The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-26 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1866.

winner of the Derby or PJ
the second in the Derby or
extra ; maidens allowed 71b
Ch c by Stockwell out of
Bribery
Mount Palatine
B c by Trumpeter out of
lomca
•
Jack in the Green
Malibran
The Peer
Ceylon
Mrs. Day
Giralda
Ben Battle
Cecrops
Chronometer
The Carthusian
Sans Si
The Chase
Edgbaston
Bertie
Macaron

'rince of Wales's Stakes 101 b,
r the winner of the Oaks 51b;
Swinley Course; 37 subs.
Beaconsfield
Leah
Gazna (paid)
The Primate
Beelzebub
Vile
Sir Lydston
Staghound
Whalebone
Robin Hood
Montrose (pd)
Abergeldie
Dalesman
Valeria
Freedom
Stockbridge
Gladiator
Experience (dead)
Effervescence

TnuRsDAY.—A PLATE of 100 sous ; three-yr-olds Bst 71b,
four and upwards 9st 31b ; mares and geldings allowed
31b, maiden Arabs and Barbs 141 b ; Swinley Course. To
close and name by 6 o'clock on Wednesday.
A SWEEPSTAKES of 50 sous each, h ft, for three-yr-olds ;
colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b ; 41b and 61b allowed.
Swinley Course. 3 subs.
Puebla, 61b
Valeria, 61b
The ST. JAMES'S PALACE STAKES of 100 sov each, h ft, for
three-yr-olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; maidens
allowed 71b. Old Mile. 14 subs.
Malibran I Artesian

ILac, 61b

Salisbury
Honiton
The Carthusian
Sans Si

Staghound
Maori Chief
Tomahawk
The Admiral

The Primate Lord Lyon
Beelzebub Lassitude
The THIRD NEW BIENNIAL STAKES of 15 sovs each, 10 ft,
with 200 added ; 3-yr-olds Bst, four 9st 21b; fillies and
geldings allowed 31b; winners of 2,000 soya; 121 b, 1,000
71b, 500 41b extra ; those that never won in England
allowed 51b, maidens 71b ; the second to receive 50 sovs
out of the stakes. Old Mile. 44 subs.

