The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-02-11
: NO. 24.
ALEXANDRIA, LA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY
GRANT AND SHERMAN.

III was mighty pleasant, as well as
Instructive, says the Buffalo .Er-
press, to hear Gene, al Grant talk
freely with a few friends last Tues
lay evening in one ofthe many beau
tifnl rooms Of Mr.. ChiIds' iinspila-
HE mansion. The honorable guest
was somewhat fatigued after his long
ride in The great procession of the
lay, aud the business Of shaking
hands with the still fast coming
crowd ofcallers had become some
what i,ksome. Seeing this, Mr..
Chilas considerably took the Gene
raj up stairs, where he could have
smoke, and some favored ones were
heckoned to follow. The weariel
man sank into luxurious chair, and
with sigh of relief lighted cigar,
his first that day he said. Then
they proceeded to draw him out, so
TO speak, and his talk soon turned
upon Japan. Evidently our great
General was captured in that inter
esting country. He told wonderful
things about its little people, their
amazing progress in what we so
proudly. call the arts of civilization,
their charming amiability, their
boundless hospitality, their honesty
and industry, the wise frugalily of
t'.eir modes Of life, the true liberali.
ty of their laws, and their strange
powers of personal endurance. How
we'll he talks-this silent man! how
much has seen! how closely he has
observed! whispered those who lis
tened. He was frequently interrup-r
ted by the coming in of friends who
must see him, but returned to the
subject of his own accord. By and
by in came General Sherman, on the
point of returning to Washington,
having been in Philadelphia but
few hours, just for a hasty meeting
with his former chief. l, was inter-
esting to notice the striking CONTRAST
in the manners of our two heroes. =
In one sespect they were alike.
They could call each other by name
without any handle. Probably no
one bnt General Sherman could ad
dress the illustrious ex-President as
plain Grant and but few could 5
call the General simply SHERMAN !
Otherwise The difference was very
marked. Grant so calm, quiet, ear.
nest, impressive; Sherman restless,
mercurial, impulsive.-
The world knows how highly each
esteems the other. Grant maintains
that Sherman is the greatest militia
ny genius of che age. In reference
to one of the most important move.
ments of the war, Sherman said:-
"Grant was right and I was wrong"
II was worth a long journey to see
the two great captains together; to
watch them was an absorbing study.
The talk turned naturally on the
extraordinary ovation Of the day.
and then one could not fail to notice
marked contrasting popularity.
Grant was asked if he had ever been
received by bigger crowd. "Only
once" lie replied, Eat Toxic" Now
there were a good many Philadel-
pIians in the room. sBat do you
think the reception here equalled
the one in ChicagoT' asked General
Sherman, abruptly, evidently think
ing Philadelphia had been outdone
by the ambitious metropolis of the
West. Il don't know replied
Grant, quietly. GAN / know about
it is that each city did just as much
as il could. If the crowd was larger
here, it was because there are more
people here"
Then he said he thought there
must have been half a million people
in the streets he had passed through
that day, exclusive of tue enormous
procession. Asked how the multi
tude compared with the size of the
crowds he mad seen abroad, he sail
he thought there must have been u
million out in Toxic, "Of course, ;,
he added, 81 couldn't get. near
enough to see all Of them. You can't
get a million people into every small
space" "a million people," in
terrupted Gen. Sherman, mathemat-
ically, twill cover -' Then he
caught Grants calm, inquiring eye,
and stopped suddenly, and Grant
went Oh, coolly, talking (betweeu
pufs about japanese, in the appre.
ciative terms before mentioned, as if
he had not been interrupted at all.
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