New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-10

abem, retFeated from the CORY field, he reiterated
with Els a., 0ganGe tanned, and with bis dream of
uvinoibiiity disp.u ed forever. From that terrible
day no southron ever geutured to dispute the
courage, persistence or maniiue5s OF his adversary
lor There was weeping and lanantaton in every
y juthern home. He then referred III lofty terms o
the services OF the lieutenant general in the Ncks
burg campaign, the saving of the army Of the
cumberland at Chattanooga, and the series of tu-
umphs eliminating at the capture of Petersburg
and Richmond and the surrender of the reEel
army, and challenged the world to produce a rec
ord equal in glory.
Mr., Raymond addressed the House in support of
the bill he said, and far as this bill PROMISED TO
create, or if not to create, to reviye for hieIer
and still greater occasion, to honor the man
around whose head they are to be clustered ybe.
ther you consider ms private worth, his patriot
ism, his distinguished services in the field. or the
attitude in which he stands to this great nation
to-day, and in which he will stand to all time.
Those honors cannot be greater than his desert
His services will be remembered, not in this land
alone, but in all lands where military proves
stands foremost, and for these we cannot give no
much of recognition or of honor. Nor will this
nation ever forget that it owes to him. in all lu-
man probability, the perpetuity of its government.
No words can sound his fitting eulogy. | reioee
that this bill has been brought forward to do him
| honor. Would that it was in our power to magnify
| to augment to any extent, the honors we void
pay for it is only by such recognition, from those
| they served that great men ever received fitting
reward. 1t is not the genius of our institution to
| give material reward, even for such material
services as these, but certainly the republic must
not lack grateful heart. We shall reward him
| cheerfully and with the heartiest acclamaIons
| from one end of the land to the other. He hall
| be honored and endeared to us all as the savbr of
the nationals the man who rescued from dmger
and from destruction the priceless principles of
! self-government, and unless gratitude fadestrom
! the coming generation, nothing shall remindthem
of his services and when he shall die, and nlngle
This dust with the dust OF our common earn, he
shall descend to an honorable grave, coyerd with
benedictions-with everything that ratetul
people can accumulate around his memoy, and
| that can perpetuate it. Let the bill therefore,
pass by unanimous vote of the House lot only
this but let whatever else can be done, pc done
with a cordial, hearty good will, such mat with
which the nation rewards those who erye the
Mr. Stevens spoke in favor Of his AMENDMENT,
! but said that whether adopted or not he would
not vote for the bill. | agree, said E, with the
| gentleman from New York, (Mr. Raymond, who
is willing not only to promote Gen, rant to this
! office, but as | understand him, ami hope did
not misunderstood him, to q higher dice whenever
the happy moment shall arrive.
| Mr.. Mckee opposed the bill on te ground that
| it was following aristocratc preeeents, and that
| the nations gratitude was due mos presslngly to
| the MANNED and suffering who hd 'perled Their
all for the nation.
| Mr.. Rogers also supported the III, but reminded
the house that there were othemeritorious gen
| erals who were entitled to thfgratitude of the
American people, and that tb men who had
fought in the ranks and gained the victory were
not to be forgotten.
Mr.. Shelabarger claimed, as an additional
merit of Gen. Grant, that hehad proposed the
| destruction of slavery nearlp month before the
proclamation of emancipation and he sentup and
had read a letter from Gen, Grant to Mr. Wash
burne, of Illinois, dated Viksburg, August 80
| 1862, in which that view is oppressed.
| Mr. Delano hoped the Huse would not adopt
the amendment offered by II. Stevens, for there
was another man in Amerit besides Gen. Grant,
whose name, if not insored on the column of
fame as that of Gen. GTnt, would be inscribed
not far below it, That nae belonged to the State
of Ohio. This was the nan who had turned his
army from Atlanta to thsea, and he trusted aud
believed that while the rne of Grant lived, that
of Sherman would not forgotten. He wanted
the American people tosay that Sherman should
take the place now ocCpied by Grant.
The previous questio being moved, the House
now came to a yot-irst on Mr.. Steyens's
amendment, which wsreJeeted By so ayes and 70
nays The bill passet