Mount Palatine, 3 yrs. 'Adelina, 3 yrs
Tibia, 4 yrs The Primate, 3 yrs
Ischia, 3 yrs Beelzebub, 3 yrs
Tennyson, 4 yrs (paid) Master Gunner, 3 yrs
The Dannebrog, 3 yrs Macdonald, 3 yrs
Giralda, 3 yrs Lass o' Gowrie, 3 yrs
Ellenboro', 3 yrs Regent, 3 yrs
Elegance, 3 yrs Whalebone, 3 yrs
Fairy Footstep, 3 yrs Robin Hood, 3 yrs
Jenny Jumps, 3 yrs Lothario, 3 yrs
Valour, 4 yrs Guinivere, 4 yrs
Chronometer, 3 yrs Araucaria, 4 yrs
Osiris, 3 yrs Lucifer, 3 yrs
Wild Agnes, 4 yrs Claverhouse, 3 yrs
Edgbaston, 3 yrs Kinghorn, 3 yrs
Lady Calthorpe, 3 yrs Lord Craven, 3 yrs
Le Mandarin, 4 yrs Gladiator, 3 yrs
Vagabonds, 3 yrs The Admiral, 3 yrs
Tacitus, 3 yrs Zingyni, 3 yrs
Misletoe, 3 yrs Kingsley, 3 yrs
Wild Boy, 4 yrs Lord Lyon, 3 yrs
Florida, 3 yrs The Sharper, 3 yrs
The Fouxvx NEW BIENNIAL STAKES of 15 sovs each, 10
ft, with 200 added ; two year olds 7st, three 9st 31b ;
fillies and geldings allowed 31b ; a winner of 2,000 sovs
121 b, 1,000 71b, 500 41b extra; three year olds which
have never won in England allowed 51b ; maiden three
year olds allowed 71b, two year olds 31b : the second to
receive 50 sovs out of the stakes ; T.Y.C. ; 44 subs.
Capucin, 2 yrs
Beauclerk, 2 yrs
Rustic, 3 yrs
Mr Pitt, 3 yrs
Nine Elms, 2 yrs
Lochaber, 2 yrs
Mavourneen, 2 yrs
Antipodes, 2 yrs
Stolen Kisses, 2 yrs
Silence, 2 yrs
Satyr, 2 yrs
Blinkhoolie, 2 yrs
Guy of Warwick, 2 yrs
Langham, 3 yrs
Sunnylocks, 2 yrs
Magician, 3 yrs
Van Amburgh, 2 yrs
Blue Riband, 3 yrs
Red Riba.ud, 2 yrs
Huntsman, 2 yrs
Gretna, 3 yrs
Longchamps, 2 yrs
Rabelais, 2 yrs
The NEW STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 100 added, for two
year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 7th; winners pre-
vious to starting of 100 sovs value, including the win-
ner's own stake, 51b extra ; T.Y.C. ; 67 subs.
Ch c Lord of the Isles out of Freemason
Splitvote Ch c by Marionette out of
Bc by Lord of the Isles out Susannah
of Intimation Ch c byMarionette—Duchess
Rinderpest of Lorraine
Usurper Australia
King Victor. Dragon
Priority Lexicon
B f Stolen Kisses Tynedale
Loehaber. The Dean
Mavourneen Marksman
Antipodes C by Thormanby out of
Satyr , Cordelia
Hermit Stockstill
Problem F by Dundee out of Blanche
Blinkhoolie of Middlebie
Bandmaster The Hatter
Alexander Achievement
The Leading Suit Friponnier
Lady Louie Ailesbury
Barrington Archimage
Reigning Beauty Camilla
Star of India Jasper
Van Amburgh Chignon
B c by Barbatus, dam by .Odd Fellow
West Australian The Jewel
Nutbourne Lad C by Parmesan out of Gin-
Br cby Rataplan out of cinnati
Amanda Furiense
Bk f by Beadsman out of 'Arundel
Salamanca Kidderminster
B f Sis to Merry Wife Libertine
Br c Fakir Fairfield
Uncas Harpenden
Ines Scipio
Master of Arts Adam Bede
Vigor C b
Venom o
uo ttl to
fo fAAu
gt t au
sctk
C bby Romulus
a
O. K. Dundee out
The GoLD CUP, value 300 soya, added to a subscription of
20 sovs each ; three year.olds, 7st 51b, four Bst 101 b, five
9st 31b, six and aged 9st 51b ; mares and geldings allowed
31b ; once round (about two miles and a half); 19 subs.
Moulsey, 5 yrs The Student, 3 yrs
Duke of Beaufort's (sealed up) Primate 3 yrs
Baragab, 5 yrs (paid) Brown Bread 4 yrs
Breadalbane, 4 yrs Regalia, 4 yrs
General Peel, 5 yrs (paid) Lothario, 3 yrs
Gladiateur, 4 yrs East Lancashire, 6 yrs
Marquis ollastings's (sealed Sealskin, 3 yrs
up) The Peer, 3 yrs
Le Mandarin, 4 yrs Archimedes, 4 yrs
The Miner, 5 yrs Crown Prince, 3 yrs
FRIDAY.—The WOKINGRAM STAKES (Handicap) of 5 SCATS
each, with 50 added for three year olds and upwards,
last three quarters of the New Mile. To close as for the
Trial Stakes, to name by six o'clock on Wednesday, and
the weights to be fixed by five o'clock on Thursday. If
24 subscribers to be divided into two classes and 50 sovs
added to each.
The RAILWAY STAKES of 5 sovs each, with added by
the Railway Companies, for three year
olds and upwards ; New Mile. To close and name at
six o'clock on Tuesday, and the weights to be published
after the races on Thursday.
A PLATE of 100 sous; two year olds Est olb; three Bst 31b;
four, Bst 121 b, 5 and upwards 9st ; the winner to be sold

Etoile Filante, 3 yrs
Etoile Polaire, 2 yrs
F ..by Dundee—Blanche of

Middlebie, 2 yrs
Student, 3 yrs
Marksman, 2 yrs
Wild Briar, 3 yrs
Highwood, 2 yrs
Luron, 2 yrs
Beanstalk, 2 yrs
Wild Moor, 2 yrs
Janitor, 3 yrs
Janua., 2 yrs
Harpenden, 2 yrs
Princess Mary, 2 yrs
Feodor, 2 yrs
Arundel, 2 yrs
The Peer, 3 yrs
Freedom, 3 yrs
Lord Lyon, 3 yrs
The General, 2 yrs
Rust, 2 yrs

