St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-30

and heart and Grant the arm and
weapon. -
London DAILY Telegraph.
Yesterday the greatest and most
successful soldier that the United
States has produced breathed his last.
In no portion of the United States
have the financial disasters marking
the close of General Grants career been
regarded with more sympathy and re-
greet than in England. Beyond all
others, he was best fitted to cope with
the tremendous crisis which made him,
and when the grave closes over all
that is mortal of Ulysses Simpson
Grant, it will be felt that he leaves be-
| hind him no man cast in simpler,
sincerer, or more heroic mould.
Richmond Va. Dispatch.
In our opinion, not only is his zone
of the few, the immortal names that
were not born To die" but his is one of
the still fewer names that are entitled
to Immortality upon earth. He is not
Only one of the immOrtals, but he is
one of them by right. He was an Aga
lmemnon-a 'Eking of men," He was
so pervaded by greatness that he
seemed not to be conscious that he was
great. He was magnanimOus, modest,
faithful to his friends, just to all men
us far as his surroundings permitted,
above stimulation or discrimination,
seif-pOised and equal to every occasion.
Charleston. S. c., News and Courier.
Only little while ago Gen. Grant
belonged to the victorious North. In
| his last days he was the foremost citi-
zen of these United States, of North
and South alike. Nowhere was the
discriminating regard for him more
tender than in the states which used
to be described as lately in the rebel
! lion The country is reunited in
spirit as in word, and the successful
generalissimo of the Union forces is
mourned by South and North together.
1t was as general of the armies of the
| United States that Gen. Grant was held
in most joyous aud honorable remem
brance by the North, and by the act OF
North and South alike, he died AS gen
eral of the armies of the United States.
By this act the whole distance between
1865 and 1885 was bridged over. The
North had no thought save of the man
of AppOmattOx, and the South had no
thought save of him who told the worn
and ragged confederate soldiers that
they must take their horses home with
them, as they would need them for the
spring sowing, and who threw soldier
| ly honor into the scale when Andrew
Johnson was hesitating whether he
should, by arresting Gen. K. K. Lee,
violate the terms of the confederate
surrender and the sanctity of the pa
role.
Boston Herald.
The character of Gen. Grant was the
most transparent of any of our eminent
Americans. The people understood
him. No man since Washington has
been less moved than he by personal
ambition. No citizen has been more
thoroughly and unselfishly patriot
Like Washington, he did his duty be-
cause it was his nature, almost his re-
| ligiOn, to do so. Gen. Grant was inca
pable of deceit, or envy, or malice, OI
Observation-Disclosures. Not even Abraham
Lincoln was more "believed in" by the
mass of people, or with better reason
than Ulysses 5. Grant.
Montgomery. Ala, Advertiser.
Those on whose downfall the temple
of his fame was builded will SOW no
! thOrns on his grave to prick the viOlets
planted by his people there. Looking
ut the life and character of Gen. Grant
| from the broadcast national standpoint
it is true to say that in no man since
Washington has been better illustrated
! the genius of American institutions or
the temper of Americans as a people
| The close of his military career was in
generous treatment of his fallen foe
that sent thrill of grateful recOgni-
ton through the heart of the South.