St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-08-13

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and it was expected Grant would at
tend this (Dr. Newman's) church after
his Inauguration. So that on the first
Sunday thereafter great multitude
were at the church long before service
time. Grant seeing the crowd decided
to avoid it, and went to DIR. Sunder-
lands. This was presently found out,
and after church the street was solid
mass of people waiting to see the pres
ldent. Gen. Grant came out, helped
his wife and family into a carriage,
then coolly lighting a cigar, took one
of his sons and went off OH foot, seem
ingly insensible of the multitude.
don't think there was another man in
| the United States, who could have
been president, who could have done
that. / might give other instances of
his simplicity.
Late in his life he became the dupe
of New York sharpers, who stripped
him of every dollar. Nothing tries n
/ man like poverty. In this situation,
he parted with everything to indemni-
| fy his creditors as far rs he could. In
my Judgment this is greater thing to
say of a man than that he could com
mand an army well. The wonderful
and quiet firmness and courage with
which he met his terrible disease was
such as few men could have shown.
There is one lesson to be learned.
| We live in a wonderful country. In
| Europe if q man is born n lord, he is a
lord, and if peasant, he remains one
through life. Here it makes little diff
! ference how IA man is born. 1t is ratli-
er of disadvantage to he born rich,
because there is nothing to incite.
Poverty is what incites the poor boy.
Nine tenths of our successful men are
from the lower orders. This thing can
be done in no other country. Gen.
Grant was u notable instance of this
truth. His name will be revered to
the end of time as the great leader and
ruler, and one who did more than any
other to preserve the country:
ADDRESS OF HON. JOHN b. RECTOR.
Judge Rector of Austin, Texas, who
CHANGED to be in town, was introduced
as representing the South, and as a
Confederate soldier, and was greeted
with applause. On great national
occasion like this, began Judge Rector,
it seems to me proper for one born and
reared in the South and educated in
New England college, to join with you
in commemOrating the life and virtues
of Gen. Grant. MOderB civilization does
not crown or sanctify the achievements
of an Alexander, Cesar or BOnaparte.
Success must come to this age in gar
ments of justice, or it will have none
of it. Judge Poland has truly said,
ut the time of the war the Southern
Il
O-day the South weeps for the great
hero, yet if she had said at the close of
the war 30 years ago, eve believe
slavery wrong and that our cause was
wrong" we should have been false,
and you would not have believed us.
NOU, after the hillocks where your
friends and our friends sleep have
grown green, we can and do say that
slavery was blight and that we are
glad it has gone, and you can believe
us. Our interests are all linked in with
this great and glorious country of ours.
The flag for which your fathers and
ours fought in the Revolution, is yours
and ours, aud we will stand by yOur
side to defend it. Cloud applanse.)
The speaker closed by alluding to Gen.
Grant as il typical American, one who
fought his way upwards till he became
the landmark of his cOuntry's genius
a grand example to the youth of the
land.
Judge Rector is a pleasant speaker,
and his earnestness and the peculiar
interest attaching to his remarks as
coming from Confederate soldier,
made his brief address of striking in
terest. Gen. circuit, who it was hoped
would be present, did not arrive, so
that the next and last speaker WAS
Rev DR.. C. l.. GoOdeIl of st. Louis,
Mo.
REV. DIR. GOODELL'S ADDRESS.
This speaker prefaced his address
with few pleasant words to the pre-
ceding speakers, referring to Gen.
GrOut's absence as the first time that
the General had failed in his duty. DIR.
| Goodell then spoke substantially as
follows:
The people have not come to hear
new thoughts about Gen. Grant, but to
do honor to his memory, to lay flow
ers on his grave, and to bless the Lord
God omnipotent for the way he has led
us for the last twenty-five years-out
of darkness and slavery into light. j
am thankful for the speech just made.
am glad that the boys are here to-
day. Ia years TO come they can say,
was present at the funeral services of
Gen. Grant at St. JOhnsbury; heard
the venerable Judge Poland ! heard
ii live Southerner and | heard the
ministers who ''chipped ill.," 1t is as a
general that Grant is the greatest and
we do not want to forget this at this
hour. Gen. Grant saved this republic
and we praise his name aud thank God
for it, Ii was not his statesmanship
nor any other qualities that make him
great. but the power of his sword.
! Miles StaDdish landed on Plymouth
rock with l6 followers Washington
commanded an army of from 43 900 to
a.. OO0; Grant commanded an army of
500, 900 men, and lac saved the nation
and all the world knows it. This is the
or, attest event in his life. How many
generals in the past would have used
the soldiery to build up their own
name and fame would have taken
these men and formed kingdom, and
| ruled over them as a monarch. But
humbly he gave up all his power and
became private citizen. When. in
February, 1862, read his 'tnncondi-
tional surrender letter to- Gen. Bnck-
ner, said that here was the voice of
God. Here is a man with a clarion
trumpet. lately heard Gen. Sherman
say, ave generals often got together
before Gen. Grant to discuss plans.
He would sit. in silence until we had
talked it all over, and then he would