The Press., 1885-08-13
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Eo arbitratement of the court of time. Must the oak lose confidence in its strength be- cause the crude savin is jealous
 Shall the grandly flowing river, whose destiny is the great ocean, stop to explain and apologize as it passes the stagnant pool?
 Then notice in these last years of his troubled life when his fortune vanished by the knavery of those cunning tricksters who sought to make gain by the use of his honored name.
 He was ready to make himself pauper, even to the very choice presents he had re- ceived, in order that he might make good every dollar lost by those who had trusted him. His monument i'll this respect will be lasting rebuke to those who seek to make themselves rich over the ruin of oth- CTS.
 Again, observe the magnanimous gentle ness displaying itself at the surrender of Gen. Lee.,
 Never in all the annals of time was such magnanimlty extended to soldiers beaten i'll civil strife as the chiefs of the Union armies extended to the leaders of the re- belllon, and GEN. GRANT was the heart and hand of that gentleness. "Unconditional surrender" was to be the price of peace, but the conqueror's department was tenn pered with that charity which takes its rise at the foot of the cross.
 One who reports the scene of the sur render, says: "When Gen. Lee passed his sword to GEN. GRANT the Lieutenant General looked at 1t a moment, remarking as he held 1t that it was a beautiful weap- on, and must have been present from friends. Then, passing it back into the hands of the conquered General, he said Il do not want it. I desire you to retain it.''
 Not only from the hearts of the northern people is there strong testimonials of his generosity, but MT. Pollard, the rebel his- torian, refers to this element in his char acter in these words:
 ''lt IS to be fairly and cheerfully admitted that GENERAL GRANTS conduct, with respect to all the circumstances of the surrender, ex hlblted some extraordinary traits of magnan- imity. He conducted it with as much sim plicity as possible, and spared everything that might wound the feelings or imply the humil- latlon of vanquished foe. Such conduct was noble."
 Andrew Johnson, at the beginning of his term, sent for GENERAL GRANT. John son buntly told GRANT that he wished the army to be employed to arrest the mem bers of the Rebel administration.
 "l intend to hang every mothers son of them."
 The two men eyed each other for mo- ment, and for reply President Johnson received this answer, swift and straight, from the old commander:
 'l will not employ the army for any such purpose, nor will let it be employed for any such purpose.
 "But," said Johnson, ''I am by the con- stitution commander in chief. What will you do if l give you such orders?'
 "Dlsobey them, quietly rejoined GRANT, "and state my reasons to congress and the country. The soldiers of the south ac. cepted my parole, which, by the laws of war and of the United States, was author. ized to give. It guaranteed they should not be molested if they laid down thel1 arms, went home, and obeyed the laws. They did SO. will stand by that parole, and the first court marshal you order would better be one to try me, for I will not issue such orders as you suggest
 How easily at this moment he could have stirred the North to revenge, by rehears- ing the worlds treatment of treason Ill all ages, by calling upon us to avenge the aw- fulscene of Southern prison life. He could have played upon the public sentiment of the north till thirsty vengeance would have asked for more blood
 But our noble chieftain rising above the ruins of conquest and the passions of vic tory remembered that he was yet broth CT and fellew citizen with the conquered.
 Achilles when Troy was conquered and his enemy slain, ordered the body of Hec- tnr to 1,n tial fC tbn oe Ia h;, oEo ! urged his war steeds thrice around the city walls, dragging all the while the body of his dead foe.
 Roman conquerors made slaves of the vanquished and used them as trophies ''tc deckin captive bonds their chariot wheels. ;
 But the victor of Appommatox, the con queror of rebellion, is ready to lay dowr the sword, but grasping firmly the prin ciple of his Master, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even SC to them" His magnanimity was withou the least display of ostentation.
 cit did not even occur to him to ente Richmond as a conqueror when the cit, fell, nor to cross inside the rebel lines a Appommatox until his officers requested it.
 He then consented, but meeting Genera Lee at the out-pests he stopped to tall with him, and the interview was so pleas ant that the time passed quickly away an' General GRANT returned to Washington that day, having never seen the inside 0
 the lines that had resisted him for nearl
 a year.
 "Soon after the war; says one of hi companions in arms, ''I was present whe
 a committee of congress headed by Charle
 Sumner, waited upon him to propose tha
 picture should be painted of the surren
 der of Lee, to be placed in.the rotunda c
 the capitol"
 But General GRANT said, "So far as am concerned, I can never consent to an
 picture being placed in the capitol to com memorate victory ill which our ow countrymen were the losers" Noble, q
 you say? All that is tame word to de fine such an element of character.
 Now, friends, we come to an incident i the life of this great man calculated to sti our richest enthusiasm and deepest adm , ration for his broad manhood. It is in It
 lation to his firm friendship with Geners
 Sherman, of whom GRANT said Che wa the greatest soldier of his time'' When Sherman had finished that dasl , ing ssmarch to the sea" and the America , banner foated from the towers of prou
 Savannah, our country was wild with el } thusiasm.
 , General GRANT had been creeping aroun } Richmond for months getting ready ft the fatal blow on the rebellion. To il } eyes of the North he had accomplishe seemingly nothing, they forgot that O,