The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-06-10

tran sparent heart life and purpose OF General
Grant. No man ever plowed himself into the
conviction OF his fellows without this Christ
like quality OF putting his purpose above him
self. The common people, rarely at fault, al
ways trusted HIM, and he never failed them.
Fortunate Is that nation that has such an ex-
ample OF manhood, patriotism, courage, and
fidelity.
Citizens OF Galena receive this gift, made
doubly precious by the sublime life and devo-
ton 10 country OF him IL represents. As you
have always guarded the name and fame OF
Grant, so guard and preserve this memorial,
aud round and about you shall be the prayers
OF all the American people, East and West,
North and South.
Briefly accepting the gift. Mr.. X. Ii.
Mcclellan, Chairman Of the Board OF
Park Commissioners, introduced Mr.
Depew. The famous after-dinner speak
er and brilliant orator was greeted with
rounds of applause. His speech was as
follows:
Thirty years ago your city numbered among
it's citizens man so modest that he was little
known in the community IL merchant 80 hum
bic that his activities were not felt in your
business. Three years later his fame illumined
the earth, aud tho calculations or every COM
mercial venture and OF every construc i've en-
terprise in the country wers based upon the
success or failure of his plans. He was then
supporting his family on a thousand dollars n
year. and before the third anniversary or his
departure from your city he was spending four
millions day for the preservation OF
the Union. One or the patriotic meetings,
common at that time all over the North,
was held here TO sustain President nom
in his cal FOR seventy Ave thousand IN IN 20
suppress the elon. The ardor and eloquenoe
Of John A. Rawlins so impressed an auditor
whom none OF the Congressman and prominent
citizens on the platform had ever met that no
subsequently, made the orator his chief or stan
and Secretary of War. Some one discovered
that Captain Grant, a graduate OF West Point
and II veteran of the Mexican war, lived liz this
city, and he was invited to preside at the for
nation of a military company He was 80 diftl-
dent that few heard his speech OF three SEN
fences, but in that short address was condensed
all the eloquence and logic OF the times. You
know the Object for which we are assembled.
Men are needed to preserve the Union. What is
your pleasure?" He organized and drilled that
company and led 10 TO the Governor at Spring
field BY that MAJ CHI Galena lost n citizen and
the republic found its savior.
Grants career will be the PARADOX OF history.
Parallels cannot be drawn for him with the
great captains of the world. Historians, by
common consent, place Alexander the Great,
Hannibal, Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bona
parte in the front rank But each of them had
learned the art of war by continuous service
and unequaled opportunities aud displayed the
most brilliant qualities at every period of their
achievements Hannibal and Caesar had won
universal fame in the '3Cs. Alexander died at
49, grieving because ee had no more worlds TO
conquer and Napoleon at 81 was master of
Europe. But Grant at 40 was an obscure leath-
merchant in Galena. As cadet at West
Point he had risen only just above the middle of
his class. AS n subaltern on the frontier and in
duty with the courage and capacity OF the aver
age est-Pointer
But thu moment that the great responsible
ties were thrust upon him and the fate OF his