for 100 soya ; if entered to be sold for 200 soya 71b extra

half a mile. To close at six o'clock on Thursday night.
The QUEEN'S PLATE of 100 gs ; three year olds 7st 101 b,
four 9st 81b, five lOst, six and aged lOst 21b; to start at
the New Mile starting post, go once round and in, being

rather less than three miles. To close and name as for
the Trial Stakes.
The THIRTEENTH ASCOT TRIENNIAL STAKES of 10 sovs
each, with 100 added, for three year olds; colts Bst 101 b,
fillies Bst 71b ; maidens allowed 51b ; the second to re-
ceive a sum equal to 10 per cent on the whole stake, and
the third to save his stake
Ch c by Stockwell, out of

New Mile ; 44 subs.
The Student
Heliotrope
Master Gunner
Genista
Staghound
Iron Clad
Janitor
Dalesman
Leybourne
Myrrhina
William Pitt
Sealskin
Stilton
Monitress
The Monk of Avon
The Nun of Avon
Greyfoot
Gondolier
Bk c by Newcastle, out of
Vanity (wrong note)
Ben Battle
Rallywocd
Kiuglake

Bribery"
Countess Amy
Rattler
Jack in the Green
B by Trumpeter out of

lonica
Westwick
War
Hops
Stoic
Fickle
Cotillon
Knight of St. Michael
Knight of the Crescent
Gold Pen
Monaca
The Muffin Man (dead)
Lady Stamford
Ammunition
Mildred (paid)
Son of a Gun (dead)
The Primate
Mirella
The ALEXANDRA PLATE of 1:000 sovs, added to a Sweep
stakes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft ; four year olds lOst, five
and upwards lOst 81b; winners in the two preceding
years of the Epsom Derby, the Prince of Wales's Stakes
at Ascot, or the Doncaster St. Leger 61b, of the Ascot,
Doncaster, or Goodwood Cups, in 1864 or '65 51b extra ;
maiden four year olds at the time of starting allowed
71h, five and upwards 121 b; the second to receive 200
ar.d the third 100 sovs out of the stakes ; once round
(about three miles); 20 subs. Post entrance of 100
sovs allowed on Saturday by the hour of entering for
the Trial Stakes, &c.

Baragah, 5 yrs (pd ft)
Klarinska, 4 yrs
Pearl Diver, 6 yrs
Seamander, 6 yrs
Nobility, 6 yrs
Mail Train, 5 yrs
Strafford, 5 yrs
Sister to Gen. Peel, 4 yrs
The Miner, 5 yrs
Gladiateur, 4 yrs

Le Mandarin, 4 yrs
Brown Bread, 4 yrs
Sydrnonton, 4 yrs
Regalia, 4 yrs
Breeze, 5 yrs
East Lancashire, 6 yra
Rufford, 4 yrs
Joker, 4 yrs
Nightwatch, 4 yrs
Elland, 4 yrs

His Excellency General Webb, United States
Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary to
Brazil, and Dirs. Webb and family have arrived at Fenton's
Hotel.

Honours to General Grant

In the United States House of Representatives, on the
3d instant, a resolution was introduced conferring upon
Ulysses S. Grant the rank of General of the Armies of
the United States, instead of that of Lieutenant-General.

The bill was passed by a vote of 116 yeas to 11 nays. In
the course of the proceedings, the Honourable Henry C.

