Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — Mausoleums. [ARTICLE]

Mausoleums.

Gen. W. T. Sherman, having been written to for his views on the subject of a national mausoleum for distinguished Americans, makes the following characteristic reply: “I have neither the time, inclination, nor ability to discuss the proposition of an American Westminster. I once visited the catacombs under ancient Syracuse. Our guide said there were a million interments, but the contents of every chamber had been sold for manure. I asked him if a single grave had been spared; not one. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ,ever will be. Amen!”