National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-01
GENERAL GRANT IN INDIA.
Complimentary Remarks by the British

NlcerOYs
An India paper gives an account Of the din
nor given by the viceroy and Lady Lytton at
the.Government House, In Calcutta, to General
and Mrs. Grant on the occasion Of their recent
visit to India. After the toast Of the Queen
Empress had been drunk, Lord Lytton rose
and spoke as follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN sincerely be-
levo that there Is no toast unconnectod with
our own country and its institutions which Is
honored with greater cordiality by English
mon Of all classes and in all parts of tho world
than the toast | am now about TO propose to
you. Because ladies and gentlemen, We Eng.
lish cannot look and never do look upon Amer.
lea rs q foreign country, or upon the American
people rs a foreign people. Hear, hear.l They
are flesh of our flesh and bono OF our bone.
Hear, hear.1 1t Is true, no doubt, that our
fathers, and their fathers, have had their fam.
lily quarrels, over which they have shaken
hands-for quarrels will occasionally oc-
cur in the best regulated fnmilies-but
these are quarrcls which l trust that
neither their children nor our children
will ever have occasion to renew, for they haye
been practically settled by separation of
political partnership, prolific in substantial
benefits to the best interests of mankind. APP
plause.l Meanwhile we Englsbmcn of the
present day all regard our American kinsfolk
as, If | may say So the ris ing generation and
the most go.ahead representatives OF that good
old sturdy family stock, which, while lovingly,
Loyalty, and hope lastingly honoring and
keeping honored its ancestral root-tree, still
sends forth from its littlo island home in tho
Northern seas the hardy offspring of a race
that has planted and is spreading in every
quarter of the habitabe globe the language in
which Shakespeare wrote, the liberty for which
Washington so nobly laborcd, tho social prin-
ciples of tho code of Blackstone, and
the ethical principles of the creed of
Christianity Applause. Ladies and
gentlemen, the toast am going to propose to
you is that of the President Of the United States
of America Hear hcar.l This is IL toast
to which am suru you would in any circum-
stances respond with cordiality. But | am
confident that in the circumstances which have
brought us together this evening your cordial
ity will be quc<ened by tho presence of an
eminent guest who has twice filed with re-
nown the high Office we arc about to honor III the
person of its present incumbent. lApplause.l
That office, ladies and gentlemen, is, think,
| the highest that can possibly be held-the
highest that ever has been filled by II citizen
of u free country, and never has that office
been more worthily won or more worthily
| filled than by the distinguished soldier TO
whose sword America is indebted for the re-
established Union and permanent peace of
those great sovereign States over whose united
dcstines he has twice successfully presided.
| [Applausc.l
TWAS said by the great poet of our own Com
monwealth that "pcaCo hath her victories no
less renowned than war;" and with tho victories
of peace, us well rs those of war, am persuaded
that the namo of General Grant will long be
! honorably associated by double renown.
! [Applause.1 Ladies and gentlemen, it is
neither customary nor proper to couple the
name of any private individual, however en-
inent he may be, with toasts proposed in honor
of the ruling power of u sovereign State. am
not going to infringe that rule, and as regards
the rules of hospitality l think you must all
feel that, of hospitality and Of sympathy, the
best expression is in deeds, not words. think
therefore, that it would he OH my part m in
hospitablc deed If to this toast l added any
words which would possibly require from oul
honored guest the conventional formality OF q
reply.
But, ladies and gentlemen, this at least Lei
me say before | sit down: General Ulysse:
Grant, like his classic namesake, has seen mcr
aud cities in almost every part of the world
enlarging the genius of the statesman and the
soldier by the experience of the traveller
Let us hope that when he returns to that grca
empire of the West, which ho has once rescued
and twice ruled, he will at least take will
him kindly recollection OF his brief sojouri
in this empire of the East, where his visit vii
long be remembered with qualification b.
many sincere friends and well.wishers. Ar
plause.l Ladies and gentlemen, | have nov
to request that you will fill your glasses, AM
drink with all honor TO our last toast thi
evcnng-"The President of the United State
of America"
The toast was drank by the company stand