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Show Shelby M. Cullom THEY will to-day lay his body away in the Springfield, 111., cemetery. We hope it will be close beside that of Abraham Lincoln's tomb; that the same sunbeams may fall on both; that the spot may bo more sanctified and the two graves may become shrines to which the young men of Illinois may often gather to renew their allegiance to native land. When Li-Hung-Chang visited this country, on reaching New York, he as a first duty, paid a visit to the tomb of General Grant. He went alone, and, on returning to the city, he explained that he had sent by the spirits that keep their watch above his dead friend, his all hails and farewells to the Master Spirit that had fled. If that belief has any substance then on Wednesday last, the notice was carried to tho shade of Lincoln Lin-coln that his friend's spirit was on the way to join his, and that today his friend's final couch would be spread near his own. It is a fitting ending. For half a century Senator Sen-ator Cullom gave his best service to his country. If he was not brilliant in taking men's hearts captive by his eloquence, he was always strong and brave, and with a judgment that never erred and an integrity that was never questioned, bent to his public duties with an energy that never faltered while a generation of his fellow Americans Ameri-cans were born and died. j Now the final Peace has come to him, God rest his soul. |