Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-14

Grant
From COnway's London Letter 70 the Gin.
ginnati COmmeFctnl1

Made IN Emgaamd.
From COnWay's London Letter 70 the Gin
oinnati COmmeFcIal.1
Now that General Grant is no longer
the guest Of England, there is some
chance that some expression OF the
real impression ho has made may
gradually And its way into print. A
Il tie installment Ofthe opinion formed
Of him appears In an editorial In the
Times Of yesterday, the article being ..
criticism on General N0yeS speech at
the Grand Hotel (American) banquet,
In Paris. The Times says General
Noyes' "hyperboles" we're extrava.
CANT; his talk Of "providential men"
(which II intimates was too much In
the vein Of some peril0us French su'
perstilions) is ''inc0ngruOus when
spoken OF General Grant," whose
soldierly virtues are ''dogged courage,
invincible perseverance, indifference to
criticism, the capacity Of supporting
reverses without hinChing, the deter.
minaliOn to shrink from no sacrifices in
order TO reach tho end Get before him."
but II denies Grant any such ''genius"
or "brllliancy" a. would place him be.
sile the great commanders. General
Noyes "strains the language Of com.
plIment roughly when he afiirms that
General Grants place In history as
civil magistrate will be among the
foremost "FlalteTies indeed will now
pass by him without injury, and his
well-carned repose will moi be disturb.
by the delusive belief that his civil
policy was always wise and just" at
ls notorious that General Grant left the
largest and most vital Of the problems
which perplexed bis country unsettled;
that his failure TO settle them brought
his Government into discredil, and 81.
most destroyed his party, and that
President Hayes is now lRboFing 10 re-
pair the errors and the SHORTCOMINGS Of
the preceding Administration on two
of the most important Of those ques-
tions-the paci6calion Of the South
aud the reform Of the civil service"
The truth ie, the more this people saw
Of Grant the less they liked him; they
got very tired Of him; the reports Of
bis movements In the preas shrank and
: shrank until they became small para.
graphs.
Any real conversation with him on
i casual introduction was out Of the
I question, aud sOme complain that he
I seemed to come from country, which
like India, has no such words as 'thank
!, you" The unwisdom aud coTruptiOns
1 of General Grants administration were
{ politely kept out Of sight while he was
i here (out OF respect 10 the American
Nation, who were supposed 10 have
put him forward As q lest of iuterna
,g tional courtesy. but there 10 left an IN
q easy feeling that General Grant ha
e. gone of with q belief that EnglanC
70 admires his Presidential career. Gen
y eral Grant, on the strength Of his owl
I, qualities or Presidential reputation
y would haVs received comparatively
n little attention In this country
= = and no homage at all. / may adC
!. that IL has not been locked upol
+ here nor in Paris as an admira
q Bile tableau In which the late Presiden
. of the United States was seen hob
4. nObbing with the WOuld.be assassin O.
8 the French Republic. There has beei
r already too much Of that kind Of thinl
3 among prominent Americans In Pari
- during the late Empire. 1t would havu
o redounded more to General Grant
lt credit among the Europeans who main
;, tain his cOuntry's principles II, afte
q those principles had been insulted Il
his person by the demand that b
should keep away from France lest hi
- presence might dispArage Anli.Repub
lican inlrigues, he had refused TO 2,
~ y when the bar was taken down; or !
: his desire 10 lionlze in Paris was to-
id strong for that, had be preserved dig
ls nifed ooolness toward the insulteT
e. e. both Of himself and RepubliCanism
e. General Grant may, perhaps, resliz
Mt the truth Of these things II, as is ru
By mored, he means to come back ant
OF take house In LOndon.