The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-09-06

no SINGING WORDS LEFT BEHIND
FOR ANYBODY.
SeIf-CentroI Carried from E;irthricht to
Man Right The Domestic Pattern Of
y IIrtuous misunderstanding
the stills Of Fame.

ern fer~pa i, the year 1869 seemed to grow
after ttat time, while men from new and
ob=cura parts of the country appeared like
farm-fel trGttinzs horses in Response to the
the iie o. a premium. and soon passed the
oId-e@ta! hi he conservative regulations of
Scott, Wool Banks, Shield, Patterson,
;Sewarl-far Seward had commanded a
militia e<itnaut Cameron and Forney
had been generals colonies, were wiped
out b. Linc,,!n from the Sangamon country,
Grant tris tas Galena region, Sheridan
from Lexington Ohio, instead Of tie older
Lexin ton Sherman from street-car
rairoal ST. Louis, Stanton from the
grimy kics ever Steubenvil,, Thomas from
the scene of Nat Turner's nsuTrection in the
Virginia. I,!no>, Garfield, the canal boat boy,
and Farragut, tho Tennessee mountain
chill
Oae after another the old colonial names
Drop! Of. desperately clinging, like the
VIE nn skentieal folks, from tie tree
tops tic ,leiHgs Of Noah rose. We saw
the i. iera of the war party go like the
Tnii;t:E - eXQusites-- Chase and Sumner,
like I,rt~c aIfI HalIocll. So it has been in
every It revolution, AMI SO it will ever
H. Z cGinars OF the revolutionary war,
Dearl. ~ ,tc., were found to be imbeciles
for liz n,r If 1912. Happy is the country
whicd RIO, upon the swelling tide of youth
rather a upon the daceitful wisdom and
frrinu e aSe, and. i'll spite of his fine
spocchas, relic Ved when Polonius dies.
Tie art which the conceit of the wells
descen Eel and diJactic has become the
spoil OF tho common people, aHl the dead
son of j. s. the tanner, i tho dead Well
incton OF the world to-day.
There still will he people t. show where
Gen. Grant might have altered his policy or
behavior as if human biography to be-
come perfect AMI spherical as a billiard
ball; but by the weakness of mon they are
both defined and beloved; and woe to the
perfect man least he be too perfect in his
self-love.
Never there a SO tremendously
denounced as Grant by Sumner. He went
to Summers funeral, to Grecley's and to
Chase, and these three were his chief de
tractors, men unwilling to SEQ their influence
and bias and prospects pass away, and like
Saul and his captains, they were naSrtifiai
by this of jesse.
Gen. Grant left no singing words behind
him for any body. He could shake the
world in battle but of jibe and retaliation
barren q lamb, and in this respect
was of the most Christian-rather gen
tle-men upon the globe.
He must needs have been hated what
ever his course of conduct would have been,
but it his singular great fortune to
have been first HEARTILY hateI and finally
heartily beloved He received in thoir prod
igal wastefulness like old King Lear, the
tempest of man and heaven, but gained his
philosophy thereby, ana less than any man
Of note in our dav has bis picture changed
with time. He died hurdened Is much as
ne wa before he came to our knowledge,
and he had no enemies at that former
time in spite of his reiapsing, he dies at
piainiive peace with the world, though ruin
lad again discharged it., torrents around
his head.
When truly great men die, like Raleigh
and Bacon, Cromwell and Napoleon, there
is apt to be some mighty reprmand from
heaven to emphasis their mortality; it
may lie poverty, or it may be temptation
and shame, but whatever it be, it is more
useful than dull monotony of success, with
its pointleSs moral. The very vices of great
men sometimes their preventative me-
dunn, IS Henry of Navarro survives by his
most hearty amours. But Gen. Grant was
without any vice he did not master
In m age of Illicit pleasures he the
domestic pattern of q vrtuous husband. He
married in his youth AMI died i'll his might,
pure and unspotted from the world. Tho
presumption that has been raised a 9 ainst
>! Washington himself never lodged against
this man &C a mora crowded age. Is there
wearing crown, or likely to wear
in Europe, for whom the same can be
claimeiE
Tho main use of Gen. Grant to his coun-
try men has been to break the stills of fame
and let public greatness down to the level of
the founder of Grant also walked
where nature led the way, into the corn
fields, amongst the publicans and into the
temple of the money-changer, Where he
failed we all shall fail il initiate him. to
Become u very rich banker, to outrun ex-
ample AMI to tempt success too far
In those matters he the victim of
things he broke down. His domestic life
cast amongst the social remains of
go. - Il L.
great station his family patterned less after
his simple hero nature than the social COM
petitions of the world.
Il was said to me by an intimate of his
household recently: Grant himself could
have HEED on 500 year. but the calls of
society aron his growing family multiplied
Lheir expenses, and he wa turned aside from
nature t, their artificiality."
There i nobody to accuse for this perver
sion. The age i. its own dcct~r- Instead of
asking how much better it might have been
for the hero % defy his ago and play the
Spartan in il. let reflect that weep to-
LAY not fol the divinity but tire humanity
ia Grant.
H. opponent ~ tho battlefield was the
sue e>sor and social uperior cf Gen. Wash
n5tpn. = 0ae wall Jackson was dead while
Grant VS. We. n Nick~burg: Grant fought
Lee tta son o Henry Lee. the son-in-law OF
Mr.. Nashin2ton'S grandson, tn, best of his
type hui tie type wa black letter
Iu that mechanics son and ohscurest ca
Jet in tie regular army the old colonial and
planting mobility passed over the sword, and
we thus expelled the last yest;se of English
respecting o. person; from our soil. and car
red seIfcontra! from the birth-right to the
nlan-right.
The lesson Is inevitable and wholesome
whoms ever may be sighted by the fact,
and it woald have been poor recompense
ff.a S-t.NY,s nf
our c u,Itry IT, yesterdays slaves had the
chief agistrata Of the new era assumed
the frills ani languor IF some petty lord
lieutenant in these colonies, sent over by
SOM political ministry to reward his crimes.
These who expected the grand and frigid
IL. 80.