid on his coffin. His
body lies in the magnificent tomb, erected by the voluntary
contributions of admiring citizens, the commanding attraction of a
beautiful park overlooking the broad Hudson as it sweeps past the
nation's chief city. Already this resting place has become a veritable
shrine of patriotism. Military and naval pageants make it their proper
goal, as when, after Santiago, the returning battleships moved in
stately procession up the Hudson to the tomb of our national military
hero, there to thunder forth the triumphant salute, like a summons to
his spirit to bestow an approval.

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