Deming, member of Congress from Connecticut, made a
brilliant speech, in which the claims of General Grant
upon the gratitude of his country were advocated. After
alluding to the honours which were conferred by Great
Britain upon Nelson, Wellington, and other national
heroes, Mr. Deming continued :
" Our institutions, it is said, are popular, and that these
regal benefactions are hostile to their genius and spirit ;
and yet the American people have not in the past been
insensible to the claims of great military service to solid
.and substantial rewards, and have constantly solicited ex-
pressions of gratitude in harmony with the simplicity and
frugality of our system. They rewarded General Wash-
ington for his military services in the RevolutiOn by twice
electing him to the Presidency. They rewarded General
Jackson for his military services in the War of 1812 by
twice electing him to the Presidency. It was his services
in the same war which contributed vastly to the elevation
of General Harrison to the same office, and but for his
Mexican victories General Taylor never would have been
President of the United States. The heroism of General
Scott in two wars directed the attention of a great
party to him as their candidate for the Presidency,
and all parties united in conferring upon him the
rank of Lieutenant-General as the only reward they
could bestow upon his life-long devotion to the
defence and renown of our flag. Now, I could safely chal-
lenge each one of this long line of heroes to come forth and
present a claim upon national gratitude which cannot be
met and overmatched by the claims upon us of that modest
and reticent soldier who scattered the armies and destroyed
the military power of a rebellion whose success would have
buried the Great Republic of the world beyond the hope of
resurrection. Tried by the criterion of success, who of
them can present a brighter, fairer, more unsullied record?
Tried by the interests at stake, upon which of their swords
did interests so momentous hang ? Tried by the valour of
the adversary, who of them ever encountered a foe so
worthy of his steel ? If in the sad and disheartening
summer of 1863 it had been asked you, what rank will you
confer upon the General who silences the batteries at Vicks-
burg, that the Mississippi, through the bisected rebellion,
might course unobstructed from the prairies to the Gulf ;
if it had been asked us at the close of the last session, what
will you do for him who breaks the lines of Richmond and
receives the sword of Lee, what soul in this house could
have placed any limit or qualification upon its obligations ?
Find a single martial enterprise in the whole history of
mankind more serious in the obstacles to be overcome, more
' luminous as an example of heroism and endurance, more
fatal to an enemy, more magnificent in its results,
than the single enterprise of opening the Mississippi
River; search the tide of time for a nation which was
ever delivered from such depths and exalted to
such a pinnacle of exaltation by one single blow
as by that struck. at Richmond in April last,
which at the same time broke the head and paralysed the
extremities of the rebellion. War has been defined to be
contention by force for the purpose of crippling or over-
whelming an enemy ; and in glancing at the history of our
war it seems to me that we had made but little progress
even in crippling our enemy until the inflexible will and
martial energies of General Grant entered as an animating
and directing soul into the armies of the Republic. Prior
to his conspicuous appearance upon the grand arena we
had met with many reverses and a few successes, but
the reverses were most depressing to the national spirit,
and the successes had hardly penetrated the hide of the
defiant monster which was confronting us. War had
surged and resurged with alternate triumph and defeat over
the devoted plains of Missouri. We had gained a lodg-
ment on the coast of South Carolina ; we held the sand
spits of Hatteras, and we had dearly purchased a strategical
position on Roanoke Island. But in neither of these affairs
had we succeeded in actually debilitating the enemy, and
from neither of these points had we been able to penetrate
the enemy's country much beyond the range of our can-
non. The first decided success which let in a glimpse of
sunlight, and lifted the cloud of despondency and exhi-
larated the national heart, were the brilliant operations
upon the Tennessee and the Cumberland. When, follow-
ing hard upon the capture of Fort Henry, the country
learned that Fort Donelson, strongly fortified by nature and
art, had surrendered, with its garrison of 16,000 prisoners,
and that large sections of Kentucky and Tennessee were
redeemed from rebel thraldom, we asked, with all the vehe-
mence of kindling gratitude, to whom we are indebted for
a vigour of operations and an earnestness of purpose which
prove that military enterprise and heroism are not obso-
lete, and that there is still some hope for our drooping flag,
and we were told that he who could say to a rebel general,
"No other terms than an unconditional surrender can be
accepted ; I propose to move immediately upon your works,"
was one of those worthy beneficiaries whom the nation had
educated at the great military school; that he had won his
spurs in the earliest-battles of the Mexican war ; that he
had participated in that series of hard-fought engagements
which carried triumphantly the flag of the Bepublic from

