The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-07-19
JEFFERSON DAVIS AND GEN.
EEAL GRANT.


In the invigorating atmosphere of
McGregor, the Weakening warrior; in
the bracing breezes of Beanvoir, the
invalid statesman. On the northern
mountain the one; at tho Southern
seaside the other. And thither the
world journeys rs though in loving
pilgrimage to some glorious Mecca to
tonderly twine garlands about decay
ing shrines. To McGregor wealth
and fashion wend, attracted by ad-
miration, adulation, or affection. To
Beauvoir, though less attractive of
location at this season, others 60,
prompted by curiosity, or urged there
to press hearts or shake hands with
the grand old chieftain, yet unpar-
doned, but who, like the Douglas, en-
mobiles whatever seat he occupieR
And yet to so many Of us it seems but
u little while ego since the man at
McGregor was tho iron-bound leader
at Appamattox with the tougher fibrea
of robust physique that no weather
could hurt and no balls from blazing
batteries disturb, and whose voice the
whole country heard and needed.
But to-day, with the soldiers saddle
exchanged for the invalid's chair, a lit
to speck OF cancerous sore holds in
solemn silence the tongue that was
wont TO command millions, and in its
difficult retreat is ontrenched a victor
over victim it Keeps IN undeserved
distress. Disease for him has ordained
the Punishment from his home as ON
phstically as British decree hold in
exile the plotting BoNAPARTE at st.
Helena.
Turning to the othor extreme OF
their common country we 500 silver
haired soldier and statesman, patriot,
and gentleman,in the sweet serenity of
his seventy and seven years, his man
ner as gentle as a girls, and his voice
as soft and smooth as the notes from
the strings of harp. Poor in purse
but with a,world OF wealth in intellect,
character and career, experience
and memory, and solaced by the sub
tie sweetness of ono of tho m )st
superior OF her sex, twice every day he
watches at that summer seaside home
tho llowing tide como In, even AZ the
great wave of popular love wit
nesses the ebb of his own life
departing toward that shoreless sea
where there Ia eternal suIceaso Of sor
row, and no SANDER, no envy, no
venom.
The current of their lives have bsen
somewhat akin, Both were soldiers
by nature, and both were graduates OF
tho Same school. Both served their
country in tho Mexican war, and both
retired 10 private life whom their dis
tinqushed abilities had won renown
and property for the Union. Both
were heads OF their armies respect
lively, and both occupied the positions
of chief magistracy OF their respective
governments. Both woro authors.
And now, again, both are in private
life. Both have regulations world
wide, and yet with assurance Of his
toric immortality, both are now so be-
soigod by tho invading inirmitiog of
humanity that 1t would appear rs
though the WEAKNESS OF life would in
spiro the enjoyment OF death, for TO
neither OF them has tho approach of
the relentless archer brought muir
muir. What they suffer, only thom-
selves know; yet, with no terror in
their bosoms, no protest on their lips,
they set an example beyond their
bravery on other fields, at once les
son to ago aud youth. Soon they
must both respond to tho summons
from the Same Commander, and go to
meet LEE and LINCOLN, and com.
mingle the laurel Of victory with the
cypress Of defeat, where pensions and
pRrdons await tho most mOritorious In
the scales of iustice, mercy, charity
State-rights nor Unlonism will bC
there. Nor wln IL DO necessary L
reconcile then the love one bears tn,
mother with that one feels for tht
wife, or discuss the question when ont
strives to DO truo to his bridal troth o
union should he DO less true TO thu
mother who bare him? They viii
meet beyond ali rivalries, reproach oil
praiss-GRANT tho pensioned; DAVE
tho unpardoned.