Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-02-18
Enthusiastic on Grant.

The editor of the Irish RepubHc Wis
tied Gen. Grant when in New York,
and has written a very enthusiastic ar
ticle concerning him, which appears in
that paper of recent da g. We copy Il
portion of the article:
We were anxious to see Grant for many
reasons. Mere hero-hunting never en-
tered among them. We had heard men,
a thousand times talk lightly OF the
man, and his commonplace looks.
This in the face of his wonderful record.
We had seen his pictures, ana were
struck with the absence of something
that should-in our imagina' ion-sur-
round the hero, and proclaim his great
ness. We had set it down that nature
had here produced II giant, in the pro-
nortions of common humanity. He
was riddle-a sphinx. He followed in
the wake of beaten armies and ruined
heroes, and plucked victory from the
black front of defeat \ hundred pop
ular idols, whose names were blown
through the nation by all the trumpets
of fame, had been hurled from their
places in the hearts of the people. Step
by step came this silent spirit, never
fiying, but never retreating. He sat
down before cities, and their gates flew
open. He met the flushed armies of
the victorious South, and they were
crushed and humbled. He carved his
way with his sword into the hearts OF
the people. and the people wondered
how he got there. They wonder still.
But the future ages shall olive the mys-
terry, for they will open their souls to
the only solutiOn-that Grant Is fate;
that he was specially intended to COM
plete the work which Washington had
begun, and for which Lincoln was mar
tyred.
We believe that the accession of Grant
to the Presidency was necessity. lie
brought order out of chaos, victory out
of defeat, on the red fields of the rebel
lion. His steady, strong, patriotic hand
will give confidence to the fretted ma
ton during his Presidency. We have
thousands of good and great men, but
none like him that could lay their hand
upon the fevered heart of the nation
and cry Peace"
We predict, therefore, for the coming
four years, golden reign. None will
be so great as to be above the law, none
so poor as to be on an inequality before
it. The political war which has racked
the nation since the surrender of Lee
will close on the 4th of March. Treas
on will not hencefOrth have the shad-
ow of nail to hang its hat of hope up
on. Men who have allowed their re-
buked treason to rise again and spatter
the face of loyalty, will accept the issue.
The links OF slavery, that were reform.
ing in the diseased imaginatiOns of old
systems, will melt away before the sun
Of universal liberty that will rise on the
4th of March.
The North will accept Grant as her
first and bravest; the South, as her con-
queror, turned into her protector, when
she shall unbend her glowering brow,
and look lovingly on the old flag, as she
will do. The republic will accept him
as her savior, and the struggling ma
tons will take heart, for liberty will not
be dream that was quenched in the
west, leaving the world to the darkness
of kings once more. Let all men, the
highest and the lowest, meet the COM
ing administration in this generous
spirit. 1t will ma e the burden lighter
for tour public servants" and the
troubles that now darken the skies of
the republic will fold their tents ike
the Arabs, and silently steal away"