Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-06-03
The Character of GEN. Grant.

tue PRESIDENT: s
NO man is pleasanter, kinder, or ger
tier in private life, than President Gran
: think it ought to be known for it
I I a good thing to know that the domesti
liie OF the President of the United State
is singularly happy and beautifuI-a nc
bic example for American homes.
, have this from the best AUTHORIZATION
friends who have of late been guests a
the White House, and who, day afte
day, have been witnesses, of the harmo
ny and loving-kindness of its inmates
unspoiled by prosperity, aattery, fam,
and power That White House stand,
like lighthouse, surged about by sea
of hungry ofice-seeking, and more hun
CRY curiosity; but what privacy can Sc
cure is doubly sweet to that merry and
atlectionate family circle, who find moth.
ing better in their exalted position, in
state dinners. balls and receptions, than
the dear old love that united them in
their home on the Western prairies, and
which they wisely brought along with
them' as their chief household god. No
one can deny to the President and his
his wife rare propriety and evenness of
manner, alike without touch of AFRO
gance or superciliousness. Under their
marvelously changed condition of life.
remain yet the real man and the real
woman marvelously unchanged. Though
SO quiet and undemonstrative. President
Grants manner is not cold. Though
somewhat set and quite reticent in ex.
preston, his face was neither hard nor
forbidding. Though his eyes of grayish
blue certainly do not radiate geniality
and good fellowship, l have always seen
IN them still and steady friendliness-
impartial, almost undiscriminating but
slngularly unforgetful. His look into
your eyes on first meeting is clear, di-
rect, but not piercing. He " makes no
deep scrutiny" into your character, but
you feel that he reads you we'll, as far as
he goes, and you may be sure he will
know you next time. His words are few
as ne has occasionally remarked, and his |
address simplicity itself. Some one once |
called it courageous simplicity" II
don't think the term suited to him: II |
implies too much consciousness. Grant
gives no thought to effect-making no t
parade of not making parade. In
walking he carries his head-that won.
derfully compact, evenly modelled head |
slightly forward and he has in pub.
lic places an absent yet acquiescent air,
as of one being taken somewhere rather
than going of his own volition-which is
Usually the case, as he is the most oblip-
ng, informal and unmagisterial of chief
magistrates. To me there is something
trange in the ordinary passivity Of such
will as his. He seems not only mod
st, but diffident man. Great heroes :
'efore him have been so. This diffidence
nay often be taken for indifference and
nsensibility. l think 1 have seen the
ure marks of it in his intercourse with
hlldren, for whom he really has the
ondness characteristic of Mr.. Lincoln.
HE CANNABALIsM OF EATING MEMS
toNcR AND NAMEs.-If were to take
ou to my house, and say that l had an
xquisltly fat man, and wished you to
'ln me in eating him, your Indignation
ould be restrained by nothing. You
ould pronounce me to be crazy. There
not a man in New York so mean that
lat he would not put down a man who
onld propose to have a banquet off
ON fellow man, cutting steaks out of ,
m, and eating them. And that is moth. I
g out feasting on the human body; I
bile they will sit down and take mans !
ul and look for the tender-loins. and /
vite their neighbors to little tit-bits.- ]
hey will take mans honor and name :
ID broil them over the Goals of their q
dlgnation and fill the whole room with q
aroma thereof, and give their neigh b
rs piece, and watch him wink as he {;
ties IT. You all eat men up, and are b
nnibals every one of you-and worse. v
~ will be glad to get off at Gods 81
igment seat with the plea: "I only g.
the outside You eat the souls, the G.
est elements of men. You are more D,
IN gladif you can whisper word in
1t is derogatory to neighbor, or his nj
fe or his daughter. And yet, bv an 81
ique sentence. you make unfavorable th
on the mind of the person e,
iressed. in respect to the subject of Of
If criticism. "Ahp' be says. +" 1 had q,
been informed; !" and he goes to the be
Zt.neighbor, and says, Mr.. So-and-So III
5 that about So-and-So." And that Fl
ghbor says, Indeed !" and runs to =
partner and they both run to their tie
es; aud the thing goes all over town. di.
Everybody becomes an unpaid devils 70,
carrier, and goes here and there da
ring internal messages. And what il sb,