The record-union., 1891-10-08

unerring he would never have ventured
upon the disastrous Russian campaign.
With definite end always in view, with
out wayering or vacillation, and ever
ready, with large resources, to adjust his
plans to any change of circumstances,
Grant pressed determinedly on to an in
variably successful termination. He
never lost the fruits of victory through
inactivity. No success ever turned his
head. He vigorously subordinated all
private sentiments and feelings to the
good OF the cause that he served. He was
incapable of envy or jealousy, and he
never appropriated credit that was due to
others. He was silent, thoughtful, pa
tient and sincere. He commanded him
self as successfully as he commanded
armies, and where he led, all felt safe
against the consequences of incapacity or
rashness.
1T was the successful leader of our
armies, in our greatest war, who took the
lead in bringing the civilized world to
practical recognition of the value of peace
ful arbitrament of international disputes,
and the Treaty Of Washington is a monu-
ment to his memory which will outlive
those of bronze and stone.
Men like Grant spring from the peo-
pie. nation needs such men; they are
indispensable to it. a nation may perish
without them.
ouI country WAS SGlliSu DN men WHO
sought land which they might love as
their own, and pledged their lives and
their fortunes for the maintenance Of it's
institutions. Our republic was founded
in the patriotism of the people, and their
love of country was strengthened by the
struggle for its defense against foreign
aggression. The Revolutionary War was
a test Of the popular patriotism which had
been previously implanted rather than n
development OF it. The patriotism which
was abla2e in the speeches of Adams and
Otis and in the intrepid conduct of War
ren was steady and fervent heat in the
boSomS of thousands whose names are
unknown to history. As Il people we
have inherited the patriotism Of our rev.
olutionary sires and the inheritance has
not been squandered or dissipated. Be
cause it is vOiceless among the busy null
titude, in the martS, on the farms and in
the workshops, we must not think it has
ceased to exist, for these were the sources
from which our patriotic armies were
filled. 1t is not the noisy and blatant
sort of patriotism that finds an easy out
let on the rostrums that is the stanchest
and the best; it is Il stronger and more
self-denying passion.
1.-THE vast majority of the people are
patriotic and sound to the core. In them
is our mainstay and chief dependence.
Our confidence in their steady and untaI-
JerlnS love OF country, which Is Indlffer-
ent about any show of itself and speaks
only in its acts, will never be misplaced.
1t was this sort of patriotism that was
perSOnitied in Grant"
The sculptor of the statue is Lewis
Rebisso of Cincinnati. 1t is of bronze,
eighteen feet high, and represents Gen
eral Grant seated on horseback Both
the animal and man are in position of
rest. The General grasps field glass in
his right hand, with the glass resting
upon his thigh, as after taking a careful
survey of the field. 1t suggests, as q
whole. concentration of mind, confidence
and seif-reliance.
In letter regretting his inability to be
present, President Harrison paid this
tribute to General Grant: "He was a
tower of strength and confidence in the
crisis of our civil war. He redeemed the
failures of other men, revived the courage
OF the faint and disheartened, gave his
confidence to a matchlesS army and re-
ceived in return its unshaken faith. Re-
yealing to his soldiers their invincible
power, he, more than any other leader of
the war, realized that when our army
paused to recruit and reorganize, an OPP
portunity was given to the enemy to do
the same. If his battalions were shattered
and weary he did not forget that the
enemy's were in as bad or a worse plight,
and followed and struck again."