Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-15

ment of government in time .. peace. In
his last days, while be iring with serenity
and fortitude the tortu .eJ of an incurabl g
disease, on Mount MeGregor, he gave his
life final retrospect. and il was the reunion
that gave him the greatest satisfaction, and
enabled him to close his eyes for the sleep OF
death with the comforting reflection that
his work had been well done and would out.
live him.
The monument before US is dedicated to
| the illustrious general of our armies, rather
than to the chief magistrate of our repub-
lie, and it is therefore meet that my address
should dwell more on his military than
h is merits, or his defects chief executive
he was unquestionably our greatest soldier
and his matchless achievements in the field
and their influence upon the fate of his
country amply justify this beautiful testi-
nonial. So long as love of liberty and equal
itv, and admiration for heroic deeds and un.
selfish patriotism last, the memory of Grant
will be yenerated.
Some of the acts of his civil administration
were really worth more to the country and
the world than the dull routine and solemn
responsibility of many others. While men
had dreamed and written about the useless
ness and wickednes5 of war, as an agency
for the settlement of controversies between
nations and urged the substitution of m pre-
civilized methods, it WAS reserved for our
greatest soldier to reduce these theories and
vague aspirations to practice. 1t was thu
successful leader of our armies, in out
greatest war, who took the lead in bringing
the civilized world to a practical recogrf-
ton of the value of peaceful arbitrame,t
of International disputes. and the treaty Of
Washington is a monument to his menu ~
which will outlive those of bronze end
stone. Its moral influence extends infinif, ely
beyond the Immediate parties 10 1t,
or to the age in which it nego-
tiated. More than once he displayed ride
Dendence, high courage, and strong sense
of duty by vetoing legislation which seri
ously threatened the public welfare II is a
mistake to suppose that popular gov srn-
ment is an art or mystery. Some OF the
details of admin istration require 81 ecial
training and experience. But in its broad
al in hp adj In SfDln of tn no IA
for which it was organized, in the pfomo
ton of its purposes, men like Grant. who
sound judgment, and saving common sense,
and who will resolutely assert them selves
under all circumstances, may be safely
trusted with it's affairs and destinies
Men like Grant who have sprung fl pm the
people, with strong and resolute che racter,
unspoiled by luxury, clear minded and lev
ell headed, able to see men and th'hgs as
they really are, undeceved by outward sho W
and conyentionality, are worth NOR to our
nation than all it's mere cunning, seff-seek-
ing politicians, its political theorists it's
plutocrats. In war and peace these quail
acter. nation not only needs such .uen
but they are indispensable to it. In TIMES
of peril it may perish without them.
cur country was settled by men who
sought a land which they might love their
own, and pledged their lives and fortunes
for the maintenance of its institutions. Our
republic was founded in the patriotism of
the people, and their love of country
strengthened by the struggle for its de.
revolutionary war was a test of
the popular patriotism which had
been previously implanted, rather than
development of it. The patriotism which
was ablaze in the speeches of Adams and
Otis, and in the intrepid conduct of Warren,
was steady and fervent heat in the bosoms
of thousands whose names are unknown to
history. As people We have inherited the
patriotism of our revolutionary sires. and
the Inheritance has not been squandered or
dssipated. Because it is yoiceless among the
busy multitude, i'll the marts, on the farms
and in the workshops, we must not think it
has ceased 70 exist, for these the
sources from which our patriotic armies
were filled. 1t is not the noisy and blatant
sort of patriotism that finds an easy outlet
on the rostrums that is the staunchest and
the best. it is a stronger and more self-deny-
ing passion.
Inc vast majority of the people are pa
triotic and sound to the core. In them is
our main stay and chief dependence. Our
confidence in their steady and unfaltering
love of country, which is Indifferent about
any show of itself, and speaks only In its
acts, will never be misplaced. 1t was this
sort of patriotism that was personified in