The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-11-04
EuL0GY OF The DEAD.
AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO GRANT
FROM HENRY WARD BEEcHER-
A SOLDIER WHO NEVER LOST
COURAGE OR HIS EouANnITY.

PIE uO-nlgnt to near 1enTy w ara
Beecher's eulogy on Gen. Grant.
The speaker began with brief
synopsis of the life of Grant, allud-
ing to his lack of success in early
business pursuits and his connection
with the war with Mexico. He re-
ferred to the need of the North, at
the opening of the war of the Re-
bellion, for a man of iron mold who
had but two words in his vocabu-
larry, "victory" or "annihilation,"
and added: "Three great names
were rising to sight - Sherman,
Thomas, Sheridan--and larger than
either was Grant. With his advent
the armies, with some repulses,
went steadily forward from conquer
ing to conquer. Aside from all his
military qualities, he had one alb
sorbing spirit, the Union must be
saved; the rebellion must be beaten;
the Confederate armies must be
thrashed to chaff, as on summer
thrashing floor. He had no political
ambition; no imaginary reputation
to preserve or gain. A great genius
for grand strategy; a comprehen.
sion of complex and vast armies
caution, prudence and silence while
preparing; an endless patience, an
indomitable will, and real down.
right fighting quality. Thus. at
length, Grant was really born. He
had lain in the nest long as an I'M
fertile egg. The brooding of the
war Matched the egg, and an eagle
came forth. y
MOTIVES RULING COMMANDERS.
The speaker then referred in de-
tail to the condition of the armies,
the motives ruling the commanders
and soldiers of both sides, the many
fierce battles in which thousands
were killed and many more thou
sands were wounded, and added:
Unto this sulphurous storm of war
Grant entered almost unknown. 1t
was with difficulty that he could
obtain command. Once set for
ward, Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg,
Chicamagua, the Wilderness, Spott-
sylvania, Petersburg, AppomattoX,
these were his footsteps. In four
years he had risen, without political
favor, from the bottom to the very
highest command, not second to any
living commander in the world"
GRANTS MAGNANIMITY
Reviewing his military career as a
whole, Mr.. Beecher said: "He
never lost his courage or equanimity.
With a million men, for whose move
ments he was responsible, he yet
carried tranquil mind, not dis
tressed by disasters nor elated by
success. Gentle of heart, familiar
with all, never Boosting, always
modest-his work was done and the
defeat of the Confederate armies
was final. This dreadful man of
blood was as tender toward his late
anniversaries as a woman toward her
son. He imposed no humiliating
conditions, spared the feelings of
his antagonists, sent home the dis
banded Southern men with food and
with horses for working their crops.
And when revengeful spirit in the
Executive chair showed itself and
threatened the chief Southern Gene
rails, Grant, with holy Indignation,
interposed himself and compelled
his superior to relinquish his rash
purpose.
ABILITY NOT LUCK.
The speaker dwelt at some further
length upon Grants military career,
refuting, in passing, the charges
which attributed his success to luck,
and criticisms upon what some called
the waste of life of his own soldiers
and the butchery of his enemies,
and in concluding his remarks upon
Grants military life, said: "All
summer, all the autumn, all the
winter, all the spring and in the
early summer again, he hammered
Lee with blow on blow until at Ap.
pomattox the great, but not the
greatest Southern General went to
the ground. Having brought the
long and disastrous war to a close
in his own heart Grant would have
chosen to have rested upon his
laurels and lived retired miitar,
life. 1t was not to be permitted
He was called to the Presidency b,
universal acclaim, and it fell upol
him to conduct the campaign of re
construction, even more burdensom
than war;"
ADMINISTRATIVE CAREER.
After dwelling upon the variou
acts of Gen. Grants national al
ministration and his reconstruction
policy, the speaker summed up hi
administrative career as follows
"On the whole, if one considers TIN