New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-12
GRANT IN PEACE.
BY GENERAL ADAM BADEAU.
NO. xviii
THE GENERAL AS A TRAVELLER.
Couuri0hk 1886,

that ever lived; not of course the greatest discov
erer explorer. though he was admitted to proDa-
| bly, more secret and unknown recesses and naunts
than any other one man. But he also visited more
countries and saw more people, from Kings down
to lackeys and slaves, than anybody who ever
ourneyed on this earth before. Others, Of course.
have made the tour around the globe; the Prince
OF Wales did something of that sort but he went
not so far and only the upper strata of society
Others have had triumphal professions; some have
assembled higher mountains or penetrated nearer to
Ethiopia: but no other man was ever re-
ceived by both peoples and soverelgns.
by savans and merchants. by Presidents
and Governor-Generals. by Tycoons and
Sultans and Khedlves. and school children and
work people and statesmen. like Grant.
For him the Pyramids had special door. and
Memphis and rhebes were thrown open as to sue
cessor of the Pharaohs for him the Pope dispensed
with the usual etiquette and welcomed Protes-
tant and democrat who did not kneel Wlthhim
the King Of Siam contracted personal friendship
and kept up correspondence afterward; while the
Emperors of Russia and Germany aud Japan, the
Viceroys OF India and Cuba and Canada talked poll
tics to HIM and religion from their own several
standpoints. All the greatest potentates OF earth
laid aside their rules and showed him courtesy
which was due of course in part to the nation he
represented; but who ever so represented nation
before7 not only the Government. but the planest
people IN 1t from whom ho sprang, whom he claimed
as his fello as, whom he believed in as his political
peers. The multltudss that thronged around him
in Birmingham and Frankfort and Jeddo all knew
this. and perceived. though dmlv, that they were
hOnoring the democratic principle In honoring
him: while tho soverelgns thought they were
acting as became their own dignity IN placing him
by their side.
1t was my fortune to accompany General Grant
in many of his journeys on both continents. l
travelled with him first of all when he visited his
armies. was of the party when he passed from
the Tennessee to the Potomac to lead in person the
great forces that were destined to conquer Lee l
marched by his side from Washington to Richmond
in 1S64-'65: and that journey took us year. l
recolect in the Appomattox campaign. after Rich
mond had fallen he asked rebel woman
something about the Yankees, and she replied.
"Oh, we are all Yankees now, l guess" with
marked emphasis on the guess
was with Grant also ia his tour through tho
South during tho winter after the war, when no
was received as few couquerors ever were. by the
people whom they had subdued, looked upon as
their best friend their protector their saviour from
the bitterness of successful enemies Everywhere
the most important Southerncrs. tho soldiers who
had surrendered last. the civilians who had been
and the emancipated blacks. greeted Grant. In
Charleston General Sickles gave him dinner and
the party was made up of men like Orr and Aiken
and others who had been his enemies went with
him also on his first visit to Richmond, year after
it fell for he had not time to stop and enter In the
hour of triumph like other vlctors, but pushed on
after Lee.
SO too [ accompanied him in his iourneyings over
the North. This generation hardly Knows of the
ovations that once paid to Grant Towns
were Illuminated because of his arrival Trium-
phal arches were built; girls OF prominent fami
lies. dressed in white in the streets and threw
flowers as he passed; congregations rose when he
took his place among them; clergymen prayed for
him by name from the pulpit; the audiences and the
actors applauded him together 10 the theatres.
| went with him when he left his country Tor the
first tIme-it was to pass through Canada III 1865.
We spent day two at Montreal and Quebec
and then came the first premontlons of the houors
destined to be heaped upon him abroad twelve and
fourteen years afterward. The Governor-General
of Canada gave him dinner, aud put him IN the
royal pew; the Canadian towns welcomed him
almost as If he had saved their country or led their
armies
met him when he landed in England iu 1877,
and accompanied him, by permission of the Gov
eminent, wherever he went in Great Britain.
Italy and France. Always he was the same simple,
impassive man, the genuine democrat The COM
pments of Kings did not disturb him;
the adulation offered by whole popu-
lations did not eate hun undu'y that
| could ever discern. After his departure from
England and his short visit to Belgium he pro-
ceeded up the Rhine. At Cologne he was met by two
officers of the army sent expressly by the Emperor
welcome him to Germany. He visited the
cathedral like any other traveller, and was in ter
ested in the villages aud the ruins of the Rhino
bat he cared more for the fortresses of to-day for
threnbreitsten and the bridge of boats than for
the legends aud castles of romance. We stopped
for a night at Bingen. aud after dinner he and
walked out into a fair and saw all the village
shows; he liked them quite as we'll any palace
with history. He questioned the people through
me and was curious about their ways but he had
never heard of Mrs. Norton's poem of "Bingen on
the Rhine"
At Frankfort he fell in with some of his Jewish
friends, and was quite as much at home with the
Seligmans as if they had been princes. though his
last host had been the King Of the Belgians. Here
he was taken to two famous winecears, and tasted
IN each on the same morning twenty-eght different
brands of Rhensh wine, of course only slipping
from each glass. We began with ordinary wine
and assembled in quality to the Johannisberger, 80
rare that is reserved for the Emperor on holidays
The glasses never filled with this precious
liquid, and what was left passed to the less i'm
portant people in the party after the guests had
been served.
At Geneva for change he laid the cornerstone
of Protestant church. and dined with an American.
Mr. Barley, at his charming villa From tho piazza
we looked up at Mt. Blanc and watched the rose
tinted hues of the sunset they fell on the distant
SHOWS
From Geneva we went on to Mt Blanc. was
curious to discover what interest my chief would
display In the world-renowned landscape / fan
cied he light be indifferent the marvels Of noun
tain scenery, for had never been with him
In such regions before. But was wrong.
We travelled from Geneva to Chamounix aud
then by tho Tste Noire to the Valley Of tho
In Of ho ordiuar Swim iaa