The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-22
PURITY COMES FROM THE
PURE.

Gene. al Grant comes lion Long
Branch, through the Washington
stars correspondence. which says
that the General has a tender corner
in his heart for young people, par
ticu arly those who are related tC
him, and that lac pay a great deal
of attention 10 their immediate and
prospective requirements. The
correspondent states that recently,
in the United States national bank
in New York, he asked its vice.
president to get for him twenty
English sovereigns. The next day
he came back, and as the twenty
English gold pieces were counted
out to him, drew cut Of vest pocket
| 500 in United States treasury notes,
which he had rolled up in farmer
style, and paid them over, while
out Of another pocket, carefully
wrapped in paper, he took a hand.
some new Russia leather pocket
book, in which he deposited the
gold, saying as he DID so. 81 have a
little niece who is going to Europe
to morrow. She never had 500 of
her own before, so l am going to
delight her heart with this"
There are many failings and i'm
projections in this life which may
and ought to be overlooked in con-
temptation OF the virtues Of the
person otherwise. General Grant is
man who, like others of his kind,
has his faults; we shall always be-
lieVe that fate made up combina.
ton resulting in his elevation to
the lofty position which he occu-
pied. and that personal merit took
a second place in the pro-
gramme; but even if it were other
wise, and the generals greatness re-
suited directly from his own merits
and his own acts, all that he has
gained as soldier and statesman
would pale before such simple tran
sactions as the one recorded above.
Victories are too often the reward
bestowed by unsought fortune, and
in war chance may, as it
Of N does, elevate and
degrade; but IN the peaceful pur-
suits of this life, mems excellence |
must be gagged not by results but |
by intentions, not by great designs
but by great impulses, not Sby
grandeur of position but by grand |
eur of the heart and soul and mind |
A noble conception too often mis-
carries because Of inability to give
it birth; but the germ Is, there just
the same, and under proper condi.
tions would have been born and
prospered.
Grants greatness in military af-
fairs and politics is a matter of opin- |
ion; but there need be nOopinion |
about his splendOr as humanitar>
ian and a gentleman when these |
qualities are evinced by acts which |
proceed from and appeal to the
heart. And what is true of him l.
true Of everybody. The man who
takes delight in the contemplated
Of childhood, who loves children
and reveres all that is innocent and
Virtuous in this life, is a man
to be trusted in great emergencies,
no matter what may be his faults
and failings in ordinary affairs; he
may not pay his debts, may be
may drink deeply, NAV
be profane and seek disreputable
society but if his heart be
to harmony with the
prattle of children; if in the pre-
5ence of innocence he feels and
shows no guilt. he is man upon
in trying moments, society
may look without suspicion,
even if at times it has to visit upon
him condemnation and reproach.
1t very graceful thing to say
Of any man that he does not harbor
suspicion; and it is grand thing
to say of him that he is above
The law. iron bound as
it is and of necessity must be,
lnculcates at least the presump-
ton OF innocence, even in the
presence of an indictment for crime:
but what must we say when we
contemplate the picture of a man, a
OeiRg Of unlimited faculties and
Doundless resources, of VARYING
5empers and adjustable dispositions,
reversing the rule OF law, and find
ing In a casual glance at the youth
IF either sex nsught but vice and
crime in their supposed behavior ,
L such a person is not himself