St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09
The EuIOgy.


Bishop c. d. Foss delivered the eulogy,
the event of the day, speaking as follows:
To-day great nation bewails the last
man of its greatest three. Washington,
Lincoln and Grant have been represented
on triple medallion and designated
'Pater, Liberator. Salvador" Five CEN
turtles hence, when this nation shall be
everywhere acknowledged first of perma-
nent republics, and when its superb eX-
ample of a government of the people. by
the people, for the people, shall have been
universally followed, no historian will fail
TO name these three as the mightieSt among
the mighty in the first century of Ournational
history. the father, the liberatOT the preServer
of the nation. Throughout the United States
victors and vanquished, brothers now, alike
pay tribute of reverent gratitude 10 him
who kept those states united. Beat muffled
drums; toll, solemn bells; boom, mournful
guns; while a bereaved republic LAYS its
chaplets on the tomb of its greatest general
and foremost citizen. Grants career was
distinctively American.
TwENTY-FoUR YEARS AGO
probably not one of us had heard the name
Ulysses Grant. Twenty years ago his fame
had filled the world. At the age of 80 he
dwelt in Obscurity. At IS, nations knew
him well. From his tan watts to AppOmat-
fox the road now seems surprisingly short.
What were the qualities which made so
speedy, unique and magnificent an achiev-
ment possible to the Galena tanner? A
breath asks the question. 1t will want the
revealing light of years of careful study and
the ample page of history fully to answer
it. Yet there is no eminent man whose
salient features are more marked than those
of Gen. Grant. As the granite foundation
of all his great qualities, name common
sense, strong, broad. deep, common sense.
Common sense is like money. Multitudes
have the small change of it for ready cash.
bat no capital for productive investment.
Grant had millions of it. His enormous
drafts on this bank were always hOnored.
Some men can do an occasional brilliant
thing, but rarely just the right thing. He
showed or a thousand occasions a practical
Sagacity that looked like prophetic fore
sight. He had an instructive sense OF the
adaptation of means 10 ends. They linked
themselves together i'm his thought, and he
felt sure of the outcome.
CLOSELY ALLIED To THIS
was his military genius. use this word
deliberately. AT first We thought him sim
ply a plucky and lucky fighter. a sphinx
with a cigar in his mouth; a bulldog who
won by reason of his lack of the knowledge
when he was beaten. and of the power to
let go; a rough, somewhat coarse and unat-
tractive man. entirely wanting in the power
OF speech with either tongue or pen. We
soon had occasion 10 raise all such estimates.
After the night of defeats. blmders and
failures which had almost broken the ma
tons heart. he swiftly dawned on US Ike
the full-OTbed sun. We quickly knew it
WAS no meteor which had burst into our
view, but the King of Day. From the very
first the swing of triumph was i'm his mighty
tread. Through Belmont and Paducah and
Fort Donelson and Nicksburg and Chatta-
nooga he marched into the nations conf
dence. We wanted a leader. We must
have one. Everything else was ready;
arms and supplies in measureleSs profusiOn;
millions of men in the ranks or ready to
rush into them: billions of treasure. Oh,
for master mind to organize all the ter
rife enginery and hurl its thunderbolts
THE MAN APPEARED.
He welded large armies along longer
line of battle than any other general in apy
age. He was constantly meeting emergen-
cieS for which no laws of war provided.
He took risks the most enormous, and won.
He was the most self-reliant man on the
continent. He respectfully listened to the
advice of his generals, and then executed
his own predetermined plans. His decisions
were often instantaneous, contrary to all
manifest reasons, intuitiye and almost
always right. On the battlefield he took in
the most unexpected and critical situations
with glance akin 10 omniscience. and in
the twinkling of an eye pointed out the one
path TO victory. His resources seemed ab-
solutely ineXhaustible.
The prodigious pluck of this masterful
man was, after all, the determining factor
in his masterfulneSs. Without it his colos-
sal common sense and his splendid genius
would have failed him somewhere along the
thorny track of such multitudinous and
stupendous difficulties. As the drop to the
ocean, so is the will of man to the Almighty
will. When one human will majesticaIly
rises to control and WELD the wills of mil
lions towards some vastly beneficent end.
it becomes god-like. Grants incarnation of
such resiStleSs purpose raised fainting
nation TO its feet and struck terror TO the
hearts of its foes. What thrill of COURAGE
moved our loyal millions as we listened 10
che response to Buckner's request for terms
of surrender: ''No terms other than AN
unconditional and immediate surrender can
be accepted l propose TO move immedi-
ately upon your works" This inceSsant
proposal TO move upon its works broke the
back and heart of the rebellion.
HIS MAGNANISnTY.
must speak of his browning character
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