the shores of the Gulf to the lake-encircled citadel of the
ancient Aztecs ; that he had won his full grade of first
lieutenant in those bloody hours ''hen Molino del Rey suc-
cumbed to the impetuosity of our soldiery, and his brevet
of captain on that day, ever memorable in our annals, when
the steep and frowning heights of Chepultepec were car-
ried, and the trembling city below implored the mercy of
our artillery. We are told that when the war was over,
disgusted with the ennui which haunts a soldier on the
peace establishment, he had resigned his commission as
captain, but that when the rebellion struck the first tocsin
he rushed to the defence of the flag under which ho was
trained and nurtured, and offered his services to Governor
Yates, of Illinois ; that ho had organised the Illinois
quota under the first call for troops ; that, as colonel
of the twenty-first regiment of that State, he had
quelled the guerillas in North Missouri; that he had
risen rapidly to the grade of brigadier-general ; that
he had destroyed a rebel magazine at Paducah; that
he had wiped out Jeff. Thompson at Frederickton; that he
had severely chastised a superior force of the enemy at Bel-
mont; that he was a General who seemed to understand
what war meant and whit it did not mean; that in his
judgment it did not mean lying in camp and garrison,
drilling and organising for ever and ever, but seeking the
enemy, moving on his works, pushing and pounding until
he gave way ; and that when he did that you were not to
wait for weeks and months for horses, shoes, transporta-
tion, but that you were to push on with such resources as
you had, hang on his flanks like grim death, and if one ex-
pedient failed, try another and another until he was utterly
routed and dissolved. In short, we are told that he was a
positive man, of pluck and purpose and self-reliance, who
did not believe, as some did, that Robert E. Lee was en-
dued by the supernatural powers, with supernatural resources
and strategy and übiquity, or who did not fear, as some
did, that he, with the entire army of Northern Virginia,
could suddenly throw -a summersault over intervening
mountains and forests into our lines, but that, by butting
and hammering away with mere human caution and skill
and perseverance, the mightiest Paladin of treason could
be outflanked or whipped. Much criticism was expended
at the time upon the battle of Shiloh ; and that part of it
which applies to the gaps and disconnections in our dis-
jointed line of battle may be just. It was a vast meMe
between separate regiments, brigade and divisions,
each fighting on his own hook and for its own posi-
tion, with but little concert of action and with but
slight mutual support. So far as the criticism applies to the
violation of true principles of war by fighting that battle
with his back to the Tennessee River, General Grant has
broken his austere silence and condescended in charac-
teristic strain to speak for himself. After the battle of
Pittsburg Landing General Buell began criticising in a
friendly way the impolicy of his having fought the battle
with the Tennessee behind his men. " Where," if beaten,
could you have retreated, General ?" asked Buell. "I did
not mean to be beaten," was Grant's sententious reply.

"But suppose you had been defeated in spite of your exer-
tions ?" " Well, there were all the transports to carry the
remains of the army across the river." " But General,"
urged Buell, "your whole transports could not contain
even ten thousand men, and it would have been impossible
for them to make more than one trip in the face of the
enemy."
" Well, if I had been beaten," said General
Grant, quietly lighting acigar as he spoke, "transportation
for ten thousand men would have been abundant, for that
would have been more than would have been left." And
yet in one important respect it contributed more to the
eventual success of our arms than any action in the war.
It was the experimentum crucis which first tested the re-
spective stamina and manliness of the two belligerents.
It was the first hurling together of the two peoples upon a
large scale in a hand-to-hand fight, and when the enemy
retreated from that broken and gory field, he retreated with
his arrogancy tamed and his dream of invincibility dis-
pelled for ever. No Southern soldier from that terrible
day presumed to despise again the courage, the per-
sistence, or the marksmanship of the adversary,
for there was weeping and lamentation in every
Southern home. I have already adverted to the
vast importance to the national cause of the capture of
Vicksburgh. In those protracted operations, a war by
itself, which culminated in the overthrow of that almost
impregnable stronghold, it is difficult to discover what
element or quality of a consummate commander General
Grant failed to exhibits Strategy ? Why the conception
of the new enterprise, after every conceivable plan had been
tried and failed, was either an inspiration of strategical
genius or the result of the most laborious stragetical study,
labour, and perseverance. Why, the reconnoissances of the
different bays, creeks, passes, and rivers which ho made
in that amphibious region, the dredging which he executed.
the canals which he dug to open a safe water passage be-
low the city, are without parallel in resistance to natural
obstacles, unless the parallel is found in the memorable
expedition of Xerxes into the Peloponnaaus,
which chan-
nelled Mount Athos and bridged the Hellespont. Fore-
thought ? Why, every step of a seemingly desperate ad-
venture was piearranged in his mind, and every contin-
gency which could be anticipated provided for in advance.
Presence of mind ? Coutinencies that could not bo fore-

