The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30

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speedily. arrive at the same conclusion
without his urging.
Then the other Union officers tool their
turns, shaking hands cordially with the
men whom they had met in many a battle,
or with whom they had early shared tent
or blanket on the Indian trail or on the
Mexican frontier, with classmates of West
Point and sworn friends of boyhood. Some
shed tears as they Rugged each other after
years Of separation and strife. Country
a few of the rebels declared that they were
glad that the war Had ended In the triumph
Of the North. Their humility was marked;
they felt and said they had staked all and
lost. They inquired if they would be per-
mftted to leave the country, but none
dreamed they would ever regain their
property.
General Grant, confident that the war
ended, as soon as the necessary ar
rangements could be made, proceeded to
Washington and engaged in the work of
d~isbanding the armies. When the work
was accomplished he established his head
quarters at Washington, and on July %,
1856, he was commissioned by Congress
General Of the United States Army, an ex-
allied ran created especially for him. When
President johnson suspended Stanton from
the post of Secretary of War on the 18th of
August, 1867, he appointed General Grant
ad interim Secretary of War, which place
he filed until January IA of the following
year, Wn6n, GQ6 SENATE having refused TO
sanction the removal of Stanton, the office
reverted to the latter. Grants reticence
on political matters was such that the
country was completely in the dark as to
his opinions, but It was well knownt to some
of his intimate friends that he was a Re-
publican in principle. He was generally
looked upon, however,. as the coming
man, and on May 81, 1868, he re-
ceived the nomination for President at
the hands of the Republican National Con:
v~ention, in session at Chicago. He defeated
his Democratic competitor, Ex-Governor
Seymour, of New York, by a decided ma
jority, and was inaugurated on the 4th of
March, 1869. His first term was notable
for his efforts to procure the annexation of
San Domingo in 1901, the Cuban and
Fenian fliblstering in 1870, the treaty of
Washington in 1871, the Geneva arbitration
in 1872, and the progress of the work of
reconstruction, including the passage of
the so-called Kuklux law, followed by a
pension of habeas corpus in the northern
counties of South Carolina.
b Republican National Convention in
Philadelphia, in June, 1872, renominated
Grant for the Presidency. The Cincinnati
Convention Of the same year, at which the
liberal Republicans met, failed to nom
mate Charles Francis Adams, who was
supposed to represent all the ideas of de-
lection, but it did nominate Horace Gree
ley. The opposition to General Grant was
not prepared to accept Mr.. Greeley, not
w~ithstanding the National Democratic
Convention nominated him also, and Grant
was reelected by an overwhelming ma
jority. His second term was marked by
the passage of the supplementary Civil
rights bill, the veto of the Currency Inla-
ton bill, the passage of the bill for the re-
sumption of specie payments, the exposure
of the whisky ring, the downfall of Bel
KNAPP, a member of the Cabinet, the attempt
to inaugurate Civil-service reform, and the
ever memorable Presidential campaign of
1861.
On retiring from the Presidency, March
4, 1877, General Grant was for the first time
In sixteen years free from official RESPONSE
bility. He had long contemplated a tour
around the world, and in May, 1877, he
Great Britain he was received with dis
tinguished consideration. From England
he went to France and Italy, and sailed
for Egypt from Nice on a United States
war vessel. He assembled the Nile, visited
Jerusalem on his way North again, and was
at ~Constantinople when the Russian army
was at San Stefano. He again visited
Paris, and then went to Berlin. From Ber-
lin he journeyed to Russia, Sweden Inc
Norway, and then to Spain and Portugal,
regal honors. Many decorations would
have been conferred upon him had he
been willing to receive them. just before
starting for India he visited Ireland, where
he was well received in Cork. Going to
Marseilles, he was Joined by several rela-
ceeded in the United States steamer Rich
mond to Bombay. In India General Grant
received marked attention from the Vice
roy, and thence he went to Siam, where he
was dined by the King. In China and
Japan, where he spent considerable time.
he was treated with equal distinction, and
was consulted by the highest officials of
those countries regarding their domestic
and foreign affairs. He left Japan on the
steamer City of Toxic on the I'd of Septem-
Der, 1879, and arrived in San Francisco on
the Doth. His journey across the Ameri-
con continent was one continuous ovation,
all the great cities apparently vying with
each other in their efforts to do to
the distinguished traveller.
Soon after his return from his tour around
the world it became evident that, while he
had renowned a third consecutive term as
| President, he would not be adverse to a re-
election now that o years had inter-
| vened. 1t was thought by his friends that
this fact would also, in a measure, dispel
the objections so generally entertained to
the violation of the unwritten law of the
Republic, which had been observed since
the days of Washington. The opposition
and it became evident that he could not
secure the nomination without a desperate
| struggle. This his friends, headed by Sem
ators Conkling, Cameron and Logan, were
prepared to make. After many intensely
exciting contests in the various State Con-
ventions, it was thought hat more than a
majority of the delegates to the National
Convention were in favor of Grant, but
many of them refused to obey their instruc-
tions, and others were led of by the blan-
was that neither Grant nor Blaine, his po-
litical opponent, had quite enough strength
to secure the nomination., and the dele
gates holding h balance of power were
not disposed to give their support to either.
| After a long and exceedingly animated
I scattering ones and nominated James A.
| Garfield, the ballot on which this was
| achieved having shown 306 for Grant. In
commemoration of the fidelity of the "Old
Guard" as the third-termers loved to style
themselves, medals were struck and deliv-
cred ono year later to all who had sup
| ported the General. During the campaign
that followed Grant o an active interest
in politics, and on two or three occasions
| presided over great political meetings held
sassination of the latter, however, he tool
no part in politics.
The death of General Ulysses s.. Grant
| closes one of the most remarkable careers
recorded in history. So Intimately a
the name and achievements of the great
soldier been, identified with u ~nationa
life that to a large part of the American
people the news brings a sense of persona
bereavement, recalling the anguish which
rent the popular heart when Washington
that other grand commander, was called t.
his reward just at the close of the last cen
Jury. General Grant has been held in pc
culiar esteem and affection by the people o
the whole Union of late years, and nothing
more touching or beautiful has ever beef
witnessed than the universal sympathy an
tenderness with which they watched owe
his last hours of WEAKNESS, weakness ant
suffering. The fatal end mas been seen ap
preaching stealthily but with cruel and re
~fentless steps, and the brave old hero fac
ing death with i~mperturbable and undis
mayed demeanor made an intensely pa
thetic and impressive picture, but one ex
quisitely in keeping with the dying man
character. He showed no fear of death
which he had seen in close proximity an
terrible form scores of times before, bu
the battlefield never subjected him to
r,oro ,xufpl Cfroip than tho sloU ga nninO n