The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-14

felt in the homes of the South with
such treatment, and said acts like
these of Grant would sweeten the
memory of any man. Alexander
warred for conquest" concluded
Mr.. Horner Napoleon warred for
glory and power: General Grant
may have been ambitious, but he
warrcd for his country's honor and
peace
DIR. y. B. EMERSON.
In studying the character of a great
man. 1t is well worth while to picture to
oneself the outward fashion of his body,
and thus gain Il definite conception OF
the qualities that made up his physical
being. and formed the soil in which his
manhood rooted itself. Let us not dis
dain, then, to devote Il few minutes to
the study, in all reverence, of General
Grant on the physical side of his being,
assured that such study will well repay
us by unfolding some fountain of
strength, some element, or combination
of elements, which made possible the
marvellous success that crowned his life.
Physically, General Grant possessed no
advantage that lifted him above the
competition of thousands of his fellow
citizens. His bodily frame was not cast
in the mould of n giant. We lind him
to have been of medium height and
weight. equalled and even surpassed by
many of his Generals in distinction and
noblencss of appearance. Hooker and
Custer We're giants in stature alongside
of Grant, and in tilt at arms the hero
of Nicksburg and AppomattoX might
have Jared hardly ut the hands of Lee or
Bcauregard. 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
Il sound constitution and Il vitality that
sturdily resisted the shocks of accident
and disease. He was Il goodsleeper,
and could avail himself of this great
means of rccuperating tired nature un-
der circumstances which would have
made sleep impossible to most men.
His habits of body and mind We're
temperate; his pulse was wont to
keep an even beat, and his temper
was not easily rutlied. The physical
temperament of General Grant was
qualities happily compounded of such
rs 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 he
described as made up chiefly of those
two vital elements, the bilious and the
sanguine. Along with these was such
an admiXturc of the nervous and lynn
phatic or phlegmatic rs is necessary to
the formation of Il strong resistant char
acter 1t mi ght be said that to this
bilious element in his temperament
which, by the way. prcdominated in the
make-up of Abraham Lincoln-Grant
owed his powerful, bony framework as
well us his taciturnity and reticence.
TO the sanguine-%Yh hich was the factor
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 temperamcnt-in which
he was cXcelled by Sherman-General
Grant owed his power of quick adapta-
ton to circumstances, his readiness to
seize an opportunity and press the ad-
vantage of his own strength in the direc-
ton of the enemy's weakness. While to
the phlcgmatic element he owed that
seeming solidity which enabled him to
turn Il 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 Il spirit that
inhabits and rules them which defies our
analyses; let us therefore bring to our
aid what help we can to obtain from he
redity to solve the enigma of 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 says
Badeau, ''has always been Stand fast,
Craig Ellachie!' y 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 doggcd resolution of Cen
cral Grant to flight it out on tins line if
it takes all summer was descended by
ordinary generation from that old war
cry of his clan. Let us picture him rs
he was at the age of two score and two,
five feet nine inches in height, hun
drcd and sixty pounds in weight, firm
set figure, erect and muscular, but not
bold or striking in appearance; head
square and well placed, attached by
neck not too long to Il pair of broad and
staunchly-built shoulders. From be-
meath Il broad, clean .cut forehead. which
looks white compared 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 be-
fitting courtier, but rather such as are
inherited from an ancestry of toll. The
more consider the physical and men,
tai makeup of this remarkable man
whom his nation and the world to-day
mourn, the more | am impressed with
the fact that in him was exhibited
most fortunate concurrence of forces.
The elements were the same as are