The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-08-14

was not cast in the mould of giant.
We find him to have been OF medium
height and weight, equalled and even
surpassed by many of his Generals in
distinction and nobleness of appearance.
Hooker and Custer were giants in stature
alongside of Grant and in tilt at arms
the hero of Vicksburg and Appomattox
might have Jared hardly at the hands of
Lee or Beauregard General Grant had
not the courtly presence of Washington,
or the commanding physique of Scott,
yet no one looking upon him would have
set him down as insignificant or common
place There was character in his coun-
tenance, and force in the attitudes of his
body. He was gifted by nature with
sound constitution and a vitality that
sturdily resisted the shocks of accident
and disease He was good sleeper, and
could avail himself of this great means
of recupefating tired nature under cir
eunstances which would have made
sleep impossible to most men. His habits
of body and mind were temperate his
pulse was wont to keep an even beat,
and his temper was not easily ruffied.
The physical temperament OF General
Grant was happily compounded of such
qualities as were calculated to impel him
to make prolonged and stubborn resist
ance, and would not permit him to sue
cumb to the depressing influence of de-
feat or disaster. In the language of the
| Psychologist, his temperament would be
described as made up chiefly of those
two vital elements, the bilious and the
sanguine. Along with these was such
an admixture of the nervous and lynn
phatic or phlegmatic as is necessary to
| the formation of a strong resistant char
acter. 1t might be said that to this
| bilious element in his temperament
which, by the way, predominated in the
makeup of Abraham LincOln-Grant
owed his powerful, bony framework as
well as his taciturnity and reticense.
most largely present in General Wash
| ington-Grant owed his well-developed
muscular system, and at the same time
his never-failing cheerfulness and elastic
hopefulness of spirit. To the nervous
element in his temperament-in which he
was excelled by Sherman-General
Grant owed his power of quick adapta-
| ton to circumstances, his readiness to
seize an opportunity and press the adj
vantage of his own strength in the direc-
ton of the enemy's weakness. While to
the phlegmatic element he owed that
seeming stolidity which enabled him to
turn deaf ear to the tongue of envy and
detraction, and to preserve an outward
calm when death played havoc about
him. But analyze as we may the phys
ical elements that make up the material
basis of the man, there is spirit that
inhabits and rules them which defes our
| analyses; let us therefore bring to our
nid-vJhet b5fEe -rne~ gnfgna or character
The ancestry of General Grant was
Scotch, and the clan whose name he
bore were proud to claim him in 1877 as
one OF them. Their war cry" saws
Badeau, has always been Stand fast
Craig Ellachie ," Certainly blood is
thicker than water, and it bears along in
its stream the cumulative influence of
past generations. One cannot but think
that the logged resolution of General
Grant to fight it out on this line if If
takes all summer" was descended by
ordinary generation from that old war
cry OF his clan. Let us picture him as he
was at the age of two score and two, five
feet nine inches in height, hundred and
sixty pounds in weight, firm set figure,
erect and muscular, but not bold or strik
ing in appearance; head square and well
placed, attached by neck not too long
to a pair of broad and staunchly-built
shoulders. From beneath broad. clean |
cut forehead, which looks white COM
pared with the tawny brown of his
cheeks; look calmly out upon YOU two
gray, intellectual eyes which, in some
lights, seem almost blue; the nose is
straight, and not over long, and gives
one the impression of being slightly
Roman in profile. The hands. which
are attached to muscular arms of ample
length, are not those BETTING a coulter,
but rather such as are inherited from an
ancestry of toll. The more / consider
he physical and mental makeup of this
man whom his nation and
he world to-day mourn, the more am
with the fact that in him was
a most fortunate concurrence
# forces. The elements were the same
s are common to human nature, but in
he nice proportioning of the ALLOW. as
yell as in the regulation of the furnace
re that fused the elements into one :
1ass, there was in this case some happy !
troke OF fortune, Such things do happen :
the laboratory, you know, Let us !
lank God, and call it Providence, which s
ave to the metal toughness and hardness i
temper not known before. The spe-
al gift of General Grant was a vast =
ubborness in carrying out purpose. Il
hough as citizen he loved peace. vet q
a soldier he was always ready tn ~