The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-06-28
Leather ON the Brain.

| ASe~tsseE On tho 0Ho1ns
If General Grant is the modess. sensib,e,
c!ear'headed man that We all believe him to be,
ne must De disgusted and sickened by the full.
some aduiation which has been heaped upon
him recently BY certain Chicago newspa aners =.
One Of these Journals, in its issue Of last Sat.
urday, has leading editorial in kind of poet.
ical, rhapsodcal and hysserical style, everyona
OF Us half dozen paragraphs ending with the
Mords-"Hail to the Chief, welcome. and all
! nail the whole closing with fouIly assassi.
mated quotation from Tennyson's song of vel.
come for the Princess of Wales. The edito
nal aforesaid begins with the assertion that
"Over the door of an humble saddlerv i,
Galena. Illinois, there hangs sign with tho
inscription-'Grant & Son. To that SON,
day." A' W
There is no ''humble saddlery" in Galepa
honored with any such sign. Grants father
Is saddler; Grant himself is not a saddler =
and they never had a saddIer's shop in Galena.
or elsewhere. AZ this little fiction about the
n.m OF "Urant q Stn" and their humble sad.
diery IL repeated several times in the Chicago
editors rhapsody, he certainly thinks it hcs.
and one of great importance. Sorry as we aro
to spoil his wonderful effusion, we cannot 70.
ram from thinking that if any statement il
necessary in regard to Grants past life. the
truth would be more creditable to any writer
VINO undertakes the task, and probably more
sal alisfactory to all parties concerned.
Inc venerable and worthy father of Ger.
Grant is a tanner by trade. Ulysses was sent
to West Point when a mere youth, and attey,
graduating was in the regular army until tn.
Mexican war. He then settled in st. Louis.
and formed partnership with another gentle.
man in a kind Of Claim aud Collecting agency:
iaiied III that. and then tried farming for
wmle with no better success. Then brother
OF his' who owns large tannery in Ohio AID
keeps an extensive wholesale leather and sad.
ciery hardware store in Galena, gave him
situation as clerk in the latter establishments
This position he resigned at the beginning Of
the war, and has since received considerable
promotion. ..-r "''
WELL well, this everlasting twaddle about
me humble circumstances of great men ia
tneir childhood or early manhood should he
stopped. We have bad too much of it. Every.
BODY except few braiDles, scribblers is heart
lily sick Of it. We have had books about the
Ferry Boy" and the ''Tanner Boy," and the
"Bobbin Boy" and innumerable other bows.
until We wish our great men had never been,
boys at all. And now, for respectable jour.
nat' published within few hours ride of Ga.
lena' to show such an utter ignorance Of the
man who 1t SO fulsomely lauds is too mnch fer
our good nature. We shall next hear that
the Lieutenant General used to be a cobbler
why not His patcrnal ancestor was tanner.
Hence one OF his biOgraphers denominates him
a "Tanner Boy" Hence the Chicago editor
concludes that he was IAN humble sa,,dIer."
aud from that somebody else with leather on
tue brain will conclude that he was holf.starv.
ed mender Of boots and shoes -Dubuoue'
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