The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-29


in our dispatches elsewhere. His arrival
appears to have excited extraordinary popu-
lar interest, and his welcome at Queens
town and at Liverpool must have surprised
and touched him. The English journals,
our correspondents report, unite in regard
ing his visit as an event of international
importance and in exalting the qualities OF
the ex-President as great soldier and
statesman.
Off Queenstown the Indiana, the steamer
in which the ex-President sailed, was met
by delegation who requested him to land
and offered him the Inequalities OF the
port As the vessel drew near Generni
Grant was seen, our correspondent says,
leaning against the taffrail quietly smoking
his cigar He promised to go later to Ire
land, which drew out three rousing cheers,
as well it might, for the Irish are fond OF
military heroes, and Grant commanded and
led many Of Ireland's sons to battle for the
Union.
An immense crowd appears to have gath
cred on the docks at Liverpool to welcome
the ex-President and he landed amid
cheers such as must have reminded him OF
the days directly after the war, when he was
received by New York and other Ameri-
can cities. The Mayor of Liverpool
read him an address OF welcome,
saluting him as an illustrious states
man and soldier, and when the ex-President
modestly and in few brief words ac-
knowledged the honor done him, and ex-
pressed the very great pleasure he had from
his reception, new cheers burst forth and
great crowd followed his carriage to the
hotel
The Judgment Of strangers resembles
somewhat the judgment of posterity. AS
he is now regarded in European countries
so, doubtless, he will stand in history,
when the bitterness and the littleness OF
partisan strife have passed away and his real
services to his country and his real charac-
ter are better understood. But in spite OF
partisan bitterness and personal opposition,
such as a man of his positive character,
placed in the most difficult position in the
world and kept there during eight long
wears, could not fail to arouse,
nothing is more certain than that
General Grant has to-day larger share OF
the gratitude and the affection Of the Ameri-
can people than any other OF our public
men, No matter how widely men may have
differed from him, no matter how they
may have opposed him, if they are really
Americans, and if they are manly and patri-
otto men, in their hearts they wish well to
the man who led our armies to victory;
whose firm will saved the Union, and
who-no matter what they may think his
errors during his Presidency-entered
political life against his will, and at the de-
mand of the people gave up the great and
permanent position the nation had given
him, to serve it in a new and to him untried
and unwelcome field; and who during six
teen long and weary years. stood at his post
Of duty unrelieved and without rest.
1t is q fact not generally remembered that
Grants great lieutenants in the war-Sher-
man, Sheridan and Farragut all enjoyed
the vacation in Europe" which they had
so we'll earned. To General Grant, their
honored chief, alone was rest denied. The
country required of him, and him alone,
that he should derange all his plans in life,
that he should put of the period of rest
which he coveted and which he had earned,
that he should even surrender the place at
the head of the armies to which he was
appointed amid the plaudits of the
people, in order continuously to serve
them. Few men of such arduous and
conspicuous services have had so long
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upon them. Republics are said to be
ungrateful, but our own is not SO
entirely cold and devoid Of gratitude that
men do not feel q keen sense Of qualification
when they see their faithful and tired SER
want taking his ease at last, and receiving in
which his remarkable career SO eminently
entitle him.
To the statesmen and soldiers whom he
will meet, even more than to the general
mass, ne will be AN object of great curiosity.
Except Field Marshal Won Moltke no gen.
eral Of our days has commanded and welded
such masses Of men; no general whom he
will meet can boast of a more brilliantly
conceived or a more daringly executed cam
paign than that of vicksburg no one Of
them has had the control of SO vast a
field of war as he, and surely none has
seen hotter fire than Grant withstood in the
desperate days OF the Wilderness, Spott-
sylvania and Cold Harbor. In every coun-
try in Europe which he may visit he will
| find distinguished military chiefs who have
studied his campaigns, who know how to
appreciate the logged courage of Shiloh,
the brilliant audacIty Of vicksburg, the
genius which recovered an imperilled po-
sition before Chattanooga, the indomitable
perseverance ofthe Virginia campaigns, and
the broad and comprehensive view which