The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-18
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FRIDAY, AUGUST, Is, 1866. 4 !.
General Grant i'll Montreal.

"a.
Carleton writes to the Boston Jour
nal from Montreal that General Grant
had a fine reception in that hot-bed of
secession plots. The writer says: gl.''4i-'
h When the General entered his car
riage for quiet drive around the city,
there We're jubilant shouts from the null
titude, who crowded round with as much
enthusiasm as was exhibited in many
places lin the States. He drove round
the mountain and reached the Grand
Trunk Station at noon. A band was in
attendance, made up of the working
men, who struck up Handel's March in
Saul, See the Conquering Hero Comes
HE was taken through the bridge in
the directors car. The train was stop
ped In the middle, and the General ex-
am1ned this triumph of civil engineering
with great interest. The workmen had
come out of the shop and We're on their
way to dinner, but learning that General
Grant was inspecting the bridge, they
gathered at the station, filling the plat
form, mounting the freight cars and
waited forhis return. They were cover
ed with SCOT and CRIME, and We're in
their working clothes. They were just
such men as came out from the Portland
Works and cheered him on his depart
ure. from Portland, and they gave just
such cheers-real, earnest demonstra-
tions of good will and respect do not
think that they gave them merely be-
cause General Grant has exhibited that
quality which John Bull most admires,
pluck, but because they are heart and
soul in sympathy with their fellow
wOrkingmen OF Lancashire. 1t is their
instinct that the contest has been be-
tween free and slave labor-that the
cause of the North was their cause--its
triumph theirtriumph--its General their
General. Their cheers are not mere di-
plomatic demonstrations, proffering
something and meaning nothing--not
sounds with mental reservations, but
expressions of their true sentiments.
"In the afternoon General Grant re.
ceived visitors in his own rooms-no1
promiscuously, but the visitors sent in
their cards-a very proper arrangement
as the city is full of Secessionists, who
are intensely bitter. 20 = s.lsi. ess
ga special train was rendered to Gen
eral Grant fora trip to Toronto by night,
and he accordingly left at O'Clock,
having spent but twelve hours in the
city. s.s -. 7mt,, ~ .-.
"There was another gathering of the
people at the hotel to cheer the General
when he took his departure, and still
another at the station when he entered
the cars. jgI,, ...t..at .u..sI 5r
II have endeavored in these notes to
present a truthful narrative of the foul
days he has passed in Canada. The triI
was taken for recreation and pleasure, tt
| get away from the crowds. But hereaf
1 o., ,a4 Io .l, 10
away from the people. Wherever ht
goes the people will gather. He has
| fought their fight, won their battles, ane
they will follow him in all his move
ments. They do not flock around hin
their representative and champion in
one of the greatest fights the world has
ever witnessed. The contest was be-
tween aristocracy and democracy, be.
| tween two systems oflabor--two systems
of civilization. Hence their devotion tc
the man who has led them on to victory
The editor of the Montreal Witness
thus gives his impressions upon seeing
General Grant: As it is not every day
that one can see a General who com
manded greater armies and more anC
heavier artillery than both Napoleon
and Wellington put together, I'VE did our
selves the honor of calling upon him. Il
was, however, difficult to realize that in
that rather small, plain and ordinary
looking man had resided that tremen-
dous discretionary power, ordering bat
ties that involved the destruction of tens
of thousands of his fellow men; but this
power, ominous as it was, was welded
with fidelity and modesty, and his will
doubtless be one of the greatest military
names on record. II" 81 t'H lAt' +