The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-02

he was ordered to Washington. His
intention, at that time, was to return
to Washing. on. and lead the armies OF
Sherman, Tn mas and Sco6eld to
Atlanta. Unforeseen events, however,
changed his intention and forced him
east, but his campaign was carried out
aim st to the letter by others. Having
assumed chief command on the 17Lh OF
March he at once proceeded to establsn
his headquarters in
THE FIELD AT cULPEPPER, VA.
Heretofore the campaig 5 of the dill
ferent armies had been conducted with
out anv reference to each other. Grant
purposed, now, that all his cam
paigls should proceed with one
common end in view. He would
combine all his available western
forces under Sherman, and those
of east under Meade and move the two
great armies toward a common centre.
Sherman was to move against Johnston
and hammer and pound and follow
him until he was destroyed, captured
or driven back TO Richmond, when both
the rebel armies were to be crushed
between the two great Armies OF the
Republic Meade was to advance upon
Lee and strike, him wherever he could
be found The plan was carried out
successfully, and during~its progress,
the victories were achieved which saved
the r publ - speaker described
briefly, but IN glowing terms,
the. events of Grants civil
career, and the honors showered upon
him by our people at home and by men
and nations abroad. From. Belmont to
the siege of Vicksburg, said General
Logan, in his summing up, was near
him in nearly all his marches, cam
paigns and battles, being permitted by
him to
TAKE POSSESSION OF vICKsBURG,
with my command, on account OF its
having approached nearer the enemy
than any other. During my term as
C mmander of that city, was with him
almost every day, and from the time
when, at the head of that glorious old
Army of the Tennessee, of which he
was the first commander, and its last,
marched by his reviewing stand at the
national capital and down to the last
painful days of his memorable life,
Il was with him very often.
During all this. while 1 was close OBJ
server of him, Grant was usually
known and recognized as quiet and
silent man, but when engaged in con-
versation on any subject in which he
felt an interest, there were few who ex-
celled him as a conYersationalist. He
wrote tersely and well, and at times
most eloquently. The nation was at
different times thrilled by his terse
epigrammatic sentences. When he
wrote to Buckner. the commander at
Fort DOnelson, aNo terms other than
an unconditional and immediate sur
rend r can be accepted. [ propose to
move Immediately upon your works, ]"
his words burned with a glow OF pa
triotic fire in the heart of every loyal
freeman. He had fought
THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS
and wrote to the President ~ propose
to fight it out on this line if it takes
all summer" He infused into
the people and his troops part of his
own tenacity and faith in the final sue
cess. In his short speech to the commit
tee who waited upon him, informing
him of his nomination, first made by
the Republicans, as their candidate for
chief magistrate, he used the memoir
able words in his conclusion "Let US
have peace" These words fell upon
the people with an electrical effect. His
GOODNESS, perception, his aptness in u.s.
ing the right thing in the right time,
were at the bottom of his success as a
civil magistrate, just as his great
faculty of doing the right thing at the
right time and place, and sometimes in
the most unexpected manner, was at
the bottom of mis- military success. The
speaker described the
SUBJECT OF HIS EULoGIEs
as man of great strength of
intellect, remarkable common sense,
GOODNESS, self-possesslon and temerity,
a true friend to those worthy of his
friendship and the kindest and best of
husbands and fathers. Not for glory.
but to save his country, when criticised
and censured, when clouds of calumny
hung about him, he stood with folded
arms amid the thunders, witnessing the
wrath of his enemies, but he spoke not
| in his own defense. Time finally dis
PEELED the clouds and let in the sunshine
| of honest judgment. Then his heart
was found as pure as the dewdrop
which hung upon the ups OF the VelVeI
rose. He believed in the justice of God,
and that sooner or later he would by
some means guide him, as commander
of armies, to the line where justice
would take the place of wrong
and mans inhumanity to man be
properly rebuked. But, continued the
speaker, his race has been run; great
and good man went up on the noun
faint to die, and the attention of the
whole civilized world was directed to
that spot. His glory was that not of his
country alone, but OF the civilized
races of man. When the news of
his death went trembling over the
wires to the utmost parts of the
earth, the people OF every nation
and tongue, stood with bowed
heads. Grant had, in life, assembled the
topmost heighths of mortal fame. The
greats renown was his; glory OF man
greatest achievements shone around
and about him. God called him and
he stepped from his high pedestal on
this earth into the poesence OF the
Great White Throne, where he was
crowned with immortal glory that
shineth on forever.