Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-30
THE LESSON TAUGHT.
NO SINGING WORDS LEFT BEHIND
FOR ANYBODY.
Self Control Carried from Birthrfghf to
MAN. Right Tho Domestic Pattern q
virtuous Reconsideration
the Stilts Of Fame.


the Stilts Of Fame.
George Alfred Townsend in Boston Globe.l
The last man Il great incentive is dead
leaving the lesson that true democracy
never runs dry OF talent. but produces ii
; best material No highly respectable north
ern person in the year 1850 seemed to grow
after that time, while mon from new ant
obscure parts OF the country appeared lik,
farm-fed trotting horses In Response to thu
tho offer Of premium, and soon passed thu
old-establishe1 conservative regulations ol
Scott, Wool Banks, Shields, Patterson
Seward-for Seward had commanded q
militia regiment, as Cameron and Forney
had been generals or colonies, were wiped
out by Lincoln from the Sangnmon country,
Grant from the Galsna region, Sheridan
from Lexington, Ohio. instead OF the Older
Lsxington,: Sherman from q strestcal
railroad in ST. Louis. Stanton from thu
grimy skies over Steubenvill-, Thomas from
the scene Of Nat Turner'S instruction in the
Virginia pines, Garfield, the canal-b boat boy,
and Farragut the Tennessee mountain
child.
One after another the old colonial names
dropped of, desperately clinging. liks the
vie and skeptical folks, from the tree
tops as the deluge Of Noah rose We saw
the founders Of tho war party go like the
military exquisites-Chase and Sumner,
like Bragg and Hallsck. 81 1t has been in
every great revolution, and so it will ever
be. The officers Of the revolutionary war,
Dearborn. ETC., were found to be imbeciIes
for the war Of 1912 Happy is the country
which relies upon the swelling tide OF youth
rather than upon the deceitful wisdom and
formula Of age, and, in spite Of his fine
speeches, is relieved when Polonius dies.
The art which was the conceit Of the we'll;
descended and didactic has become tho
spoil of tho common people, AMI the dead
son Of Jesse, the tanner, is the dead Well
ington OF tbs world to-day.
There still will be people to show where
Gea. Grant might have altered his policy or
behavior, as il human biography was to be-
come as perfect AM spherical as billiard
tall; but by the weakness OF men they are
both define | and beloved; and woe to the
perfect man least he be too perfect in his
self-love
Never was there man SO tremendously
denounced as Grant by Sumner. He went
to Summers funeral, as to Greeley's and to
Chass'S, and these three were his chief de-
tractors, men unwilling to see their influence
and bias and prospects pass away, and like
Saul and his captains, they wore mortified
by this son Of Jesse.
Gen Grant left no stinging words behind
him for any body. He could shake the
world in battle, but Of jibc and retaliation
was as barren as lamb, and in this respect
was one Of the most Christian-rather gen
ile-men upon the globe
He must needs have been hated what
ever his course of conduct would have been,
but it was his singular great fortune to
have been first heartily hatel and finally
heartily beloved He received in their prod
igal wastefulness, like old King Lear, the
tempest of man and heaven, but gained his
philosophy thereby, and less than any man
Of note in our day has his picture changed
with time. He died burdenei as much as
he was before he came to our knowledge,
and as he had no enemies at that former
time in spite of his relapsing. he dies at
plaintive peace with the world, though ruin
had egsin discharged it, torrents around
his head.
When truly great mon die, like Raleigh
and Bacon, Cromwell and Napoleon, there
is apt to be some mighty rsprimand from
heaven II emphasize their mortality; it
may lie poverty, or it may be temptation
and shame, but whatever it be, it is mora
useful than dull monotouy of success. with
its pointless moral The very vices Of great
men are sometimes their pressrvative me-
dunn, as Henry of Navarro survives by his
most hearty amours But Gen. Grant was
without any vice he did not master.
In an age Of Illicit pleasures he was tn,
r,.rr;ad y; b;s youth and diad in hi, mich,
,,,ra aud rrs,,,ta1 fror, tha world Tb,,
10. ,hs, has ha,n ra;saa aoainst
Wa.h;nr,on h;n,se,f nsvar ,oiged AGAINST
,h;s man ~ a nor, cr,wded ACE Ia tbsra
= r,.n ,,aa-;nr ! CROWN or liteIv 70 v..r
GO =, E,ror.a sor y,hon, ths son,s c.r h,
cIa;r,ads
tn .so;, ma. - Can Grant >, his conn.
tryr,an h.. hs., 20 bra.l The .t;Its Of for,.
ava Ist ,nhl;c gra ot,ss, A ovn 10 Tho layeI -
the founiar NJ our ara Grant also valtad
vbere noturs lad the wav into the corn.
6elds .moncet the nublicsns and into tina
tsunIo ~ tho monev.chanoer Wbsre bs
800 ,,.o 81; st,,n Oil !, - ;r,;,.t, h,,. =,
hacon, . very rich banker to outrun ey-
smrle and to TENN. succe,s too far.
IT. tbo,a matters ba was the victi,, NJ
tbinys 10 broke dawn His domestic life
vas cost .mono 4 tbs social remains of
.r;s.ocratic slaverv n,j altar ba rosa N
great station his family patterned less after
his simple hero nature than the social COM
petitions of the world
1t was said to me by an intimate of his
household recently: @Grant himself could
have lived ON $500 year, but the calls OF
society upon his growing family multiplied
their expenses, and he was turned aside from
nature to their artificiality"
There is nobody to accuse for thi, perver-
sion The age is its own doctor. Instead of
asking how much better it might have been
for the hero to defy mis- age and play the
Spartan In it, let us reflect that we weep to
day not for the divinity but the humanity
in Grant
His opponent on the battlefield was the
successor and social superior OF zen. ASH
ington. e'ohewaI oacKsoh was deaa "hie
Lee, the son Of Henry Lee, the sen -in-law OF
Mr.. Washington's grandson, the best of his
tyne. but tie tyne was black letter
To that mechanics son aud obscurest ca
det in the regular army the old colonial and
planting nobility passed over the sword, and
we thus expelled the last vestige of English
respecting OF person from our soil AMI car
ried self-control from the birth-rigbt to the
man-right
The lesson is inevitable and wholesome,
whomsoever may be sighted by the fact,
and it would have been a poor recomp,nss
for the gigantic extension Of the suffrage in
our country to Yesterdays slaves had the
chief magistrate of the new era assumed
the frills and languor CT some petty lord
lieutenant in these colonies. sent oyer by
som. poljticaI ministry to re ward his crimes.
Those who expected the grand aud friyid
STYLE of presidiny at the White Home we're
astonished to see the new president 90 L. a
reporters wedding and visit willow, fam
iIy ON the same street Better than this, did
not the Man who came to bini no the
broken-bearted. and saw TO the careless. So
in no more
IT,. ~ .vo,,,,;,r -.,;ch r,isod Can
g., : !. tno ,,,,st o,,~,s., ,l.., In tho ,,nI