Idaho semi-weekly keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1884-1885, 1885-08-08

eU inc pElmaCy OF luC0reeV anu lmpOrt-
ance that attached to that army. He |
saw the task assigned to it, confronted \
by the foremost army OF the Confederacy,
under its foremost military leader, who
had checkmated 10 many antagonists. !
Thus in the spring Of 1864 were brought
face to face those two whom by common !
consent the North and the South re- |
garded as its own and its antagonists |
ablest leader. II was natural that q sur
passing interest should attach to the |
portentious game of war to which these |
rivals prepared to address themselves.
A remorseless life and death struggle
was inevitable. Grant resolved by rap
id, heavy and continuous blows to crush
that army, which, despite the many
shocks it had received, seemed yet in
vulnerable.
1t was inst as this movement was well
inaugurated that first saw him. Dur
ing the terrible days Of the Wilderness
OF Spottsylvania, when the famous dec
laration was promulgated, 81 propose to
fight it out on this line II it takes all
summer" saw him frequently during
the ensuing year. In camp and on the
march, and from first to last, I was i'm
pressed with his invariable quiet, un-
assuming demeanor, always indicative
Of the resolution and determination,
which never wavered in the fiercest
tovv, ~ hot fo1f OF
the frowning front and awful slaughter
Of Cold Harbor, when, as Swinton, the
historian Of ''The Campaigns of the
Army OF the Potomac" says, he lost
twenty men to his antagonists one.
had the honor to serve with him through
the whole continuous campaign, from
the Wilderness to within few days Of
the final collapse and surrender at APP
pommattox, where he crowned the glory
OF a great success with the higher glory
OF greater magnanimity, when to my
lasting regret was not able to be ''iD at
the DEATH" MS l was lying wounded in
hospital, where some time after the sur
render I received and still possess a
leave of absence by his special order.
Fighting his way to success in the
field, he was afterwards swept into the
chief magistracy of the republic on the
high wave OF popular gratitude, and
coming to the Presidency without civic
training or experience, he did not always
display that unfailing insight in the
choice of couDsellors which his training
as soldier had impelled him to do in
the field. But he never failed in any
high duty or on any great occasion, and
his ADMINISTRATION exhibits many lustrous
achievements. It crowned the freedman
with citizenship, preserved the financial
honor, defended the public faith ut all
points, completed reconstruction and
cemented the work OF peace. The blem-
ishes have faded and left no mark, while
great works remain monument of his
wisdom and fidelity.
His great strength WAS his saving
sense. He rose to every vital occasion.
His Judgment was then clear and infiex-
ible. While he quivered at Shiloh on the
first day, he fought it out VIGOROUSLY on
the second. He knew not defeat, and in
spired his followers with his indomita-
BILE courage and faith. Known as the ST.
lent man, he yet at times fred the shot
which was heard around the world.
! Great in victory, great in trial, but
never greater than in the hour OF death.
Unspoiled by fame, unframed by SIAN
der, undaunted by disaster, he lived q
life whose simplicity, sincerity and do
nestle virtues must always appeal to the
sympathy of the masses with irresistible
force He remembered that the soldier
was but the transitory figure in our in.
situations. He never forgot that his
power came from the people, and never
lost sight of his responsibility as an in
dividual citizen of country in which
the civil authority is supreme. Thu
pride with which his countrymen will
cherish his character and achievements
is inspired not more by the inheren
heroism of his life than by the knowl
edge that he WAS a man OF the people
who helped them to save themselve
from themselves, and who embodied
and exemplified in his career and in hi
death their own best virtues.
Strong but unpretentjous,
Firm but magnanimous.
True, just and generous.
Ulysses S. Grant is now "On flames etel
nal camping ground" enrolled anon
the immortal heroes.
The Rev. Mr.. Richie followed III
, Hynd man and spoke extempore II