Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-04-02
GRANT IN A CORNER.

GRANT IN A CORNER.
"Don Piatt," the graphic CORES
pondent Of the Cincinnati Commercial,
in his letter of the 4th, draws the
following pen portrait of President
Grant:
While depositing my ticket, yester-
day, in the :ngeniously arranged box
of the F street cars, I was actually
startled, on looking down, to see
quietly seated in the corner our Prcsi-
dent elect. The car was comfortably
full, and yet no more notice was taken
of the man who now fills our thoughts
than if he were Brevet Brigadier
General, common Congressman or
the proprietor of hotel. Here's gen.
uine democracy thought to myself,
as settled on the opposite seat and
INDUCED in a healthy stare at the
knobby, square heard, and solemn face
before me. was having an interview
and one about as satisfactory as any
body can have with this man, who
smokes and says nothing. Certainly
General Grant, without intending it,
has managed to make himself the
centre of more thought, anxiety and
curiosity than any man since the day
when Weston walked from Portland
to Chicago.
He is little man, 80 far as stature
goes and his face is so marked-I may
say 80 fxed-in its expression, that
the widely spread photographs and
engravings make it familiar to every
one. I looked at his straight cut,
firm set mouth, made up Of bloodless
lips, with no spare adipose, and his
small dull eyes, that make one think
of smoldering fire and thought, T
read the attributes that had marked
his private life, and made his public
career famous. They were those Of q
man who could endure poverty with
dogged tirmness, even if it drove him
to selling cord wood, by the wagon
load, or picking hides, with his own
hands, in a cellar; and could enable
him to ride unmoved, through a Will
derness that writhed with mangled
humanity, in an atmosphere poisoned
by the unburied dead.
I have heard lions roar in nv time.
as it has been my good fortune to be
near enough to some Of the greatest
intellects Of the day to study their
outer seeming, and make ont for N.Y.
self the sort Of frame work nature and
thought fashion for the master mind.
found myself driven to the conclus-
ion that I had man before me that
could do great things without being
! great himself and work to o swift
conclusion the events be made a part
Of Stanton saw the turning point in
the fortunes Of, the Confsdersey, and
crowded on men uatil it fell through
exhaustion. Grants indomisable. will
and cold courage crowded them 10 the
oannon's mouth, and rode him Into
popular favor in the victory. : Bat
Stanton iwas felt and recognized At all
times asna under all circuustancss,,
Without Stanton, and without war
Grant would be- the aunknown. tame,
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