seen were upon the spur of the occasion as fully met as if
they had originally been embraced within his plans.
Courage ? Did he not push his transports through an iron
hail compared with which the full blast of Gibraltar and I
Cherbourg would be comparatively harmless ? Persis-
tence ? Did ho not again drive the same transports,
riddled by their first ordeal, through the fortifications
which spouted destruction from the bluffs of Grand Gulf ;
and did he not, after twenty consecutive days of fighting
and five pitched battles, huddle the army of the South-
west into its lines and hold it there until it dropped into
his arms as prey ? When Gen. Grant first entered upon
the general direction of affairs, four new and controlling
characteristics forthwith reformed, invigorated, and syste-
matised our military administration—co-operation of pur-
pose in our separated armies, energy in attack, rapidity in
pursuit, and wisdom in the selection of the commanders of
armies, corps, and divisions : the fit man for the fit place.
I cannot, in this brief resume of his services which I am
attempting, but barely allude to the manner in which ho
combined the scattered and independent operations of our
various armies in the field, concentrated upon a single
point the entire military strength of the nation, and de-
stroyed that damaging expedient by which the enemy in
command of the interior lines of communication was enabled
to reinforce any of his armies which were vigorously as-
sailed. The campaign upon which the Lieutenant-General
first entered is admitted by the highest military critics to
have been grand and perfect in its conception, contem-
plating the simultaneous movement and the joint action of
four armies—the Army of the Potomac, the Army of the
Cumberland, the Army of Western Virginia, and the Army
of the James—each with a different objective point, but all
contributing to the great purpose of the campaign, the de-
struction of the chief army of the rebellion. If the plan par-
tially failed, and what was designed to have been finished
in the field was at length completed by a protracted
siege, it was not due to any want of genius or merit
in the plan of skill and vigour in executing the part of it
under the immediate supervision of the commanding ge-
neral. No man can contemplate, without admiration and
wonder, that hand to-hand tight in the blind thickets of
the bloody wilderness, that persistent and inflexible ad-
vance against overwhelming natural obstacles, against a
determined enemy intrenched in front, acquainted with
every path and with every point of attack and resistance,
in possession, too, of interior lines over which he could
rapidly hurry his troops, and throw them impetuously in
any direction. No one can contemplate, without astonish-
ment and synipathy, the burden of labour, anxiety, and
solicitude which he cheerfully bore during the immense
labours of this protracted siege, and its final success our
thanks to Grant unconsciously mingled with our thanks to
God. For this crowning work alone, so important in its
immediate results, and charged with ultimate conse-
quences so momentous to liberty, civilisation, and the
human race, let gratitude unbounded, unmeasured, infi-
nite, be freely tendered, And let substantial honour and
reward be bestowed in some slight degree commensurate
with the obligations of a disenthralled and rescued nation.
I think I may safely invoke the favour of the repre-
sentatives of the people to the humble testimonial prof-
fered by this bill. Let us not in this day of our deliver-
ance paralyse future heroism and reaffirm before the civil-
ised world the ingratitude of Republics by refusing
this small tribute to the foremost soldier of this ge-
neration ; to hiro, who, entering the war as Captain,
won in its battles every successive grade, and emerged
from it with a rank unsurpassed in our service ; to him
who at Fort Donelson first lightened the despondency of
a trembling nation ; to him who at Shiloh first demoralised
the spirit of the haughtiest of foes ; to him who at Vicks-
burgh first released the loyal Fathers of Waters from forced
complicity with treason ; to him who at Chattanooga first
opened the gates of Georgia that Sherman might sweep
from Atlanta to the sea, and from the Savannah to the
Cape Fear ; to him who received the swords of Buckner,
Pemberton, and Lee, and the capitulation of three great
armies of the rebellion; to him who successfully conducted
two of the most memorable sieges in history ; to him,
finally, who dissolved the Confederacy at Richmond, and
struck every rebel rag from the Rappahannock to the
Rio Grande. Time, it is said, devours the proudest human
memorial. The impress we have made as a nation may
be obliterated ; our grandest achievements, even those
which we now fondly deem eternal, those which embellish
the walls of that historic Rotunda, may all drop from the
memory of man ; our civilisation, liberty, arts, agriculture,
though sculptured in the pediments of this Capitol, may
all be engulphed in Lethes's dark waters ; this massive
structure, with its solid foundations, expanded wings,
towering columns, and bubbling dome may all be buried
with our Constitution, Government, laws, and polity, in a
common grave, yet we shall not all perish. You may rest
assured that three American names will survive oblivion,
and soar together immortal, the name of him who founded,
the name of him who disenthralled, with the name of him
who saved the Republic.