Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-04

aSlOurne "A
mighty must have sent this man to me-" Then
Grant came east and had to deal with these
moral reformers who abound in those old east
had grandfathers, folks who are guided by the
newspapers. He was pronounced in all the OPP
%od rbe 9e Mtb the
was connected at the close of the war, had an
article in it every day, written by a man named
Marble, or inspired by him, saying that Grant
was a colossal humbug, that he was numbering
people in the Wilderness, that he ought to be
times look with wonder at some of these quill
scratchers who continue to write platforms for
great parties, who have recorded themselves
against
SUCH FAME AS GRANTS
When we consider how hard 1t is to have great
responsibility, to be disconnected with the
great powers of the state, to have scarcely q
friend on the press, and at the same time to
have-in our faces courageous and prodigious
name taking US by the throat; how hard It is in
the blackness OF the camp at night to take up
the paper and find ourselves put down as q
scamp, charlatan, petty villain. This brave
never opened his mouth. The splendor of Lees
generalship never was displayed against any
body as II was against Grant. He seemed for
the nrst time In his career to delight in the re-
bellion, of which he was the great leader as he
sprang at that little western man who had
opened the Mississippi river. AS Grant marched
toward Richmond with his long line exposed,
Lee and all his great captains sprang at him
f fTab the woods the rise Of some
permanently all the leading positions on the
roads. Grant could fight, but he could make no
did not come back like Mcclellan and some
others, with his hand in his mouth and point
soreiy derded and saS did ths sm
a great man and you are q fool" The simplicity
GRANT AND LINCOLN
hung to each other, like David and Jonathan,
brings tears to good mems eyes now. Grant con-
on, Ha oaf To oh
got to the back door of it, There he sat down
and hammered away, and at last the valiant
confederacy acknowledged that it had mas
ter. The man Grant received the sword of Gen.
Lee. The little northern clerk at 5000 year
made the heir of Gen. Washington concede his
superiority. Then what magnanimous OPP
ponent he was! ''Take your horses all with
their horses home, and put them INTO to plowin mug
Are we to forget such a man as that because his
sons had too much of his faith, and he and they
lost their great apparent wealth? What is it,
after all, that man had million yesterday
and cannot pay due bill to-day If he is a true
everything in the world by pecuniary success
is the only stigma in the American character
Gen. Grant next had to meet the politicians,
and they tried to make every sort of thing out
of him. Old Seward attempted to handle him;
Johnson, the President endeavored to fondle
him; Stanton, the Secretary of War, cheated
him and lied to him. He was just as well aware
of what was due him as the people who con-
trolled that day were. He walked into the Office
D..
hardly been elected when he wspapers at Chicago
assailed him because he had given some office
White wrote the first article aaainsf rsn He
was informed that his administration would be
a iaiiure II he gave any crumbs from the table
to his little cousins and other folks How ridicu-
lous all this seems now when we look back Mt
1t. However, bedbugs possess their own ma
lures.
GRANTS PRESIDENTIAL TERMS,
with the defects which sprung from human
nature, were on the whole glorious terms. Hon.
est men will never forget that in those two
terms this continent was bound together with
links of steel. This nation stopped squabbling
about theories and reformed its functions as q
great nation. The capital city sprang to beauty
The biography of the country was transferred.
ty; old humbugs and fossils were set aside;
newness became the complexion of the state
and the old opponents to Grant from the con-
never dreamed of. Delusions passed away;
fellowship started afresh; men cast the beams
ont OF their own and kissed the notes out
m1n1stration was the greatest of all. A set of
hungry oftice-seekers were ready to begin an
there would be fight. Grant stood between.
and his name was might He had tried every
kind Of man in his administration. He took
George William Curtis and gave him civil SER
vice opportunity, but there was not enough man
about Curtis to have even gratitude: The mo-
thing eonspieuous curtis eeased some to
have interest in Grant. Grant
took Mosby, the poor outlawed guerrilla, and
He took Longstreet, who had so cruelty assailed
his flank in the Wilderness, and made a gen
1l MN Wa ana restored him to loyalty and
ldea OF another term of office, when so many
thousands expected it of him, and flattered
nature out of Grant you take the true greatness
out of him. His errors, his weaknesses are
necessary to the fullness of his character: In
q W an inf rinrv,
In imagination, he lacked that thing which
puts the hue upon the flower. Yet, when shall
years will people recur to this mans mistakes
as the humanizing elements about him? He
natural about that. The world wanted to see
him. And so he returned to his own country
with another Kind of reputation, and his
friends again put him up for President. A great
deal Is said about what would have happened
If he had been been elected, but can see that
nothing would have happened: There would
and human Grant. Then his sons, who had
been brought up in another generation, among
different associations,
TEMPTED THE RETIRED PUBLIC NAN
into business. He and they failed, but SO has
an old skinflnt like Garrison; so have the sons
OF Enc, one of our most conservative merchants
and citizens; SO has Willard, who created so
many Of the present humbugs The sum and
residue Of Grant are neither greater nor less
than those of almost any man of great career.
The Duke OF Wellington recaptured Spain and
Portugal and delivered Napoleon up to his
jailer, and lived to see his windows broken in
Apsley house, and died at last praised by the
poets, but disliked by the multitude Gen
Grant became victim to the very people who
are now deriding his latter days. These fell.
lows who are printing bonds and selling them
to the people assume to be Grants critics They
made money and Grant lost his. They wonCer
that Grant was deceived. How happy some of
these men would be if they were once honestly
deceived and brought back to human nature
by submission and suffering! There comes a
time when the highest career lies feebly upon
its last couch and counts its pulse, and knows
that the doctors is merely the harpy. In that
last day which impends over every person we
may have reason to thank God for our mis-
takes which brought us to likeness to Him
who was also Knocked and whipped and Sian.
dered. The most hidious picture in life is man
who never had any back-sets, but died unde-
piored because he was SO perfect.
GEN. GRANTS HOME LIFE.
HIS Devotion to His Family-HOw He
Won His Bridc-An Incident OF Mrs.
Grants Early Days.
General Grants home surroundings have
always been happy. and the ties that bind the
family together have been very strong. While
President he never forgot the happiness of his
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