Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address in Memory of Ulysses S. Grant
Mankind has been bereaved, and from the brother hood of noble souls, one of the greatest has passed away. In Westminster Abbey, where repose England's illustrious dead, many of England's most illustrious living gathered in honor of the memory of one of America's greatest sons, and one of England's most eloquent schol ars, orators and divines wreathed for his brow a chaplet of glory and beauty, and paid to his memory a loving and tender tribute. Eloquent words of eulogy stirred the air where sleep in solemn silence ten centuries of sceptered kings, and echoing back from the fretted roofs died away in the distant aisles where reposes the dust of Albion's immortal bards, renowned statesmen and mighty warriors. Nor was such homage in such a presence undeserved, for where, in all that most magnificent of mausoleums sleeps there one among the titled or the untitled dead whose peer he is not.
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