National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-09-19
ANOTHER TRIBUTE FROM THE
ORIENT.
Speech by Hon. Edwin De Leon at the
Grant Memorial Service ut CONSTANT
npple.

Speech by Hon. Edwin De Leon at the
Grant Memorial Service ut Constanti-
nople.
A few days ago we published the speech
of Hon. $. 5. Cox at the meeting of the
American colony in Constantinope in honor
Of Gen. Grant. To-day we publish the elo-
quent tribute TO his memory by distin
guished southerner temporarily residing
there Hon. Edwin De Leon, who was form
erly consul general of the United States at
Cairo, and more recently the author of the
well known work entitled "The Kbedive's
Egypt ,,,.-..,
of the southern states now In CONSTANT
nople feel 1t my duty to join my fellow
citizens in expressing the grief aud sym
patty inspired throughout the southern
states by the loss Of the great captain whom
death alone could conquer,
As South Caroinian and southern Dem
ocrat, bring to the bier Of Gen. Grant the
affectionate tribute Of n people he con-
quered twice: first in war and secondly by
his magnanimity, when his vanquished foe
had surrendered ut discretion, and when in
his heart as on his lips they found the fra
ternal sentiment identified with his name:
Let us have peace.
When we contrast his treatment of Gen.
Lee at AppomattoX, after a four years war,
with that accorded the French emperor by
his German victor, after only as many
months of struggle, the parallel proves the
magnanimity Of the American general, and
gives page to our history OF which all
Americans may be justly proud.
Gen. Grants greatest ambition was to
''restore that more perfe It union" for which
| the four years. war was waged, and as all
| now confess, not waged In vain.
For his almost dying utterances to his old
classmate aud later antagonist, the confed-
crate Gen. Buckner have all the force Of a
prophecy which coming generations will see
| fulfilled.
Unable to speak, he thus wrote:
| have witnessed since my sickness Just wha
| | have wished to see ever since the war-hHr
| mony and good feeling between the sections
| | have always commended that If there had
been nobodyleft but the soldiers we should
| have had peace In year We may now well
look forward to perpetual peace at home and
q national strength that will screen us against
any foreign complication. / believe myself
that the war was worth all II cost us, fearful Il.
that was Since II was over | have visited
| every state In Europe and number IN thu
| east. ! know as did not before the value q
| our institutions.
In the eventful history Of his life In which
clouds and sunshine so strangely alternatec
even to the close, the q eat characteristic
of Gen. Grant We're truthfulness, iirmneSs
patriotism, magnanimity, and unllinchinl
fidelity In friendship.
sEOf the last trait / can give Il persona
illustration. On his return to London, ate
his tour around the world, at the reception
given him by our minister nj Lond n, AT
tended by the most distinguished English
men, when my name was announced ten
Grant stepped forward, took my hand, ant
said: "YOur name recalls to me some Of TIN
happiest hours of my life, when you
brother and myself, then young men, wen
through the Mexican campaign together.
His recalling such remote memory OF
dead friend-after forty years and amt
such surrOundings-was proof both of tn
tenacity of his memory and the fidelity q
his friendship.
have said, and repeat II, that the grea
heart of the south thrObs painfully at tn
portals Of his tomb, and will long chcris
7 his memory alongside those of its own be
r loved champions, Lee and StOnewall Jack
5 son, justly proud that our common cOuntr
9 should have produced such one, ON eithC
side, whether clad IN the blue or in tn
= gray. When misfortune darkened Ger
= Grants declining days, through overtrus
10 fulness in protesting friends, and
{ howl went up against his great nam
| from angry money iobbcrs, the only ech
coming from the south was one of rcprOac
and indignant remOnstrance against his d.
tractors, and southern members Of COngrel
We're foremost In voting his restoration
4 the army list to keep him and his frol
s want
}, The hands Of confederate generals al,
9 have just assisted In bearing his mortal r
Z, mains to their last resting place.
G Over that recently opened grave let q
# American citizens clasp hands In fraternit
now and forever more,